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- Title
Masks of Cernunnos: Variations on the Theme of the Face of Cernunnos on the Pillar of the Boatmen.
- Authors
Savignac, Jean-Paul
- Abstract
The Pillar of the Boatmen, the God-bearing Pillar, presents us with the civil status, so to speak, of Cernunnos. (See Figure 1.) The Pillar of the Boatmen is a set of four stones, (1st century CE) found in the crypt of the church Notre-Dame de Paris. Those stones four-sided, which have been piled up to form a pillar, bear upon their four faces some low reliefs representing Gaulish and Roman gods with, the most often, theirs names engraved. Those gods correspond to each other on the opposite face of the square stones. So, the Latin IOVIS, to the Gaulish TARVOS TRIGARANVS (god of heaven in his animal form); VOLCANVS, to ESVS; [POLLUX], to SMERT[RIOS]; CASTOR, to [C]ERNVNNOS. Besides his face and his name, we know that he is, in Lutetia, according to the interpretation I have proposed, the son of the Goddess Seine and the Gallic diurnal sky god, and that his address is the Right Bank (on one of the heaps of Île Martin in the Marais?). Does he have a spouse? There is no document attesting to this. His heir, Merlin, does have a partner, Gwendoline "White Doe." A possible answer: a twin brother, Smertrios / Lugus.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); COLUMNS; BOATERS (Persons); SONS; STATUS (Law); BROTHERS; FIGURINES
- Publication
Pomegranate, 2022, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1528-0268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/pome.22067