Gallo-Roman religion

methodology for cultural comparison

allusive term for a coin placed in the mouth of the dead to pay Charon to ferry them to the underworld

oldest monument in Paris, a column dedicated to Jupiter

frame|right|Latin inscription reading DEO MARTI CICOLLUI ET LITAVI ('To Mars Cicolluos and Litavis').Litavis (Gaulish: Litauī 'Earth', lit. 'the Broad One') is a Gallic deity whose cult is primarily attested in east-central Gaul during the Roman period, where she mainly appears as the consort of Mars Cicolluis. She was probably originally an earth-goddess.'' The divine pair Mars Cicolluis–Litavis was likely associated with fertile and nourishing land, an interpretation supported by the meanings of both divine names. In medieval Celtic languages, various terms derived from the name *Litauia'' (

Roman curse tablet

religion

Latin work by Macrobius

Romano-Celtic Temple in Autun, France

Roman temple located in Côtes-d'Armor, in France

Fanum located in Cantal, in France

Gobannus (or Gobannos, the Gaulish form, sometimes Cobannus) was a Gallo-Roman smithing god.

thumb|150px|right|St. Augustine in a 6th-century portrait In the Gaulish language, Dusios was a divine being among the continental Celts who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion. Like these deities, he might be seen as multiple in nature, and referred to in the plural (dusioi), most commonly in Latin as dusii. Although the Celtic Dusios is not described in late-antique sources independently of Greek and Roman deities, the common functionality of the others lay in their ability to impregnate an

Gallo-roman temple located in Puy-de-Dôme, in France