Editing Loucetios (section)

==Inscriptions and shrines==
About a dozen inscriptions in honour of Mars Loucetius have been recovered, mainly from eastern Gaul, with a particular concentration among the [[Vangiones]] and [[Aresaces]] (two [[Rhine|Rhenish]] tribes). Inscriptions to him have also been found at [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and [[Angers]];<ref name="jufer">{{cite book|author=Nicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl |year=2001 |title=Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie |publisher=Editions Errance |location=Paris |pages=48–49}} The sites listed for Loucetius/Leucetius are [[Strasbourg]], [[Worms, Germany|Worms]], [[Eisenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate|Eisenberg]], [[Groß-Gerau]], [[Klein-Winternheim]], [[Wiesbaden-Frauenstein|Frauenstein]], [[Großkrotzenburg]], [[:de:Mainz-Marienborn|Marienborn]], [[Angers]], and [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]].</ref> the altar at Bath specifies that it was dedicated by a citizen of the [[Treveri]].<ref>''[[Roman Inscriptions of Britain|RIB]]'' 1, 140.</ref>

Inscriptions often invoke Mars Loucetius together with [[Victoria (goddess)|Victoria]] or [[Nemetona]]<ref name="wightman219"/> (or both, in the case of the [[Eisenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate|Eisenberg]] inscription<ref name="ae2007">''[[Année Épigraphique|AE]]'' 2007, 1044.</ref>). Edith Mary Wightman considers this pair “closely similar to if not identical with, [[Lenus]] and [[Ancamna]]”,<ref name="wightman219"/> who are known chiefly from the territory of the [[Treveri]] adjacent to those of the [[Aresaces]] and [[Vangiones]].

Four of the inscriptions to Mars Loucetius are also dedicated ''IN H(onorem) D(omūs) D(ivinae)'',<ref>These are the inscriptions at Groß-Gerau (''[[Année Épigraphique|AE]]'' 1991, 1272), Großkrotzenburg (''[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum|CIL]]'' XIII: 7412), Worms (''CIL'' XIII: 6221), and Eisenberg (''AE'' 2007, 1044).</ref> ‘in honour of the divine house’ (i.e. the imperial family).

Wightman further suggests that the shrine of Mars Loucetius at [[Klein-Winternheim]], south of [[Mainz]], was “a central one for the Aresaces”,<ref name="wightman219"/> the ancient inhabitants of the [[Mainz-Bingen]] area.

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In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[American Gods]]'', Leucotios{{sic}} appears in chapter three, during Shadow's (the main character) dream of forgotten gods. Gaiman's Leucotios is described as a “man with ... white hair, with a necklace of teeth about his neck, holding a drum”.<ref>{{cite book|author=Neil Gaiman |title=American Gods |url=https://archive.org/details/americangodsnove00gaim_041 |url-access=limited |year=2001 |publisher=HarperTorch |location=New York, NY |page=[https://archive.org/details/americangodsnove00gaim_041/page/n71 58]}}</ref>