Mogetius

Mogetius is the name of a Celtic god who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, was equated with Mars .

The name Mogetius can be found on two dedicatory inscriptions: one was found in Bourges / Avaricum ( Cher , France ), the other in Seggauberg / Solva ( Styria , Austria ).

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 , p. 637.
• Manfred Hainzmann, Peter Schubert: Inscriptionum lapidariarum Latinarum provinciae Norici usque ad annum MCMLXXXIV repertarum indices (ILLPRON indices). Volume 3. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-11-011161-6 , p. 821 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 235.
• Patricia Monaghan: The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Infobase Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-1-4381-1037-0 , p. 334 ( excerpt from Google Books ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XIII, 1193 : Num (ini) Aug (usti) / et Marti / Mogetio / Gracchus / Ategnutis fil (ius) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) .
2. ↑ CIL III, 5320 : Marti / Latobio / Marmogio / Toutati / Sinati Mog / [e] tio C (aius) Val (erius) / [V] alerinus / ex voto .