Hercules Magusanus
Continental Germanic · deity · Continental Germanic religion under Rome (1st c. BCE – 3rd c. CE) · deity
WHAT THE EVIDENCE IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT. The altar is the fact: a dedicator wrote a Roman god's name and a Germanic epithet together, and that pairing IS the record. WHICH Germanic god stands behind the Roman name is the disputed part, and this record does not answer it — no edge is drawn to Donar, to Thunaer or to any Norse figure. The corpus's Sogdian and Bactrian cult-forms are filed the same way. Carries a verified-solitary verdict.
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- Reference treatments of the Continental Germanic gods and of the Roman-era Germanic dedications.