Maier ( 2010 ) states that the etymology of Cernunnos is unknown, as the Celtic word for " horn " has an a ( as in Carnonos ).

In spite of the name Cernunnos being attested nowhere else, it is commonly used in Celtological literature as describing all comparable depictions of horned deities.

This " Cernunnos " type in Celtic iconography is often portrayed with animals, in particular the stag, and also frequently associated with the ram-horned serpent, and less frequently bulls ( at Rheims ), dogs and rats.

In this line of interpretation, Cernach is taken as an epithet with a wide semantic field — " angular ; victorious ; bearing a prominent growth " — and Conall is seen as " the same figure " as the ancient Cernunnos.

In Wicca and other forms of Neopaganism a Horned God is revered ; this divinity syncretises a number of horned or antlered gods from various cultures, including Cernunnos.

In the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca, the Horned God is sometimes specifically referred to as Cernunnos, or sometimes also as Kernunno.

Doreen Valiente, a former High Priestess of the Gardnerian tradition, claimed that Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven referred to the god as Cernunnos, or Kernunno, which is a Latin word, discovered on a stone carving found in France, meaning " the Horned One ".

The cultural and psychological importance of hunting in ancient societies is represented by deities such as the horned god Cernunnos, and lunar goddesses of classical antiquity, the Greek Artemis or Roman Diana.

In Wicca, the archetype of the Horned God is highly important, as represented by such deities as the Celtic Cernunnos, Indian Pashupati and Greek Pan.

It appears three times on the Gundestrup cauldron, and in Romano-Celtic Gaul was closely associated with the horned or antlered god Cernunnos, in whose company it is regularly depicted.

The Horned God, Carnun, is adapted from the Gaulish antlered deity Cernunnos.

Their leader, Slough Feg, is partly based on Cernunnos and partly on the paleolithic cave painting known as the Sorcerer in the Trois-Frères cave in Ariège, southern France.

In his 1929 book The History of the Devil-The Horned God of the West Herne R. Lowe Thompson suggests that " Herne " as well as other Wild Huntsmen in European folklore all derive from the same ancient source, citing that " Herne " may be a cognate of the name of Gaulish deity Cernunnos in the same way that the English " horn " is a cognate of the Latin " cornu " ( see Grimm's Law for more details on this linguistic feature ).

" Herne " is clearly derived ultimately from the same Indo-European root, * ker-n -, meaning bone or horn from which " Cernunnos " derives.

However a more direct source is the Old English hyrne, meaning " horn " or " corner ", which is inconsistent with the Cernunnos theory.

Cernunnos is also known as The Stag Lord, The Horned God of the Hunt, The Lord of the Forest, The Lord of the Hunt, and The Lord of the Animals.

The antlered figure in plate A has been commonly identified as Cernunnos, and the figure holding the broken wheel in plate C is more tentatively thought to be Taranis.

XLF, also known as Cernunnos, is homologous to yeast Nej1 and is also required for NHEJ.

The decoration is non-Christian, with an image of Cernunnos, the Celtic God of hunting and fertility, displayed on the east face of the shaft.

The classic example of which is the ' horned god of the hunt ' ( see also Deer in mythology ), typified by Cernunnos, Herne the Hunter and Arnon, and a variety of Stag, Bull, Ram and Goat gods.

From the amount of the body in the top half, Cernunnos is assumed to have been depicted in a cross-legged seated position as with other Cernunnos depictions ; there is insufficient room for him to be seated on a chair or standing.

The name Cernunnos occurs only on the " Pillar of the Boatmen " ( Pilier des nautes ), now displayed in the Musée National du Moyen Age in Paris.

The name Cernunnos can be read clearly on 18th century drawings of the inscriptions, but the initial letter has been obscured since, so that today only a reading ernunnos can be verified

The Cornish Cornovii may even be a completely separate tribe, taking their name either from the horn shape of the peninsula, or from the Horned God Cernunnos.

The pillar provides the only undisputed instance of the divine name Cernunnos.

The word “ carnyx ” is derived from the Gaulish root, " carn -" or " cern -" meaning " antler " or " horn ," and the same root of the name of the god, Cernunnos ( Delmarre, 1987 pp. 106 – 107 ).

She said that the God was called Cernunnos, or Kernunno, which in Celtic meant " The Horned One ".

Only in Celtic mythology do we find a deity similar to Veles in his attributes and his complexity: Cernunnos, god of druids, nature, horned animals, and shamanism, whose symbol was a ram-headed serpent.

* There may have been a set of nature spirits or gods akin to the Greek Satyrs, the Celtic god Cernunnos and the Dusii, Slavic Veles and the Leszi, the Germanic Woodwose, elves and dwarves.

Cernunnos was a god in Celtic mythology that possessed two deer antlers on the top of his head.

Following the Roman Empire's conquest of Gaul ( 58 – 51 BCE ) and southern Britannia ( 43 CE ), Celtic religious practices began to display elements of Romanisation, resulting in a syncretic Gallo-Roman culture with its own religious traditions with its own large set of deities, such as Cernunnos, Artio, Telesphorus, etc.

A notable example of this is the horned deity that was called Cernunnos ; several depictions and inscriptions of him have been found, but very little is known about the myths that would have been associated with him or how he was worshiped.

Among the Celtiberians, horned or antlered figures of the Cernunnos type include a " Janus-like " god from Candelario ( Salamanca ) with two faces and two small horns ; a horned god from the hills of Ríotinto ( Huelva ); and a possible representation of the deity Vestius Aloniecus near his altars in Lourizán ( Pontevedra ).

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 / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

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, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

The 20th-century English author Robert Graves accepted Iolo's version of Hu Gadarn ( and much of the rest of his work ), and further identified Hu as a Welsh horned god, a variant of Cernunnos.

A bronze image at Étang-sur-Arroux and a stone sculpture at Sommerécourt depict Cernunnos ' body encircled by two horned snakes that feed from bowls of fruit and corn-mash in the god's lap.

Two other armed figures with large horns or antlers may be compared to horned helmet iconography, or to the " Cernunnos " figure on the Gundestrup cauldron.

Image of a horned god | horned figure on the Gundestrup cauldron, interpreted by many archaeologists as being cognate to the god Cernunnos.

Because of his frequent association with creatures, scholars often describe Cernunnos as the " Lord of the Animals " or the " Lord of Wild Things ", and Miranda Green describes him as a " peaceful god of nature and fruitfulness ".

However, his association with the hunt has prompted some scholars to associate Arawn with the Gaulish god Cernunnos.

Images of the god Cernunnos wearing one torc around his neck, with torcs hanging from his antlers or held in his hand, have been found.

Some modern neo-pagans such as Wiccans accept Lowe Thompson's equation of Herne with Cernunnos ( which they further connect to the Greco-Roman god Pan ).