Editing Iguvine Tablets (section)

====Hondos Iovios====

Many scholars, from Bücheler to Prosdocimi, opine this deity is an underworld god of agricultural fertility and plenty on the grounds of the sacrifice of puppies he receives at his festival. Prosdocimi calls it the ''intermestruae cereales'': the declaration of the dog is set at the climax of the ''feriae''.<ref>TI II a 15-44. Aldo Luigi Prodocimi "L'Umbro." in ''Lingue e dialetti dell' Italia antica'' (= Popoli e civiltá 1. Italia antica VI) Roma e Padova 1978 a cura di A. L. Prosdocimi p. 713-717; 761-762. ''Hondra'' in Umbrian means under(neath), below.</ref> [[Jörg Rüpke]] remarks the association of Hondos with Jupiter is one among the numerous in the tablets, in which a complex multilevel and hierarchic structure of relationship among theonyms is envisaged. This phenomenon would put the god into a sort of host–guest relationship with the one given in the attributive. In the case of Hondos this feature is apparent also in the fact that his cults at the Hondia festival take place in the Jovian Grove but those at the lustration of the citadel (when the god bears the epithet of Çerfios) in the Coredian Grove.

It has been suggested that the theonym ''Hunte Çefi'' (''Honde Serfi''), referring to a chthonic god,<ref>Lacam, Jean-Claude Lacam. "Le «prêtre danseur» de Gubbio. Étude ombrienne (iiie-iie s. av. J.-C.)". In: ''Revue de l’histoire des religions'' [En ligne], 1 | 2011. §20, mis en ligne le 01 mars 2014, consulté le 13 février 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rhr/7709. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rhr.7709</ref><ref>Pfiffig, Ambros J. (1972). "Megalithische Elemente in den altitalischen Kulten". ''Almogaren III/1972'', Graz 1973. pp. 111 and 114.</ref> derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European root]] ''*[[Dʰéǵʰōm|ǵʰōm-to]]'' 'earth',<ref>Lacam, Jean-Claude. "Le sacrifice du chien dans les communautés grecques, étrusques, italiques et romaines: approche comparatiste". In: ''[[Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité]]'', tome 120, n°1. 2008. Antiquité. p. 45. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/mefr.2008.10414]; www.persee.fr/doc/mefr_0223-5102_2008_num_120_1_10414</ref><ref>Lacam, Jean-Claude Lacam. "Le «prêtre danseur» de Gubbio. Étude ombrienne (iiie-iie s. av. J.-C.)". In: ''Revue de l’histoire des religions'' [En ligne], 1 | 2011. §18, mis en ligne le 01 mars 2014, consulté le 13 février 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rhr/7709. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rhr.7709</ref> a stem attested in several branches.