Cernunnos Wall Plaque

A Cernunnos plaque depicting the horned god with intricate detailing.

Height – 12″.

More About the Pagan God

He is believed to be the God of abundance and ruler of wild animals. His nature is essentially earthly.

Cernunnos is found in many traditions of modern Paganism.

He symbolizes fertility and masculine energy. He’s a protector, maybe even a father-figure. As a Horned God, he can take the place of consort of the Goddess in the Wiccan Pantheon (God and Goddess). And as a primordial deity in Neopagan traditions, his male principality makes him often be merged with other gods such as Pan and the Green Man.

In ancient Celtic and Gallo-Roman religion, Cernunnos or Carnonos is a god depicted with antlers, seated cross-legged, and is associated with stags, horned serpents, dogs, and bulls. He is usually shown holding or wearing a torc and sometimes holding a bag of coins (or grain) and a cornucopia.

Cernunnos, the Horned God of neopagan traditions, is lord of both life and death; he grows old as the year progresses before being reborn and starting the cycle anew. He exists in tandem with the divine feminine, the Goddess, who is at once both mother and lover; in many traditions, his power stems from her

While representative of the wild and the unknown, he is still a king. Even the benevolent Green Man is often seen as a mere aspect of Cernunnos.

Cernunnos was perhaps the most important deity in the Celtic religion if we consider the frequency he is represented in ancient Celtic art from Ireland to Romania. Known as ‘the horned one’, he represented nature, fruit, grain, animals, fertility, and prosperity. He may also have been regarded as an ancestor deity.

Modern-day Pagans and Wicca celebrate The Horned God even today. Here, he is the masculine side of divinity. He sits alongside, but not opposed to the Goddess.

During the Satanic Panic of the 80s and 90s, he was often compared to images of Satan, but that’s not .

Ideas for your altar

• green candles
• Incense for Cernunnos: Cedar, Musk, Pine, Sandalwood.
• Offerings to Cernnunos: Bones, Fruit, Grains, Red meat, Wine, Milk, Water, Moss, Fresh soil.

A Prayer to Cernunnos

God of the green,
Lord of the forest,
I offer you my sacrifice.
I ask you for your blessing.

You are the man in the trees,
the green man of the woods,
who brings life to the dawning spring.
You are the deer in rut,
mighty Horned One,
who roams the autumn woods,
the hunter circling round the oak,
the antlers of the wild stag,
and the lifeblood that spills upon
the ground each season.

God of the green,
Lord of the forest,
I offer you my sacrifice.
I ask you for your blessing.

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