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The Pillar of the Boatmen (French: Pilier des nautes) is a monumental Roman column erected in Lutetia (modern Paris) in honour of Jupiter by the guild of boatmen in the 1st century AD. đșIt is the oldest monument in Paris and is one of the earliest pieces of representational Gallo-Roman art to carry a written inscription (Hatt 1952).â±ïžÂ
CERN = CERNunnos The pillar provides the only undisputed instance of the divine name Cernunnos (Koch 2006, p. 396). The Gaulish theonyms are presented as deity names in their own right, and not as epithets for Roman gods (by contrast, see the many Celtic gods syncretized with Mars). Other figures appear on the pillar without legible inscriptions, including the Roman gods Mars and Mercury, who can be identified by their conventional iconography, and other unidentified figures, mainly female. The top tier, of which only the top half remains, depicts Cernunnos, Smertrios, and Castor and Pollux. Cernunnos has stag's antlers from which hang two torcs. From the amount of the body in the top half, Cernunnos is assumed to have been depicted in a cross-legged seated position. Strange naming of CERN: The acronym CERN originally represented the French words for Conseil EuropĂ©en pour la Recherche NuclĂ©aire (European Council for Nuclear Research), which was a provisional council for building the laboratory, established by 12 European governments in 1952. The acronym was retained for the new laboratory after the provisional council was dissolved, even though the name changed to the current Organisation EuropĂ©enne pour la Recherche NuclĂ©aire (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1954. According to Lew Kowarski, a former director of CERN, when the name was changed, the abbreviation could have become the awkward OERN, and Werner Heisenberg said that this could "still be CERN even if the name is [not] Thereâs a legend of an old goat and some demons being blocked in the tunnel between Paris and CERN. Guess who we just set free?? đđđœđč Notre Dame = Lady of the North Easter Symbolism- Time of Resurrection or Rebirth - Resurrecting the SpiritsÂ