Editing Belenus (section)

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A village that is now part of the municipality of Aquileia is still named ''Beligna''.{{sfn|Birkhan|2006|p=195}} A tribal leader of pre-Roman Britain was named ''[[Cunobeline|Cunobelinos]]'' (Old Welsh ''Conbelin''), which possibly means 'hound of Belenos', or else 'strong as a dog' if the name is not [[theophoric]].{{Sfn|Schrijver|1999|p=27–28}}<ref name="MacKillop" />{{Sfn|Prósper|2017|p=262}} The Old Welsh personal name ''Liuelin'' (modern ''[[Llywelyn (name)|Llywelyn]]'') goes back to a similar compound *''lugu-belinos'' (either a [[dvandva]] with the names of two deities, or else 'strong as [[Lugus]]').{{Sfn|Prósper|2017|p=262}} The Brittonic variant of the name could be the source of the ''[[Billingsgate]]'' ward in London, although this may be a [[folk etymology]], and possibly of the fountain of ''Belenton'' (now Bérenton) in the [[Brocéliande]] forest in Brittany.{{Sfn|Leeming|2005|p=48}}<ref name="MacKillop" /> The names of the Welsh and Irish ancestor-figures ''[[Beli Mawr]]'' and ''[[Bile (Irish legend)|Bile]]'' may also be related.<ref name="MacKillop" />{{Sfn|Schrijver|1999|pp=30–34, 39–40|p=}}

The Gaulish term ''belenuntia'' (Βελενούντιαν), designating the [[henbane]], a hallucinogenic plant also known in Latin as ''apollinaris'', may be a derivative form of ''Belenos''.{{Sfn|Schrijver|1999|p=27}}{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=71}} The variant ''belenion'', cited as a poisonous plant by [[Pseudo-Aristotle]], appears to be the source of the Spanish ''beleño'' ('henbane').{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=71}} The Gallo-Roman term ''belisa'' could also have been borrowed into [[Old High German]] as ''bilisa'' (cf. modern German ''Bilsenkraut'' 'henbane').{{sfn|Birkhan|2006|p=195}} Henbane was commonly used in antiquity for medicinal purposes, providing further evidence of Belanos' healing attributes.{{Sfn|Schrijver|1999|p=26}} A shallow stone dish found in Saint-Chamas (south of France) and dedicated to ''Beleino'' could thus have been used to hold hallucinogenic substances.{{sfn|Birkhan|2006|p=195}}

According to Delamarre, the name of the goddess ''[[Belisama]]'' appears to be built on a same stem ''bel(o)''- ('strong, powerful') attached to the intensifying suffix -''isama'', and could thus been translated as 'Very Powerful'.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=72}} Schrijver rather links it to a stem for 'henbane', *''beles''-, attached to an unknown suffix -''ma'', and compares the name with the Gaulish theonym ''Belisa-maros''.{{sfn|Schrijver|1999|p=|pp=30–31}} The personal name ''[[Bellovesus]]'' can probably be translated as 'Worthy of Power', from ''bello''- ('power') attached to ''uesus'' ('worthy, good, deserving').{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=72}}

Spanish scholarship also relates the deity's name to Aquitanian anthroponym ''Belinatepos'' or ''Belanetepos'' (taken to have an equine association), as well as the toponyms Beleño and Beloño.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=El jinete desnudo y la silla de montar de la estela de Iruña (Alava) |first=José Ignacio San Vicente González |last=de Aspuru |journal=Hispania Antiqua |issn=1130-0515 |issue=32 |date=2008 |pages=75, 78 |url=https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/9775}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gricourt |first1=Daniel |first2=Hollard |last2=Dominique |title=Lugus et le cheval |journal=Dialogues d'histoire ancienne |volume=28 |issue=2 |date=2002 |page=136 |doi=10.3406/dha.2002.2475}}</ref>