Gallo-Roman religion Gallo-Roman religion is a fusion of the traditional religious practices of the Gauls, who were originally Celtic speakers, and the Roman and Hellenistic religions introduced to the region under Roman Imperial rule. It was the result of selectiv ...

, Dea Aveta was a mother goddess, also associated with the freshwater spring at

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in what is now

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. Miranda Green. "The Celtic Goddess as Healer." In Sandra Billington (ed). 1996.
The Concept of the Goddess
'' Routledge. . p.33. Aveta is known mainly from clay figurines found at Toulon-sur-

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and at Trier. These figurines show the goddess with infants at the breast, small lap-dogs, or baskets of fruit. There was a temple dedicated to Aveta in the Altbachtal complex at Trier. Her name is also known from inscriptions found in

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and the

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* Gaulish goddesses Mother goddesses Water goddesses {{Deity-stub