Taranis

            Taranis is the Celtic god of thunder. His name is translated as “Thunderer” and in a number of dedications he was identified with Jupiter. The special Celtic attributes of this god are a wheel which could be a lightning and also a spiral representing heavenly fire. The images of him as “the God with a wheel” were widely in Roman Gallia. Nevertheless, it is not casually, that a Gallic Jupiter mentioned by Caesar was only on the fourth place. Druids recognized his power, but he did not take a leading place in their pantheon.