Aericura (Aerecura, Heracura, Eracura) was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater: she appears with him in a statue found at Oberseebach, Switzerland and in several magical texts from Austria, once in the company of Cerberus, another, probably, with Ogmios (Egger 1962-63:I.84-85; I.276-79; II.24-33). A further inscription to her has been found near Stuttgart, Germany. She may originally have been an earth goddess, associated with Silvanus, the Rhine Valley and the cornucopia.^{[citation needed]} A Celtic cross. ... Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... // In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go. ... For the French nuclear ballistic missile system, see Hades (missile). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ogmios was a Gaulish deity, usually depicted as a bald old man with a bow and club who leads an apparently happy band of men with chains attached to their ears and tongues. ... Stuttgart [], a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 (as of September 2005) in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ... Silvanus (of the woods) was a Roman tutelary spirit of woods, a genius loci that was apparently inherited from the Etruscan Selvans. ... The Rhine canyon (Ruinaulta) in Graubünden in Switzerland Length 1. ... The cornucopia (Latin Cornu Copiae), also known as the Horn of Plenty, is a symbol of food dating back to the 5th century BC. In Greek mythology, Amalthea raised Zeus on the milk of a goat. ...

A male deity called Aericurus is recorded in Northumberland, England.^{[citation needed]} Northumberland is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in northern England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004...

Etymology

This theonym is of unclear origin. It has been connected with Latin aes, aeris 'copper, bronze, money, wealth', era 'mistress' and the name of the Greek goddess Hera (Egger 1962-63:I.84-85). More recently some^{[citation needed]} have thought to derive it from Proto-Celtic *āere-kurā, conveying the semantics of "pasture-cycle" (cf. [1] [2] [3]), Proto-Celtic *āere- in turn deriving from Proto-Indo-European *peH2-H1er- meaning "feeding-earth" ([4] [5]). Following accepted sound laws elucidating systematic diachronic phonological sound change in Celtic proto-linguistics (cf. [6] [7] [8] [9]), the Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic theonym would have been *Haerecura under this interpretation. Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... Theonym is essentially classical Greek for the name of a god. ... In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (IPA pronunciation: ; Greek or ) was the wife and sister of Zeus. ... The Proto-Celtic language, also called Common Celtic, is the putative ancestor of all the known Celtic languages. ... In the main, semantics (from the Greek and in greek letters σημαντικός or in latin letters semantikós, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ... The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, believed to have been spoken around 4000 BC in Central Asia (according to the Kurgan hypothesis) or millennia before that in Anatolia (according to the Anatolian hypothesis). ... Sound change or phonetic change is a historical process of language change consisting in the replacement of one speech sound or, more generally, one phonetic feature by another in a given phonological environment. ... Diachronic study is the study of the development of a language over a period of time. ... Phonology (Greek phone = voice/sound and logos = word/speech) is a subfield of grammar (see also linguistics). ... Sound change or phonetic change is a historical process of language change consisting in the replacement of one speech sound or, more generally, one phonetic feature by another in a given phonological environment. ... The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike. ... Historical linguistics (also diachronic linguistics or comparative linguistics) is primarily the study of the ways in which languages change over time, by means of examining languages which are recognizably related through similarities such as vocabulary, word formation, and syntax, as well as the surviving records of ancient languages. ... The term Romano-British describes the romanised culture of Britannia under the rule of the Roman Empire, when Roman and Christian culture had extensively entered into the life of the native Brythonic and Pictish peoples of Britain. ... Look up form in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Bibliography

• Egger, Rudolf. Römische Antike und frühes Christentum: Ausgewählte Schriften von Rudolf Egger; Zur Vollendung seines 80. Lebensjahres, ed. Artur Betz and Gotbert Moro. 2 vols. Klagenfurt: Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, 1962-63
• Ellis, Peter Berresford, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford Paperback Reference), Oxford University Press, (1994): ISBN 0195089618
• MacKillop, James. Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0192801201.
• Wood, Juliette, The Celts: Life, Myth, and Art, Thorsons Publishers (2002): ISBN 0007640595

External links

• Proto-Celtic — English lexicon
• http://www.kernunnos.com/deities/ogmios/ogmios.html