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Ogmios (also known as Ogmius) was a Celtic deity, recognized for his persuasive skills and was referred to as the Celtic god of eloquence. He is recorded, by Lucian, as a wrinkly old man with sun darkened skin and has a bow in one hand and a club slung over his shoulder in the other hand. He also has a band of joyful men happily closely following him as chains are attached to their ears and are all connected to Ogmios’ tongue.

Deity

Ogmios was a powerful deity to the Gauls, the Celtic people in France. Ogmios’ power is represented through his visual description. According to Celtic belief wisdom increase with age and dark skinned supernatural beings are commonly powerful, since Ogmios has both great wisdom and great power. Ogmios has chains running from his tongue to the ears of his followers. The chains, made of precious metals, represent Ogmios using his powers of persuasion and eloquence to bind his listeners to his every word. In the description it appears that Ogmios followers willing follow him with cheerful faces and try to get as close to Ogmios as possible. Ogmios is considered to be a binding god and a psychopomop, because he binds people onto himself and leads them to the afterlife, and created two different curse tablets, one of the tablets put a curse on a infertile woman so couldn’t ever marry a man.

Comparisons

Ogmios is regularly compared to other deities or divine heros. It is through these comparisons that more is known about Ogmios.

Roman

The most famous writings about Ogmios came from the roman satirist Lucian. Lucian wrote the book The Work of Lucian and it contains a short story titled “Heracles: An Introduction.” In the story is about Lucian looking at a painting of Ogmios. The painting shows how the Celts believe Ogmios is a likened to Heracles.

References

• Egger, Rudolf. (1962–63). Römische Antike und frühes Christentum: Ausgewählte Schriften von Rudolf Egger; Zur Vollendung seines 80. Lebensjahres, ed. Artur Betz and Gotbert Moro. 2 vols. Klagenfurt: Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten

External links

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