Ataegina
Sign in to savethumb|200px|Ataegina. Marble, 210x93x72 cm, by the artist Pedro Roque Hidalgo, 2008. Museum of Marble, Vila Viçosa, Portugal Ataegina (; ) was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Iberians, Lusitanians, and Celtiberians of the Iberian Peninsula. She is believed by some to have been a goddess of the underworld or the night, or of the spring season.
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12 sectionsContents
- Names
- Etymology
- Celtic hypothesis
- Other hypotheses
- Centers of worship
- Turibriga or Turobriga
- Functions
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
thumb|200px|Ataegina. Marble, 210x93x72 cm, by the artist Pedro Roque Hidalgo, 2008. Museum of Marble, Vila Viçosa, Portugal Ataegina (; ) was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Iberians, Lusitanians, and Celtiberians of the Iberian Peninsula. She is believed by some to have been a goddess of the underworld or the night, or of the spring season.
==Names== The deity's name is variously attested as Ataegina, Ataecina, Adaecina and Adaegina, among other spellings, totalling, as of 2025, approximately 27 attestations. Her name appears in conjunction to a place named Turibriga or Turobriga (see below).