Taranis - The Thunder God

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Taranis - The Thunder God

Postby bolgios » 20 Aug 2012, 20:22

The solar wheel and archaeological evidence for worship of the Celtic Thunder God - Taranis:

http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/0 ... under-god/
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Re: Taranis - The Thunder God

Postby Crimson Stormfire » 23 Aug 2012, 14:55

thanx that was very informative to me ! :)
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Re: Taranis - The Thunder God

Postby scopulus » 04 Sep 2012, 20:42

Let's keep in mind that The statue they found is not 100 accurate about it really being Taranis. Annals tells us more about this Gaelic (West-european) and we assume this should be Taranis. Just a head up ;)
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Re: Taranis - The Thunder God

Postby DaRC » 10 Sep 2012, 09:28

As ever very interesting - here we have few links via the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon to a Thunder God.

Is there an English translation of Rübekeil (Rübekeil L. Wodan und andere forschungsgeschichtliche Leichen: exhumiert, Beiträge zur Namenforschung 38 (2003), ?
I would be interested in his arguments for a Celtic origin for Odin. I'd always thought that the Vanir would be more likely to have a Celtic origin than the Aesir.
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