Esus
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Esus is a Celtic god known from iconographic, epigraphic, and literary sources.
Esus as depicted on the Pillar of the Boatmen
Esus and Tarvos on the Pillar of the Boatmen
The Trier monument: Left, Mercury and Rosmerta; Right, Esus chopping a tree, which holds a bull and three birds.
Statue of Mercury from Lezoux
Tarvos Trigaranus
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Tarvos Trigaranus or Taruos Trigaranos is a divine figure who appears on a relief panel of the Pillar of the Boatmen as a bull with three cranes perched on his back. He stands under a tree, and on an
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…as well as with the violent end of the Lindow Man. Esus has been connected (through an inscription which identifies him and an allied character, Tarvos Trigaranos, by name) with a pictorial myth on the Pillar of the Boatmen, a Gallo-Roman column from Paris. This myth associates Esus, felling or pruning a tree…
The relief of Tarvos Trigaranus on the Pillar of the Boatmen.