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| | e-Keltoi: Volume 6, Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula, by Francisco Marco ... |
 | | The first element of the theonym Nimmedus (also recorded on an inscription from the cave of La Griega in Pedraza, Segovia, here accompanied by the epithet Augustus) is clearly related to the Celtic word nemeton, which among the Celts indicates a sanctuary par excellence, a place where communication between human beings and gods took place. |
| | The term nemeton is the basis for ancient toponyms like Nemetobriga (present-day Puebla de Trives, in Orense), or for ethnonyms like the Callaicians Nemetati cited by Ptolemy in the second century AD. |
| | From the notion of nemeton, that is, the concept of the wood as a sacred environment whose mystery conceals the visible presence of the divinity, there is a shift to its identification with the place, to a theonym recorded epigraphically. |
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