Abnoba  Abnoba was the Celtic Gaulish Goddess of Hunting and The Forest, worshipped in the Black Forest and surrounding areas. She was also thought to have been a fertility and Mother Goddess equated with Diana and Diana Abnoba. She was known from about nine epigraphic inscriptions. One alter at the Roman Baths at Badenweiler, Germany and another at Muhlenbach identify her with Diana, the Roman God of the Hunt. According to Tacitus's ‘Germania,' Abnoba was the name of a mountain, from a grassy slope of which flows the source of the river Danude. Ptolemy's ‘Geography also mentions the mountains as the source of the Danube. Pliny the Elder also gives some statements about Abnoba in his ‘Natural History,' saying that it arises opposite the town of Rauricum in Gaul and flows from there beyond the Alps, implying that the river begins in the Alps, which it does not. If Rauricum is to be identified with the Roman Settlement, Augusta Raurica, modern Augst in Basel-Landschaft canton of Switzerland.
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