>When
> the Romans came, they tended to lump all the Gods & Goddesses into
a plie and
> say "Well, this one seems a lot like our Juno, so it's got to be the same
> diety" and there  you have some very odd "marriages".
Sulis, the Goddess of
> Bath (the hot springs)and Cernunnos are two ready to hand examples of
> Romanization of Celti!
> c dieties. 

In defense of the Romans... they had a different system of naming and
understanding the deities than did the Celts and Teutons.  They weren't
pantheists, nor did they assume that the gods worshipped in Britain were just
new names for their own familiar powers.  But they did tack on epithets - their
way of calling on specific powers of the gods.  Obviously (in their mind) the
Juno of Rome was not the *same* Juno as the one in the forests of Gaul.  And by
adding a familiar epithet to the local gods, they figured they were
incorporating a new deity into their worship in a familiar way.  They never
wanted to leave *out* a god, lest they cause offense, but they wanted to be
sure the Romans moving in could find something familiar.

darkelf, Romanophile

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