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Here is my namesake, Ogmios, who according to Wikipedia sources, was a Gaulish deity, who Lucian records was depicted as a bald old man with a bow and club leading an apparently happy band of men with chains attached to their ears from his tongue. This is thought by some scholars to be a metaphor for eloquence, possibly related to bardic practices. Lucian records that the Gauls associated him with Hercules, but his appearance on two defixiones from Austria suggests that he was also associated with Hermes in Eastern Celtic tradition.
He is likely related to the Irish god Ogma, and is one of the closest Gaulish parallels to Ogma's brother, the Dagda.
Entries in the University of Wales' reconstructed Proto-Celtic lexicon suggest that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic *Ogmjos , a word related to the word for ‘furrow’ and having the semantic connotations of ‘The Imprinting One, The Impressive One.’ He may therefore personify impressive character, be it of a plough impressing on the soil, or the impressive quality of eloquent language or skill. This would explain his syncretism with Hercules, another impressive character. The usual etymology, however, is that he was a god of 'leading' or 'conveying' (hence the description of Lucian); cf. Greek ogmos 'furrow' and agô 'lead'.
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2,310 strti.
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