The " Cernunnos " type antlered figure on the Gundestrup Cauldron.

The name itself is only attested once, on the 1st-century Pillar of the Boatmen, but depictions of a horned or antlered figure, often seated cross-legged and often associated with animals and holding or wearing torcs, are known from other instances.

Rock carving of an antlered figure in the rock drawings in Valcamonica | National park of Naquane, Italy.

The lower part of the relief is lost, but the dimensions suggest that the god was sitting cross-legged, providing a direct parallel to the antlered figure on the Gundestrup cauldron.

Detail of the antlered figure depicted on plate A of the Gundestrup Cauldron. 200BC-300AD

This pairing is found as early as the fourth century BC in Northern Italy, where a huge antlered figure with torcs and a serpent was carved on the rocks in Val Camonica.

The scenes depicted are not distinctively Thracian, but certain elements of composition, decorative motifs, and illustrated items ( such as the shoelaces on the antlered figure ) identify it as Thracian work.

* Plate A shows an antlered male figure seated in a central position, likely Cernunnos.

File: Gundestrup antlered figure. jpg | Detail from interior plate A

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.

Olmsted relates the scenes of the cauldron to those of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, where the antlered figure is Cú Chulainn, the bull of the base plate is Donn Cuailnge, and the female and two males of plate e are Medb, Ailill, and Fergus mac Róich.

File: Shiva Pashupati. jpg | This seal of a Pashupati ( Lord of Animals ) from the Mohenjo-Daro archaeological site, ( 2500-1900 BC ) is remarkably similar to the antlered figure of plate A.

He appears antlered, sometimes beneath the tree on which he was hanged, known as " Herne's Oak ", but more often riding his horse, accompanied by other wild huntsmen and the captured souls of those he has encountered on his journey.

In smaller, more isolated villages, the character has other beastly companions, such as the antlered “ wild man ” figures, and St. Nicholas is nowhere to be seen.

The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonized into the form of the Devil by the Mediaeval Church.

An antlered child appears on a relief from Vendeuvres, flanked by serpents and holding a purse and a torc.

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.

Greek craftsmen from the colonies north of the Black Sea made spectacular Scythian-style gold ornaments ( see below ), applying Greek realism to depict Scythian motifs of lions, antlered reindeer, and gryphons.

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The antlered deity of the Gundestrup cauldron, commonly identified with Cernunnos, holding a ram-horned serpent and a torc.

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.

An Anglo-Saxon royal scepter found at the Sutton Hoo burial site in England features a depiction of an upright, antlered stag.

These horn-like warts may be the original basis for the urban legends of the American antlered rabbit the Jackalope and European Wolpertinger.

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In particular, they refuted the assumption of Confucius as a godlike figure and considered him as the greatest sage, but simply a human and mortal

Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).

He believed that the human figure shouldn't disrupt nature, but rather participate in it or imitate its natural processes.

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In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise.

In particular, they refuted the assumption of Confucius as a godlike figure and considered him as the greatest sage, but simply a human and mortal

* Aesthetic canon, a rule for the proportions of a human figure

Supporters consider cheerleading, as a whole, a sport, citing the heavy use of athletic talents while critics do not see it as deserving of that status since sport implies a competition among squads and not all squads compete, along with subjectivity of competitions where-as with gymnastics, diving, and figure skating-scores are assessed based on human judgment and not an objective goal or measurement of time.

Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75, 000 years ago.

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Neither of the Air Force fighter pilots saw anything exit the airliner, either visually or on radar, nor did they see a parachute open ; but at night, with extremely limited visibility and cloud cover obscuring any ground lighting below, an airborne human figure clad entirely in black clothing could easily have gone undetected.

As a whole, the shape of Finland's boundaries resembles a figure of a one-armed human.

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Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work ; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.

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Alberti believed in ideal beauty, but Leonardo filled his notebooks with observations on human proportions, page after page, ending with the famous drawing on the Vitruvian man, a human figure related to a square and a circle.

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