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Celtic Serpent | Snake | Schlange | SerpentWe already saw the serpent as an attribute for other deities, like the Taranis/Jupiter/wheel-god sculpture from Seguret (Vienne) or in the case of Smert[rios] killing the serpent.
Serpents are often part of the iconography - both in the pre-Roman Iron Age and in Roman times. RAM HEADED SERPENT | LE SERPENT CORNU |
A particular type of snake is the ram-headed snake that appears already on Iron Age coins and continues into the Roman period.
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The human-snake hybride: together with the "Jupiter" on horseback, it is common feature in the visual language of eastern Gaul (see section on "Taranis"). But there are other examples...
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