Erecura

Erecura or Aerecura /ɛrɛˈkʊrə/ (also found as Herecura or Eracura)[1] was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater, as on an altar from Sulzbach.

[2] Miranda Green calls Aericura a "Gaulish Hecuba",[7] while Noémie Beck characterizes her as a "land-goddess" sharing both underworld and fertility aspects with Dis Pater.

[8] Jona Lendering notes the similarity between her iconography and that of Nehalennia, who was worshipped in Germania Inferior,[4] while Beck sees no significant difference between her attributes and those of the Matres and Matronae.

[8] A male deity called Arecurius or Aericurus is named on an altar-stone in Northumberland, England,[9] although Beck cautions that "this inscription is quite uncertain, and it might be a misreading of Mercurio".

Lendering considers her cult to be of Illyrian origin, spreading from Aquileia and only reaching the Danubian and Rhenish border regions through the Roman troops deployed there.