Editing Sulis (section)

{{short description|Celtic water deity}}
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[[File:Minerva Sulis.jpg|thumb|Gilt bronze head from the cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Temple at Bath, found in Stall Street in 1727 and now displayed at the [[Roman Baths (Bath)]].]]
In the localised [[Celtic polytheism]] practised in Great Britain, '''Sulis'''{{NoteTag|While often rendered as "Sul" in modern times, the correct form of the name is ''Sulis''. See Collingwood and Myres p. 264, and notes at RIB Tab.Sulis 10.}} was a [[deity]] worshiped at the [[Hot spring|thermal spring]] of [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]. She was worshiped by the [[Roman Britain|Romano-British]] as Sulis [[Minerva]], whose [[Votive offering|votive objects]] and inscribed lead tablets suggest that she was conceived of both as a nourishing, life-giving [[mother goddess]] and as an effective agent of [[curse]]s invoked by her [[Religious vows|votaries]].<ref>Joyce Reynolds and Terence Volk, "Review: Gifts, Curses, Cult and Society at Bath", reviewing ''The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath'': vol. 2 ''The Finds from the Sacred Spring'', in ''Britannia'' '''21''' (1990: 379–391).</ref>