Litavis
Litavis is a Gallic deity whose cult is primarily attested in east-central Gaul during the Roman period. She was probably an earth-goddess.
Her name is found in inscriptions found at Aignay-le-Duc and Mâlain of the Côte-d'Or, France, where she is invoked along with the Gallo-Roman god Mars Cicolluis in a context which suggests that she might have been his consort. Also, a Latin dedicatory inscription from Narbonne, France, bears the words “MARTI CICOLLUI ET LITAVI”.
Name
The Gaulish divine name Litavi- likely stems from Proto-Celtic *flitawī-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Plethₐ-wih₁ .
The 'neo-Celtic' names for the Brittany Peninsula all stems from *Litauia.' In the Irish Lebor Bretnach, Bretain Letha means 'Britons of the Continent or Armorica, i.e. Bretons.' Thurneysen proposed a semantic development from Celtic 'broad land, continent' to the Insular Celtic name for the part of the Continent nearest the British Islands.' The Gaulish personal name Litavicos is cognate with the Welsh Llydewig, meaning 'pertaining to Brittany'.
