Luxovius
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In Gallo-Roman religion, Luxovios, Latinized as Luxovius, was the god of the waters of Luxeuil, worshiped in Gaul. He was a consort of Bricta. The thermal spring sanctuary at Luxeuil provided evidence of the worship of other deities, including the sky-horseman who bears a solar wheel, and Sirona, another deity associated with healing springs.
Inscriptions
Luxovius is recorded in the following two inscriptions, both from Luxeuil-les-Bains :
:[Lus]soio / et Brictae / Divixti/us Cons/tans / v(otum) s(olvit)
"To Lusso(v)ios and Bricta, Divixtius Constans freely and deservedly fulfilled his vow." (CIL 13, 05425)
: Luxovio / et Brixtae / G(aius) Iul(ius) Fir/manus / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)
"To Luxovios and Brixta, Gaius Julius Firmans freely and deservedly fulfilled his vow."
(AE 1951, 00231; CIL 13, 05426)
Etymology
The name Luxovios implies light symbolism, derived from a Proto-Indo-European stem *leuk- 'light', 'whiteness'.{{cite book|author=Jacques Lacroix|year=2007|title=Les noms d'origine gauloise - La Gaule des dieux|publisher=Errance|isbn=978-2-87772-349-7|page=84}} This may indicate that the god was a deity of both light and curative spring waters, two elements that were strongly linked in the Celtic world.{{Cite journal |last=Zeidler |first=Jürgen |year=2003 |title=On the etymology of Grannus |journal=Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages= 87–88 |doi=10.1515/ZCPH.2003.77 |issn=0084-5302}}
References
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Bibliography
- Année Epigraphique volume 1951
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), volume 13, Tres Galliae
- Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. Miranda Green. Thames and Hudson Ltd. London. 1997
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