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Celtic Religion

CHAPTER IV--CELTIC RELIGION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALISED DEITIES
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At Bolar, near Nuits, there was discovered a bronze mule.
In the museum at Mayence is a bas-relief of the goddess of horses, Epona (from the Gaulish _Epos_=Lat.

_equus_, horse), riding on horseback.

One of the most important monuments of this kind is a figure of Artio, the bear-goddess (from Celtic _Artos_, a bear), found at Muri near Berne.

In front of her stood a figure of a bear, which was also found with her.

The bull of the Tarvos Trigaranos bas-relief of Notre Dame was also in all likelihood originally a totem, and similarly the horned serpents of other bas-reliefs, as well as the boar found on Gaulish ensigns and coins, especially in Belgic territory.


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