Cernunnos | Horned God of the Wild 

Sad how many cultures were wipeout by the Christian Catholic church back in the days. The stigma of their sins cannot be erased as how many times they want to reshaped history in their own beliefs.

Not lost to history- persecuted, crusaded and hidden from the people by rich elite families and the Catholic Church.

@@rogueascendant6611 stop blaming others for your mistakes.

@@Onikag 👍👍

@@Onikag also, the imperial roman ban on druidism certainly did not help. 🤷‍♂️

Actually, there is a theory that that is actually Hermes, due to the fact that he runs a casino.

@@dakotacognion5219 lol🤣

It's mercury.

It is Pan the god of the wild, son of Hermes/mercury. Hermes doesn't have horns and not hoofs, his son though does and Pan's face carvings are similar to those fund of Cernunnos all over europe.

@@Thunor93 It's not Pan it's Cernunnos or the Horned one

Shhhh we don't need them knowing. If you get my drift

​​@@BRANDON4905527loser, acting like like you know anything, psh

yes friend the root of all horned gods goes back to the neolotic erra

I´m so glad I live in a time where our ancient gods can share the comments box with us mortals, stay strong God brothers

Yes indeed

The recognition you deserve is for people to stop thinking you're a god of nature and start appreciating you as the celtic god of Death and Rebirth. Literally the same modern people who decontextualized and reinterpreted Cernunnos as a god of "Nature" (a concept that the ancient celts did not even have, to our best knowledge; everything is natural to them) also wonder why the Celtic pantheon somehow lacks a god of Death....

Ah oh!! I smell deceit lol

@@EidolonSpecus Calm down. Are Death and Rebirth not part of Nature? The Horned God, as "god of hunting," knows the secrets of life and death; he IS Death. Death is part of Nature!

Quite so!!

He's Celtic in origin, which predates Gaelics and the Welsh. I know because its my ancestry. Gaelic culture arose and came to be when the Celts and Scandinavians merged, via Somerled. Then you have the Romans, Normans and Saxons, and others, who were groups of people who migrate, mated and merged, creating newer groups of peoples. The Welsh consider themselves modern Celts, but they follow them. "Gaul" was a Roman name for the Celts. Some speculate that Cernunnos is a variation of the Germanic Wotan, who is another variation of Odin (Nordic), which can be found as far as South America with Votan. Gods culturally cross over; example; Lugh is Hermes (Greek) who is also Thoth (Egyptian) and Nab (Babylonian) The names and terms you're using appeared further along the timeline of history, but during the earliest days the Celts occupied Great Britain, France, and Germany, then expanding outwards into Anatolia and as far as the Gobi Desert with the Tocharian Peoples. The Celts may even be the basis for India's ancient ideas of the "Aryans", signified by the migration, description of and the use of blue body paint, of the Celts.

He's garlic not gaulish tho the two ancient civilisations did share certain gods but this one is exclusively a British one

There are some who believe that Finn Mac Cumhaill of Irish fenian mythology was an interpretation or a reincarnation to a degree of cernunnos. Depends on who you ask.

He is also known as Pan amongst the Greeks and Italy as the son of Hermes. The Norse know him as Mimir the wise.

@@Thunor93 Source

@@Thunor93 No. Pan is a horned god. Cernunnos is an antlered god. Antlers are not horns, their symbolism is completely different. Cernunnos is analogous to Pluto/Hades, not Pan, starting with ancient Roman and Greek authors who literally wrote about how the Gauls worshipped Pluto and Hades; and corroborated by the fact that the same Gauls who worshipped Cernunnos switched to worshipping the Gallo-roman Dis Pater/Pluto during/after the romanization of Europe.

@@Thunor93 Most current celticists in academia now think that Cernunnos was a psychopomp god of death, the underworld, and rebirth; not a god of "nature". The "god of nature" thing is mostly due to modern reinterpretations wanting to decontextualize and erroneously assimilate Cernunnos into the greco-roman Pan. But Cernunnos is an *_antlered_* god, not a "horned god" (the difference is important). He also was depicted as just a regular humanoid in a medidative pose wearing either a tunic and pants _(never with hooves)_ or textile armor/gambeson, and holding works of advanced "artificial" metallurgy such as torcs. He just happened to have antlers on his head, because it symbolized seasonal changes and death/rebirth; because antlers drop and regrow yearly while horns do not. We can conclude this from various historical and archaeological sources. But firstly from literally the same people (gallo-romans) who used to worship the gaulish Cernunnos before the romanization of Europe and who just still kept worshipping him for a long time as _Dis Pater,_ the (sometimes-still-antlered) gallo-roman god of the underworld, seasonal changes and the cycle of death and rebirth. Greco-romans saw him as an analogue to Pluto/Hades, not Pan. And romans who were contemporary to the conquests and colonization of the continental celts also attributed Cernunnos to Dis Pater from the start, claiming that the transalpine gauls worshipped him as a god of death and the underworld, similarly to how italian celts (cisalpine gauls) worshipped Pluto/Dis Pater like romans did. The main difference is that the celts had still kept the proto-indo-european beliefs in cyclical reincarnation, so their "god of death" was also the god of rebirth, and since death and birth are basically everywhere, the greco-roman gaze saw that as an association with a concept of "nature" that the celts wouldn't really have had, as far as we can tell. Celts didn't have a concept of "nature" as opposed to "non-nature", as far as we know. Their apparent belief that everything is ontologically authentic (i.e., _everything_ is natural, even human crafts like metallurgy) is typical with ancient indo-european cultures that had a cyclical concept of material existence. Technology and industry would just be human nature for ancient celts; it's just what humans do; like how beavers build dams and bees make hives. Cernunnos was indeed depicted "surrounded" by non-human animals a few times, but they generally don't seem to interact with him in any way and are apparently just _there._ It may be to illustrate that all living things a born and die, but that's a bit of a stretch; we have no idea what it means but we do know that it doesn't mean that Cernunnos was a god of the hunt; otherwise he'd more likely be hunting those animals (which he is _never_ depicted as doing) instead of sitting in a meditative pose.

Good that you're starting to learn about Celtic mythologies, but unfortunately most of this video is kinda wrong. To be fair to the video's creator though, most of what you can find online about Celtic mythologies _is_ either outdated or just literally made-up/extrapolated; and rigorous sources are extremely scarce outside of obtuse academic texts. Most current celticists in academia now think that Cernunnos was a psychopomp god of death, the underworld, and rebirth; not a god of nature. Ancient celts had no concept of "nature" as opposed to "non-nature" or "artificial"; everything was natural to them, from mines to forges to dams, it's just what humans naturally do. The "god of nature" thing is mostly due to modern reinterpretations wanting to decontextualize and assimilate Cernunnos into the greco-roman Pan to make him fit aesthetically with the "horned god" archetype. But Cernunnos in antiquity was associated with Pluto/Hades, not Pan. Cernunnos is specifically an _antlered_ god, not a "horned god" (the difference is important). He also was depicted as just a regular humanoid in a medidative pose wearing either a tunic and pants (never with hooves) or textile armor/gambeson, and holding works of advanced "artificial" metallurgy such as torcs. He just happened to have antlers on his head, because it symbolized seasonal changes and death/rebirth; because antlers drop and regrow yearly while horns do not.

🤔 This is really interesting. There definitely are differences that make sense. Cool, Thanks, 🤓🦌👤

Good times indeed!

We could do that!

@Joe Alexander among continental Celts it may not have been a prohibition so much as the fact that Lvgvs had many "heads" or faces/aspects. People may just have specified which aspect of Lvgvs they were refering to. Lvgvs in Europe was a "shapeshifter" deity sometimes considered analogous to a prototypical version of what later became the norse Loke, but also shares many aspects with what later became Woden, being a mostly good-intentioned trickster who was worshipped as a sovereign or kingly/paternal figure in most Celtic pantheons; and who had companion ravens that served as his kingly envoys.

@Martin HampsonHe who is she?I thought i know all Goddess

@Martin Hampson Love of my life i have already and i would never ask no God or Goddess for money

Easter eggs isn't part of the Christian celebration.

@@djantouahmed7319 My friend, the trees are for Christmas, The eggs are for Easter

@@MADSAHAD those eggs aren't part of the celebration. It isn't even use around the world.

@@djantouahmed7319 Exactly, the culture in which the religion is practiced reforms the religion to its members taste. The same religion is not necessarily practiced the same exact way in two different places. And over time the small changes lead to the two groups having two separate versions of the same religion. And let's not start with symbolism because we all know the same symbol displayed in one culture will have a totally different meaning in another.

@@MADSAHAD the eggs and bunnies are Celtic symbols of fertility and the yule tree being of Scandinavian origin used as fuel for fire over the 12 coldest and darkest days of the year marking the midpoint of winter and the coming of the planting season. Alternatively the yule tree being decorated with red and white ornaments comes from the Sami tribe and their veneration of Fly agaric mushrooms, being used in their religious practices.

Evil nero roman

You're right that the Horned God motif is very common, but it does not really apply to Cernunnos. Cernunnos is mostly a Gaulish deity and Gaulish polytheisms were more closely analogous to earlier indo-european-derived pantheons. For example, according to ancient Greek and Roman accounts he was analogous to Pluto and Hades in the greco-roman world, not Pan. Cernunnos has antlers, not horns. Antlers are a symbol of death and rebirth, unlike permanent horns. Cernunnos in ancient celtic religion was a psychopomp god of death, rebirth, the underworld, and seasonal changes. If there was to be a single Celtic pantheon, he'd fill the niche of god of Death and the Underworld, specifically. More Hades than Hermes.

St. Patrick travelled on the back of the devil to Ireland and rid the land of snakes.

Sedentary vs. Nomad. Horse vs. Cow.

Quite!

That seems pretty likely actually.

I feel like that might more likely be Herne the Hunter, though some people argue they are one and the same, if i remember right, the legend of Herne is he was a man who was executed for hunting in the king's forest, and his spirit took to haunting the grounds in a shape that resembles his once prey

Unfortunately maybe. People keep mistaking Cernunnos for a god somehow associated with hunting even though he had little/nothing to do with it in antiquity; Cernunnos was literally assimilated to Pluto/Hades, not Pan or Artemis. Cernunnos was actually the celtic god of death and the underworld, _not_ a "god of the hunt" or "god of the wilds". He was just sometimes depicted around animals in art, possibly because all living things die, not just humans. Cernunnos was also specifically an _antlered_ god, *_not_* a "horned god". Antlers are very different from horns, because unlike horns they are seasonal; they "die" and drop when winter comes, and regrow or are "reborn" for summer. Horns are permanent, while antlers continuously change.

Mason Medina I'm the same as you man. I never knew this God existed until I learned about Smite and discovered he was part of the Celtic roster in that game. And I have to say, since I started playing around New Years this year, Cernunnos has become my favorite Hunter in the entire game, rivaled only by Skadi.

@@kevinnorwood8782 fr Hunter's my favorite so either Cernunnos or Hou Yi for me. Hou Yi got trickshots.

@@masonmedina4780 Hou Yi is one of my three backup Hunter mains, with the other two being Heimdallr and Medusa.

@@kevinnorwood8782 oh cool, I never played heimdall. Been meaning to try it.

Cernunnos has antlers, not horns. You're right that the Horned God motif is very common, but it does not really apply to Cernunnos. Cernunnos is mostly a Gaulish deity and Gaulish polytheisms were more closely analogous to earlier indo-european-derived pantheons. For example, according to ancient Greek and Roman accounts he was analogous to Pluto and Hades in the greco-roman world, not Pan. Antlers are a symbol of death and rebirth, unlike permanent horns. Cernunnos in ancient celtic religion was a psychopomp god of death, rebirth, the underworld, and seasonal changes. If there was to be a single Celtic pantheon, he'd fill the niche of god of Death and the Underworld, specifically. More Hades than Hermes.

@@EidolonSpecus Cern, and variants, literally means horn - it's where we get the word unicorn, among others. At some point, at least in English, it changed to hern(e) or horn. Cernunnos does have antlers, not horns, which is notable, but the word still literally means "horned one". It's entirely possible that the people who called him that didn't see as much significance in the difference as you do. (Also, if we're discussing the roles of the gods, Hermes was a psychopomp as well)

​@@MsStBoom You're correct about Hermes being a psychopomp. And there are indeed *some* clear similarities between hermes and Cernunnos, which are attested and confirmed by current celticists; it's just not as clear a parallel though. Divine portfolios aren't really directly comparablebetween the two; Hermes is responsible for stuff that is wholly handled by other deities than Cernunnos in Celtic polytheism, and Cernunnos is also heavily associated with stuff that is not associated with Hermes (like actually having responsibility for the underworld, like Hades, instead of just bringing the people there). However for the matter of "Cern", polysemy is a thing and must be accounted for. You can make a conceptual distinction between two things that you still use the same word for; one word can mean significantly different things. I mean, it's entirely possible to conceptualize antlers as being a very specific type of horn. And the point I was mentioning in that regard was that we have archaeological evidence for antlers being seen as different from horns *in context,* by Gauls. And people who encounter antlers and horns on a regular basis (like most pre-industrial people) have much more ground to distinguish those two things than a person living a modern urban lifestyle would (which most archaeologists tend to be). Failing to distinguish horns and antlers is much more likely to be a modern tendency than an ancient tendency.

@@EidolonSpecus I'm not making any claim that Hermes (or Mercury) and Cernunnos are the same god, I'm not a big fan of Roman syncretism. When you compare Northern European gods to the names they were given by the Romans, some of them seem far off the mark to me. (Woden as Mercury, for instance, I understand, Thor as Jupiter I don't.) I'm not even convinced that a depiction of an antlered god found in one part of Europe is meant to be the same god as an antlered god depicted in another part of Europe. No matter how similar they may appear, most religions of the time were very localized.

Lost the back half of my comment somewhere - as somebody from a non-urban background, I consider the difference between antlers and horns to be pretty academic. They have different uses, sure, but they're pretty similar in form when they're attached to the animal.

Unfortunately the software we use doesn't allow for that, but that is a good idea!

PAN, THE GREAT GOD IS ALIVE

He's reaching out to you 🙂

maybe you are the chosen one

I'd like to know ☺️

​@@mysticwolfwitch a long time ago before the humans and the mega asteroid lived a race of sentient "dinosauroids" (honestly they were more like reptilian monotremes.) they saw there birds and longed to fly plus it helped avoid predator's so they used science mixed with "magic" (really its just the the electromagnetic field we all emit mixed with the brains "psyche" that makes a frequency interacting with the quantum mechanics of the realm) to alter there genetics so they could fly and have prolonged life. a war struck out between the males and females of the race and over time females were born with feather wings and males were born with "draconic/bat" wings. the people made 2 great cities of the world one for males and one for females the females had a more natural civilization style being one with nature. the males were more reckless wanting to show strength they built a beacon to pull a comet out of the sky and harvest it. (K2 extinction) the female city ""survived" they remaining females took they eggs and everyone to be one with the land helping the planet to grow. however they had rules and if you broke them you were banished and striped of your wings. there were ways to get accepted back into society like becoming a guardian which is you take over an area and let plants to grow for a number of centuries depending on your banishment. this guy is just one of those fellows trying to get home.

Which book? I'd like to read it.

Chupacabras* english speakers loves to eat the last S XDDD

@@zoazede2098 true my bad lmao, maybe there's one big leader of all the chupacabras, El Jefe if you will

@@megadong2398 XDDD interesting idea! 😹😹😹👍👍

He's also Pluto/Hades though.

Nah it all leads to the same thing, if you actually want something real (lasting in life/thru death not just for a few hours to feel better) go back to nature and pray to the universal God of heaven 🙏 Yeshua always answers if we listen just might not be the answer we wanted lol

Why pray to the made when you can skip right to the maker?

​@@selliepaddie2066 i'm not a christian

​@@selliepaddie2066 why should i pray to my parents?

@Chisszaru well that's your decision free will and all and while I see the correlation your making between parents making us and God (apparently only my god but for the sake of reference bear with) making us from the earth is not the same thing, however do as you wish I was just giving my opinion on what seemed like a question lol