This article is about the Celtic god. For the asteroid, see 4179 Toutatis. For the roller coaster, see Toutatis (roller coaster).
Toutatis or Teutates is a Celtic god[1][2][3][4] who was worshipped primarily in ancient Gaul and Britain.[5] His name means "god of the tribe",[3] and he has been widely interpreted as a tribal protector.[2][6] According to Roman writer Lucan, the Gauls offered human sacrifices to him.[1]
^ abMaier, Bernhard (1997). Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 263–264. ISBN 9780851156606. Teutates (later form: Toutates). Name of a Celtic god [...] T. is mentioned by the Roman authors Lucan (Pharsalia 1,444-446) and Lactantius (Divinae Institutiones 1,21,3). According to Lucan the Gauls made human sacrifices to him. The Berne Scholia, commenting on Lucan, add that the victims were put head-first in a tub full of water and thus drowned...
^ abAldhouse-Green, Miranda (1986). The Gods of the Celts. Sutton Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 9780752468112. What the Romans may have met in Celtic lands are tribal protector-gods with a war-role. In this connection Lucan's comment on Teutates, who was one of three Celtic gods said to have been encountered by Caesar's army in Gaul, may be relevant...
^ abCunliffe, Barry (2018) [1997]. "Chapter 11: Religious systems". The Ancient Celts (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-19-875292-9. Lucan, who, in Pharsalia, names three Celtic deities, Teutates, Taranis, and Esus. All were propitiated by human sacrifice: the victims of Teutates were to be drowned, those of Taranis burnt, and those sacrificed to Esus hanged. The Celtic names are informative. Teutates means 'the god of the tribe' from the Celtic teutā 'tribe'...
^Euskirchen, Marion (2006). "Teutates". Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1205840. Celtic god, who, along with Esus and Taranis (according to Lucanus 1,443-446), was allegedly worshipped by human sacrifice.
^Koch, John (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 1665. Teutates (also Toutatis, Tūtuates, Tūtatus, Toutorix), Taranis, and Esus form Lucan's trinity of Gaulish gods (Pharsalia 1.444–6) to which Gauls near Massalia sacrificed their prisoners of war. The name Teutates occurs alone or as a secondary theonym in combination with Mars, Apollo (see Belenos), and Mercurius in texts and inscriptions, including sites now in Austria, England, France, Germany, and Italy...
^Paul-Marie Duval (1993). Les dieux de la Gaule. Éditions Payot, Paris. ISBN 2-228-88621-1
uncertain. It is believed Toutatis was a title for the tutelary gods of various tribes. Miranda Aldhouse-Green suggests that Toutatis was an epithet or description...
Pollas at Caussols in 1989, the asteroid was named after Toutatis from Celtic mythology. Toutatis is also a Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced...
Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa], "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures...
Rhineland and Danube regions, amongst others. Taranis, along with Esus and Toutatis, was mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem Pharsalia as a...
found in Celtic areas from before the conquest. Teutates, also spelled Toutatis (Celtic: "Him of the tribe"), was one of three Celtic gods mentioned by...
August 2016. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(4179) Toutatis". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (4179) Toutatis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 357–358. doi:10...
the TT&C network. Having done that it completed a flyby of asteroid 4179 Toutatis on 13 December 2012, before heading into deep space to further test the...
and wine Tavianos - a Galatian god Taranis (Tanaros) - a god of thunder Toutatis - a tribal protector god Telesphorus - a Galatian god Tridamos - a Brittonic...
making them good subjects for study by Earth-based radar. Examples are 4179 Toutatis and 6489 Golevka, as well as 2019 MO, which impacted Earth in June 2019...
2002), 2867 Šteins and 21 Lutetia (by the Rosetta probe in 2008), and 4179 Toutatis (China's lunar orbiter Chang'e 2, which flew within 3.2 km (2 mi) in 2012)...
Roman writer Lucan mentioned human sacrifices to the Gaulish gods Esus, Toutatis and Taranis. In a commentary on Lucan—the Commenta Bernensia dating from...
2004 - UK MoD & DGA contract to integrate 40CT into the MTIP and unmanned Toutatis turrets March 2008 - UK MoD select CT40 as a mandated item for Warrior...
have had a father god, who was often a god of the tribe and of the dead (Toutatis probably being one name for him); and a mother goddess who was associated...
Xiaolei; Yan, Jun; Meng, Linzhi (2013). "The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang'e-2". Scientific Reports...
strikingly similar to that of 4179 Toutatis in eccentricity, semi-major axis, and inclination. However, Toutatis is better known due to a close approach...
onto a heliocentric orbit that took it past the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis. The ESA Gaia probe The joint Russian-German high-energy astrophysics observatory...
have had a father god, who was often a god of the tribe and of the dead (Toutatis probably being one name for him); and a mother goddess who was associated...
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