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Nameless god of the Celtiberians
Strabo and Celtic religion
[edit]Strabo's Geographia, written at the beginning of the 1st century CE, is the only ancient geography that has come down to us in more than fragments. While Strabo used some first-hand knowledge in this work, his knowledge of the Celtic peoples seem to have been wholly second-hand. Strabo is known to have relied extensively on 1st century BCE geographer Posidonius, who produced an ethnography of the Celts (now lost).[1]: 206–207 [2]
Some say the Callaicans have no god, but the Celtiberians and their neighbours on the north offer sacrifice to a nameless god at the seasons of the full moon, by night, in front of the doors of their houses, and whole households dance in chorus and keep it up all night.[3]
Interpretation
[edit]Moon hypothesis
Vendryes discusses the taboo
Marco Simon's Gaulish Dis Pater hypothesis
References
[edit]- ^ Hofeneder, Andreas (2008). Die Religion der Kelten in den antiken literarischen Zeugnissen. Vol. 2. Wien: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- ^ Radt, S.; Elvers, K. (2006). "Strabo". Brill's New Pauly Online. Brill. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_brill130030.
- ^ Strabo, Geographia, 3, 4.16. Translation from Strabo (1923). Geography, Volume II: Books 3–5. Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 50. Translated by Jones, Horace Leonard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 107.
Further reading
[edit]- Bermejo Barrera, José Carlos (1994). Mitología y Mitos de la Hispania Prerromana I (2nd ed.). Madrid. pp. 12–15.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Caro Baroja, Julio (1946). Los pueblos de España: Ensayo de etnología. Barcelona. pp. 217f.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Sopeña Genzor, Gabriel; Ramón Palerm, Vicente (1994). "El anonimato de un dios de los celtíberos: aportaciones críticas en torno a Estrabón III, 4, 16". Studia historica. Historia antigua. 12: 21–34.
- Sopeña Genzor, Gabriel (1995). Ética y ritual: aproximación al estudio de la religiosidad de los pueblos celtibéricos. Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico. pp. 29–38.