The Horned God is a modern syncretic term, invented to link together numerous male nature gods out of such widely-dispersed and historically unconnected mythologies as the Celtic Cernunnos, the Welsh Caerwiden, the English Herne the Hunter, the Hindu Pashupati, the Greek Pan and the satyrs, and even the Paleolithic cave painting "the Sorcerer" in the Cave of the Three Brothers in France. A number of related British folk figures have been incorporated as well: Puck, Robin Goodfellow, and the Green Man. Horned God - ...

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• Horned God - Development of an idea
• Horned God - Associations
• Horned God - Image
• Horned God - Satan
• Horned God - Post Christian depictions
• Horned God - Wicca
• Horned God - Reference

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In each culture, the Horned God is associated with woods, wild animals, and hunting. He is often also associated with sexuality or male virility. As a symbol of sexuality, the Horned God represents one of the most elemental forces in Nature, and is therefore complementary to female fertility deities known collectively as the Great Mother. Another name for the Horned God is The Hunter. He is a symbol not only of the giving of life, but the taking of life too, in what is seen as a great and eternal cycle of birth, deat ...

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Wicca and Witchcraft: Basic Philosophy of Wicca or Witchcraft

Wicca, or Witchcraft, is an earth religion -- a re-linking with the life force of nature, both on this planet and in the stars and space beyond. In city apartments, in suburban backyards, and in country glades, groups of women and men meet on the new and full moons and at festival times to raise energy and put themselves in tune with these natural forces. They honor the old goddesses and gods, including the Triple Goddess of the waxing, full, and waning moon, and the Horned God of the sun and animal life, as visualizations of immanent nature.

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June 21 - Summer Solstice - Litha

Although the name 'Litha' is not well attested, it may come from Saxon tradition - the opposite of 'Yule'. On this longest day of the year, light and life are abundant. At mid-summer, the Sun God has reached the moment of his greatest strength. Seated on his greenwood throne, he is also lord of the forests, and his face is seen in church architecture peering from countless foliate masks. The Christian religion converted this day of Jack-in-the-Green to the Feast of St. John the Baptist, often portraying him in rustic attire, sometimes with horns and cloven feet (like the Greek god Pan)! Midsummer Night's Eve is also special for adherents of the Faerie faith. The alternative fixed calendar date of June 25 (Old Litha) is sometimes employed by Covens. (The name 'Beltaine' is sometimes incorrectly assigned to this holiday by some modern traditions of Wicca, even though 'Beltaine' is the Gaelic word for 'May'.)

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Sacred horned or antlered animals that signalled the numinous presence of a deity were ubiquitous in the ancient world. Enthusiasts may blur "the very important distinctions between a god named, described, represented, and worshipped in animal form, a real animal worshipped as a god, animal symbols and animal masks in the cult, and finally the consecrated animal destined for sacrifice." (Burkert 1985 p 64). Many sacred bulls and goats, sacred stags and ibexes serve as examples. Not all horned gods and their priests were male; Astarte and Isis (borrowing an attribute from Hath ...

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Cernunnos in Celtic polytheism is the deified spirit of horned male animals, especially of stags, a nature god associated with produce and fertility. As a "Horned God", Cernunnos was one of a number of similar deities found in many ancient cultures. Cernunnos - Origins. Cernunos is known, from archaeological sources such as inscriptions and depictions, to have been worshipped in Gaul, Northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina) and the southern coast of Britain. The earliest known probable depiction of Cernunnos was ...

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• Cernunnos - Origins
• Cernunnos - Etymology
• Cernunnos - Iconography
• Cernunnos - Medieval traces
• Cernunnos - Neo-Paganism
• Cernunnos - Wicca

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Caerwiden is a Welsh horned God. He is comparable to the Celtic God Cernunnos. Other related archivesCeltic, Cernunnos, God, Welsh, horned God

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Veles, Volos, Weles, or Voloh is a major Slavic god of earth, waters and Underworld, associated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and trickery. He is also the opponent of thunder-god Perun, and the battle between two of them constitutes one of most important myths of Slavic mythology. Veles appears to be both a very complex and very ancient god: he may even be a relic from a common Proto-Indo-European pantheon. He was imagined to be (at least partialy) serpentine, with horns (of bull, ram or some othe ...

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• Veles god - Sources
• Veles god - Enemy of Perun and Storm myth
• Veles god - God of Underworld and dead
• Veles god - God of trickery and musicians
• Veles god - God of cattle and harvest
• Veles god - Post-Christian Veles
• Veles god - Refrences

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Mother Earth may refer to: Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. Mother Earth was also one of Slavic deities. In many Neo-Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Mother Earth is seen as the Goddess, with the Horned God as her consort (and sometimes son). The idea of the Earth as a deity was and is also prominent in many pagan religions. Mother Earth is also the title of a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov ...

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Pan (Greek Πάν, genitive Πανός) is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a satyr. His parentage is unclear; in some legends he is the son of Zeus and in some he is the son of Hermes. His mother is said to be a nymph. His nature and name is alluring, particularly since often his name is mistakenly thought to be identical t ...

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A lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by it. According to ancient Greek mythology, the young god Hermes created the lyre from the body of a large tortoise shell (khelus) which he covered with animal hide and antelope horns. Lyres were associated with Apollonian virtues of moderation and equilibrium, contrasting the Dionysian pipes ...

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In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep. They were personifications of dreams—black-winged daemons—and they were said to live on the shores of the Ocean in the far West, in a cavern near the border of Hades. The gods sent dreams to mortals from one of two gates located there: true dreams emerged from a gate made of horn, whereas false dreams threaded their way from a gate fashioned of ivory. The most powerful of the Oneiroi was Morpheus, and his brot ...

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In Hinduism, Prajapati is Lord of Creatures, thought to be depicted on ancient Harappan seals, sitting in yogic posture, with an erection and what appear to be bison horns. Like the Biblical Adam, he is in close communication with Nature and Nature revolves around him. In the Vedas, Prajapati is the name of God as the sustainer of all beings. This would identify him with the later Hindu god Vishnu. Prajapati has also been associated with the non-Aryan Shiva. The presence of hundreds of what appear to be shivalinga discov ...

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The bull man is a demon from Mesopotamian mythology. He is a human above the waist and a bull below the waist. He also has the horns and the ears of a bull. The bull man helps people fight evil and chaos. He holds the gates of dawn open for the sun god Shamash and supports the sun disc. He is often shown on Cylinder Seals. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art, sometimes with wings. Statues of the bull-man were often used as gatekeepers. Over time it evolved into a friendly, protective demon. In Akkadi ...

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• Bull man - External link

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In Roman mythology, fauns were place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite discrete creatures. Both had horns and both resembled goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fa ...

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The Cherokee are a Native American culture who mainly live in the southeastern United States and in Oklahoma. The Cherokee venerated the horned serpent Sint Holo, who appeared to extremely intelligent and resourceful male youths (although in general Cherokees viewed that snakes could block spiritual blessings to a persons home, therefore, it was traditional for Cherokees to never keep any object made from or resembling a snake, or part of a snake in their home), as well as Tsul 'Kalu, a god of the hunt and Oonawieh Unggi ("the oldest wind"), ...

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• Cherokee mythology - Kana'ti and Selu

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Celtic polytheism (also called Druidic polytheism) is the term for the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Celts. Celtic polytheism - Extent of Celtic polytheism. As the religion of the ancient Celts, the shifts in the fortunes of Celtic Polytheism coincided with those of its people. The Celts, like other ancient Indo-European peoples, practised a form of polytheism, which reached the apogee of its influence and territorial expansion during the 4th century BC, extending across the length o ...

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• Celtic polytheism - Extent of Celtic polytheism
• Celtic polytheism - Research
• Celtic polytheism - Syncretism with other forms of polytheism
• Celtic polytheism - Cosmology and eschatology
• Celtic polytheism - Worship
• Celtic polytheism - Religious castes
• Celtic polytheism - Druids
• Celtic polytheism - Bards and filid
• Celtic polytheism - Festivals
• Celtic polytheism - Beltane
• Celtic polytheism - Samhain
• Celtic polytheism - Cults within Celtic polytheism
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of Lugus-Mercurius
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of tribalism lordly power and thunderous force
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of radiance or healing
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of youthful masculinity
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of thermal spring-water
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of impressiveness
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of exaltedness
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of Sucellos
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of maritime forces
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of craftsmanship
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of agricultural gods
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of terrestrial bounty
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the power of boggy terrain
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of maternity
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of femininity & majesty
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of cyclicality in nature
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the trinitarian war-goddess
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of fluvial water
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the stag’s vitality
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the bullish vitality
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of horse power and horsemanship
• Celtic polytheism - Deities
• Celtic polytheism - The effect of Christianity
• Celtic polytheism - Literature

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Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals (subclass Ammonoidea) in the phylum Mollusca and class Cephalopoda. Their closest living relative is probably not the modern Nautilus, whom they resemble, but rather the Subclass Coleoidea (octopus, squid, and cuttlefish). Their fossil shells take the form of flat spirals (though there are some rarer helically spiraled and non-spiraled forms, called heteromorphs) and are responsible for the animals' name as they somewhat resemble a tightly coiled ram's horn (the god Ammon was com ...

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• Ammonite - Classification
• Ammonite - Life
• Ammonite - Shell anatomy and diversity
• Ammonite - Basic shell anatomy
• Ammonite - Sexual dimorphism
• Ammonite - Variations in shape
• Ammonite - The aptychus
• Ammonite - Size
• Ammonite - Ammonite distribution
• Ammonite - Trivia
• Ammonite - References and further reading

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HORNED GOD: One of the most prevalent God-images in Paganism. NOT Satan or the Devil!!!

(See also: HORNED GOD, Paganism, Pagan, Pagan Dictionary)