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Allitio
A Brythonic god: Lord of the Otherworld or Provider of the Feast
This deity is known from a single inscription found on a pottery mould from Corstopitium, Corbridge in Northumberland and is probably a 'leder of the otherwroldly host' type of deity. |
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Bryth: ?Lord of the Otherworld, ?Provider/Lord of the Feast
The name of this deity comes from a fragmentary pottery mould found in Corstopitium, Corbridge in Northumberland. Only the feet and legs remain of what would one probably have been the depiction of a warrior god. Though the mould still clearly bears the name Alletio, generally rendered as Allitius written twice upon it [RIB II, 8/2502.9].
The meaning of Allitio's name is uncertain. It is possible that it is derived from the root all (other) [proto-Celtic: *al(i)yo-]; hence the tentative suggestion by Anne Ross in Pagan Celtic Britain that the meaning is 'Lord of the Otherworld'. Alternatively, it may be derived from the word llid (feast) [proto-Celtic *wledƒ- which gives the Old Irish fled and the Cymric llid, gwledd]; making the name: provider of the feast. This is also compatible with Allitio being a warrior god and a leader of the other gods as such a deity would possess the inexhaustible cauldron of plenty (cf Brân or Nudd), thus the two interpretations of his name are not mutually exclusive as the leader of the otherworldy host was often the posessor of the cauldron of plenty.
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