Belenus

He was probably named after the ancient god Belenus.

Celtic mythology had Belenus, whose name, "shining one", associated him with fire.

At the time it was called Belenus, after a Celtic deity.

Apollo Belenus was a healing and sun god.

The name and logo are references to the Celtic god of light, Belenus.

The name came originally from Celtic from the sun god Belenus.

She has been claimed to be the consort of Belenus, with whom she shared certain attributes.

In the Roman period Belenus was identified with Apollo.

An epithet of Belenus may have been Vindonnus.

In terms of religion, the Roman pantheon was adopted although a native sungod, Belenus, had a large following.

Bel is the Belenus of the historical Celts.

The second element, Belenus, evolved as an independent name into Welsh Belyn.

Teutorix has been suggested as an epithet of Belenus as borrowed into Germanic religion.

The town is mentioned in 1142 as apud belnam, which is taken as evidence for its derivation from Belenus.

He may be related to Belenus and Cernunnos, and was equated in the Roman period with Mars.

Images of Belenus sometimes show him to be accompanied by a female, thought to be the Gaulish deity Belisama.

A theory holds that the toponym is derived from the name of Belenus, probably from a Roman era sanctuary of that deity at a sacred spring nearby.

The 4th-century Bordelaise poet Ausonius teases a friend as a Baiocassis who claimed to be of druidic heritage and descended from priests of Belenus.

Priya Kika is a Felidae cleric at the Abbey of Brighid Belenus, and the night supervisor at Divinity Medical Center's immediate care unit.

There are currently 51 known inscriptions dedicated to Belenus, mainly concentrated in Aquileia and Cisalpine Gaul, but also extend into Gallia Narbonensis, Noricum, and far beyond.

Thus Lugus was replaced by Mercury, Belenus by Apollo, Taranis by Jupiter and so forth, in a practice called interpretatio romana by Caesar, who pioneered it.

The name would suggest Bal, Bel, or Vel, the god Belenus (also Belenos) was a deity worshipped in Gaul, Britain and Celtic areas of Austria and Spain.

The name "Fionn" is related to the Welsh name "Gwyn", as in the mythological figure Gwyn ap Nudd, and to the continental Celtic "Vindos", an epithet for the god Belenus.

Balin or Balyn, according to Mr Rhys, is the Belinus of Geoffrey of Monmouth, "whose name represents the Celtic divinity described in Latin as Apollo Belenus or Belinus."

Vikernes suggests that Belus is the oldest known (Proto-Indo-European) name of the life-death-rebirth deity that is reflected in the Norse Baldr, the Greek Apollo, the Gaulish Belenus and the Slavic Belobog, among others.