RT Journal Article
T1 From Hagiography to Celtic cosmology: Archaeoastronomy and Christian landscape in Ourense (NW Spain)
A1 González García, A. César
A1 García Quintela, Marco Virgilio
K1 Galicia
K1 Celtic cosmology
K1 Romanization
K1 Hagiography
K1 Christianization
K1 Landscape building
K1 Archaeoastronomy
K1 Hydatius of Chaves
AB The cult of Santa Mariña is very popular in the region of Galicia, in northwest Spain. According to tradition, she was born and martyred in two sites at the heart of the modern-day province of Ourense: she was born and grew up around the lagoon of Antela, and was martyred in the parish of Santa Mariña de Augas Santas, where she performed miracles and where her tomb is still preserved. Both places are located in the territory of the Limici, a pre-Roman Celtic tribe, and contain a remarkable amount of archaeological material from the Iron Age and Roman times. An archaeoastronomical study has revealed that the most important archaeological sites have a number of significant solar and lunar relationships attributable to the Celtic tradition (lunistices, Celtic mid-season festivals, the cosmos divided into three levels). Christianity preserved these structures through the feast dates of the saints worshipped in different parishes and other places, and their arrangement in different local landscapes. Episodes of Mariña‟s life and her places of worship are important because they coincide with significant points in the astronomical alignments that have been detected. Hydatius of Chaves (c. 400-469) a Limici scholar, bishop and author of a Chronicle, is considered responsible for introducing the cult of Santa Mariña, and as the driving force behind the Christianization of a landscape/ skyscape that was previously defined by a Celtic worldview.
PB University of the Aegean
SN 1108-9628
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15948
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15948
LA eng
NO A. César GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA & Marco V. GARCÍA QUINTELA, “From hagiography to celtic cosmology: archaeoastronomy and christian landscape in ourense (nw spain)”, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 16, No 4 (2016), pp.447-454, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/ceg.2016.129.01
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026