Sucellos
In the Celtic Mythology, Sucellos or Sucellus are the equivalent Gallic of the god-druid Irish Dagda , without in being the exact counterpart. Its parèdre is Nantosuelta, which is a representation of fruitfulness. It was compared later to the Roman gods Sylvain (especially in Narbonnaise) or Vulcan.
Like Dagda, he is the god who kills and who ressuscite with his mallet, that he holds in the left hand. He is also the holder of the prosperity, symbolized by this other attribute which is the cauldron, in its right hand. He is held right, the foot put back on a barrel, symbol of survival. It is described readily old and bearded, carrying the Gallic tunic and braies, fitted boots. As a dispenser of richness, guard of the craft industry and agriculture, it removes from of the third office of the producers (the two others being the sacerdotal class of the Druide S, and classifies it warriors), whereas Dagda, in the Irish tradition, concerns the first function.
Paul-Marie Duval note also a parallelism with another sovereign god, the Say Lord's Prayer.
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