Braciaca

Braciaca is the name of a Celtic god who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, is equated with Mars . The name could be related to the Celtic name for “malt” or “beer”. Some Celtologists also associate him with Dionysus . In Pliny the Elder , a connection is called the peasant function of Mars and BRACIS translated "wheat", which also indicates (wheat) beer.

Braciaca is attested in a single dedicatory inscription on an altar stone from Bakewell (Derbyshire) .

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Celtic religion
• Celtic mythology

literature

• Anne Ross: Pagan Celtic Britain. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967, ISBN 0-902357-03-4 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 49.
• Samuel Pegge: An essay on the coins of Cunobelin. printed for William Bowyer. 1766, p. 17. (books.google.at)

Web links

• Mars Braciaca in: Mars (mythology) in the English language Wikipedia.
• Max Nelson: The Barbarian's Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe. Routledge, ISBN 978-1-134-38672-7 , p. 66. (books.google.at)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eric Birley: The Deities of Roman Britain, Rise and Decline of the Roman World II.18.1 (1986), pp. 43, 68; Xavier Delamarre: Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Éditions Errance, 2003, p. 85.
2. ↑ Pliny the Elder: Naturalis historia. 18. 62.
3. ↑ compare the Galatian word embrekton ("drink")
4. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1] : DEO / MARTI / BRACIACAE / OSIT TIVS / CAECILIAN / PRAEFECT / TRO ... / VS.