Abellio
Abellio (also Abelio and Abelionni) was a god worshiped in the
Origin and duties
Abellio is accounted for in two Roman inscriptions, one spelling the deity Abellio and the other Abelio.[4]
Some scholars have postulated that Abellio is the same name as Apollo,[1] who in Crete and elsewhere was called Abelios (Greek Αβέλιος), and by the Italians and some Dorians Apello,[5] and that the deity is the same as the Gallic Apollo mentioned by Caesar,[6] and also the same as the Belis or Belenus mentioned by Tertullian[7] and Herodian.[8]
Other scholars have taken the reverse position that Abellio might have been a similar
In his attempt to connect the Grail legends to the Cathars, Otto Rahn identified the worship of Abellio in the Pyrenees with the Latinized form of Belenus-Apollo whom he equated with Lucifer.[9][10]
Though some scholars have tried to identify this god as Greek or Celtic, the fact is that the theonym Abellio is only attested among the Aquitani, a people neither Greek nor Celtic. There are three other attested Ballio names in the Roman Empire, all of them anthroponyms and without final N: one in South Italy, and two in Ancient Dalmatia.
References
- ^ a b Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Abellio", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 2, archived from the original on 2005-07-28, retrieved 2007-08-20
- ISBN 9780816029099.
- JSTOR 41028715.
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) XIII, Pars Prima Aquitania 39, 40.
- ^ Fest. s. v. Apellinem; Eustath. ad II. ii. 99
- ^ Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico vi. 17
- ^ Tertullian, Apologeticus 23
- ^ Herodian viii. 3; comp. Capitol. Maoeimin. 22
- ISBN 9781594777370.
- ISBN 9781594777219.
Other sources
- Ellis, Peter Berresford, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology(Oxford Paperback Reference), Oxford University Press, (1994): ISBN 0-19-508961-8
- Wood, Juliette, The Celts: Life, Myth, and Art, Thorsons Publishers (2002): ISBN 0-00-764059-5
- Proto-Celtic — English lexicon
External links
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abellio". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
