Nabia the River Lady
Lusitanian · deity · Iron Age to Roman period · deity
Name leads with the English phrase 'the River Lady'; attested Latin votive form Nabia. Native theonym from Indo-European *nāu-/*nabh- ('water-course, stream'), surviving in the river-names Navia, Neiva and Nabão. Scholars (Olivares Pedreño) suspect more than one goddess hides behind the name — one paired with Jupiter, another assimilated to Diana/Juno/Victoria. No narrative myth survives.
Domains
- rivers freshwater
- springs sacred waters
- fertility abundance
Powers
- preside over rivers, springs and their bounty
Epithets
- Nabia
Relations
- companion: Tongoenabiagus the Oath-Spring God
Sources
- A. Tranoy, La Galice romaine (1981)
- J. C. Olivares Pedreño, 'Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula', e-Keltoi 6 (2005)
- Fonte do Ídolo inscription (TONGOE NABIAGOI), Bracara Augusta