Rider on a Fish
2008 © Maxim Tabachnik
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Rider on a Fish

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A youthful figure, echoing the antlered god, rides a large fish amid dotted, fluid patterns. This may evoke the Irish tale of Tuan mac Cairill, who transformed through animal forms—stag, boar, fish—before rebirth. Though the fish is not a salmon, this Gundestrup Cauldron panel (150 BC–1 AD) suggests shamanic metamorphosis and mythic continuity across cc. and geographies.