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.

The historian Ronald Hutton has suggested that it instead came from the Arabic term Dhul-Qarnayn which meant " Horned One ".

Following the work of Robert Bly in the Mythopoetic men's movement, John Rowan proposes the Horned God as a " Wild Man " be used as a fantasy image or ' sub-personality ' helpful to men in humanistic psychology, and escaping from ' narrow societal images of masculinity encompassing deference to women and paraphillia.

Bronze figurine of a " Horned God " from Enkomi, Cyprus

Murray attempts to claim that various depictions of humans with horns from European and Indian sources, ranging from the paleolithic French cave painting of " The Sorcerer " to the Indic Pashupati to the modern English Dorset Ooser, are evidence for an unbroken, Europe-wide tradition of worship of a singular Horned God.

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.

Other Wiccan terms and concepts like coven, esbat, the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, and the Horned God are, it has been suggested, influenced by or derived directly from Murray's works.

The bronze " Horned God " from Enkomi, Cyprus

In the course of the five-novel series, Gywdion defeats the Horned King by shouting his real name, leads the attempt to gain the Black Cauldron and helps Taran, Fflewddur Fflam, Gurgi and Prince Rhun rescue Princess Eilonwy from Achren.

The related Horned Puffin ( Fratercula corniculata ) from the North Pacific looks very similar but has slightly different head ornaments.

In winter, this small grebe is white with a poorly defined black cap, which distinguishes it from the crisper-looking Slavonian Grebe ( Horned Grebe in America ).

Adults are less frequently predated but face potential attack from Great Horned Owls, Red-tailed Hawks, Peregrine Falcons and eagles.

In line with the other 3 main lineages of cracids ( chachalacas, true guans, and the Horned Guan ), mt and nDNA sequence data indicates that the curassows diverged from their closest living relatives ( probably the guans ) at some time during the Oligocene, or c. 35 – 20 mya ( Pereira et al.

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

The Horned Lark breeds across much of North America from the high Arctic south to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, northernmost Europe and Asia and in the mountains of southeast Europe.

* Horned helmet, known from a few depictions, and even fewer actual finds.

Depending on subspecies, Great Horned Owls can weigh from.

The Pleistocene Sinclair Owl from California, Bubo sinclairi, may have been be a paleosubspecies of the Great Horned Owl ; if so, they were presumably the ancestors of the pacificus / pallescens group of subspecies.

The breeding habitat of the Great Horned Owl extends from subarctic North America throughout most of North and Central America and then down into South America south to Tierra del Fuego, the southern tip of the continent.

Birds also comprise a large portion of a Great Horned Owl's diet, ranging in size from kinglets to Great Blue Herons ( Ardea herodias ) and young swans.

Following the devastation to its populations from DDT, the reintroduction of the Peregrine Falcon was locally hampered due to predation on nestlings and adults by the Great Horned Owl.

* Free Online Video About Great Horned Owls from the science podcast " Terra: The Nature of Our World "

* Warhammer Fantasy Battle has been adapted as computer games: the 1995 Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, its 1998 sequel Warhammer: Dark Omen, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning which was released on 18 September 2008.

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

Horned Serpents were major components of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex of North American prehistory.

The first people were the offspring of Sister Sun and the Horned Serpent.

The Skaven centric Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay supplement " Children of the Horned Rat " gives the average Skaven an expected lifespan of about 20 years, asserting that, were it not for the ( often violent ) internal competition of their species, they might live well past 50.

Believed to be some sort of Avatar of the Horned Rat, Vermin Lords were greater daemons that even the Grey Seers feared and acquiesced themselves to.

The 2010 TCU Horned Frogs finished their second consecutive regular season at 12-0, were back-to-back champions of the Mountain West Conference, and ranked # 3 in the final BCS Poll.

Margaret Murray's books were focused mainly on the worship of a male Horned God, but she saw witches themselves as being either male or female.

HŠK Posušje's fans are now known as the Poskoci ( Horned Vipers ), but were previously known as Torcida.

In 1925, the Tufted Puffin ( Fratercula cirrhata ), Horned Puffin ( Fratercula corniculata ), Parakeet Auklets ( Aethia psittacula ), and Pallas ' Murre ( Uria lomvia arra ) were reported at Fairway Rock, nesting in the crevices of the island's cliffs.

As a symbolic reference to this story, George is frequently shown caring for an albino Argentine Horned Frog ( also known as a Pacman frog ) identical to the one shown during the opening narration.

The Creek also venerated the Horned Serpent Sint Holo, who appeared to suitably wise young men.

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 ).

( see Horned Pegasus ) Unimon is a digimon resembling a winged unicorn with a mask.

* Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, Lawrence Weschler, 1996, trade paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 0-679-76489-5 ( see website link above )

The Kiwano fruit, also known as the Horned melon, melano, African horned cucumber, jelly melon, hedged gourd, and / or English tomato, is endemic to a region in the Kalahari Desert (* specific region unknown ).

Adult Merlins may be preyed on by larger raptors, especially Peregrine Falcons ( F. peregrinus ), eagle-owls ( e. g., Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus ), and larger Accipiter hawks ( e. g., Northern Goshawk, A. gentilis ).

In comparison, the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ), the world's most widely-distributed owl species, weighs about 500 grams ( 1. 1 lbs ) and the Great Horned Owl ( B. virginianus ), which fills the Eagle Owl's ecological niche in North America, weighs around 1. 4 kg ( 3. 1 lbs ).

Among the latter, the Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) and the Eurasian Eagle-owl ( B. bubo ) are noted predators of Barn Owls ( though there is little evidence for predation on wild birds by Great Horned Owls ).

Predators of adults include the Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ), Snowy Owl ( Bubo scandiacus ), Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ), Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ), Red-tailed Hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis ), Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ), Eurasian Eagle Owl ( Bubo bubo ), and Cooper's Hawk ( Accipiter cooperii ).

Then, in the landmark storyline The Horned God, Sláine united the tribes of the earth goddess against Slough Feg and his allies, while his personal devotion to the goddess led to him becoming a new incarnation of the Horned God Carnun ( based on the Gaulish deity Cernunnos ).

Clan Pestilens is based in the southern part of the world, and has been the cause for both of the two Skaven civil wars ( the first war was caused by their demands for wealth and position following their resurgence, and only ended after the activities of Clan Eshin assassins forced Pestilens to sue for peace, while the second war was caused by Clan Pestilens trying to seize power after the Council of Thirteen ousted them, and only ended after the Grey Seers summoned the Horned Rat itself to restore order ).

Great Horned Owls are the heaviest extant owl in Central and South America and are the second heaviest owl in North America, after the closely related but very different looking Snowy Owl ( B. scandiacus ).

The iris is yellow, except the amber-eyed South American Great Horned Owl ( B. V. nacurutu ).

In addition, the Great Horned Owl will predate on domesticated animals, including cats and small or young dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ).

* Houston, C. S., Smith, D. G. & Rohner, C. ( 1998 ): Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ).

Most of the same predators will prey on young cygnets, as will Common Snapping Turtle ( Chelhydra serpentina ), California Gull ( Larus californicus ), Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) and American Mink ( Mustela vison ).

Today, it has the largest population of Great Indian One Horned Rhinoceros in the state, an animal threatened with extinction, and is a Habitat management area ( Category IV ).