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Altar from Notre Dame A. The god Esus was perhaps a deity of vegetation, and human victims offered to him were hanged on trees. He has been identified, though with slight probability, with Cuchulainn. He is here shown cutting down a tree

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Identifier: mythologyofallra03gray (find matches)
Title: The Mythology of all races ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Louis H. (Louis Herbert), 1875-1955 Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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equivalent in Gaul being a hypothetical Lugus, whosename appears in place-names there. As Lug was calledsamilddnach (skilled in many arts),^^ Lugus may be theGaulish god equated by Caesar with Mercury, whom he callsinventor of all arts and associates with the simulacra^ or PLATE XX A AND B Altar from Notre Dame A. The god Esus (cf. p. 9) was perhaps a deity ofvegetation, and human victims offered to him werehanged on trees. He has been identified, thoughwith slight probability, with Cuchulainn (cf. PlateXVIII). He is here shown cutting down a tree,the branches of which are carried over to the nextside of the altar. B. The next side of the same altar, dedicated bysailors and found at Notre Dame, Paris. Under thebranches of the tree which Esus is felling stands abull with three cranes perched on his back — TarvosTrigaranos (see p. 9). For the bull see also PlatesII, 4-5, 9, III, 5, IX, B, XIX, I, 6. The subjectsof these two sides of the altar recur in an altar fromTreves (Plate XXI).
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