Ogmios

            According to Lucan, Heracles was known as Ogmios to Celts and he was represented as a frowned old man dressed in animal skin and armed with a cudgel and onions. It entailed a group of happy people whose ears were connected with the god’s tongue with chains. The educated Gaul with whom Lucan talked told him that Celts considered not Hermes, but Heracles to be the patron of oratory, for he was very strong.

Ogmios, as well as Heracles, whose cult was widely spread across antique Mediterranean, and whose name means “the glorified Hero”, represents a variant of mythological type of the Cultural hero.

Fransuaza Leru interprets the image of Ogmios as the god similar to Indian Varuna and also as psychopomp leadingthe souls from this world to another.