Catubodua

Cathubodua, also Cassibodua, was a little-known Celtic deity whose name is found only on a Gallic inscription in Mieussy ( Roman province Gallia Narbonensis ) in France.

Name and etymology

The name probably comes from the roots urkeltischen katu ( combat) and bodwā ( fight ). In the later Old Irish language meant bodua, derived from Bodb, but female raven. The name could thus mean "battle raven ".

Mythology

It has been equated to an inscription in East Melbourne ( Roman province Gallia Belgica ) with Victoria and is generally regarded as war and dead deity. Perhaps their ravens or crows took the Gauls the true task of escorting the souls of the fallen warriors to the afterlife, a concept which is attested in the Celtiberian for the vultures.

The representations of a crow on some Celtic coins are associated with Cathubodua.

In Irish mythology there is a closely related figure, Badb / Bodb Chatha ( " battle crow" ), a sister of Morrigan.