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Ancamna
A Gaulish goddess: Great Meandering Waterway
This deity is known from inscriptions found in France and Germany and is probably a water deity, a patronness of healing waters. |
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Gaul: Greatly Meandering Waterway
A water goddess from Gaul. She is known from epigraphic dedications in the Moselle valley near Trier. Inscriptions dedicated to her have also been discovered at Feyen, Möhn and Ripsdorf in Germany.
A deity specifically worshipped by the Treverii she was associated with the cult of the healer deity Mars Lenus as indicated by the Trier inscriptions. Ancamna was also a divine partner of Mars (in the Ripsdorf inscription) and Mars Smertios (in the Möhn inscription).
Her association with the healer deity Mars Lenus is what lends to the assumption/suggestion that Ancamna is a water goddess, a patroness of healing waters.
By comparison with reconstructed proto-Celtic her name can be broken down in the elements *an-kambo-abon-ā (very crooked river) which may be interpreted as Greatly Meandering Waterway. The name would probably have been something like *Ankambona in Gaulish, which would have been transcribed as Ancamna in Latin.
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