Moccus

Another indication of boar worship, the Euffigneix statue of a Celtic god with boar-relief on his chest, was found in the territory of the Lingones.

The Lingones were a Gallic people whose tribal territory was centred on Andemantunnum [fr], modern day Langres.

Strabo tells us that the Celts liked pork and evidence from Iron Age settlements, especially elite graves, amply supports this.

In supernatural feasts of Irish mythology, pigs are daily slaughtered, eaten, and then brought back to life by magic.

Joshua Whatmough suggests that the theonym derives from a place name, perhaps that of nearby Moque or Le Moche.

Garrett Olmsted explains "Moccos" as a k-reflex of *makukuo-, proto-Celtic for child (and thus cognate to Irish macc and Welsh map).

[13] The Euffigneix statue has in turn been connected with the iconography on a coin of the Eburovices of Évreux, in which an upside-down boar appears on the neck of a torc-wearing human.

[16] James MacKillop suggests that Moccus is connected with the Gaulish Mercury, a figure attested in Roman sources and usually identified with the Celtic god Lugus.

[18] Gwenaël Le Duc [fr] has suggested that both this inscription and the Euffigneix statue attest to Lugus.