Dis Pater

The Roman god Dis Pater (also Dispater or shortened Dis) was another name (or a facet) of the gods of the underworld Pluto and Orcus. He, too, was regarded as the ruler of the underworld. His cult was in Rome, equal to that of Proserpina, first of arrangement of the Sibylline books introduced 249 BC in the early days of the Roman Republic as a state cult.

Apart from a chapel near the altar of Saturn he had on the Campus Martius in common with Proserpina an underground altar, which was only revealed when they offered (eg in the Secular games). Sacrificed animals were black him.

Caesar reported in his De bello Gallico, the Gaulish Celts had kept Dis Pater for the progenitor of their race. Which Celtic god Dis Pater is identified here, can no longer be unambiguously reconstruct some inscriptions indicate Sucellus. Other researchers believe that the deer god Cernunnos was meant.