An Iberian oracular and healing and solar god, perhaps the best known pre-Roman deity in the Iberian peninsula. He is the protector of the earth and nature, especially of forests. The Romans saw him as the equivalent of PHOEBUS or Greek APOLLO, and returning military saw close similarities with ASCLEPIUS or SERAPIS. He has a temple in Sao Miguel in Alentejo, Portugal. His worship persisted into the 5th century AD. He is many-faced, one of which is an 'infernal' one, since he would have been obliged to venture into the underworld to obtain his powers
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