Abellio

Drawing of a Gallo-Roman votive altar dedicated to Abellio, found in the village of Garin, Haute-Garonne, France

Abellio (also Abelio and Abelionni) was a god worshipped in the Garonne Valley in Gallia Aquitania (now southwest France), known primarily by a number of inscriptions which were discovered at Comminges.^[1] He may have been a god of apple trees.

Some scholars have postulated that Abellio is the same name as Apollo,^[1] who in Crete and elsewhere was called Abelios (Greek Αβέλιος), and by the Italians and some Dorians Apello,^[2] and that the deity is the same as the Gallic Apollo mentioned by Caesar,^[3] and also the same as the Belis or Belenus mentioned by Tertullian^[4] and Herodian.^[5]

Other scholars have taken the reverse position that Abellio might have been a similar solar deity of Celtic origin in Crete and the Pyrenees, but the Cretan Abellio may however not be the same god as the Celtic one, but rather a different manifestation, or dialectal form, of the Greek god Apollo or his name.

References

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Abellio", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, pp. 2, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0011.html 
2. ^ Fest. s. v. Apellinem; Eustath. ad II. ii. 99
3. ^ Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico vi. 17
4. ^ Tertullian, Apologeticus 23
5. ^ viii. 3; comp. Capitol. Maoeimin. 22

Other sources

• Ellis, Peter Berresford, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology(Oxford Paperback Reference), Oxford University Press, (1994): ISBN 0-19-508961-8
• Wood, Juliette, The Celts: Life, Myth, and Art, Thorsons Publishers (2002): ISBN 0-00-764059-5
• Celtic Gods and their Associates
• Proto-Celtic — English lexicon

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

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