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Cernunnos on the Gundestrup cauldron (plate A). He sits cross-legged, wielding a torc in one hand and a ram-horned serpent in the other. Cernunnos is a Celtic god whose name is only clearly attested once, on the 1st-century CE Pillar of the Boatmen from Paris, where it is associated with an image of an aged, antlered figure with torcs around his horns.
Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, an antlered god of the Continental Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan/Faunus, [37] a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to ...
The name Cernunnos is the Old Irish word for ‘The horned one’, Goidelic languages being one of two Celtic languages still surviving of close relation to Proto Celtic. The pagan god has many similar traits mostly to Ciaran of Saighir, both were known as tamers of wild animals and heavily connected to the wild and forests. Ciaran spent his ...
In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan ...
Herne is the Deer God in the book Fire Bringer, by David Clement-Davies; Herne the Hunter, also named as Cernunnos, is a character in Michael Scott's series of The Alchemist, the Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flammel. In Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, in the book Cold Days, the Erlking is referred to as "Lord Herne."
Widely worshipped Celtic gods included Lugus, Toutatis, Taranis, Cernunnos, Epona, Maponos, Belenos, and Sucellos. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] Sacred springs were often associated with Celtic healing deities. [ 8 ] Triplicity is a common theme, with a number of deities seen as threefold , for example the Three Mothers .
A chthonic association for this fertility god (suggested Cernunnos's companions, the ram-horned serpent and Mercury) has also been repeatedly proposed. [24] [25] Phyllis Pray Bober and Robert Mowat have argued that Cernunnos is a natural candidate for an interpretatio of Dis Pater, as a god with a similar chthonic-fertility character.
A Gallo-Roman statuette of Cernunnos from Sommerécourt, with horned serpents feeding from a bowl. The crossed legs, holes for the insertion of antlers, torcs, and ram-headed serpents are all characteristic of depictions of Cernunnos. [5]: 34 The aged appearance of Cernunnos here has its best parallel in the famous Pillar of the Boatmen of Lutetia.