Tuisto

Table of contents

1 Sources 2 Images & Sculptures 3 Hieroglyphs 4 Symbols (daylight / darkness) 5 Celtic settlements 6 Deutschland 7 Celtic creation legend 8 Religious and etymological borderlines 8.1 Celtic core area 8.2 Emigration areas 8.3 Langue d'oc and Langue d'oïl 9 Comparison with other Deities

Sources

Caesar describes the Celtic creatorgod in the sixth book of De Bello Gallico and states Tuisto is to be compared with Dis or Dui(s), the Roman god of darkness, commonly known as Pluto. The Celts do not count timelapses in days like the Romans, but in nights and for them the nighttime is not a frightening and negative phase, but the holiest time of the day.

Images & Sculptures

The following sculpture of an androgyne god has been found in Roquepertuse and other images of dualfaced persons have been found in southern France: [1]

The androgyne character has been symbolized by approx. 5-10% difference in size between the male and the female skull. The sculpture demonstrates the very moment, as the creator god separates man or Mannus in man and woman with a knife made of flintstone.

Mannus is an equivalent of the biblical Adam, who according to the Zohar also has been separated into man and woman.

Hieroglyphs

Alternatively the femal hieroglyphical symbol in the names of androgyne gods may be O, or sometimes the letter V, for instance in Dios or divine.

Symbols (daylight / darkness)

Celtic settlements

Deutschland

Celtic creation legend

The prechristian creatorgod of the Celts was known under the name TUIsto [etymology of -sto?], an androgyne god, who had created mankind as his/her own image: male-female. For fear, by compassion or sympathy Tuisto split them into man and woman, in “Thou” and “I”. He ordered them to join together again to be like He had created them, just like his image “TUI”. The people, whose members called their creatorgod “Dui”, as well as their towns and their language, used to be called “Duitsch”.

The Celtic creation legend did stabilize the moral matrimonial code, as it has been confirmed by both Caesar and Tacitus. The Celtic creation legend cooresponds with the hellenistic legend as it has been described by Platoon (427 - 347 v.C.) in the speech by Aristophanes in his book Symposion and also corresponds with the creation legend in the cabbalistic work Zohar, a comment on the Jewish Pentateuch by Moses

This religion with androgyne creatorgods can be traced amongst all peoples involved in the Indogermanic movements, in Europe and the Middle-East, from the north of Scandinavia to the south of Arabia.

Religious and etymological borderlines

Tuisto has been worshipped in the Celtic countries north of the Alps, in the Celtic core area and in the emigration areas:

Celtic core area

• Switzerland (-> La Tène-area)
• Austria (Upper Danube area -> Halstatt-area)

Emigration areas

France (in the triangular area between Loire, Garonne and Alpes)

The complete area around the Danube river

Portugal and Spain (Northwest, from the 3. century AD.)

Great Brittain and Ireland (from the 2. century AD.)

Langue d'oc and Langue d'oïl

South of the Alps the god of light Tiu or Diu has been worshipped, eg. Diu-piter is Jupiter, the creatorgod of the Roman people.

The Celtic god of darkness (Tuisto or Dui) and the opposite god of light Tiu or Diu each occupied an own area of worship, separated by mountain chains or rivers.

The Celts did settle in the western halve of Spain, but not in the southern westside of France. In this area between Garonne and Pyrenees the occidental Langue d'oc is still being used. North of the river Garonne the Langue d'oïl, the language belonging to god Dui, did develop separately from the Langue d'oc.

Comparison with other Deities

The Celtic creatorgod Tuisto is equivalent to the biblical God Jahweh (Yahweh), written as the sacred word (tetragrammaton) in four letters IHVH, in which the hieroglyphical character I symbolizes the male, and V symbolizes the female side of the androgyne God Jahweh.