Δηουόνα was allegedly a Celtic Goddess. Ausonius writes, apparently talking of the modern city of Burdigala (Bordeaux), France (The Order of Famous Cities):

Salve, fons ignote ortu, sacer, alme, perennis,vitree, glauce, profunde, sonore, inlimis, opace. Salve, urbis genius, medico potabilis haustu, Divona Celtarum lingua, fons addite divis.

“Hail, fountain of source unknown, holy, gracious, unfailing, crystal-clear, azure, deep, murmurous, shady, and unsullied! Hail, guardian deity of our city, of whom we may drink health-giving draughts, named by the Celts Divona,—a fountain added to the roll divine! Not Aponus in taste, not Nemausus in azure sheen is more clear, nor Timavus’ sea-like flood more brimming-full.”

So this was a Goddess of springs. And yet, how can this Name appear in Jan Długosz list of Polish Gods and Goddesses as Dziewanna, a Goddess of the Wild, the Polish Diana? Did Długosz simply read Ausonius? Or was something else at play here?

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