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{{Short description|Pre-Roman Iberian goddess}}
[[File:Seignac, Diane chassant (5613442047).jpg|200px|thumb|[[Diana (mythology)|Diana]], the Roman goddess often compared to Nabia<ref name="Ferr">FERREIRA, Daniela. ''Os Deuses foram honrados'', 2022.</ref>{{Page needed|date=January 2024}}]]
'''Nabia''' (or Navia) was a goddess of the [[Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula]], although she also had an extended cult during the [[Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula|Roman occupation of the peninsula]].<ref name="Arch">''Estudios sobre la tabula siarensis'', Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología IX, Madrid, 1988, p. 264.</ref>

Nabia was worshipped in many places on the [[Iberian Peninsula]], sometimes in very different ways, leading some historians to suggest that "Nabia" was just a common word used by different peoples to refer to their deities (a theory questioned by others).<ref name="Mel">MELENA, José L. ''Un ara votiva romana en el Gaitán, Cáceres'', 1984.</ref>{{Page needed|date=January 2024}} Due to the uncertainty of her nature, she is sometimes interpreted as a water deity,<ref name="Ferr" /> other times she is associated with valleys, forests and hills,<ref name="dioses">''Los Dioses de la Hispania Céltica'', Madrid, 2002.{{Page needed|date=January 2024}}</ref> and she's further seen as the goddess of fertility, health, and abundance.<ref>{{cite web|date=2007-02-28|title=Um balneário com 3 mil anos|url=https://www.publico.pt/2007/03/28/jornal/um-balneario-com-3-mil-anos-181792|work=Público}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

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== Further reading ==
* Olivares Pedreño, Juan Carlos. "[http://hdl.handle.net/10045/5887 El culto a Nabia en Hispania y las diosas polifuncionales indoeuropeas]". In: ''Lucentum'', ISSN-e 1989-9904, Nº 17-18, 1998-1999, págs. 229-242. {{ISSN|0213-2338}}.
* {{ill|Prósper, Blanca María|es|Blanca María Prósper}}. "[https://www.academia.edu/7332557/El_nombre_de_la_diosa_lusitana_Nabia_y_el_problema_del_betacismo_en_las_lenguas_del_occidente_peninsular El nombre de la diosa lusitana Nabia y el problema del betacismo en las lenguas del occidente peninsular]". In: ''Ilu'' 2 (1997): 141-149.

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[[Category:Lusitanian goddesses]]
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