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.
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Origin PeriodThe Lusitanian, Gallaecian, Vettonian and Celtici peoples left no religious literature of their own, and their votive and funerary inscriptions, the only surviving evidence, date mostly from the Roman period. 600 BCE marks the conventional start of the Iron Age culture that archaeologists associate with these communities in western Iberia; it is a horizon for when the archaeological record becomes legible, not a founding date for the religion itself, whose actual origin lies further back and undocumented. Cross-Tradition Connections
Objects and Practices of This Tradition
Endovelico is the best-attested deity of Pre-Roman Lusitanian Religion, making this the first screen work the atlas holds for the tradition.
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