Trebaruna

Trebaruna, also Treborunnis and possibly *Trebarunu, was a Lusitanian deity, probably a goddess. Trebaruna's cult was located in the cultural area of Gallaecia and Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia (Spain) and Portugal).

Names and etymology

Her name also appears as Trebarune, Trebaronna, Trebarone, Trebaronne and Trebaroni.[1][2][3]

Her name could be derived from the Celtic *trebo (home) and *runa (secret, mystery).[4] Spanish philologist Antonio Tovar suggested that, like the first part of name Trebopala, this goddess could have been connected to the community.[5] Jurgen Untermann states that the names of this deity are found in the dative case, suggesting a nominative form like *Trebaru or *Trebaro.[6]

Epigraphic evidence

Tovar listed three inscriptions wherein their name is attested: one from Idanha-a-Velha, a second from Coria and the third from Lardosa.[7]

Two small altars dedicated to this goddess were found in Portugal, one in Roman-Lusitanian Egitania (current Idanha-a-Velha) and another in Lardosa. The Tavares Proença Regional Museum in Castelo Branco now contains the altar from Lardosa. It was located in an area where the people from a Castro settlement founded a Roman-Lusitanian villa. This altar used to hold a statue of the goddess which has since been lost. Nevertheless, it still preserves this inscription: TREBARONNE V(otum) S(Olvit) OCONUS OCONIS f(ilius) which translates as: Oconus, son of Oco, has fulfilled the vow to Trebaruna.[8]

A name Trebarune (probably in the dative case) also appears on the inscription of Cabeço das Fráguas as a divinity receiving a sacrifice of a sheep.

In an inscription from Lusitanie, a deity Trebarune is invoked by a Toncious Toncetani:[9]

Ara(m) pos(uit) Toncius Toncetani f(ilius) Icaedit(anus) milis Trebarun(a)e l(ibens) m(erito) v(otum) s(olvit)

José d'Encarnação lists an inscription from the Roman villa of Freiria (Cascais) (found on August 27, 1985), where a Triborunnis is invoked - a possible reference to this deity.[10] The component Tribo- he interprets as cognate to PIE *treb-.[11][12]

Possible role

José Leite de Vasconcellos suggested that Trebaruna was a war goddess, since he found a second votive altar by the same person (Toncius Toncetami), dedicated to Roman goddess Victoria.[13]

Based on a possible etymology of her name, it seems she was a protector or protectress of property, home, and families.[14] In the same vein, Olivares Pedreños cited positions by d'Arbois de Jubainville and Lambrino that interpret her as a protectress of the group or tribe.[15]

Legacy

Following the announcement in 1895 by José Leite de Vasconcelos of the discovery of Trebaruna as a new theonym, a poem celebrating this was published which likened Trebaruna to the Roman Victoria.[16] She has recently[17] become, among neopagans, a goddess of battles and alliances.[18] The Portuguese metal-band Moonspell composed a song called "Trebaruna" which is a celebration of the goddess.

See also

References
  1. Tovar, Antonio. "L’inscription du Cabeço das Fráguas et la langue des Lusitaniens". In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 11, fascicule 2, 1966. pp. 256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.1966.2167; www.persee.fr/doc/ecelt_0373-1928_1966_num_11_2_2167
  2. Prósper, Blanca (1994). "El teónimo paleohispano Trebarune". In: Veleia 11, Vitoria-Gasteiz. p. 187.
  3. Untermann, Jürgen (2010). "Las divinidades del Cabeço das Fráguas y la gramática de la lengua lusitana". In: Actas de las jornadas Porcom, oilam, taurom. Cabeço das Fráguas: o santuário no seu contexto, celebradas en Guarda (Portugal) el 23 de abril de 2010. Revista Iberografias 6 (2010): 82. ISSN 1646-2858.
  4. Mees, Bernard. "The etymology of "rune"". In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur Vol. 136, Nº. 4, 2014. p. 530. ISSN 0005-8076.
  5. Tovar, Antonio. "L’inscription du Cabeço das Fráguas et la langue des Lusitaniens". In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 11, fascicule 2, 1966. pp. 256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.1966.2167; www.persee.fr/doc/ecelt_0373-1928_1966_num_11_2_2167
  6. Untermann, Jürgen (2010). "Las divinidades del Cabeço das Fráguas y la gramática de la lengua lusitana". In: Actas de las jornadas Porcom, oilam, taurom. Cabeço das Fráguas: o santuário no seu contexto, celebradas en Guarda (Portugal) el 23 de abril de 2010. Revista Iberografias 6 (2010): 82-83. ISSN 1646-2858.
  7. Tovar, Antonio. "L’inscription du Cabeço das Fráguas et la langue des Lusitaniens". In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 11, fascicule 2, 1966. pp. 255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.1966.2167; www.persee.fr/doc/ecelt_0373-1928_1966_num_11_2_2167
  8. O Archeologo Português, 1/29, 1933, pp. 165-166.
  9. Jud, J. "MOTS D'ORIGINE GAULOISE?". In: Romania 47, no. 188 (1921): 495 (footnote nr. 1). Accessed July 29, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45044435. www.persee.fr/doc/roma_0035-8029_1921_num_47_188_4452
  10. "Lusitanie". In: L'Année épigraphique 1985 (1988): 133. Accessed July 30, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25607451.
  11. Encarnação, José d'. "O ex-voto à divindade Triborunnis". In: Kairós (Boletim do Centro de Estudos de Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património) Nº. 4 - Inverno de 2019. pp. 78-80. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/88700
  12. Encarnação, José d' (2019). "Epigrafia romana no concelho de Cascais". In: Lisboa Romana – Felicitas Iulia Olisipo – Monumentos Epigráficos. p. 131. ISBN 978-989-658-608-9
  13. Vasconcellos, José de. "Cultos luso-romanos em Idegitania". In: O Archeologo Português. Vol. 1, N. 9. Setembro de 1895. pp. 225-232.
  14. O Archeologo Português, 1/29, 1933, p. 163.
  15. Olivares Pedreño, Juan Carlos. Los dioses de la hispania céltica. Universitat d´Alacant / Universidad de Alicante, Servicio de Publicaciones: Real Academia de la Historia. 2002. p. 245. ISBN 84-95983-00-1.
  16. Trebaruna, deusa Lusitana, ode heroica, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Barcelos : Typographia da Aurora do Cavado (1895)
  17. O que é a Pagan Federation? Archived 2009-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
  18. Pagan Federation Portugal Archived 2008-09-06 at the Wayback Machine

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