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| | Ogmios Ogma and Heracles (Lucian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Lucian describes a picture of Ogmios which he saw in Gaul, when residing in Gallia Narbonensis, perhaps around Marseille: he was depicted with bow and the club normally associated with Hercules, but instead of the powerful god of Graeco-Roman mythology, Ogmios Hercules was portrayed as an old man, bald and burnt by the sun. |
 | | Apart from Lucian's testimony, Ogmios is invoked on two lead defixiones or curse tablets from Bregenz on Lake Constance; on one of these, Ogmios is requested to intervene and lay a curse on a barren woman so that she would never marry. |
 | | According to Mlle Le Roux, Ogmios- Oghma is the god who binds, like the Indian Varuna, a character which manifests itself for example in Lucian's description and in the binding force of the magic ogham symbols as used by Cú Chulainn in Táin Bó Cuailnge to stay the advance of the Connacht army. |
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