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Sometimes I talk to the moon, very beautiful or to the sky in general, so often I am entranced by itLa Luna:
It is a rare deity venerated in both “Iberian” and “Celtic” Iberia, in fact perhaps the only one that fulfills this completely. However, and this is my intuition, I believe that the way of worshiping her was different in one area and another, linked to the different religiosity, more individual, intimate and “urbanite” in the Iberian area and more collective, festive and “naturalistic” in the celtic
The Moon, known as “Noctiluca, the Light of the Night” in the Malaga area and as “Lux Divina” in western Andalusia and Extremadura. Off the coast of Malaga there was an island dedicated to her. There also existed towards the mouth of the Guadalquivir, a sanctuary dedicated to “Phosphoros” or the “Lux Divina”, identified with Venus in Roman times.
Also worshiped in the north, in Celtic Hispania, she was one of the main divinities, with great astral or celestial projection in the sphere of funerary beliefs. Its symbol on tombstones is a crescent moon. Night parties were held in his honor on full moon nights, when entire families danced until dawn at the doors of their houses, where sacrifices were made to him. It was considered the abode of the deceased (light of the dead) and supernatural protector of the lunar cycle of women, relating it to fertility.
The Celtiberians, for their part, worshiped a divinity whose name was taboo, associated with the Moon. The cult was related to the fact that these societies were matriarchal and livestock-raising. In the stelae of Celtic environments, astral signs acquire special development.
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