Zisa
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Zisa or Cisa is purportedly a pagan goddess once worshipped in Augsburg. According to the Excerptum ex Gallia Historia, the city of Augsburg was once known as Cisaris after this goddess, who saved the city from a Roman invasion on 28 September. On this day her feast was celebrated, and her name is preserved as the name of a hill, Cisunberc.
When
- First attested
- 1000 CE
- Attested period
- 1000 – 1500
- Historical notes
- Earliest record in an eleventh-century manuscript.
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Source passages
“(Cisa, Zisa) is supposedly the name of a Germanic goddess who, according to a Latin historical text from the 11th century, was worshipped in Augsburg in heathen times. While Grimm made extensive speculations about the identity of this goddess, today the supposition of a goddess Cisa is rejected”
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