Nemetona

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In ancient Celtic religion, Nemetona ("shrine") was a goddess worshipped in eastern Gaul and Roman Britain. One inscription in her honour has been found at Bath, the rest in and around Trier in western Germany. Her name suggests the common interpretation that she was a goddess of temples and sacred groves, protecting ancient Celtic ceremonial sites held outdoors in sacred groves of trees. She is believed to continuously watch over sacred sites, and is invoked today by some neo-pagan practitioners to help establish sacred spaces. She is paired with Mars Loucetios in the inscription at Bath, and dedications to Nemetona and Loucetios have been recovered at different inscriptions at the same site in Klein-Winternheim.^[1]

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1. ^ 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.