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Ubelkabae
The Gaulish Mother Goddesses, also known as Ubelkae, Matres Ubelkae, Matres Ubelkabae: Banishers of Evil
Ubelkabae (Ubelkae, Matres Ubelkae, Matres Ubelkabae) are Gaulish mother goddesses known from a single inscription found at St-Zacharie. Little is known about them, but it can be surmised that they represented triple deities, similar to other mother goddesses of the Celtic world. |
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Gaul: Banishers of Evil
The Ubelkabae are goddesses known from a single inscription found at St-Zacharie, Provence, France (CIL XII 0333), where they are invoked as Matres Ubelkabus (The Ubelkan Mothers). As a result their names have variously been interpreted as the: Matres Ubelkabae or the Matres Ubelkae.
Unfortunately nothing of their attributes save their names have survived though their invocation as Matres (mother godesses) would indicate that they were probably considered as triple goddesses. The name Ubelkabae/Ubelkae can be interpreted in terms of the reconstructed proto-Celtic lexicon as being formed from the components *ufelo- (bad, evil) and *katu- (fight). Thus the Ubelkabae were the 'Fighters of Evil' or perhaps a better interpretation would be 'Banishers of Evil'.
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