Thanks Peter....having fleece on the inside doesn't
make much sense....an alternate spelling I found was Endovélico but for all my
knowledge skills that just might be the name translated into either moder
Spanish or Portugese. One site that I found stated that a possible meaning was
very black [ http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts15.htm ]
I did find what someone is saying is the celtic
version of the name: Andevellicos, from:
Also from:
"The most noted of the native deities of Spain was
Endovellicus. (19) About fifty inscriptions have been found on which his name is
mentioned. The center of his cult seems to have been near the city of Ebora
(Evora) in modern Portugal. There have been various attempts to explain the
meaning of the name of this deity, but the etymologies are merely arbitrary.(20)
Endovellicus is sometimes invoked as the god of health; in other inscriptions he
is addressed as the Deus Sanctus (21) or the Numen praesentissimum et
praestantissimum.(22) Most of the inscriptions to Endovellicus have been found
on a high hill, and hence Leite de Vasconcellos concludes that he was the god
who protected the locality in which he was usually invoked.(23)"
thanks
Ken
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Subject: Re: [tied] Endovellicus?
>Does anyone have an etymology for
Endovellicus?
A speaker of Latin would have interpreted this Latin form
of the name as
"having the fleece on the inside". But no
doubt it is a Latinisation of
something Celtic, so the Latin form is not
particularly helpful.