Fitz Jenő (szerk.): Religions and Cults in Pannonia. Exhibiton an Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery 15 May - 30 September 1996 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: A. sorozat 33. (1998)

Sabazios The cult of the Phrygian-Dacian deity gained ground in the Roman Empire from the 2nd century on. He was the god of fertility and agriculture, originally a healing god. For his cult the hand, covered with magic symbols, represented in the liturgical gesture of benediction and offered as a votive, was characteristic. In the centre of the everyday ceremonies of the iniciated, the members of the community, the showing up of the Nile water stood (happy eternal life after death). On their November festivities their myth was revived. On their processions the close-cropped priests marched in white gowns, playing an instrument - their gods were visualized by animal masks. Silvanus The most widespread of the local cults in Pannónia, the cult of this rural deity was introduced by Italian immigrants in the 1st century. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries it spread also along the limes, where its cult was enrichened with Celtic and Western elements so that the god became the protector of the smallholders' family ground, the keeper of property and the confines. He was represented with a pruning knife or bill-hook, a foliated branch or fruit in his hand, and was accompanied by a dog. His relics are: altars, reliefs, statues, lead votive objects, pottery.He appears together with his female counterparts, the Silvanae, Nutrices or with Diana. His cult was amalgamated with that of the Lares and Mercurius, as the helper of travellers, as psychopompos i.e. escort for the other-world journey. Sol The cult of the Sun god came into the foreground in the 3rd century, when a demand for unifying the different religions and forming an official state religion was raised. After the unsuccessful attempt of Elagabalus (218-222) the Emperor Aurelianus introduced the cult once again. The official, state feast of the religion strongly interwoven with the emperors' cult was set on December 25, the winter solstice, being the birthday of the god . The cult of Sol was especially popular in the army. Sucellus The "good hammerman", is a god with a hammer as attribute, whose cult is known, beyond some Pannonian representations, primarily from Gallia, is a Celtic divinity. 126