• (bellum)"; Pomona, "she who presides over orchard fruits (pomum)"; and Epona, the Romano-Celtic horse goddess (from Gaulish epos, "horse") whose image...
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    dolphins. Dumézil, La religion romaine archaïque, 381, Paris, 1966. Compare Epona. "Neptune, Prado Museum, Madrid". Spain is culture. Ministry of Culture...
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    goddesses Hecate / Artemis, Artio, the Matres of Engyon, the Matronae, and Epona, as well as figures from fairy-tales, such as Cinderella. A 16th century...
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    theonym associated with the Sun; if this is the case, then the pan-Celtic Epona might also have been originally solar in nature, though Roman syncretism...
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    of a probable Neolithic mother goddess. The very popular Gallic goddess Epona, protector of horses, is worshipped by both Gauls and Roman cavalry units...
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    refers to the mare's role as mother goddess. Celtic mare-goddesses such as Epona, Rhiannon and Macha seem to have descended from a prehistoric mother-earth...
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  • Empanda or Panda, a goddess whose temple never closed to those in need. Epona, Gallo-Roman goddess of horses and horsemanship, usually assumed to be of...
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    ISBN 9782877723695. OCLC 354152038. Sterckx, Claude (12 March 2014). Mythologie du monde celte (in French). Marabout. p. 84. ISBN 9782501097178. Black...
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    origin is that the mare was the mount of the Gallic psychopomp goddess Epona. This Celtic origin was referenced by Henri Dontenville, who wrote that...
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    ("mistress of sunlight"), Germanic *Wōðanaz ("lord of frenzy"), Gaulish Epona ("goddess of horses"), Lithuanian Perkūnas ("lord of oaks"), and in Roman...
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