Editing Ogmios (section)

===Hercules in Gaul===
By way of his adventures through Western Europe, ancient literature often associated Hercules and the Celts. [[Parthenius of Nicaea]], for example, claimed that Heracles was, through his son Keltos, progenitor of all the Celts.<ref name=Bauchhenss/>{{rp|91-92}} In the Roman era, Hercules was worshipped in Gaul, especially in his role as patron of [[sacred spring]]s. However, Ogmios does not seem to have been important to this worship. The epigraphic evidence reveals very little linking Hercules to native deities; and nothing at all linking Hercules to Ogmios.<ref name=Hekster>{{cite journal |last=Hekster |first=Olivier |title=Gallic images of Hercules |url=https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/61908/210453.pdf |journal=Journal of Roman Archaeology |volume=17 |date=2004 |pages=669–674 |doi=10.1017/S1047759400008692 }}</ref>{{rp|671-673}}<ref name=Bauchhenss/>{{rp|98-99}}

The iconographic evidence for Hercules Ogmios is little more impressive. No images of Hercules found in Gaul come near the arrangement described by Lucian. [[Salomon Reinach]] linked Ogmios to two representations from Gaul, both quite late: a bronze statuette of Hercules, bent with age; and a [[terra sigillata]] with a relief of an apparently bald Hercules.<ref name=Hekster/>{{rp|671}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hercules (in Peripheria Occidentali) |first=Luis Javier |last=Balmaseda |date=1990 |encyclopedia=[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae]] |volume=V |pages=255–262 |url=https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20V-1%20Herakles-Kenchrias/page/n143 }}</ref>{{rp|256, 261}} However, [[Stephanie Boucher]] argued the hunch of the former was a product of low quality bronze-work; and Euskirchen has argued that the latter's baldness could have been caused by wear to the pottery.<ref name=Euskirchen/>{{rp|fn 38}}