Gaulish god of the rock, an animation of landscape feature, as recorded in Roman commentaries. He may be identical with Alisonos, who was invoked at Alesia, a possible eponymous spirit of the site.
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In Gallo-Roman religion, Alisanos or Alisaunus was a local god worshipped in what is now the Côte-d'Or in Burgundy and at Aix-en-Provence.[1]
The inscription from Gevrey-Chambertin in the Côte-d'Or is in the Gaulish language:
The inscription from Visignot, also in the Côte-d'Or, is in Latin:
The root Alisa- of the name Alisanus is phonologically comparable to the Proto-Celtic *alisā, ‘alder’.[4] Green, however, sees the theonym as related to the toponym Alesia, implying that he was a mountain-god.[5]
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