Vindonnus

In Celtic mythology, Vindonnus was the name of a sun and healing deity who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, was equated with Apollo .

Mythology and Etymology

Vindonnus is a Celtic addition to the name of the sun god, called Apollo (n) in Greece and Rome, and Belenus in Gaul . In Essarois near Châtillon-sur-Seine ( Burgundy ) a temple of Apollo Vindonnus was found in which a healing spring rises. On the remains of the foundations there were three inscriptions in which the god and the source are praised. Above it is a (sun) god's image surrounded by rays. Votive offerings deposited in the source were in the form of hands with fruits or other body parts, and thank-you inscriptions for eye healing were also found.

The name Vindonnus is derived from the developed proto-Indo-European root * windo- (“white”) and the Latin ending -us as “the white god”.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Celtic religion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL 13, 5644 : Deo Apollini Vindon [no] Urbici / us Flaccus v (otum) [s (olvit) l (ibens)] m (erito) ;
   CIL 13, 5645 : [Deo Apollini Vind] onno et Fontibus / [--–] Prisci v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) ;
   CIL 13, 5646 : Vind (onno) Mai f (ilia) / Iulia v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) .

literature

• Johann Baptist Keune : Vindonnus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 6, Teubner, Leipzig 1937, Col. 322-322.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• Miranda Green: Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1997.