Cocidius

Silver plates for Cocidius from the Principia of Bewcastle Fort ( Fanum Cocidi )

Cocidius is the name of a late antique Romano-British deity . The etymology of his name is still unclear.

Locations and interpretations

Cocidius was worshiped by Roman soldiers especially in Northern Great Britain, namely in Cumberland and Northumberland . There were also images of a horned god of war, who could represent Cocidius, near Hadrian's Wall . According to the Interpretatio Romana , Cocidius was equated once in Housesteads ( Vercovicium ) with the Roman Silvanus and five times with Mars . In some dedicatory writings , Cocidius was identified with Teutates , Riocaletis and Vernostus. Two tablets of chased silver show him as a warrior with a shield and a spear. According to MacKillop, Cocidius is said to correspond to the British god Segomo , but this is very controversial.

The center of the Cocidius cult is believed to be around Fanum Cocidi [i] (there was an outpost fort on Hadrian's Wall , today Bewcastle in Cumberland).

See also

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

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 , p. 80 f.

Web links

• Article Housesteads Roman Fort in English Wikipedia
• Article Bewcastle Roman Fort in the English Wikipedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 649.
2. ^ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1] DEO / SILVANO / COCIDIO / Q FLORIUS / MATERNUS / PRAEF COH / I TVNG / VSLM
3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 437.
4. ^ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [2] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [3] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [4] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [5] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [6]
5. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [7]
6. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [8] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [9]
7. ↑ James MacKillop: Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 337.
8. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 262.