Also called Lugoves, Lug.
Their story
Lugus is known from place names such as Lugdunum, now Lyon, and from inscriptions, including one from Osma in Spain made by a guild of shoemakers to the Lugoves, a plural form of the name. Caesar wrote that the Gauls honoured Mercury above all as the inventor of all arts, which many scholars take to mean Lugus. The Roman council of the Gauls met at Lyon on 1 August, the date of the Irish Lughnasadh.
Best times to give to them
- Lughnasadh (1 August)
- before an oath
What they like being given
- bread
- mead or juice
- a skill practised
How to honour them
- Honour him on 1 August, the date of the great Gaulish gathering at Lyon.
- Keep your oaths carefully in his name.
How they can help you
- many skills
- trade
- promises
Symbols
- the raven
- the spear
- the city of Lugdunum
Lugus is reconstructed from names and Caesar's account, and his exact nature is uncertain.
Sources
- Caesar, De Bello Gallico VI
- Green, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
More Celtic gods
- The Dagda The good god, father of all
- Lugh Master of all the arts
- Cernunnos The antlered one of the wild
- Manannán mac Lir Lord of the sea and the Otherworld
- Aengus The young god of love
- Nuada The king with the silver hand
- Dian Cécht Physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann
- Goibniu Smith of the gods and brewer of the feast