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Lugus
Lugus was a deity of the Celtic pantheon. His name is rarely directly attested in inscriptions, but his importance can be inferred from place names and ethnonyms, and his nature and attributes are deduced from the distinctive iconography of Gallo-Roman inscriptions to Mercury, who is widely believed to have been identified with Lugus, and from the quasi-mythological narratives involving his later cognates, Irish Lugh Lámhfhada (Lugh of the Long Arm) and Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Lleu of the Skillful Hand).
It is possible that Lugus was a triune god, comprising Esus, Toutatis and Taranis, the three chief deities mentioned by Lucan.
==Etymology==
The exact etymology of Lugus is unknown and contested. The Proto-Celtic root of the name, ', is generally believed to have been derived from one of several different Proto-Indo-European roots, such as ' "black",〔Julius Pokorny, Zeitschrift fuer Celtische Philologie, 21, 1940, 114f.〕〔Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, Francke, 1959, 686.〕 ' "to break",〔Bernard Mees, Celtic Curses, Boydell & Brewer, 2009, p. 45.〕 and ' "to swear an oath",〔H. Wagner, Studies in the Origins of early Celtic Civilisation, Zeitschrift fuer Celtische Philologie, 31, 1970, p. 24.〕
It was once thought that the root may be derived from Proto-Indo-European ' "to shine", but there are difficulties with this etymology and few modern scholars accept it as being possible (notably because Proto-Indo-European ' never produced Proto-Celtic '〔Peter Schrijver, Studies in British Celtic historical phonology, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 348-348〕).
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