Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 290
the Celtic Peg Esus. The god Esus ofWestern Europe—one of whose portraits is here given—was not only King Death, but he is identified by De Jubain-villc with Cuchulainn, the Achilles or Young Sun God of VI.] PUCK 279 Ireland.^ Esus, the counterpart of Isis, was probably thedivinity worshipped at… … Fig. 121. gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge. Tacitus mentionsthat the neighing of the sacred white horse of the Druidswas regarded as oracular ; the voice of a horse is termedits neigh, from which it would seem horses were regardedas super-intelligent animals which kneiv} The inscriptionCUN or…
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