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	Sulis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis").
		At Bath, the Roman temple is dedicated to Sulis Minerva, as the primary deity of the temple spa.
		Sulis was a goddess of the hot springs, which arrived so vividly fresh from the Underworld (cf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sulis (923 words)

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		Sulis is an ancient British goddess associated with healing waters, the spirit and the craft of medicine.
		Sulis was adopted by the Romans and known as Sulis Minerva, her major shrine was at Aqua Sulis the centre of modern Bath.
		Minerva: The Romans celebrated her worship from March 19 to 23 during the Quinquatrus, the artisans' holiday which was also a festival of purification.
	sulisminerva.com /godess.html (600 words)

	Minerva: The Celtic Connection
		Minerva was the Roman goddess of war, wisdom and the crafts.
		Sulis was a local goddess of healing who ruled over the remarkable hot spring beside the river Avon near Bath (Aquae Sulis).
		She was not only a water deity, but her name Sulis is obviously linked with the sun, probably related to the heat of the waters.
	www.kernunnos.com /deities/Minerva.html (790 words)

	Gens Ambrosia :: Sulis Minerva
		Minerva seems to have been based on the Etruscan goddess Menrva, but her attributes were those of the Greek Athena.
		Festivals in honor of Sulis Minerva are held on February 2nd and December 22nd.
		The Quinquatria, a Roman festival in honor of Minerva was held on March 19 - March 23.
	www.ambrosii.com /deities/sulis.html (163 words)

	Sulis-Minerva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Roman goddess Minerva, “as a patroness of the art of healing she was honored at thermal springs (Mac Cana 34).” This association between Minerva and the art of healing meant that she was easily integrated with the cult of the healing, water goddess Sul at Bath.
		Brigit was the goddess of culture, “poetry and traditional learning in general as well as divination and prophecy” and Minerva is often considered to teach the elements of industry and the arts.
		Minerva multiple powers and qualities were incorporated differently into the Celtic deities of Bridit and Sul and in a way that most closely mimicked the Celtic goddesses' powers.
	vassun.vassar.edu /~jolott/clas217/projects/bath_project/Sulis_Minerva_2.htm (260 words)

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		Of this the wings and snakes in the hair are clinching evidence; the owl beside the shield is specifically Minerva's bird; and the temple was dedicated to her as conflated with the Celtic Sulis” (Richmond and Toynbee 102).
		They go on to note that oak leaves are appropriate to Minerva because she is the daughter of Jupiter, further indicating that this Gorgon, though odd in form, is representative of the goddess Minerva.
		Minerva, a frequently invoked goddess, becomes easily associated with the healing springs because she herself stands for healing and certain aspects of protection in the Roman world.
	vassun.vassar.edu /~jolott/clas217/projects/bath_project/Temple.htm (2763 words)

	Minerva
		Some scholars claim the figure of Minerva fused Etruscan and Italian deities of handicrafts and war, respectively; some claim she was always the artisans' patron and that the imposition of the Greek figure Athena on her meant the addition of war to her domain.
		Minerva Medica If her name seems Roman, it is only because of the imperial legions' policy of interpretatio Romano whereby Celtic goddesses were assimilated to those from their homeland.
		Many local and tribal goddesses lost their identities this way; many became Minervas, perhaps because they were originally connected with household industry, war, or healing-all of which fell under the dominion of the Italian original.
	www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/minerva.html (311 words)

	Ghosts - Supernatural Message Boards > Celtic Figure for March 22
		Sulis' consort was a sun God, whose carved face, bristling with the rays of the sun, was found during excavations beneath the present pump room in Bath.
		Sulis is known only at Bath, which suggestes that she was a local deity, manifesting herself in the copious hot springs of the city.
		The assumption usually made about the assimilation of Sulis and the Roman Minerva is not correct, for dedications to Sulis on her own reveal her to be a chthonic Underworld Goddess, similar in many respects to the classical Hecate, whose association is with blessing, cursing and prophecy.
	www.ghostvillage.com /ghostcommunity/lofiversion/index.php?t13043.html (614 words)

	Athena,Minerva,Sulis The Many Aspects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although Minerva, the Roman Goddess of war and wisdom, is usually portrayed as equivalent to the Greek goddess Athena, she was originally an Etruscan goddess of dawn.
		The owl the symbol of death and wisdom, and thus Minerva, a goddess of the dawn and of wisdom, is also a goddess of death and transformation.
		Minerva is an incarnation of wisdom in human form, an affirmation that we can use our knowledge and wisdom in the pursuit of any goal we choose.
	www.motherearthpublishing.com /freecontent/article.php?id=255 (631 words)

	Minerva History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Minerva was worshiped throughout Italy and on several Roman hills: with Jupiter and Juno on the Capitoline and the Quirinal and alone on the Aventine.
		Minerva was the special patroness of craftsmen, and at least from the time of Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE) craftsmen attended the festival of the Quinquatrus (March 19–23).
		The cult of Minerva, supported by the municipal institution of capitols (imitations of the Roman temple of the Capitoline triad) and the devotion of craftsmen and soldiers, diffused widely throughout the Roman Empire until the beginning of the common era.
	www.bookrags.com /history/religion/minerva-eorl-09 (674 words)

	Sulis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Celtic mythology, Sulis is the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis").
		Sulis was a goddess of the hot springs, which arrived so vividly fresh from the Underworld, therefore she guarded a liminal connection between this sunlit world and the Otherworld, where there was knowledge that could be effective in prophesy.
		Did her name "Sulis" suggest in Gaelic then the connotation of the 'orifice or gap' through which the healing waters ran?
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Sulis (558 words)

	Sulis Did You Mean sulis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In ancient Celtic polytheism, the deification of spring-water, especially of thermal spring-water, conceived as a nourishing, life-giving Mother goddess.
		Sulis was a goddess of the hot springs, which arrived so vividly fresh from the UnderworldAnnwn, therefore she guarded a liminal connection between this sunlit world and the Otherworld, where there was knowledge that could be effective in prophesy.
		In the town of Bath in England she was equated with a female deity called Sulis, the cult of whom had its focus on the natural thermal wellsprings to be found there.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Sulis.html (823 words)

	Sulis: a Brythonic Goddess, also known as Sul, Sulei, Sulla (Provider of Healing waters/She who is Viewed/The Bright ...
		Sulis is also invoked in her multiple aspect at the tribal city of Corinivm Dobvnnorvm (Cirencester, Gloucestershire) with the following dedication: SVLEIS SVLINVS BRVCETI VSLM (To the Sulei, Sulinus Brucetus willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow).
		However, the existance of such a statue attests to the cult importance of Sulis Minerva as does the fact that the baths themselves were dedicated to her.
		Minerva is the Roman equivalend of the Greek goddess Athena and embodies the protection of home and state against external invaders.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_s/sulis.html (796 words)

	Sul - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In ancient Celtic Mythology and polytheism, Sul or Sulis (also found as Sulevis/Sulis/Sulla) was the deification of spring-water, especially of thermal spring-water, conceived as a nourishing, life-giving Mother Goddess.
		Sul was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the thermal springs at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis").
		Dedications to “Minerva” are common in both Britain and continental Europe.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Sul (896 words)

	Biography of the Goddess Brigit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Etruscan Minerva -- along with Athena, the source of the Latin example -- was manifestly bellicose, and her southern offshoot is known to have been enlisted as a Roman tutelary deity.
		As is normal with Celtic deities, the form of Gallic Minerva remained at least partly in the mist, something the essentially rational classical writers never got a grip on but never let deter their figurings and so, her outline as left by them for us remains quite distinctly nebulous.
		Roman Minerva, taking a cue from her Greek Sister Athena, was thought to be a virginal Goddess and this patina clung to Brigit, despite her being wedded in variants of myth and lore to Bres and to another.
	home.twcny.rr.com /mobius024/Brigit/BrigitBio.html (6066 words)

	Roman Bath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Shrouded in steam, pilgrims approached the mysterious sacred spring at the heart of the temple believing it to be the actual residing place of Sulis Minerva, whose healing cult had spread from Britain throughout the Empire.
		Not only was Minerva's water renowned for its healing powers; by throwing their offerings into the spring, pilgrims believed that they could communicate directly with the Underworld.
		As well as appealing to Sulis Minerva for health or wealth, the pilgrims inscribed curses on thin pewter sheets which were then usually rolled up and placed in the water.
	www.time-scapes.co.uk /Bath/romanbath.html (625 words)

	Reconstructing The Roman Baths of Bath, England
		The name Sulis for a female fertility goddess came from the Celtic inhabitants of the land, and the name Minerva came from the Romans.
		The popularity of Sulis Minerva attests to the merging of Celtic and Roman forms.
		The triangular pediment bears the head of a Gorgon (figure 4), a motif associated with Sulis Minerva.
	www.nicholls.edu /art-dhc/surveyessays/romanbaths.htm (2522 words)

	Roman temple of Aquae Sulis and the Abbey of Bath, England. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Roman temple of Aquae Sulis and the Abbey of Bath, England.
		Dedicated to Sulis, a goddess of water, the shrine was a religious center for much of southwestern England.
		Soon after the arrival of the Romans in England in 43 AD, the Celtic shrine was taken over and the goddess Sulis was identified with the Roman goddess Minerva as a healing deity.
	www.sacredsites.com /europe/england/bath.html (735 words)

	Sacred Waters: Celtic Traditions from Rome to Ireland
		Sulis is one of the most famous water goddesses from Celtic lore.
		In the lore of Bath and Sulis, we learn that water comes from the Underworld, which is the source of power, and where time becomes unimportant.
		Sulis and related traditions, at Minerva, the Celtic Connection.
	www.celticloreandmagic.com /history/sacredwaters.htm (619 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		Sulis was the Celtic goddess of the spring, and when the Romans arrived they, too, worshipped her, identifying her with their own goddess of healing, Minerva.
		In the centre is a Gorgon’s head, with moustaches flowing into the hair, showing that it is male, though the figure is derived from the breastplate of Minerva.
		The bather would go into the tepidarium, a warm pool; move on to the caldarium, a hot pool, and finish in the frigidarium, a cold pool, to close their pores.
	www.camelotintl.com /romans/baths.html (1134 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Immigration and Emigration - England - Somerset - Roman Bath's Celtic acquisition
		Under the Romans the bathing complex at Bath was presided over by the deity Sulis Minerva.
		Sulis is the Celtic goddess of healing and sacred waters and Minerva the Roman goddess of wisdom.
		The creation of the hybrid Sulis Minerva demonstrates the Roman's adaptation of Britain's Celtic traditions to establish their own dominance.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/immig_emig/england/somerset (126 words)

	Sulis, Celtic Goddess of the Hot Springs at Bath--Celtic gods and goddesses, Sulis Minerva, Roman gods and goddesses, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Pilgrims came from mainland Europe to bathe in the therapeutic waters, and references to Sulis are known from as far away as Germany.
		The Romans equated Sulis with their Minerva, and so She was known to them as Sulis Minerva--which is somewhat unusual, since the Romans generally used the native Celtic deity name after the Roman name.
		Her dress is the same milky greeny-grey as the water of the springs, and Her hair is the bright orange of the deposits left by the mineral-rich waters.
	www.thaliatook.com /sulis.html (356 words)

	Saxon Bath: Aquæ Sulis to Aquæmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Aquæ Sulis (Bath), where the worship of Sulis Minerva was an integral part of its function as a spa.
		At Uley in the Cotswolds the head of the cult image was hacked off and buried.(6) In Bath the head of Minerva seems to have been given much the same treatment.
		Also her temple façades were dismantled and parts turned face down as paving slabs, although the precise date of all this damage is unknown.(7) The Cross Bath could also have been a target.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Bath/Saxon/Aquaemann.htm (1026 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It was the center of an important healing cult, originally with the Celtic goddess Sul, and later, the Romans, not having issue with other cultures deities adopted it, adding Minerva to the name (Salway 514-515).
		Around 60-70 CE, the temple to Sulis was reconstructed and renamed Sulis Minerva, incorporating the goddesses of the Roman and Celtic religions, through which it possibly could be a place for the local British population and the Romans that were stationed nearby (Aquae Sulis site).
		The baths, Roman Baths which were fed by the hot springs, were very large, made for more than just the population of the small town, which at one point was as small as about twenty-three acres (Collingwood 61-64).
	departments.vassar.edu /~jolott/clas217/projects/bath_project/Town_Bath.htm (281 words)

	British Deities
		She was worshipped in Bath along with two othe British goddesses: Sulis and Nemetona.
		Sulis is actually a Latin name for the British goddess.
		The Romans identified her as the Gaulish Minerva, where she was known as Sulis Minerva.
	www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/british.html (838 words)

	CyberRead, eBooks for Palm, PocketPC, PC, & Mac, Buy eBooks at CyberRead.com, Palm eBooks, Mobipocket eBooks, Buy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Romans have renamed her Sulis Minerva, and have tamed the steaming waters to form a complex of public baths.
		A statue of the hated Emperor Claudius is being erected in the precincts of the Temple of Sulis Minerva.
		The Celtic goddess Sul became Sulis Minerva and the town that grew up around the baths was called Aquae Sulis, the Waters of Sulis.
	cyberread.com /info/15973/mushroom_ebooks/moyra_caldecott/waters_of_sul (2914 words)

	NBNI Name Pages - Minerva
		As the centuries passed, the influence of the Roman Empire spread, and the Etruscans (and their Gods) were absorbed into the Empire.
		In the dialect of the ecuemenical Romans, "Menrva" became "Minerva," Who, with Iupiter and Iuno, were the Gods most honoured by the Empire, particularly during the Circensian Games.
		One of the last public shrines to Minerva was built in the English city of Bath (Aqua Sulis during the Roman occupation) during the first century C.E. The temple of Minerva Sulis (Minerva of the Baths) and its sacred spring into which offerings were cast adjoined the public baths of the city.
	new.babynameindex.com /namepages/female.minerva.phtml (267 words)

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