Alisanos

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In Celtic mythology, Alisanos or Alisaunus was the local god of the Cite d'Or.

[edit] Etymology of the name

The reconstructed lexis of the Proto-Celtic language as collated by the University of Wales [1] suggests that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic *Alisānos. This Proto-Celtic word connotes the semantics of ‘Alder-Covered One.’ This apparent semantic connotation has led Dr. John Koch at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies to propose that the original nature of this deity may well have been a personification of “alder-tree forestation”. This theory would account for the deity’s associations with Cite d‘Or. zeg maar gewoon Cote d'Or


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