El dios céltico más difundido que se ha testimoniado en la región central y occidental de la Meseta norte es Lugus, teniendo en cuenta los epígrafes, que mencionan a esta divinidad en la Galia y también en la región lusitano-galaica.La más famosa inscripción alusiva a Lugus en el área que nos ocupa es la que descubrió Cabré grabada en la roca de una montaña cercana a Peñalba de Villastar, localidad que dista 8 km de Teruel. Su descubridor las consideró pertenecientes a tres épocas: ibéricas, ibero-romanas y latinas muy arcaicas. Esta montaña se halla junto al cauce del río Turia, elevándose a unos 100 del entorno (940 sobre 840 m de altitud en el cauce) y formando en su cima una gran planicie que descansa sobre el acantilado rocoso de 3 km de perímetro y alrededor de 20 m de altura que contiene las inscripciones y las representaciones iconográficas, a la que se puede acceder por un sendero que se prolonga a lo largo de dicho corte rocoso.
(Juan Carlos Olivares Pedreño)
Wednesday 28 of October, 2009
ResponderEliminarThe Sanctuary of Lugus, Peñalba de Villastar A few kilometers from the city of the famous lovers, we visited a Celtíberian sanctuary that consecrated to one of his more important deities, the God Lug, also known and represented graphically like Lugh, Luc or Lugus.
The engraving of a figure of three heads, like the one at Peñalba de Villastar, was the most common form of representation of this God and is repeated across the Celtic Western Europe, showing it to be an authentic Panceltic God. The spread of this Celtic God more has more than attested itself in the central region and western part of the North Plateau. From inscriptions, Lugus is also mentioned as a divinity in Gaul and in the Lusitania-Galaica region. The most famous allusive inscription to Lugus in this area is the one that was discovered on the rock of a mountain near Peñalba de Villastar, 8 km of Teruel. His discoverer regarded it as pertaining to three periods: Iberian, Ibero-Roman and Latin. This mountain is next to the channel of the Turia river, rising to about 100m of the surroundings (940m from 840m altitude of the channel) and forming at its top a great plain with a 3km perimeter, resting on the rocky cliff of around 20 meters, that contains the iconographic inscriptions and representations. The site can be acceded by a footpath that extends throughout this rocky cut. (Juan Carlos Olive Pedreño)