
''This article is about the Celtic goddess; for the video game character, see The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time characters.'' In Roman mythology, Epona was the goddess of horses, donkeys, mules. She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, and the presence of foals in some sculptures (Reinach, 1895). According to the French historian Benoît (1950), she was also a psychopomp, accompanying souls to the land of the dead, although this interpretation is disputed. The worship of Epona was widespread between the first and third centuries CE. Although only known from Roman contexts, the name Epona is from the Celtic language Gaulish; it is derived from ''epos'', horse or ''epa'', mare (Delmarre, 2003). However, dedicatory inscriptions to Epona are in Latin or, rarely, Greek and were made not only by Celts but also Germanys, Romans and other inhabitants of the Roman Empire. Her feast day was December 18 as shown by a rustic calendar from Guidizzolo, Italy (Vaillant, 1951). The cult of Epona was spread over much of the Roman Empire by the auxiliary cavalry ''alae'', especially the Imperial Horse Guard or ''equites singulares augustii'' recruited from Gaul, Lower Germany, and Pannonia. A series of their dedications to Epona and other Celtic, Roman and German deities was found in Rome, at the Lateran (Spiedel, 1994). Sculptures of Epona fall into two types. In the Equestrian type, common in Gaul, she is depicted sitting side-saddle on a horse or (rarely) laying on one; in the Imperial type (more common outside Gaul) she sits on a throne flanked by two or more horses or foals (Nantonos, 2004). Epona is mentioned in ''The Golden Ass'' by Apuleius and the ''Satires'' by Juvenal. The giant chalk horse carved into the hill at Uffington White Horse, southern England, is believed by some to be associated with her although the date of 1400 BCE makes this unlikely. ==References== * Benoît, F. (1950). ''Les mythes de l'outre-tombe. Le cavalier à L'anguipède et l'écuyère Épona''. Bruxelles, Latomus Revue d'études latines. * Delamarre, X. (2003). ''Dictionaire de la Langue Gauloise''. Paris, Editions Errance. * Nantonos & Ceffyl (2004) http://www.epona.net Epona.net, a scholarly resource * Reinach, Salomon (1895). Épona. ''Revue archéologique'' 1895, part 1, 113, 309 * Speidel, M. P. (1994). ''Riding for Caesar: the Roman Emperors' Horse Guards''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press. * Vaillant, Roger (1951), Epona-Rigatona, ''Ogam'', Rennes, pp190-205. Roman mythology Celtic goddesses Ancient Gaulish and British goddesses Nature goddesses Fertility goddesses
Someone had edited the page ''12.73.152.31 (Epona is Celtic goddess, not Roman.)'' I reverted it back to Roman - there is no Celtic mythology about Epona (in contrast to other, related deities such as Rhiannon) - the name Epona is Celtic as the article already stated (and I made that clearer). --User:NantonosAedui 17:16, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) I have completely rewritten this page, using cited historical sources, rather than the unverified material that was there before. yes alright but put the Link's horse reference back in. I had? I went back through the page history and copied out the Legend of Zelda material that was the longest and had the most links to other pages. Since then, the Link stuff has been moved to a separate page.
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''This article is about the Celtic goddess; for the video game character, see The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time characters.'' In Roman mythology, Epona was the goddess of horses, donkeys, mules. She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, and the presence of foals in some sculptures (Reinach, 1895). According to the French historian Benoît (1950), she was also a psychopomp, accompanying souls to the land of the dead, although this interpretation is disputed. The worship of Epona was widespread between the first and third centuries CE. Although only known from Roman contexts, the name Epona is from the Celtic language Gaulish; it is derived from ''epos'', horse or ''epa'', mare (Delmarre, 2003). However, dedicatory inscriptions to Epona are in Latin or, rarely, Greek and were made not only by Celts but also Germanys, Romans and other inhabitants of the Roman Empire. Her feast day was December 18 as shown by a rustic calendar from Guidizzolo, Italy (Vaillant, 1951). The cult of Epona was spread over much of the Roman Empire by the auxiliary cavalry ''alae'', especially the Imperial Horse Guard or ''equites singulares augustii'' recruited from Gaul, Lower Germany, and Pannonia. A series of their dedications to Epona and other Celtic, Roman and German deities was found in Rome, at the Lateran (Spiedel, 1994). Sculptures of Epona fall into two types. In the Equestrian type, common in Gaul, she is depicted sitting side-saddle on a horse or (rarely) laying on one; in the Imperial type (more common outside Gaul) she sits on a throne flanked by two or more horses or foals (Nantonos, 2004). Epona is mentioned in ''The Golden Ass'' by Apuleius and the ''Satires'' by Juvenal. The giant chalk horse carved into the hill at Uffington White Horse, southern England, is believed by some to be associated with her although the date of 1400 BCE makes this unlikely. ==References== * Benoît, F. (1950). ''Les mythes de l'outre-tombe. Le cavalier à L'anguipède et l'écuyère Épona''. Bruxelles, Latomus Revue d'études latines. * Delamarre, X. (2003). ''Dictionaire de la Langue Gauloise''. Paris, Editions Errance. * Nantonos & Ceffyl (2004) http://www.epona.net Epona.net, a scholarly resource * Reinach, Salomon (1895). Épona. ''Revue archéologique'' 1895, part 1, 113, 309 * Speidel, M. P. (1994). ''Riding for Caesar: the Roman Emperors' Horse Guards''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press. * Vaillant, Roger (1951), Epona-Rigatona, ''Ogam'', Rennes, pp190-205. Roman mythology Celtic goddesses Ancient Gaulish and British goddesses Nature goddesses Fertility goddesses
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Someone had edited the page ''12.73.152.31 (Epona is Celtic goddess, not Roman.)'' I reverted it back to Roman - there is no Celtic mythology about Epona (in contrast to other, related deities such as Rhiannon) - the name Epona is Celtic as the article already stated (and I made that clearer). --User:NantonosAedui 17:16, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) I have completely rewritten this page, using cited historical sources, rather than the unverified material that was there before. yes alright but put the Link's horse reference back in. I had? I went back through the page history and copied out the Legend of Zelda material that was the longest and had the most links to other pages. Since then, the Link stuff has been moved to a separate page.
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