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The boar was a symbol of war. Tacitus tells us that the Aesti (a Germanic or Celtic tribe) wore boar symbols into battle. On the Celtic Gundestrup cauldron, soldiers wear boar crested helmets. The Roman Legion XX, stationed in Chester, adopted the boar as an emblem. It was also a symbol of the hunt. Celtic hunter-gods depicted with boar imagery ...
Stone sculpture is much more common in this era, [3] and the style of the facial features and boar-relief suggest such a date. [4] The statue has been thought to represent a God mainly because of the large boar-relief on its chest. In Celtic art, human figures with abstract animal attributes are commonly associated with divinity.
The Celtic or Gaulic carnyx was used by the Celts in a similar way to how a standard functioned for the Romans and there is an example of a Dragon-headed carnyx in the base of Trajan's Column. [13] The carnyx has been described as identical to a Dacian trumpet .
Bronze statuette of the Celtic goddess Arduinna riding a wild boar. In Gallo-Roman religion, Arduinna (also Arduina, Arduinnae or Arduinne) was the eponymous tutelary goddess of the Ardennes Forest and region, thought to be represented as a huntress riding a boar (primarily in the present-day regions of Belgium and Luxembourg). Her cult ...
The Knocknagael Boar Stone is a well-known Pictish stone with a depiction of a boar emblem dating to ca. the 7th century. In this context, the name of Orkney is interpreted as being derived from orc- , the Celtic for "pig", presumably from a Pictish tribe which had the boar or wild pig as their emblem.
The sole unequivocal depictions of boar-crested helmets outside of Germanic sources are on interior plate E of the Gundestrup cauldron, dating to the La Tène period or early Roman Iron Age, which is commonly believed to be Celtic in origin but also has elements suggesting Thracian origin.
The Gaulish ethnonym Bodiocasses derives from the Proto-Celtic stem *bodyo-('yellow, blond'; cf. Old Irish buide 'yellow'). [6] [7] The meaning of the second element -casses, attested in other Gaulish ethnonyms such as Durocasses, Sucasses, Tricasses, Veliocasses or Viducasses, has been debated, but it probably signifies '(curly) hair, hairstyle' (cf. Old Irish chass 'curl'), perhaps referring ...
Cernunnos on the Gundestrup cauldron (plate A). He sits cross-legged, wielding a torc in one hand and a ram-horned serpent in the other. Cernunnos is a Celtic stag god. His name is only clearly attested once, on the 1st-century Pillar of the Boatmen from Paris, where it is associated with an image of an aged, antlered figure with torcs around his horns.