The Alcis, also called the Alci, were a pair of divine young brothers worshipped by the Naharvali, an ancient Germanic tribe of Central Europe. They are known solely from a single ancient source, the Roman historian and senator Tacitus, who described their cult in his ethnographic work Germania, written around the year 98. Beyond this brief account, little is recorded of the Alcis, and their names and functions are known to modern scholarship only through the description of the Naharvali veneration of them as a pair of youthful brother gods. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Attestation
Veneration TodayHistorically attested; no continuous cult 3 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1 Function
Domain / FunctionProtection and guardianship 1 Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
John Lindow, Oxford University Press
3. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.), Oxford University Press
Wikipedia, "Alcis (gods)"
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