Avicantus
deity water single tradition · 1
Avicantus is assumed to be a water deity. No particular place in the area around Nîmes suggests itself as Avicantus, but possibly the Vistre river or the rural town of La Vigan. Delamarre offers a tentative analysis of the name Avicantus as an inclination or will toward "a hundred desires".
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“Urnia and Avicantus are assumed to be water deities; in question is which streams they represent. Urnia is most likely the Fontaine d'Eure near Uzès, the major source of water for the famous Pont du Gard aqueduct built in the 1st century CE by the Romans to support the burgeoning population of Nîmes”
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