Lugus

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