[Celtic](celtic-religion) [Celtic Gods](celtic-gods.md) # Interpretatio Romana Hermes & Odin [[powers-t2019-11-15-m]] Caesar's Apollo = Grannus ## Celtic Main Source: (d-leeming ?) David Leeming From Olympus to Camelot ### Caesar's #### "Mercury" - Many terra cotta and stone images of him in Gaul - Sometimes appears with 3 heads - Sometimes has a consort called Maia or Rosemerta 'provider' #### "Apollo" - Consort: sirona - Composite of several deities ([Belenus](belenus.md) , [Grannus](grannus.md) , [Borvo](borvo.md)) #### "Mars" - A god of healing and war #### "Minerva" - [Sulis](sulis.md) - Called *Belisama* 'brightest' - Likely a Celtic great goddess, other versions of which we find in Irish mythology representing sovereignty and the land itself. ### Lucan's - All 3 demand brutal sacrifice - Mac Cana in *Celtic Religion* sees them as aspects of a single deity (connected to Caesar's 3 headed "Mercury" above) #### "Teutates" - Harsh - Sacrifices drowned - Mercury or Mars - Etymology: 'people' #### "Esus" - Dread - Sacrifices hanged - Mercury or Mars - Etymology: 'lord' #### "Taranis" - Sacrifices burned - Jupiter or Dispater/Hades - Ancestor of all Gauls - Etymology: 'thunder' ## External Links [[rolinson2018-9-12]] [[rolinson2019-9-19-einu]] [[rolinson2019-12-18]]