Talk:Teutorix

There is no evidence that this is Celtic. The 3rd century inscription is from Germania Superior, and the toutiorigi may just be an awkward attempt to come up with a Latin dative for the Germanic theoderic, trying to give it a "welsh" ring. "Apollo Teutorix" was apparently a private "house deity" not attested anywhere else, so making this a Germanic loan from Celtic religion is rather stretching the evidence. At best we can say that the inscription expresses the Gallo-Romano-Germanic syncretism that would have been prevalent in Germania Superior at the time. Which is of course interesting in itself, as syncretism and flux was really the normal state of pre-theological religion, something which is all too rarely understood by our authors of "lists of Germanic deities" and similar Wikipedia creations. --dab (𒁳) 13:58, 15 November 2011 (UTC)