Leherennus

Leherennus is the name of a Celtic deity who is mentioned on some inscriptions in the French department of Hautes-Pyrénées and there, according to the Interpretatio Romana, is usually equated with Mars .

Leherennus is mentioned on some dedicatory inscriptions, found in the area around Ardiège (Lugdunum Convenarum), which almost all have the same dedication text . Eight of them mention Leherennus in connection with Mars.

Jean-Jacques Hatt cites a hypothesis that Leherennus could be a pre-Celtic deity who was equated with Mars during the Gallo-Roman culture .

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• Patricia Monaghan: The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Infobase Publishing, 2004, ISBN 9781438110370 , p. 285 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
• Christian-J. Guyonvarc'h, Françoise Le Roux-Guyonvarc'h: Remarques sur la Religion Gallo-Romaine: Rupture et Continuité. In: Wolfgang Haase (Hrsg.): Rise and decline of the Roman world . Volume II, 18, 1. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1986, ISBN 9783110100501 , pp. 423–455 (on Leherennus, pp. 451 f .; excerpt from Google Books ).

Web links

• Article Panthéon pyrénéen: Divinités attestées in the French language Wikipedia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XIII, 96 : Leheren (n) o / deo / Bambix Sori / f (ilius) v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) .
2. ↑ CIL XIII, 97 : Leherenno / Domesticus / Rufi f (ilius) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) .
3. ↑ CIL XIII, 98 : Leherenno / deo / Mandatus / Ma (n) sueti f (ilius) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) .
4. ↑ CIL XIII, 100 : [M] ar [ti?] / Leherenn (o) / deo / Maximus / Mandati f (ilius) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
5. ↑ CIL XIII, 101 : Leherenno / deo / Osson / Priami l (ibertus) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
6. ↑ CIL XIII, 102 : Leherenno / deo / Primulu [s] / [–––].
7. ↑ CIL XIII, 104 : Le (he) ren / no / deo / Sabin (u) s / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
8. ↑ CIL XIII, 105 : Leherenno / deo / Tertullus / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
9. ↑ CIL XIII, 106 : Leheren (n) i (!) / Uriaxe / Ilunnosi / filia.
10. ↑ CIL XIII, 107 : [–––] / Leheren / ni (!) / V (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
11. ↑ CIL XIII, 108 : Leherenn (o) / Marti / [–––].
12. ↑ CIL XIII, 109 : Leheren (no) / Marti / Bambix / Publi lib (ertus) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
13. ↑ CIL XIII, 110 : Leher [enno] / Mart [i] / Cast [us] / Const [an] / tis fil [ius] / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
14. ↑ CIL XIII, 111 : Marti / Leherenni (!) / Ingenus / Siricconis f (ilius) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
15. ↑ CIL XIII, 112 : Leheren / no Mar (ti) / Seranus / [Sex] tilli (?) F (ilius) / [–––].
16. ↑ CIL XIII, 113 : Leherenn (o) / Marti / Titullus A / moeni fil (ius) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
17. ↑ CIL XIII, 114 : [Leh] erenno / [M] arti / […] rania / [I] ngenua / [v (otum)] s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito).
18. ^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 204 (for the whole article).
19. ^ Jean-Jacques Hatt: Mythes et dieux de la Gaule. 1. Les grands divinités masculines. Picard, Paris 1989, ISBN 9782708403659 ( excerpt from Google Books ).