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==Centres of worship== [[File:Dédicace Apolo borvo et damona Bourbonne 13497.jpg|thumb|Dedication to Borvo and Damona ]] In [[Gaul]], he was particularly worshipped at [[Bourbonne-les-Bains]], in the territory of the [[Lingones]], where ten inscriptions are recorded. Two other inscriptions are recorded, one (CIL 13, 02901) from [[Entrains-sur-Nohain]]<ref name="CIL13">[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum]] (CIL), '''13''': ''Tres Galliae et Germanae''.</ref> and the other (CIL 12, 02443) from [[Aix-en-Savoie]] in [[Gallia Narbonensis]].<ref>[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum]] (CIL), '''12''': ''Gallia Narbonensis''.</ref> Votive tablets inscribed ‘Borvo’ show that the offerers desired healing for themselves or others.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite book|last=MacCulloch|first=J. A.|url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/rac06.htm|title=The Religion of the Ancient Celts|year=1911|pages=}}</ref> Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in [[Gaul]]: inscriptions to him have been found in [[Drôme]] at [[Aix-en-Diois]], [[Bouches-du-Rhône]] at [[Aix-en-Provence]], [[Gers]] at [[Auch]], [[Allier]] at [[Bourbon-l'Archambault]], [[Savoie]] at [[Aix-les-Bains]], [[Saône-et-Loire]] at [[Bourbon-Lancy]], in [[Savoie]] at [[Aix-les-Bains]], [[Haute-Marne]] at [[Bourbonne-les-Bains]] and in [[Nièvre]] at [[Entrains-sur-Nohain]].<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web|title=Société de Mythologie Française (SMF)|url=http://www.mythofrancaise.asso.fr/mythes/themes/divcelt2.htm|url-status=live|access-date=17 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030207000105/http://www.mythofrancaise.asso.fr/mythes/themes/divcelt2.htm|archive-date=2003-02-07}}</ref> Findings have also been uncovered in the [[Netherlands]] at [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]],<ref>Garrett S. Olmsted, "The gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans", page 427</ref> where he is called Boruoboendua Vabusoa Labbonus, and in [[Portugal]] at [[Vizela]] and at [[Idanha-a-Velha]], where he is called Borus and identified with [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]].<ref name="autogenerated2" /> At [[Aix-en-Provence]], he was referred to as Borbanus and Bormanus but at [[Vizela]] in [[Portugal]], he was hailed as Bormanicus,<ref name="autogenerated2" /> and at [[Burtscheid]] and at [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] in [[Germany]] as Borbetomagus.
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