Epane is the Cantabrian form of Epona, the Celtic goddess of horses whose cult spread across the Roman Empire. Her name is attested in Cantabrian territory at Monte Bernorio (Palencia), one of the largest fortified oppida of the Cantabri and a stronghold destroyed during the Cantabrian Wars. The veneration of a horse goddess fits the prominence of horsemanship among the Cantabri, whose cavalry manoeuvres (the circulus cantabricus) were famous in antiquity, and parallels related Iberian forms of the goddess such as Iccona in Lusitania. The name derives from the Celtic word epos, 'horse'.