Sulis

Sulis is a sun and healing deity of the British Celts. After the interpretatio romana it was set equal to the goddess Minerva.

Etymology and Mythology

The name is derived from the ancient Celtic Sulis word * Sulis ( "Sun" ); Sulis was also sometimes, probably by mistake, taken as genitive and dative of Sul (s). In Old Irish has Suil (fem. ) over the meaning of " eye". In Scottish Gaelic, the name of the sun is poetically with Suil DHE Mhoir ( "the eye of the great God " ) described ( Gaedelica Carmina, III, 306). Sunday bears the name neukymrischen dydd Sul from the Latin this Solis.

Your sanctuary was a source in the same named Aquae Sulis, now Bath in Somerset, England. Almost certainly it therefore consisted in her also a goddess of healing and Aquae Sulis, where she was ordained an extensive temple area, developed in succession to a spa. So the people of a bathroom hoped in their sacred source of healing their diseases. Even at Solinus (XXII, 10) to read:

In Bath, several epigraphic testimonies have received about on altars, on the grave stone of a priest and some curse tablets. Another inscription was found on a harrier stone in Alzey (here the name of the form Deae Sul is handed down ).

On the mainland as the Suleviae were related to her other goddesses, but also worshiped in Bath. Since the insular Celtic space Suil today both the eyes and sunlight means (see above), Sulis or Suleviae is also held for the original Celtic sun goddess. In this case, there is a relationship to Germanic Sol, which is etymologically related with Sulis.

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