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Taranis
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Taranis is a Celtic thunder god attested in literary and epigraphic sources.
Altar from Orgon, France with a Gaulish inscription recording an offering to Taranis.
Altar from Orgon, France with a Gaulish inscription recording an offering to Taranis.
An imaginative 18th-century illustration of the wicker man
An imaginative 18th-century illustration of the wicker man
Jupiter Column rider with a wheel from Obernburg.
Jupiter Column rider with a wheel from Obernburg.
Jupiter with a thunderbolt and a wheel from Le Châtelet de Gourzon [fr].
Jupiter with a thunderbolt and a wheel from Le Châtelet de Gourzon [fr].
Wicker man
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The wicker man is the name given to a large figure of wickerwork and wood in which, according to some Graeco-Roman writers, the Gauls burned human and animal sacrifices. The two main accounts are Juli
Taranis
…of these sacrifices: in particular, that the victims of Taranis were burned in a hollow wooden container. This sacrifice has been compared with the wicker man described by Caesar. These scholia also tell us that Taranis was perhaps either equated by the Romans with Dis Pater, Roman god of the underworld, or…
Illustration of human sacrifices in Gaul from Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (1910) by T. W. Rolleston
Illustration of human sacrifices in Gaul from Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (1910) by T. W. Rolleston
Representation of a wicker man from Sammes's Britannia Antiqua Illustrata (1676).
Representation of a wicker man from Sammes's Britannia Antiqua Illustrata (1676).
Advertisement for the movie The Wicker Man (1974)
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