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Vosegus (; sometimes ''Vosagus'', ''Vosacius'', ''Vosagō'', ''Vosegō'', ''Vogesus'') was a name used in the
Vosegus (; sometimes ''Vosagus'', ''Vosacius'', ''Vosagō'', ''Vosegō'', ''Vogesus'') was a name used in the Roman Empire
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for a Celtic god of hunting and forestation.
Description and history
On the rare representations that have come down to us, Vosegus is represented with a bow and a shield, and he is sometimes accompanied by a dog. He is also associated with a local hunting deity with a piglet under his arm, and sometimes associated with nuts, acorns, and pine cones. The central area where Vosegus was worshiped was around the Donon. On top of a hill there was a temple dedicated to Vosegus. The name is derived from theProto-Celtic
Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed throu ...
*''uɸo''- (“sub-, under”) and *''segos'' (“force, victory”).
Later in Gallo-Roman religion, Vosegus was the patron god of the Vosges in eastern Gaul
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. His name is attested in about five inscriptions from western Germany
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and eastern France
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, twice in the form ''Vosego Silv(estri)'' and once as '' Merc(urio) Vos(ego)''.Nicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl. 2001. ''Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie.'' Editions Errance, Paris.
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