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Beissirissa
A Gaulish God: God of Laws
This Gauish god is known from an inscription found at Cadeac, Hautes-Pyrenees, southern France. He is equated with Roman Jupiter, indicating him to be a lawgiver geity of the 'father of the tribe' type. |
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Gaul: God of Laws
A Gaulish deity, know from a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus Beissirissa, found at Cadeac, Hautes-Pyrenees, southern France (in what used to be the lands of the Bigerriones in southern Gaul).
The equating of Beissirissa with Jupiter Optimus Maximus by the Romans indicates that this deity was the father-god of the tribe, and thus a protector of the peoples and their lands.
Beissirissa's name can be interpreted on the basis of the reconstructed proto-Celtic lexical elements *beisso (custom), the deicitic particle -i- and *rixtu (form). Thus Beissirissa is the 'God of the Form of Custom'. The 'Forms of Custom' probably represent laws thus Beissirissa is the 'God of Laws' which would explain his equation with Jupiter.
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