Bronze image of the Celtic thunder god from the first century AD; note the wheel, which was a common thunder symbol in old Europe, and the rattle, which might have been imagined as the way he makes the noise of thunder but looks very much like the rattles used by Siberian shamans to scare away evil spirits.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Bronze image of the Celtic thunder god from the first century AD; note the wheel, which was a common thunder symbol in old Europe, and the rattle, which might have been imagined as the way he makes the noise of thunder but looks very much like the rattles used by Siberian shamans to scare away evil spirits.
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