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Taranis | Weather God | God of Thunder | Jupitergigantenreiter | Jupiter à l'anguipède | mâitre du ciel |
Like in all Indo-European religions, we also find a weather god, a god of thunder, in the Celtic world, comparable to the Hittite Teshub, the Greek Zeus and the Roman Jupiter. He is the celestial deity, sky god... or in the words of Duval (1976, 29): ‘le maître du ciel’.
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The great pan-Celtic god Taranis?
Etymology of TARANIS: from P.Celt. *torano- ("thunder") and P.IE. *(s)tenh₂-. Also in other Celtic language, e.g. Old Irish torann, 'thunder, noise'. Also see Germanic: Thorr/Donar (see Delamarre; Wikiwand)
Considering the god's importance, the word TARANIS is attested comparatively rarely:
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The Wheel GodThe wheel - a prominent symbol for the indigenous Jupiter/Taranis, the god of thunder. No, it does not seem to represent a sun-wheel, but the noise that a wheel produces, which sounds like thunder
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