Divanno
Divanno and his presumed doppelganger Dinomogetimarus are a Celtic pair of Gauls who were worshiped in Saint-Pons-de-Thomières and Béziers (both in the Hérault department , Languedoc ). An inscription found there calls them “Divanno / Dinomogetimaro / Martib (us)”.
Divanno and Dinomogetimarus were identified with the Roman god Mars according to the Interpretatio Romana . The form “Martibus” suggests a double deity of two “Martes”, a kind of Celtic Dioscuri . In addition, the assumption that Dinomogetimarus is just an epithet of Divanno becomes rather improbable. Sylvia and Paul Botheroyd suspect that a twin deity was first worshiped by seafarers and then later reached the Gallic mainland in Romanized form as Divanno and Dinomogetimarus. Bernhard Maier regards them as individual deities despite the common dedicatory inscription and also considers the comparison with the Greek Dioscuri and other twin deities (such as the Germanic Alcis or the Vedic Ashvins ) to be unproven. Under the entry "Dioscuri", however, he reports on the cult of such a Dioscuri couple, which, according to Diodorus , was particularly widespread among the Gauls on the Atlantic coast.
See also
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Sylvia and Paul Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology . Diederichs-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-424-01077-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 100 f.
- ^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 99.
- ↑ CIL XII, 04218 L (ucius) Coelius Rufus / Iulia Severa uxor / L (ucius) Coelius Mangius f (ilius) / Divanno / Dinomogetimaro / Martib (us) / v (otum) s (olverunt) l (ibentes) m ( erito)
- ^ Emil Krüger: The Gallic and Germanic Dioscuri: Divanno and Dinomogetimarus and the Alces. In: Trier Journal 1940, pp. 8-27, and 1941-42, pp. 1-66.
- ↑ Diodorus 4,56,4.