. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. her language. I have discussed this question of the supi)ression of the Druids in the Rtoue archeol. ofApril, 1880. * Inscriptions liave already brought to our knowledge fourteen goddesses and thirty-sixgods of Gaul, whose names are given by Al. Hertrand in the Reçue archéol. of June, The lower part of this bas-relief is broken. The god was, doubtless, seated in theiSudilhie attitude, the size of the head and bust making it probable that the legs were foldedunder him. Only four of these figure
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. her language. I have discussed this question of the supi)ression of the Druids in the Rtoue archeol. ofApril, 1880. * Inscriptions liave already brought to our knowledge fourteen goddesses and thirty-sixgods of Gaul, whose names are given by Al. Hertrand in the Reçue archéol. of June, The lower part of this bas-relief is broken. The god was, doubtless, seated in theiSudilhie attitude, the size of the head and bust making it probable that the legs were foldedunder him. Only four of these figures are given on \\. 172. There are eleven others, and oneinscriiition cut upon the sixteen faces of four great blocks of stone. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IX THE rUoVlNCES. 175 god Cernunnos. Upon the altar of Rheiins, liotwcen tlie classicMerciuy and Apollo, is caived, in the place of honor, a hornedgod, seated cross-legged, dispensing from a leathern sack thebeech-nuts or acorns that an ox and a stag receive. The twistedcollar (torquis) around his neck shows his Gallic character. Still. .VLIAK Al more grotesque is the altar at Beaune, with its three-headed god,flanked by Apollo and a horned divinity with goats feet. Inother monuments the Roman element does not even appear. Thesethree-headed objects are hideous, as in the altar of Beaune, orbarbaric, like that at Rlieims ; but they rudely express a profoundidea which the Celts brought from the East, where the Pelasgi 1 Gallic triad. The three-headed god has divided; Esus-Jupiter is attended by his Romanfamily, Apollo and Mercury. 176 AUGUSTUS; OR THE FOUXDATIOX OF THE EMPIRE. also found it.^ — that of a Supreme God. one in essence and dividedinto three persons. Had the Armorican Abelard these Gallic triceph-alae in mind when he conceived the Christian Trinity as a godwith three heads ? The Greeks had reserved this Oriental tricephalic conceptiononly for malevolent or infernal beings, — Cerberus and the hydraof L
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