Lusitanian · deity · Iron Age to Roman period (attested 1st–4th c. AD) · deity
Spirit-class/local healing god classed here as a deity. Name leads with the English epithet 'the Healer'; the attested Latin votive form is Endovellicus. The native etymon is debated — often analysed as Celtic/Hispano-Celtic *ande-wellicos ('very dark/very good one'), the prefix ande- being an intensifier. Known almost entirely from votive epigraphy and figured plaques; no narrative myth survives.
Domains
healing medicine
oracles divination
underworld chthonic
Powers
heal supplicants through temple incubation
answer questions through prophetic dreams
Epithets
Endovelicus
Sources
J. d'Encarnação, Divindades indígenas sob o domínio romano em Portugal (Lisbon 1975)
CIL II 129–134 and the São Miguel da Mota corpus
J. C. Olivares Pedreño, 'Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula', e-Keltoi 6 (2005)