We know more about Taranis than any other Gaulish deity, and perhaps any other Celtic one. This video presents this evidence, and discusses whether in fact we can identify Taranis with the Wheel God.

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Main sources used:

Dangler, Michael. Chronarchy.com: http://www.chronarchy.com/esus/lucan...
de Vries, Jan. Keltische Religion, 1961.
DeoMercurio: http://www.deomercurio.be/fr/iom.html
Encyclopedie de l‘Arbre Celtique: http://encyclopedie.arbreceltique.co...
Green, Miranda. The Gods of the Celts, 1986.
Green, Miranda. Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, 1992.
Jufer, Nicole; Luginbühl, Tierry. Répertoire des dieux gaulois, 2001.
Maier, Bernhard. Die Religion der Kelten, 2001.
Mos Maiorum: https://incipesapereaude.wordpress.co...
Nantonos. Posts at http://mysticwicks.com/archive/index....


Image sources:

Altar with snake and wheel: http://www.worldhistory.biz/prehistor...
Chester altar (with rosette): http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.a...
Colchester: http://kernunnos.com/deities/godimage...
Gerling bei Moos: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/orea/fercan/iup...
God with wheel “on shoulder”: http://labochat.free.fr/comvir_gaule/...
Gundestrup cauldron: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Indra: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Jupiter column (base): http://www2.rgzm.de/Transformation/De...
Jupiter column (painted): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Jupiter column (seated Jupiter): http://www2.rgzm.de/Transformation/De...
Jupiter columns (three): http://www2.rgzm.de/Transformation/De...
LandouzylaVille: http://www.photo.rmn.fr/C.aspx?VP3=Se...
Netherby: https://esmeraldamac.wordpress.com/ta...
Nîmes: http://www.deomercurio.be/en/silvano....
Obernburg: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranis...
SaintDidier: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Thor: http://norsemythology.org/wpcontent...
Tongres: http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/fe/11/gaul/...
Wheels (eight and sixspoked wheels): http://www.gaulois.ardennes.culture.f...
Wheels (nine fourspoked wheels): http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/ar...
Willingham Fen mace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wi...