Monday, February 6, 2017

Celtic Gods: Alisanos

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In Gallo-Roman religion, Alisanos or Alisaunus was a local god worshipped in what is now the Côte-d'Or in Burgundy and at Aix-en-Provence.[1]
The inscription from Gevrey-Chambertin in the Côte-d'Or is in the Gaulish language:
DOIROS SEGOMARI
IEVRV ALISANV[2]
Doiros (son) of Segomaros has dedicated (this) to Alisanos
The inscription from Visignot, also in the Côte-d'Or, is in Latin:
DEO·ALISANO·PAVLLINVS
PRO·CONTEDIO·FIL·SVO
V·S·L·M·[3]
Paullinus has freely and deservedly fulfilled his vow to the god Alisanus on behalf of his son Contedius
The root Alisa- of the name Alisanus is phonologically comparable to the Proto-Celtic *alisā, ‘alder’.[4] Green, however, sees the theonym as related to the toponym Alesia, implying that he was a mountain-god

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Through the Otherworld has been Up for Three Months

This blog has reached it's third month and I want to say thank you for reading my posts and giving me some hope that this blog is making some kind of difference. Here's to another month.