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Esus
Esus ("gentleman" or "master") is the Celtic god
known thanks to two monuments and a line from Lucans Bellum
civile.
Lucan, the Roman poet of the I century AD names a
triad of the Supreme Gallic gods (under their own names) and a
way of sacrifices to them. Esus accepted the victims which had
been hung up on a tree, Taranis accepted the ones burnt in woven
baskets and Teutates accepted the ones drowned in a cask with
water.water.
Iconographic type of the god presented on the
Gallic-Roman reliefs of altars from Paris and Trier confirms
Esuss connection with trees, portraying him near a tree with
something like a sickle or axe in a hand. His gesture, probably,
reproduces the moment of druidic ritual of worship to mistletoe.
The bull with the three cranes standing on his head and back,
also known by his pictures on altars is associated with Esuss
tree.
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