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Kagiris
A Gaulish God: King of the Fields
Kagiris is a Gaulish god known from a single inscription found at Saint Béat, France. Nothing is know of this god save his name, but interpretation of this indicates Kariris to be an agricultural deity. |
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Gaul: King of the Fields
Kagiris is known from an inscription found at Saint Béat, Haute-Garonne, France. Beyond the name nothing is known of this deity. However, some interpretation can be derived from the name Kagiris. Etymologically the name is derived from the reconstructed proto-Celtic roots *kagyō- (pen, enclosure) and Gaulish rix (king). The *kagyō- root gives us Cymric cae and Gaulish caio (field) thus Kagiris can be interpreted as 'king of the filed' or, more probably 'king of the meadows' ie the grazing/cultivatable land. Thus it can be postulated that Kagiris was an agricultural deity of the same broad type as the Cymric Amaethon.
The god's name survives in the mountain peak of Cagire in the in the region of Comminges, Haute-Garonne in he French Pyrenees. As such this deity may have been the 'genius locus' (spirit of place) of this region.
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