Gaulish Deities: A Guide
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- This guide is about the Iron Age Continental Celtic deities that we know the most about.
Some interpretations are up for debate, especially the Esus analysis. It is one hypothesis amongst others.
Reminder: The Esus analysis with the metamorphosis idea are hypotheses that are up for debate. I didn't intend to lay it as fact. This is a UA-cam video explaining my views on the topic. I really recommend to read academic sources to understand this topic better, like any other on my channel. This is also the case for the theory of Toutatis being a single god of war known under many names.
Thank you!
Toutatis is a magyar name, toth, or tout (teuton) are hungarian magyar folks originally lived todays slovakia region means felvidék - up land
égi táj, egi ptah, egypt means also land of sky, upland, felvidék, where a guy who was toth bring the write and language from hungary origin of mankind ~ 2 million years ago
you know nothing but false about language, the one
what do you know about word war, what does it mean, where it comes?! sure no
gael is magyar gyula, fire starter ( matches are also magyar invention Irinyi János)
galic is magyar language, like egyptian...., for example, tomas = tamás = ptah más= remake of ptah, you will never get to this whitout magyar, the one language. van(one) means it exists
there is only one
vár: = to wait, fortress, castle
őr,úr,ár= gUARd, lORd, hungARy(folks huns)
vári őr = fort's guard, when the vár gets attacked, became war, vári őr gets warrior
Ur,Uruk, =lord
kish = kushite =hun=magyar
Kiss úr liliput legnagyobb kirája
toth means tudós, wise man
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lets see the textile, its a write, worldwide and fractal, as life
lets see these two old kids over 65 years, they can play
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48.35, lets fly with 3 violin, in the woods,three=három in magyar, harmony, three=tree of life
Hey man, please keep making videos. Theyre great!
@@balazskiss985 That makes no linguistic sense. Celtic is a family of indo-european languages. Hungarian is not one of them. You're mashing up cherry-picked words together in order to confirm your preconceptions because unrelated words can happen to sound alike; but the roots of those words are significantly different. Also, not everything is about you.
@@EidolonSpecus academic linguistic if a crap, and you ate it
lets learn something
what is the root/seed of word magic? and what language has that root word?
indo-european means gypsy
myname is the proof
kish, kush, kiss, .....grandson of Noah, folks from Nile to Ganghes, firs car, first wheel, first cow.....
balázs is a title, leader rank, = ceasar=basileus, king of all the Balouch type folks
i think you are a payed overschoold dumb ass, and i am the king of all the gypsies worldwide and wil eat you alive
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bala=alba baila who? baila me ua-cam.com/video/4aKl1gkIxzI/v-deo.html
kan= male bali/albi/liba=white
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they know me world wide so get off
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balash
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balih
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileus
basileus=beszélős=speaker in hun (you know gypsies make drinking cups from your skull, wild indians)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veles_(god)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bael_(demon)
@Dwight A. Spencer yeah and dark skin people is from africa...bullshit
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Tautatis is really written in my mind by having consumed so many Asterix and Obelix comics in my childhood.
Nice summary!
I just had an epiphany concerning Cernunnos and the metamorphosis:
If the name Lugus is related to the latin Lux meaning light ( lugus becomes lugh in Ireland ), then we can assume that doing specific rituals ( represented by Esus ) with the goal of becoming one with nature ( Cernunnos) one can achieve enlightenment ( Lugus )
This could represent the ultimate spiritual journey that a druid goes through over a life time
Cernunnos is more specifically a god of death (and possibly rebirth), not a god of nature. He happens to be *in* what we would consider "nature", but he is not necessarily *of* it. Also, we do not have a reason to believe that ancient celts even had our modern (greco-roman derived) conceptual dichotomy between the "natural" and the "artificial", but still, Cernunnos does wear woven clothing and is always adorned with torcs, jewelry of rather advanced metallurgy for the time, so he's definitely not a "god of the wilderness" like some crazier interpretations have postulated.
Cernunnos is most often associated with antlers, which are a symbol of cyclical seasonal change, of life and death. Antlers die and are shed for the winter, and regrow back to life for the summer. A significant proportion of celticists nowadays support the hypothesis that Cernunnos mostly served as a psychopomp between life and death, and possibly the other way around as well, _maybe._ He happens to have been depicted surrounded by non-human animals once or twice, but he doesn't seem to do anything significant _with_ those animals in particular, only with the horned snake he's often depicted holding/choking; so those background animals may even have just been to denote a feeling of serenity and peace with his surroundings (since he seems to ignore them entirely, and they ignore him in return), or maybe they're just there as decoration to fill empty space in a piece of art.
Unlikely
All the ideas about celtic polytheism being about "nature worship" are based on now highly critiqued interpretations of 20th romanticists and there is no evidence to support them
Men, my epiphany was similar, because I see the antlers of Cennurnos as a being receiving enlightment (even it's shape suggests the chaotic state of natural things), and thus he transforms himself as one with the nature. Now I see that those gods with any kind of antlers are a representation of illumination, like auras that came later. So, I agree, Lugus is a being that fullfilled with this natural balance of order and chaos, one already connected with his surroundings. And Esus is the one who seeks the knowledge. I actually had this kind of idea after going to a ayuhasca session, where white fox made of pure light with antlers stood before me, just before I felt into the abyss of feeling reborn.
This was really helpful to me, you did a great job. May the old gods bless and protect you :)
I find it very interesting that the Gauls praised a god by the name of Esus, who was often related to Mercury. With Mercury being the Roman equivalent of Hermes, the messenger god, it reminds me of Eshu. In the folk religions of many West African peoples there is a messenger god named Eshu/Ellegua/Exu. He was Orisha spirit of paths and the crossroads between all things. And, he was said to be childish - a trickster. Which, give the likely connection between Esus' transformation into the goat-like Cernunnos, posibly sharing origins with the Greek Pan, who was also a trickster. As well as Mercury and Hermes both being tricksters. It makes me ponder the thought of a greater origins that may descend farther than even the Indo-Europeans alone. I don't know, just food for thought...
If Sucellus is the God of alcohol and has a hammer
Does that mean that's where the term "get hammered" comes from?
@anthony mehu ...cool(?)
@@dracodistortion9447 yes, there's no question. Tis cool.
I'd agree with that sounds logical.
Sucellos is almost certainly a god who presides over the making of wine...
The thing he probably hammers is a barrel,of wine.
Loved the video and was struck by how similar Gaulish is to modern CYMRAEG. ' cern' is 'curn' (horns) 'taran' (thunder) 'nant' is valley 'Moch' is pigs and of course the cauldron (crochan) that brought warriors back to life was part of the 'Branwen' saga in the Mabinogion.I was also struck by how similar the counting system and even the names for animals are nearly identical.!! Surely Gaulish would have sounded remarkably similar to the Brythonic spoken at the time?
Even in french, nant = old word for valley. In France and Switzerland we have many nant/nantua and the Nantuates were a people living in today Wallis.
The "touta" in "Toutatis" meaning "people" or "tribe" is similar to "Teuton" in Germanic, and "Teutha" in both Irish and Scotch Gaelic meaning the same things.
The reconstructed Anglish word is "theed"
@@evan7391''Theed'' is English and it's not a reconstruction just rarely used.
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos Gaisowiros. I continually study and now speak the Irish language and I am so fascinated by it's links with Gaulish culture. You cover some fascinating topics and I look forward to devouring your videos as you post them. Go raibh míle matih agat mo chara!
I know this is an older video but I just found & subscribed to your channel. You mentioned Taranos as being the thunderer relating to thunder and lightning. Pre Roman times the Gauls had used the Ancient Greek writing system as we as incorporated some of their deities. It clicked in my head that the Greek word for thunderbolt is keraunós which sounds just like taranos. He could be the personification of the thunderbolt itself.
A very informal video. It made me comprehense these older gods better. I love to learn About my ancestors because i live near the statue in Belgium of Ambiorix and I Always find it very intresting to read about it but most sites are kind of very difficult to follow with these different information and i'm kind of new to the learnings.
Thank you! There's definitely a lot of different theories about the Gaulish gods. Some are very Irish and Welsh influenced, some are more Roman influenced and some mostly come from Indo-European interpretation.
I intended this video as a simple guide to understand this complex situation and I am glad it was useful for you.
@@Gaisowiros actually it is the Gods of the British Isles that are influenced by the Gauls.
It looks like you misread my comment. I never talked about gods being influenced by another culture. I talk about the theories being influenced by the studies of other cultures. For example. some people give more credit to the interpretatio romana while other people would give more credit to comparative studies with medieval Celtic litterature.
@@Gaisowiros you clearly said that some of the Gods were influenced by the Welsh and Irish when it's actually the opposite as the Gauls are the Celts and Archaeological evidence proves that some migrated to and influenced the People of the British Isles.
Where did I say that?
My boyfriend and I have both subscribed, we're eagerly awaiting further videos! We loved your presentation and he was able to grasp everything you said even as a beginner.
This is a fantastic presentation. Thanks for posting.
Esus kind of resembles Cú Chulainn, since they both share same traits of as gods of vegetations.
In the Great Raid, Cú Chulainn cuts down a massive tree to prevent Méabh's armies to take the Donn Cuailnge, and he places of tabú in which anyone who wishes to pass, needs to jump the tree. And three attempt to cross it but fail.
Later, Cú Chulainn and his son Fraoch (Nuadha, Connlaoi, Neachdaine) fight in a river, in which Cú Chulainn drowns his only son, that he had with Méabh. Three days later, Fraoch comes back to life accompanied with his trumpeters.
Man you just my wind of fortune. i was digging up celtic lore on wiki and got stumped by that long list of deities and as a layman i have no idea how to make sense of it. you made a video out of it and cleared things all up!
I really need / want to do more with the Gaul mythos. I can trace my family back to that area, would like to learn more about them.
Gaisowiros in your next video could you talk about other deities like Epona? Thanks for the very informative videos ❤ Subscribed ✔😉
Toutatis seems to have a lot in common with Freyr, being a sort of "father of the people" as well as a fertility and war god associated with boars, masculinity, and tribe/nobility
"The tragedy of the sons of Tuirean" is a great story. It's an ancient Irish story based on him vs Lugh.
Yes, if you go through reconstruction, the tragedy of the sons of Tuireann, shares similarities with the tasks that Heracles completes.
Video so helpful. Thanks guy ! What do you think of that ? At Samonios, the winter queen meets her man, Cernunnos. During the winter he stays the "beast". Then at Beltaine the spring king arises and he becomes the god of light, Lugos. The same god but with different aspects.
Love your work
I've just had a theory... What if the Motrones are the mother of Maponos? Mabon ap Modron in welsh folklore is thought to be a reflex of an older god attested as Maponos meaning "the great son", his patronym "ap Modron" means son of Modron, which looks very clearly like a welsh reflex of Matrones, perhaps in a singulative Matrona.
I also think he is son of all three Matrones because this sounds very familar to the norse myth of Heimdall being son of nine sisters, and because the possible Irish version of Mabon; Macc Óc, was often seen as fairest of gods much like Heimdall.
Also this may be a stretch but Mabon ap Modron is once referred too as Mabon ap Mellt, with Mellt being a welsh term meaning "lightning", meaning Mabon's father may have been Taranis.
as a French I’d love a gow game set in Gaulish mythology
Greatful video and informative! You are incredible.
I have never heard of Cernunnos and Lughus being the same in fact they have nothing in common to be the same it's most likely they are related but not the same. If we take all mythology spectrums iron age and Medevil Celtic we know Lugh had 3 brothers and killed a creator being a Giant the 3 heads represents his brother's. In Irish mythology His 2 brother's died in Basque mythology 3 brothers kill a Creator Giant named Tartarlo. Through Gaul as shown here the 3 heads are still there . Also Lugh in Irish mythology has alot of overlapping stories with the Dagda who we know in Gaul to be Sucellus and Taranis. In pre Christian Irish mythology Dagda had 2 known sons before Brigid Aedh or Aedh Dubh and Bel , being the Irish Belenos later named Nuada. This makes Lugh they're brother and they're paraells. And on the Gundestrup Calderon it shows a figure with his head removed and replaced with a horned animal this all follows pre Celtic myth in Hinduism Cernunnos would be Lughus Grand father the grand father's father is who he kills to save the world his grandfather was another Giant who made him. Instead of just a cosmic supreme being we have Giants that made up the world. Found in Cantaberian mythology and Aquitani myths in Basque mythology and Brythonic Mythologies Sucellus as Dis pater was called the Father God of the Gauls because who he's based on he re-created the world in other Celtic spectrums A Monster of some sort gets killed by this Deity. Esus sounds like another name for Sucellus and Taranis Tarañes Revo etc
Teutates horrensque feris altaribus Esus
et Taranis Scythicae non mitior ara Dianae.
uos quoque, qui fortes animas belloque peremptas
Savage Teutates, Esus’ bloody shrines
and Taranis’ altar, cruel as those
loved by Diana, whom the Scythians serve;
All these destroyed in war.
Written by Roman Poet Lucan
Great observation! We have the same problem with Sumerian deities ... confusing names & positions! It's pretty much screwed up all subsequent religion with confusions! One religion's good God is another religion's Devil. We will understand them in the next year if we can survive. The triple God is a function of our three-star system in perigee within a four-star system at apogee. Unfortunately, remember the verse that says "Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live." Yeah, well it's like that. Understanding a thing can be fatal!
By Toutatis !!! I approve of this video !!!!
great video. very informative and well-thought out. Looking forward in following your material.
Are you planning to explore more pre-roman European cultures in the future?
Thank you!
Yes I'm planning on making videos about other cultures, if I can find enough documentation.
Did you miss epona?
A goddess of Horses?
@@thunderlordaeron134 strictly speaking the godesses and gods are not 'of' anything in that sense but yes she is associated with horses and her name would be 'Mare' in translation. Her other name may be the 'Great Queen'. The welsh medieval figure Rhiannon is possibly Epona and her foal/son is Pryderi who may be the model for Perceval.
Awesome video!
How about the attributes of Nantosuelta (the stick and the bird) being similar to the ones of Athena ( the owl and the spear) ?
Heyho! Do you have a source list? Or a good place to research? I’m trying to make a comprehensive list of the gods
So Dutch/Deutsch comes from the proto-germanic word thiudiskaz, which means "of the people". However to me it seems close or at least related to 'touta' meaning tribe. Is there any one who knows if theres a relation between the gallic word touta and the proto-germanic word? Seems like not even language but also the religion is related in some way. Very interesting!
Celts maybe the people consecrated by the vanes in germanic mythology - and seeing the geographical movement, gauls maybe a scission of proto-germanic people
Matrones is still a in used word thats crazy !
C'est une possibilité que matrone en Français vienne du Gaulois, mais le mot "matrona" existe aussi en Latin.
Check the origin of the cult of Cernunnos in India. This gaulish deity comes from the cult of Pashupati. You will find several Pashupati figures sitting in a yoga-like position like the Cernunnos on the Gundestrup Cauldron.
Are Three still worship
Tyr means bull. So it is related to the bull more than the boar, I don't know if Tyr was ever connected to boars.
Yes, tyr with short y. Vowel length was important in Old Norse. Týr doesn't mean "bull". The Wikipedia article on Týr has a good well sourced section on the meaning and etymology of the name.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDr
@@Gaisowiros Tyr is a word that means bull in old Norse and modern Norwegian Danish and I think Swedish too.
Tyr or Ty is also the name of a Norse deity
@@eriktheviking927 did you not read my reply? There is a difference between tyr and Týr.
@@Gaisowiros Týr is the name of a person who was also considered a deity. Still means bull.
Where did you get the information on Sucellus being alcohol beverages god? And can we assume every tribal war god found throughout the Celtic world is a Teutates ?
toutatis became famous because of a famous french comic called "Asterix"
Hey UA-camrs, as long as we are on this channell, I ask that for now you please just call me Tasgetios.
Who else is here after googling the name of the thargoid Maelstrom?
Mythology is fascinating! I wonder if any of the elites knew that they were just worshipping glorified dead ancestors though lol
Epona where we get the word Pony?
Esus reminds me of Zeus as well, its funny that all these people warred each other when their pantheon of gods was so similair... but then again even people that worshipped the same gods went to war w each other, what a shame on the gods.
Your views are really not based in anything solid and I can give you an academic paper on researching Cernunnos without the interpretacio Romana.It's crystal clear that Esus,Cernunnos, and Taranis are separate Gods
What about the god amogus?
In what period did celts starte turning to Christianity
Probably at the same time Contantine declare it legal although i do remember that there were some christian communities in Gaul prior to that
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 dude there is literally a book in the New Testament called Galatians.
@@camulodunon I never knew that "Galatian" was related to "Gaul" 🤣
@@evan7391 yes they literally are
Artaios?.
The Esus analysis sounds nice. I already read something like that, yet not with Esus
Here's the link lecheminsouslesbuis.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/pantheon-gaulois/#comments
Sorry in French.
So basically psychedelics have always been perceived as a way to meet with god.
All the pagan deities of Europe represent the same phenomena, such as love, gravity, wisdom and so forth. They are simply given different names across Europe as Europeans speak a variety of languages.
Cernunnos (Pan, Vidarr, Faun) holds a snake and torc to represent the cervix and sperm as he is the deity of adrenaline, which is found in all animals and is present during intercourse.
Taranis (Thor, Jupiter, Zeus) defeats the "evil being" (giant/Jotun) as the old ancestor as well as the placenta has to be killed for him to live. Also, the fetus 'sits' upside down on the placenta during pregnancy, which is commonly represented by a horse. Thus, the column represents the fetus and deity of gravity riding the placenta/horse whilst killing the old ancestor (himself) in order to gain his old knowledge through the placenta and be reborn.
The sunwheel is a depiction of the sun and the natural cycles. With it, Taranis, the deity of gravity and thunder is able to hold his power. Without the sun and the earth, we may not have gravity.
Sucellus could be Frey/Dionysus as they are also associated with wine, agricultural fertility, and wealth.
Rosmerta could be Jord, Juno, Demeter (Earth) as the Earth is the great provider. Furthermore, the pairing of Odin and Jord can be seen by the pairing of Esus and Rosmerta.
The Gaulish temples, like other European temples were particularly sacred and beautiful areas in nature. They were fenced in to keep people and livestock out to prevent use of the area and to preserve their beauty. The weapons and other items on the walls belonged to the dead and were hung so that they could collect them once they were reborn. Of which, the druids/sorcerers/priests administered the giving of after the 7 year old child was tested to see if they were the dead ancestor.
To see other names of the same deities this article is worth a read: www.burzum.org/eng/library/paganism19.shtml
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In english sounding syllables, It's pronounced: "TU-tatis", not "TAUOU-tatis". You're welcome ;)
In Gaulish, it would have been pronounced the way I said it in the video.
@@Gaisowiros My interpretation of this entry may be wrong, but it seems to go the way I proposed: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutat%C3%A8s
@@felixgraphx La section de cet article Wikipédia qui porte sur l'étymologie et la prononciation ne contient pas de source.
De plus, elle réfère à la graphie "Teutates" tandis que la prononciation utilisée dans mon vidéo réfère à la graphie "Toutatis" qui est attestée, écrite avec l'alphabet latin.
L'alphabet latin avait une prononciation très phonétique. "Toutatis" se lit comme les lettres se prononçaient en Latin classique.
Maybe someone descended from Celts would be better suited to fathoming this out.
lel, kinklak en esti le gars !
Observe the origin of the trinity in christanity. Further proof that humanity only morphs rather than creates, ideas in the normal.
Oh poppycock, I'd love to see Nature bring about a perfectly round Wheel.