Pre-Roman Lusitanian Religion

The indigenous religion of the western Iberian Peninsula before and during Roman rule, practiced by Lusitanian, Gallaecian, Vettonian and Celtici communities and known to modern scholarship almost entirely through votive and funerary inscriptions left at hilltop sanctuaries and local shrines, since the peoples themselves kept no surviving religious literature of their own. Worship was typically local and place-bound, tying a god's name to a specific community or sanctuary through an attached epithet, and the religion left no continuous cult institution once Roman-era Christianization spread through the region.