A drawing of Hesus, Aisus or Esus, a Gaulish god celebrated on the "Pillar of the Boatmen" dating fromthe first quarter of the 1st century AD, it originally stood in a temple in the Gallo-Roman civitas of Lutetia (modern Paris, France). He was a deity in Celtic polytheism, commonly known as Celtic paganism, to whom human victims were sacrificed; practices adhered to by Iron Age people of Western Europe now known as the Celts, roughly between 500 BCE and 500 CE.
From Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities by Charles Knight printed 1845
Size: 2925px × 4230px
Location: England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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