Esus

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

• woodcutting sacrifice

Powers

• Fell the willow that frees the bull and cranes

Epithets

• Esus

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)