Actaeon
Actaeon is one name for the Horned God in the neopagan tradition of Stregheria. Other names include Dianus, Faunus, and Cern. Stregheria was founded by Raven Grimassi and loosely inspired by the works of Charles Godfrey Leland.
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When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Greek mythology.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Pashupati, Semele, Muses, Aristaeus, Cadmus, Autonoë, Cyrene, Cheiron, Peneus, Zeus Icmaeus, Siproites, Tiresias, Orion, Artemis (Diana), Cernunnos, Faunus, Janicot, Karnayna, Atho, Tubal-cain, Brân, Wayland, Herne, Dianus, Cern, Melissa, Athena, Jupiter, Attis, Heracles, Medusa, Stheno, Euryale, Phorcys, Ceto, Pandora
- enemy of
- Artemis (Diana), Diana, Zeus, Lyssa
- allied with
- Apollo
Mentioned by
- Cernunnos
- Faunus
- Janicot
- Karnayna
- Atho
- Tubal-cain
- Brân
- Wayland
- Herne
- Dianus
- Cern
- Melissa
- Athena
- Jupiter
- Attis
- Heracles
and 13 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“In the neopagan tradition of Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and loosely inspired by the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.”
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“The most common scene shown was Actaeon surprising Diana, but his transformation and his death were also sometimes shown. Titian painted the first two scenes in two of his greatest late poesies for Philip II of Spain, in Diana and Actaeon and The Death of Actaeon”
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“The two main scenes are Actaeon surprising Artemis/Diana, and his death. In classical art Actaeon is normally shown as fully human, even as his hounds are killing him (sometimes he has small horns), but in Renaissance art he is often given a deer's head with antlers even in the scene with Diana, and by the time he is killed he has at the least this head, and has often completely transformed into the shape of a deer.”
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“the story of Actaeon, who saw Artemis naked and was transformed into a stag that was hunted down and devoured by his own hunting dogs; it has been noted that in comparison to Actaeon, Artemis was rather lenient toward Siproites for what was the same offence.”
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“Actaeon is mentioned at the end of the book Artemis the Brave and in Artemis the Loyal, where he plays a minor role. He is friends with Apollo, who thinks that Actaeon likes Artemis. In The Girl Games he shows interest in Penthe, a mortal Amazon girl competing against Artemis in the games.”
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