Esus
Gaulish · deity · mythic · deity
Gaulish god ('Lord') shown as a woodcutter hewing a tree by the bull Tarvos Trigaranus; named with Taranis and Teutates as receiving human sacrifice.
Domains
Powers
- Fell the willow that frees the bull and cranes
Epithets
Sources
- Pillar of the Boatmen (Esus + Tarvos Trigaranus panels); Lucan, Pharsalia I.445
- Theonym likely 'lord/master'; Berne Scholia on Lucan (victims hung in a tree)
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