entities: ENT_IB_TREBARUNA

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

This data as json

entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_IB_TREBARUNA Trebaruna   Iberian/Lusitanian Lusitanian deity / oath and settlement goddess Warrior Deity settlement; territory; oaths; protection; community bonds       B           Trebaruna is attested in the Lusitanian language — one of the few surviving pre-Roman language texts of the peninsula — in the Bronze Plaque of Arronches (c. 1st century CE, Portalegre district, Portugal), which preserves a ritual sacrifice text naming Trebaruna alongside other Lusitanian deities (Reve, Laebo, Ilurbeda). She also appears in a small number of Latin votive inscriptions. The theonym is analyzed as Proto-Celtic or Lusitanian: treb- = "settlement / dwelling" (cf. Old Irish treb, "settlement"), and -aruna/-runa has been connected with "water/river" (runo = "water source") or oath-bonds. The compound likely means "she of the settlement" or "protector of the community." Her domain encompasses territorial protection, community bonds, and possibly oath/covenant functions — consistent with an Iron Age Lusitanian settlement deity whose cult guaranteed the integrity of the community space. Confidence B: the name is securely attested in the Arronches plaque (a primary Lusitanian-language source), but the number of dedications is small and her precise functions cannot be fully recovered. Olivares Pedreño (2002) pp. 145-160; Blázquez (1962) pp. 195-200. deity

Links from other tables