Moritasgus

Moritasgus is the name of a Celtic god of healing who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, was equated with Apollo .

Site and etymology

The name Moritasgus can be found on three dedicatory inscriptions from Alesia (Roman province Lugdunensis , today Alise-Sainte-Reine ), in which he is mentioned together with Apollon. The third inscription also names the goddess Damona as his consort. Numerous votive offerings for Moritasgus were found in the sanctuary .

Moritasgus was also the name of one of Caesar deposed Senonen -Häuptlings. Moritasgus is translated as "big badger" - since the European badger produces a secretion that was used by the druids as a remedy, a connection to the god of healing can be assumed here. In Birkhan also is a translation with mori ( "sea") and tadg ( "Poet") or TaskOS ( "nail", "peg") called by the skepticism because of the question meaning.

See also

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

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 , pp. 218, 1005 (about the tribal chief)
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 238.

Web links

• Sandra Billington, Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green: The Concept of the Goddess. Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-19789-9 , p. 31. (books.google.at)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XIII, 11240 Aug (usto) sac (rum) / deo Apollini / Moritasgo / Catianus / Oxtai
2. ↑ CIL XIII, 11241 Aug (usto) sac (rum) [deo] Apollin [i] / Morita [sgo 3] avius ​​Ali [3] / D [i] ofanes [fec] er (unt) lib (entes) p [ osuerunt]
3. ^ AE 1965, 181 Deo Apollini Moritasgo [et] / Damonae P (ublius) Pontius Apolli [nis]
4. ^ Gaius Iulius Caesar: Commentarii de Bello Gallico , V, 54.
5. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 622, note 5.