Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Ogma/ Ogmius/ Ogmios" | Celtic | A god of education, genius, eloquence, language & magic |
Goddess name "Ogmius ( Ogma, Ogmios )" | Celtic / Irish | God of poetry and speech. Very little is known of him, but the Roman writer Lucian mentions a Romano-Celtic god of wisdom, Ogmios, apparently åśśimilated with HERCULES and described as an old man with lion's skin holding a crowd of people chained to his tongue by their ears. NOTE: a goddess Ogma is also mentioned; she may have been a mother goddess in the original Irish pantheon.... |