Arduinna

No native mythic origin narrative survives in the cited sources. Arduinna is known from epigraphic evidence and toponymy as the eponymous protective divinity of the Arduenna (wooded heights); her name derives from Gaulish arduo- 'height' and the Roman interpretatio identified her with Diana. Beyond this onomastic and cult-place association, the sources supply no indigenous origin legend.

Epigraphic attestations of the name (an altar at Düren and an inscribed relief at Rome) do not provide descriptive details. Modern scholarly and antiquarian literature commonly depicts Arduinna as a huntress riding a boar — based on two small Gallo-Roman bronze statuettes (one at Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye, and another formerly in Richard Payne Knight's collection now in the British Museum) showing a woman sidesaddle on a boar while holding a knife. However, one key statuette bears no inscription and nineteenth-century antiquarian identification is responsible for linking these bronzes to Arduinna; thus the boar-riding image is attested in later interpretation but the direct ancient labeling is uncertain.

Sources characterize Arduinna primarily as the tutelary or protective goddess of the Ardennes landscape, implying guardianship and association with woodland and, via interpretatio Romana, hunting. The cited material does not record a catalogue of miracles, mythic deeds, or specific supernatural powers beyond her regional protective role and the later comparison to Diana.