Cathubodua

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Cathubodua , also Cassibodua , was a little-known Celtic deity whose name can only be found on a Gallic inscription in Mieussy (Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis ) in France .

Name and etymology

The name probably comes from the ancient Celtic roots katu (fight) and bodwā (fight). In the later Old Irish language , bodua- , derived from bodb , meant female raven . The name could thus mean "battle raven".

mythology

She was equated with Victoria on an inscription in Herbitzheim (Roman province of Gallia Belgica ) and is generally regarded as a deity of war and the dead. Perhaps their ravens or crows took on the task of guiding the souls of the fallen warriors into the afterlife with the Gauls, an idea that is attested to the vultures among the Celtiberians .

The representations of a crow on some Celtic coins are associated with Cathubodua.

In Irish mythology, there is a closely related figure, Badb / Bodb Chatha ("battle crow "), a sister of the Morrígan .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIL XII, 2571 [C] Athuboduae / Aug (ustae) / Servilia Teren / tia v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  2. ↑ proto-celtic - english (pdf, english)
  3. ↑ Sabine Ziegler: The language of the old Irish . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, p. 30, 105 . ISBN 3-525-26225-6
  4. ↑ Cathubodua im arbre celtique (French)
  5. ↑ CIL XIII, 4525 I (n) h (onorem) d (omus) d (ivinae) / Victoriae / [C] assi [b] oduae / [
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Krause: The Celts . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1929, p. 22 . ISBN 3-16-112301-8