Belenos
Gaulish · deity · mythic · deity
Gaulish solar healing god identified with Apollo; cult centred on Aquileia and noted by Tertullian and Ausonius; name 'the shining one'.
Domains
Powers
- Heal the sick at his therapeutic springs
- drive the sun across the sky and pour out its bright light
Epithets
- Apollo Belenus
- Belenus Augustus
Sources
- Tertullian, Apologeticum 24; Ausonius; Apollo Belenus inscriptions at Aquileia
- Name 'bright/shining' (root *bhel-); cf. Beltane; B. Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion (1997)
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