Bormo
Bormo , also Borvo , Bormanus or deus Bormanicus (in today's Portugal ), is the name of a Celtic god of salvation .
Etymology and Mythology
The name Borvo is derived from the Celtic word for “cook”, it is related to his function as a local deity at hot springs (“the boiling / bubbling”). His worship was particularly widespread in Gaul , where he was considered the god of medicinal and thermal springs . Usually he is accompanied by a female deity who is called Damona (also Bormona, Bormana) ( CIL 13, 2805 C (aius) Iulius Eporedirigis f (ilius) Magnus / pro L (ucio) Iulio Caleno filio / Bormoni et Damonae / vot (um) sol (vit) ). The equations Bormo-Damona / Bormona, Bormanus-Bormana and Borvo are not entirely undisputed, but are rather accepted by most etymologists.
Borvo / Bormo can still be found today in the French place names Bourbonne-les-Bains ( Haute-Marne department ) and Bourbon-Lancy ( Saône-et-Loire department ). In an inscription in Bourbonne-les-Bains, Bormo is identified with the Roman Apollo according to the Interpretatio Romana ( CIL 13, 5911 Deo Apol / lini Borvoni / et Damonae / C (aius) Daminius / Ferox civis / Lingonus ex / voto ).
Dedicatory inscriptions
- Portugal, Caldas de Vizela, Roman province of Hispania citerior
- CIL Medam / us Camal (i) / Bormani / co v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) II, 2402
- CIL C (aius) Pompeius / Gal (eria) Caturo / nis f (ilius) Mot / ugenus Ux / {s} amensis / deo Borma / nico v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens?) / Quisquis ho / norem agi / tas ita te tua / gloria servet / praecipias / puero ne / linat hunc / lapidem II, 2403
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Aix-en-Provence ( Aquae Sextiae ), Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis
- CIL Dexter Borman (o) / iter (um) l (ibens) m (erito) XII, 494
- Aix-les-Bains ( Aquae ), Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis
- Bourbon-Lancy, ( Aquae Bormonis ), Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis
- CIL C (aius) Iulius Eporedirigis f (ilius) Magnus / pro L (ucio) Iulio Caleno filio / Bormoni et Damonae / vot (um) sol (vit) XIII, 2805
- Bourbonne-les-Bains, Roman provinces Gallia Belgica and Germania superior
- CIL eo Apol / lini Borvoni / et Damonae / C (aius) Daminius / Ferox civis / Lingonus ex / voto XIII, 5911
- CIL Aug (usto) / Borvoni / C (aius) Valent (inius) / Censori / nus / Mulli f (ilius) / ex voto XIII, 5912
- CIL Deo Bor / voni / Vita / lia / Sas / sula / ex vo / to XIII, 5913
- CIL Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Aemilia / Sex (ti) fil (ia) / M [3] S XIII, 5914
- CIL Borvoni / et Damo (nae) / Fro (n) t (o) Luc (i) f (ilius) XIII, 5915
- CIL Borvoni et [Da] / monae C (aius) Ia / tinius Ro / manus (L) in / g (onus) pro salu / te Cocillae / fil (iae) ex voto XIII, 5916
- CIL Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Iul (ia) Tiberia / Corisilla / Claud (i) Catonis Ling (onis) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) XIII, 5917
- CIL Deo Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Maturia Rus / tica / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) XIII, 5918
- CIL Borvoni / et Damo / nae / [Se] xtilia / Sexti fil (ia) / Med (iomatrica?) XIII, 5919
- CIL Deo Borvo (ni) / et Damon (a) e / Verrea / Veri / lla Lingo / XIII, 5920
- Entrains-sur-Nohain, ( Intaranum ) Département Nièvre , Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis
- CIL Aug (usto) sacr (um) deo / Borvoni et Candi / do aerari (i) sub cu / ra Leonis et Mar / ciani ex voto r (eddito?) / Aerari (i) dona (verunt) XIII, 2901
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Aix-en-Diois ( Lucus Augusti ), Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis
- CIL Bormano / et Borman [ae] / P (ublius) Sappinius / Eusebes v (otum) s (olvit) / l (ibens) m (erito) XII, 1561
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Rhine , Roman province Germania superior
- AE 2003, 1279 Ian (uarius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Feb (ruarius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Ma (rtius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id ( us) aeq (uinoctium) Apr (ilis) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Mai (us) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Iun (ius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) sol (stitium) VIII K (alendas) Iul (ius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Aug (ustus) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Sep (tember) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) aeq (uinoctium) Oct (ober) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Nov (ember) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Dec (ember ) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) br (uma) // Mapil (ius) Mapilianus su (b) pr (a) efect (u) s aquarum dei Borvonis ex aere fracto {et} excitatoriam f (ecit ) ex voto s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
- Saint-Vulbas, ( Ambarri ), Ain department , Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis
- CIL Bormanae / Aug (ustae) sacr (um) / Capri / Atratinus / Sabinian [us] / d (e) s (uo) d (ederunt) XIII, 2452
See also
- List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
- Celtic religion
- Celtic mythology
- List of deities in the Asterix comics
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Maximilian Ihm : Bormo . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 733.
- Maximilian Ihm : Borvo . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 735 f.