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Celtic and Roman god
In
ancient Celtic religion
,
Rudianos
was a war god worshiped in
Gaul
. In
Roman
times he was connected with
Mars
.
Name
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]
He was invoked at
Saint-Andeol-en-Quint
[1]
and
Rochefort-Samson
(
Drome
), and at
Saint-Michel-de-Valbonne
. The name "Rudianos" means 'red',
[2]
reflecting the warlike nature of the god. At Saint-Michel-de-Valbonne there was also found a
prehistoric
image of a mounted war-god, dating to the 6th Century BC, who could perhaps be Rudianos himself. The
menhir
-shaped stone depicts a roughly incised figure of a horseman, with an enormous head, riding down five severed heads. The iconography is evocative of the head-hunting exploits of the
Celts
, who hung the heads of their battle victims from their saddles, according to classical writers.
References
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- ^
Remy, Bernard; Hainzmann, Manfred; Mathieu, Nicolas (2013), Hofeneder, Andreas; de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (eds.),
"Epicleses et epithetes de Mars chez les Voconces de Die"
,
Theonymie celtique, cultes, interpretatio - Keltische Theonymie, Kulte, Interpretatio
(1 ed.), Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 125?130,
ISBN
978-3-7001-7369-4
,
JSTOR
j.ctv8mdn28.12
, retrieved
2023-06-23
- ^
Lurker, Manfred.
The Routledge Dictionary Of Gods Goddesses Devils And Demons
. Routledge. 2004. p. 162.
ISBN
978-04-15340-18-2
- Green, Miranda J.,
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
, Thames and Hudson Ltd., (1997)
