Sucellos

The Good Striker, mallet-bearing Gaulish god of abundance, wine, and the gentle protection of the dead.

Sucellos, “the Good Striker”, appears across Gaul as a calm, bearded god carrying a long-handled mallet and a pot or barrel. Scholars connect him to prosperity, brewing, and gentle psychopomp functions. The mallet can bless as well as strike; the vessel sustains travelers and the dead alike. Where Roman influence is present, Sucellos stands in dignified partnership with Rosmerta, the Great Provider, suggesting a household and civic abundance.

For devotional life, Sucellos is the grace of enough: heat in the hearth, food on the table, time to mend what is broken. Offer simple toasts, repair a tool, share a loaf. He keeps company with dogs and workers, hospitable keepers of thresholds. In his afterlife aspect, he reassures that nourishment continues beyond the gate, a generosity that does not end at death.