The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

[110] Lucan, i. 444; RC xviii. 254, 258.

[111] See p. 127, infra.

[112] For a supposed connection between this bas-relief and the myth of Geryon, see Reinach, BF 120; RC xviii. 258 f.

[113] Coins of the Ancient Britons, 386; Holder, i. 1475, 1478.

[114] For these theories see Dom Martin, ii. 2; Bertrand, 335 f.

[115] Cf.  Reinach, RC xviii. 149.

[116] Orelli, 2107, 2072; Monnier, 532; Tacitus, xxi. 38.

[117] Holder, i. 824; Reinach, Rev. Arch. xx. 262; D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 20.  Other grouped gods are the Bacucei, Castoeci, Icotii, Ifles, Lugoves, Nervini, and Silvani.  See Holder, s.v.

[118] For all these see Holder, s.v.

[119] Professor Anwyl gives the following statistics:  There are 35 goddesses mentioned once, 2 twice, 3 thrice, 1 four times, 2 six times, 2 eleven times, 1 fourteen times (Sirona), 1 twenty-one times (Rosmerta), 1 twenty-six times (Epona) (Trans.  Gael.  Soc.  Inverness, xxvi. 413).

[120] Caesar, vi. 17.

[121] D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 54; Rev. Arch. i. 201.  See Holder, s.v.

[122] Solinus, xxii. 10; Holder, s.v.

[123] Ptolemy, ii. 2.

[124] See p. 71, infra.

[125] Dio Cass. lxii. 7; Amm.  Mare, xxvii. 4. 4.

[126] Plutarch, de Vir.  Mul. 20; Arrian, Cyneg. xxxiv. 1.

[127] S. Greg. Hist. viii. 15.

[128] Grimm, Teut.  Myth. 283, 933; Reinach, RC xvi. 261.

[129] Reinach, BF 50.

[130] Holder, i. 1286; Robert, RC iv. 133.

[131] Rh[^y]s, HL 27.

[132] Anwyl, Celt.  Rev. 1906, 43.

[133] Holder, s.v.; Bulliot, RC ii. 22.

[134] Holder, i. 10, 89.

[135] Holder, s.v.; see p. 213, infra.

[136] Holder, ii. 463.  They are very numerous in South-East Gaul, where also three-headed gods are found.

[137] See pp. 274-5, infra.

[138] Courcelle-Seneuil, 80-81.

[139] See my article “Calendar” in Hastings’ Encyclop. of Religion and Ethics, iii. 80.

[140] CIL v. 4208, 5771, vii. 927; Holder, ii. 89.

[141] For all these titles see Holder, s.v.

[142] There is a large literature devoted to the Matres.  See De Wal, Die Maeder Gottinem; Vallentin, Le Culte des Matrae; Daremberg-Saglio, Dict. s.v.  Matres; Ihm, Jahrbuch. des Vereins von Alterth. in Rheinlande, No. 83; Roscher, Lexicon, ii. 2464 f.

[143] See Maury, Fees du Moyen Age; Sebillot, i. 262; Monnier, 439 f.; Wright, Celt, Roman, and Saxon, 286 f.; Vallentin, RC iv. 29.  The Matres may already have had a sinister aspect in Roman times, as they appear to be intended by an inscription Lamiis Tribus on an altar at Newcastle.  Huebner, 507.

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