Cocidius
Sign in to saveIn Romano-British religion, Cocidius was a deity worshipped in northern Britain. The Romans equated him with Mars, god of war and hunting, and also with Silvanus, god of forests, groves and wild fields. Like Belatucadros, he was probably worshipped by lower-ranked Roman soldiers as well as by the Britons for whom he was probably a tribal god - a genius loci.
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In Romano-British religion, Cocidius was a deity worshipped in northern Britain. The Romans equated him with Mars, god of war and hunting, and also with Silvanus, god of forests, groves and wild fields. Like Belatucadros, he was probably worshipped by lower-ranked Roman soldiers as well as by the Britons for whom he was probably a tribal god - a genius loci.
==Etymology== Rivet and Smith note that the name may be related to British Celtic cocco-, 'red' (compare Welsh coch and Cornish kogh), suggesting that statues of the god might have been painted red. A figure discovered in the 1980s in the Otterburn Training Area and is known as the Red One.