Souconna

Souconna was the female deity of the Saône river in Celtic mythology . This river was called Souconna from the 4th century AD , the older name for it was Arar (found in the tribal name of the Ambarrians , Ambi-arari = "those who live on both sides of the Arar").

In 1912 a dedicatory inscription for this goddess was found in Chalon-sur-Saône ( Burgundy ) (ILTG 314). Another epigraph near Sagonne ( Département Cher , former Roman province Gallia Aquitania ) also bears this name, but due to the great distance between the two sites, it may possibly be a different deity.

In Ammianus Marcellinus the flow as is Sauconna designated, possibly in the derivation of Sac'hauna or Sac'hoon ( Celtic: "sleeping water"), due to its slow flow rate.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• 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 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 295.

Single receipts

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 689.
2. ↑ CIL XIII, 11162 [Nu] m (ini) Aug (usti) d (eae) Souco [nae] / [Di] vixtus Silani f (ilius)
3. ↑ Research of the antiquités et curiosités de la ville de Lyon by Jacob Spon, Monfalcon, page 189 (French)