(Celtic taran=thunder) Gallic thunder-god and lord of heaven, equated by the Romans with → Jupiter. It is possible that he is the god shown in Gallic art as bearing a wheel, which is taken to be a symbol of thunder or of the sun. The Gallic...

In Celtic mythology Taranis was the god of thunder worshipped in Gaul and Britain and mentioned, along with Esus and Toutatis, by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem Pharsalia as a Celtic deity to whom sacrificial offerings were made.[1] He was...