Mannus
Mannus, being the child of the Celtic creator god Tuisto, is the parent of all Celtic tribes.
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2 A common creation legend in Europe and Middle-East 3 Druids 4 sculpture of Mannus/Tuisto 5 Traces of Mannus in geographical names |
Sources
Tacitus in his booklet Germania explicitly mentions the names of thes Celtic tribes, descending from Mannus:
-- Ingaevons (living at the coastal line of the North Sea)
-- Herminons (living in the intereor part)
-- Instaevons (living at the borders of the river Rhine)
A common creation legend in Europe and Middle-East
Tuisto is an androgyne and terrestrial god, almost forgotten at the time of Tacitus' writing.
Tuisto is comparable to other androgyne gods of the time like Jahweh, Diu-Piter (Jupiter) and Zeus, who all create their child as an image of themselves, man and woman in one person. In this case the creation legend of the Celts may be equivalent to and derived from the wellknown legends of their neighbours in Greece and the Middle-East, written down:
- in the speech by Aristophanes in the book Symposion by Platoon (427 - 347 v.C.)
- respectively in the cabbalistic Zohar of the Jewisch people.
In both legends the creator god is said to have created an androgyne person, who had to be split into man and woman for different reasons. Platoon says, Zeus had to split his creatures out of fear, whereas Moses (in 1. Moses, 5,2) explains, Jahweh God did split man Adam into male and female out of compassion, by cutting Eve from his side. And according to the Zohar the expression "Man" may only be given to a unit of male and female.
Mannus is the Celtic equivalent of the Biblical "Man" (Adam).
The proof of a common creation legend may be found in the common derivation of pronouns in European-Arabian languages from their androgyne gods names Tuisto, Dios, Allah, etc.
Detail description: http://Joannes.Richter.bei.t-online.de/Androgyn/Dui_English.htm
Druids
The Celtic legend has been conserved orally only, in songs by the Celtic priests, the druids.
According to Caesar in the 6th book of Gallic Wars the Germanic tribes did not maintain a druidal caste and they at that time did worship only simple divine concepts like the sun, the moon, etc.
sculpture of Mannus/Tuisto
A sculpture of an androgyne god has been found in Roquepertuse in southern France, demonstrating the very moment, as the creator god separates man in male and female with a knife made of flintstone.
http://jfbradu3.free.fr/celtes/les-celtes/roquepertuse.jpg
As god created man as an image of himself, the sculpture also represents Tuisto.