}}| sign = ''[[The Gallic War]]'' 6.21<ref name="montclair.edu">[http://plan9.montclair.edu/latintexts/caesar/gallic/gallic6.html De Bello Gallico, Liber VI (in Latin)]</ref>
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Caesar's description contrasts with other information on the early Germanic tribes and is not given much weight by modern scholars. It is worth mentioning his note that [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] ([[Lugus]]) is the principal god of the Gauls:
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| col2 = {{lang-en|They worship as their divinity, Mercury in particular, and have many images of him, and regard him as the inventor of all arts, they consider him the guide of their journeys and marches, and believe him to have great influence over the acquisition of gain and mercantile transactions.}}
| col1 = {{lang-la|Deum maxime Mercurium colunt. Huius sunt plurima simulacra: hunc omnium inventorem artium ferunt, hunc viarum atque itinerum ducem, hunc ad quaestus pecuniae mercaturasque habere vim maximam arbitrantur.}}