The Open court . GALLIC TRIAD ON AN ALTAR AT RHEIMS. The three-headed god has divided; Esus-Jupiter is attended by his Roman family Apollo and Mercury. dur, for he is represented as cutting the mistletoe, the sacred plantwhich was assumed to have grown from seed that fell from such he has been identified by an inscription on the bas-relief ofan altar, the fragments of which have been found on the site ofNotre Dame of Paris. Baldur was the god of light who at thesummer solstice was killed through the intrigue of the winter godHodur, but the festival of his return to life was celebrate
The Open court . GALLIC TRIAD ON AN ALTAR AT RHEIMS. The three-headed god has divided; Esus-Jupiter is attended by his Roman family Apollo and Mercury. dur, for he is represented as cutting the mistletoe, the sacred plantwhich was assumed to have grown from seed that fell from such he has been identified by an inscription on the bas-relief ofan altar, the fragments of which have been found on the site ofNotre Dame of Paris. Baldur was the god of light who at thesummer solstice was killed through the intrigue of the winter godHodur, but the festival of his return to life was celebrated in thewinter solstice at Yule tide. The mistletoe, the innocent cause of 732 THE OPEN COURT. his death, appears green in midwinter giving promise in the darkest days of the year of the return of spring and a resurrection of Baldur. The details of Celtic mythology have been lost, but we may be sure that the Gauls possessed in Esus a similar if not the very same.
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