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Buxenus
A Gaulish God: God of Box Trees
Buxenus is a Gaulish god known from a single inscription found in the Vaucluse region of France where he is equated with Roman Mars. He is the embodiment of the sacred box tree and would seem to have had a warrior or protective aspect to his cult. |
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Gaul: God of Box Trees
Buxenus is a Gaulish god known from a single inscription found at Velleron, Vaucluse, France, where he is invoked as de[o] Marti Buxeno (to the god Mars Buxenus). This deity's name has been interpreted as being derived from the Gaulish word for the box tree (which is related to the Cymric bocyswydden as well as the reconstructed proto-Celtic deific particle *-n- and the Latinied masculine ending -us. Thus Buxenus is the 'God of Box Trees'. As such he would seem to be the embodiment of a sacred tree, similar to Fagus (Beech) and Robur (oak).
Though none of this deity's attributes have directly survived the fact that he was equated with Mars by Interpretato Romana would indicate that, at the very least, he had a warrior aspect.
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