DEIS EQUEUNUBO: The Divine Twins in Asturia
Ignacy Ryszard Danka & Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
University of Łódź
Abstract
It should be concluded that the inscriptional phrase DEIS EQUEUNUBO had to refer to the Celtic (or Lusitanian) twin gods. The term EQUE(h)UNU seems a descriptive by-name of the Celtic divine twins, like Vedic Aśvināu (liter. ‘two horse-like [deities]’), Greek Διόσκουροι (liter. ‘Zeus’ boys’) or Etruscan Tinascliniiaras (liter. ‘to the sons of [the sky-god] Tin’).