Cernunnos

deity forest Gaulish single tradition · 4

An ancient Gaulish/Celtic god with the antlers of a deer.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
400 BCE
Attested period
-400 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in the Iron Age.

Relationships

syncretized with
Dis Pater, Esus
manifested by
Esus-Cernunnos

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Sources

Source passages

“Cernunnos – An ancient Gaulish/Celtic god with the antlers of a deer.”

#4799 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“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".”

#13395 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The name frequently now applied to this deity, Cernunnos, is attested only a few times: on the Pillar of the Boatmen, a relief in Paris (currently reading ERNUNNOS, but an early sketch shows it as having read CERNUNNOS in the 18th century); on an inscription from Montagnac”

#26093 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Wuilleumier identified the reclining figure with the Celtic stag-god Cernunnos. The proximity of the deer and the two torcs (an attribute of Cernunnos) make this identification one of the less-contested ones.”

#38061 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001