Lugus
Gaulish · deity · mythic · deity
Pan-Celtic god of skill, commerce and eloquence underlying Caesar's 'Mercury'; cognate with Irish Lug and Welsh Lleu; namesake of Lugdunum (Lyon).
Domains
- commerce skill eloquence
- craftsmanship
Powers
- Master and patronise every craft and art
- Manifest as a divine plurality, the Lugoves
- wield the unfailing spear of the skilled god
Epithets
- Lugoves
- Mercurius
Relations
- equated with: Lugus the Many-Skilled
- equated with: Lugh
Sources
- Lugoves dedications (Iberia); toponym Lugdunum; Caesar DBG VI.17 (Mercury)
- B. Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture (1997), s.v. Lugus