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#Eluveitie - #Pantheon - #Lugus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFS7JW29gSY

Lots of stuff in that article about #Lugh and #Lugus as Gods, and whether we can even know for sure that they were Gods of the Celtic peoples.

I do like the hypothesis of Lugus/Lugh being a proto-Celtic rather than pan-Celtic God though.

Will have to read it more thoroughly after work.

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SOME EPIGRAPHIC COMPARANDA BEARING ON THE ‘PAN-CELTIC GOD’ #LUGUS

"Every human being in using language is ‘pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret’. In their changing forms and meanings, the words used today had formerly been arranged to express innumerable now-lost ideas. For the Celtic languages and Celtic-speaking societies a transformative discontinuity coincided with the Conversion, end of the Western Empire, and Migration Period."

https://www.academia.edu/44897072/_Some_epigraphic_comparanda_bearing_on_the_pan_Celtic_god_Lugus_

@dianmanios Váletíim Lugobo !

I love the delvá you made for Them!

I too follow the attested votives (and icons?) to the plural #Lugoves, rather than reconstructing a singular #Lugus.

My tendency has been to view #Lugh and #Lleu as different members of this collective Lugoves, rather than as being "the same" God, *Lugus.

It's worth remembering that Lugh was said to have had triplet brothers. As we see with other triplet deities in Irish literature—i.e., Brigid—They may all have the same name. So I think that is reflective of this pluralized cult to the Lugoves, which must have fallen away at some point before the tales were recorded in Medieval times.

We know there are Gods who were widely worshiped in Gaul with little direct testimony of Their names (e.g., Cernunnos), so I would not discount the possibility that this cult to the Lugoves could have been popular there. There are many possible explanations for the lack of direct testimony, as you mention.

While The Lugoves are most heavily attested in Iberia, there is also at least one votive each to Them from Narbonensis, Germania Inferior, and Germ. Superior.

In Iberia, one of the votives was made by a group of shoemakers—something I *do* believe bears connection to the Mabinogi, which tells the tale of Lleu becoming a master shoemaker using Cordovan (Spanish) leather!

Perhaps the cult of the Lugoves even originated in Iberia and spread to the rest of the Keltiké from there...