Rudianos is a Celtic god worshipped in Gaul. He was almost certainly a war god; an image of Rudianos from Saint-Michel-de-Valbonne depicts the god on horseback with five severed heads (the Celtic tribes were known to take the heads of their slain enemies). His name can be translated as “the red one,”
Rudianos was sometimes identified by the Romans with their god Mars by way of the interpretatio romana.
Myth
Unknown.
Cult
Rudianos received votive and dedicatory offerings from his worshippers; otherwise little is known of the specifics of his cult.
Etymology
Rudianos’ name may derive from the Proto-Celtic *roudos or “red.”.
Region
Rudianos was worshipped primarily in what are now the French regions of Brittany and Normandy,
Literary evidence
Unknown.
Archaeological evidence
Cabasse, France; Hyeres, France; Saint-Etienne, France; Saint-Genis, France; Saint-Michel-de-Valbonne, France