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Esus

Esus was a Gaulish god named by the Roman poet Lucan, together with Teutates and Taranis, as receiving human sacrifice. He appears on the Pillar of the Boatmen, a 1st-century monument from Paris, as a man cutting a tree, and on a relief from Trier. Little else is known of his cult, and his relationship to other Celtic gods is uncertain.

Esus
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Esus. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/esus
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