Cicolluis
Cicolluis or Cicoluis is a List of [Celtic deities|god in Celtic mythology] worshiped by the ancient Gauls and having a parallel in Ireland.Name
The Gaulish theonym Cicollus derives from the stem cico-, itself from Proto-Celtic *kīko-, meaning 'meat, flesh, muscle' and, by metonymy, 'breast'. It could be translated as 'Big-Muscle' or 'Great-Breast'.Cult
Roman Gaul
In the Gallo-Roman religion, Cicolluis is thought to be a common epithet for the Gaulish equivalent of Mars. A Latin dedicatory inscription from Narbonne, France, bears the words MARTI CICOLLUI ET LITAVI., “Mars Cicolluis” has dedications in Xanten, Germany, and Aignay-le-Duc and Mâlain of the Côte-d'Or, France. “Cicolluis” is named alone in an inscription at Chassey, Côte-d'Or, Franche-Comté, France, and a partial inscription from Ruffey-lès-Echirey, Côte-d'Or, France, may be dedicated to Cicolluis. In Windisch, Switzerland, he is known as “Cicollus,” and in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France, he is known as Mars Cicoluis.Cicolluis may also be compared to Cichol or Cíocal Gricenchos, the earliest-mentioned leader of the Fomorians or Fomóiri in Irish mythology. According to the seventeenth-century Irish historian Seathrún Céitinn, Cichol arrived in Ireland with fifty men and fifty women on six boats a hundred years after the Flood. There, his people lived on fish and fowl for two hundred years until Partholón and his people invaded and defeated the Fomorians in the Battle of Magh Ithe.