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Litavis
Litavis (Gaulish: , 'Earth', literally 'the Broad One') is a Gaulish earth-goddess known from votive inscriptions of east-central Gaul. She is named only as the partner of a god equated with the Roman Mars: Cicolluis in the territory of the Lingones, and Menobus at the frontier of the Sequani. Her name comes from a Proto-Celtic adjective meaning 'broad' and is cognate with the name of the Vedic earth-goddess Pṛthivī. The same root produced the early medieval names for Brittany (Welsh Llydaw, Old Irish Letha).
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Litavis (Gaulish: , 'Earth', literally 'the Broad One') is a Gaulish earth-goddess known from votive inscriptions of east-central Gaul. She is named only as the partner of a god equated with the Roman Mars: Cicolluis in the territory of the Lingones, and Menobus at the frontier of the Sequani. Her name comes from a Proto-Celtic adjective meaning 'broad' and is cognate with the name of the Vedic earth-goddess Pṛthivī. The same root produced the early medieval names for Brittany (Welsh Llydaw, Old Irish Letha).
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