Damona
Damona is the name of a Celtic goddess . She is the partner of the healing god Bormo , also known as Bormana . The Gallic name is probably related to the Old Irish dam ("ox", "cow"). Birkhan assumes that she was a spring nymph and was worshiped not in the form of a cattle, but in the form of a hind . He is rather critical of equating Damona-Bormana.
Adoration
Damona was born in the places Aquae Bormonis ( Bourbon-Lancy , Saône-et-Loire department , Roman province Lugdunensis ) in the area of the Haedu and Bourbonne-les-Bains ( department Haute-Marne , Roman provinces Gallia Belgica and Germania superior ) in the area of Lingons are revered, mostly together with Apollo Bormo or Borvo, after whom the baths with hot medicinal springs are named. A statue of Damona comes from Alesia (today Alise-Sainte-Reine ), where it is named together with Moritasgus , another from Arnay-le-Duc (both places Côte-d'Or , Roman province Gallia Aquitania ), where as her partner a god Albius appears. The pair of gods Bormanus and Bormana from Aix-en-Diois ( Lucus Augusti , Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis ) is a local variant of this pair.
Inscriptions
From Bourbon-Lancy:
- CIL XIII, 2805 C (aius) Iulius Eporedirigis f (ilius) Magnus / pro L (ucio) Iulio Caleno filio / Bormoni et Damonae / vot (um) sol (vit)
- CIL XIII, 2806 Borvoni et Damonae / T (itus) Severius Mo / destus [o] mnib (us) / h [o] n [orib (us)] et offi [ciis
- CIL XIII, 2807 [Num (inibus?) Pr] aest (antissimis?) Sac [r (um)] / [3 b] asilica v [etustate collapsa (?) 3] / [3 deo (?) B] orvoni et [Damonae
- CIL XIII, 2808 [Praestantis] simis (?) Nu / [minibus] deo Bo [r] / [voni et Damonae
From Bourbonne-les-Bains:
- CIL XIII, 5914 Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Aemilia / Sex (ti) fil (ia) / M [3] S
- CIL XIII, 5915 Borvoni / et Damo (nae) / Fro (n) t (o) Luc (i) f (ilius) [
- CIL XIII, 5916 Borvoni et [Da] / monae C (aius) Ia / tinius Ro / manus (L) in / g (onus) pro salu / te Cocillae / fil (iae) ex voto
- CIL XIII, 5917 Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Iul (ia) Tiberia / Corisilla / Claud (i) Catonis Ling (onis) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
- CIL XIII, 5918 Deo Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Maturia Rus / tica / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
- CIL XIII, 5919 Borvoni / et Damo / nae / [Se] xtilia / Sexti fil (ia) / Med (iomatrica?) [
- CIL XIII, 5920 Deo Borvo (ni) / et Damon (a) e / Verrea / Veri / lla Lingo / [
- CIL XIII, 5921 Damonae Aug (ustae) / Claudia Mossia et C (aius) Iul (ius) Superstes fil (ius) / l (ocus) d (atus) ex d (ecreto) d (ecurionum) v (otum) s ( olverunt) l (ibentes) m (erito)
From Alise-Sainte-Reine:
From Aix-en-Diois:
- CIL XII, 1561 Bormano / et Borman [ae] / P (ublius) Sappinius / Eusebes v (otum) s (olvit) / l (ibens) m (erito)
From Arnay-le-Duc:
- CIL XIII, 2840 Aug (usto) sacr (um) / deo Albio et Damonae Sex (tus) Mart (ius) / Cocillus ex iussu eius v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
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. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology. Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2004, p. 81.
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 95.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 711.
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 619, note 6: "That Bormana is to be equated with Damona , as Holder claims ( Col. 491), does not emerge from the inscriptions, but only follows when Bormanus is identified with Bormo ."