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Teurnia
A Gaulish Goddess: Pregnant Waters
Teurnia is a Gaulish goddess known from a single inscription found at Lendorf, Austria. She also seems to have been the tutelary goddess of St Peter, Austria (originally known as Teurnia) and she may have been a goddess of flooding waters. |
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Gaul: Pregnant Waters
Teurnia is a goddess known from a single inscription found at Lendorf in Austria. From toponymic evidence it also seems that Teurnia was the tutelary daiety of St Peter in Holz, Austria (known as Teurnia in Roman times) and originally a Celtic settlement.
Apart from this nothing is known of this goddess save her name which may be related to the reconstructed proto-Celtic term *torrV- (belly; which yields the Middle Breton teur) and nī (not, but it is a particle that also occurs in river names and the word *nig-e/o- to wash. Could the name Teuria therefore signify 'Pregnant Waters'? Possibly this goddess was an embodiment of the nearby river Drau which would swell with mountain meltwater every spring.
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