In Gallo-Roman religion , Arvernus was the tribal god of the Arverni and an epithet of the Gaulish Mercury . Although the name refers to the Arverni , in whose territory Mercury had at important sanctuary at the Puy-de-Dome in the Massif Central , all of the inscriptions to Mercury Arvernus are found farther away along the Rhenish frontier. The similar name Mercury Arvernorix , ‘king of the Arverni’, is also recorded once. ^[1] Compare also the title Mercury Dumiatis (‘of the Puy-de-Dome’), found in the territory of the Arverni. ^[2] The name, like the name of the Arverni and of Auvergne , appears to derive from a Proto-Celtic compound adjective * φara-werno-s ‘in front of alders ’. ^{[ citation needed ]}

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