Gaulish thunder god named by Lucan and in inscriptions; 'the Thunderer', identified with Jupiter, emblematised by the spoked wheel. Berne scholia report burnt human sacrifice (secondary).
Domains
thunder
Powers
Drive the solar thunder-wheel across the sky
Epithets
Iupiter Taranucnus
Sources
Lucan, Pharsalia I.444–446; Berne Scholia on Lucan; Taranucnus/Taranis dedications
Theonym from Gaulish *toran- 'thunder'; J. de Vries, Keltische Religion (1961)