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All photos (c) R.H. unless otherwise indicated. Go back to: HORSE DEITIES. Further reading, see for example my paper "How to identify Celtic Religion" from 2007 which discusses Epona and the "Jupiter" on horseback riding over snake-like giant-columns from Roman times (link to academia.edu) |
हयग्रीव // HayagrivaAn avatar of Vishnu is the horse-headed god Hayagriva in Hinduism, the god for knowledge and wisdom.
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Celtic horse-human hybrid deitiesAnd here a horse-headed human figure from Iron Age Iberia (photo from: Burillo & Burillo (2017), Looking at cosmology through the lens of hermeneutics and semantics. In Haeussler & King (eds), Celtic Religions in the Roman period. Aberytwyth).
We find a horse-human hybrid in 'Celtic' religions, like on these coins. This is the androcephallic horse, i.e. a horse with a human head, which appear on several types of coins.
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