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| | The Horned Gods |
 | | Canute's gods were those of his father and his people, but he agreed to be baptised a Christian as a matter of politics than of faith. | | | The followers of the old gods of fertility were not greatly attracted by the new Christian religion of sin and redemption. | | | The god was the leader of the coven, the most powerful person in the group. |
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http://realwildchurch.org/Lhorned.html
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| | .: The Gods' Many Faces :. |
| | Horned gods have been worshipped in Europe and the rest of the world from the dawn of humanity. | | | An obvious way to discredit the Horned God and justify punishment of his worshippers is to say that he is, in fact, the god of evil in the new religion. | | | Jehova was the god of the Jews, and they felt no need to persuade other tribes to worship him as well. |
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http://elswet.50megs.com/essence/god.html
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| | The Religion of the Ancient Celts: Chapter III. The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts |
| | These gods were gods of fertility and of the underworld of the dead. | | | The underworld god was the god from whom or from whose kingdom men came forth, and he was also a god of fertility. | | | Three divinities have claims to be the god whom Cæsar calls Dispater--a god with a hammer, a crouching god called Cernunnos, and a god called Esus or Silvanus. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/rac06.htm
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| | God of the Witches Chapter I |
| | But the greatest of all the horned gods of Egypt was Osiris, who appears to have been the Pharaoh in his aspect as the incarnate god. | | | The chief of the horned gods of Egypt was Amon, originally the local deity of Thebes, later, the supreme god of the whole country. | | | The great gods and goddesses had seven horns, which is the reason that the divine Lamb in the Book of Revelation was said to have seven horns. |
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http://fraktali.849pm.com/text/archive/pag/gow/gow01.htm
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| | The horned God in India and Europe |
| | Deep in India's ancient past we find a God which could be the Horned God in his original form, preceding Cernunnos, Hu Gadern, Pan and Herne, that of the Horned God of the Indus Valley, Pashupati. | | | In Paganism today probably the most revered of all the Gods is the Horned God, in the shape and form of Cernunnos. | | | Today in India the God Shiva, of whom Pashupati is considered to be the proto-type, is offered worship through the linga (the phallus). |
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http://www.geocities.com/indianpaganism/hornedgod.html
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| | The God in Wicca is the consort of the Goddess and represents the male aspect of the creative principle of the universe. | | | The Slain God is one with both heaven and earth, and to be one with him is to be one with the Source of All Things. | | | He has several aspects, the god of the hunt (the principle of nature), the sun god (bringer of life), and the lord of death and resurrection (the cycle of death and rebirth). |
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http://members.iinet.net.au/~wayland/page19.html
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| | Horned God |
| | Not all horned gods and their priests were male; Astarte and Isis (borrowing an attribute from Hathor/), for example, were sometimes depicted with horns. | | | Belief in and worship of the Horned God waned almost to extinction by the 19th century, although vestiges remained in local customs, particularly in the countryside. | | | As a symbol of sexuality, the Horned God represents one of the most elemental forces in Nature, and is therefore complementary to female fertility deities known collectively as the goddessGreat Mother/. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Horned_God
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Horns of Moses |
| | ...The chief god of the Hittites, the weather god, lord of rain and thunder, was originally represented as a bull and always remained associated with a bull as his sacred animal... | | | ...The so-called "horns of the altar," those peculiarly sacred objects that were sprinkled with the blood of sacrifices at the consecration of priests and at the sin-offering, have been recognized as originating in real horns... | | | ...It was precisely because of this pagan belief in the supernatural potency of a drinking horn that the Church in the early Middle Ages forbade converts from paganism to drink from a horn... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V26I3P42-1.htm
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| | The Pagan's Path ~ Witchcraft & Shamanism - The Great Horned God |
| | The Horned God is is the lord of life, death and the underworld. | | | The consort of the Goddess and symbol of male energy in the form of the divine, The Horned God reigns. | | | As Osiris the Egyptian god of the lower world, he is seen as the judge of the dead. |
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http://www.paganspath.com/magik/hornedgod.htm
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| | Horned Gods their history and worship in ancient and modern times |
| | In Peru, Pachacamac was the horned son of the Sun, and God of the volcanic fires. | | | He was considered an important God of nature, bringer of life and death (often at random), but as with many fire gods, also the bringer of knowledge and creativity. | | | Instead of God incarnate in man, as with Jesus, we see man joined to animal - one that is historically representative of the basest of animal and sexual passions. |
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http://hem.passagen.se/fezmeister/pa_bio.html
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| | Celtic London: evidence of worship of the Horned God |
| | The god Yngvi Freyr's sacred animal was the stag, and he used a stag horn to slay the giant Beli. | | | Evidence that worship of the Horned God was still widespread in the 7th century is found in an edict issued by the Pope in 669 AD. | | | Another part of the worship of the Horned God was the celebration of fertility in the festival of May Day. |
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http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/herne_the_hunter.htm
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| | Hence the horned god that is still worshiped by modern-day Wiccans was likely based on a single mutant born at least 3,000 years ago. | | | In Egypt the occasional morphodite or hermaphrodite might be revered as a Pharaoh and/or a god. | | | There were even horned gods in Egypt and Asia. |
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http://evolutionofgenesis.homestead.com/horns.html
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| | RCW Research: Pagan-Watch: eGroup Archive: What Wicca was (1960 to 1981) |
| | The Craft of Wiccan and Wiccen is a paleo-Judeo-Christian religion that is duotheistic, having a She God as well as a He God, although the She God is considered to be the first cause. | | | since they are priestesses of a Horned God, and the persecutions still exist to a greater or lesser extent, they are so far not all that willing to talk about the aspect of the Horned God that is totemic for them, and even less willing to reveal the name of their God to Cowans ("outsiders"). | | | Singing, dancing, etc., are not done to honour the Gods, these are done to fill the Temple with energy ('Power') from the physical bodies of the people present, that energy is considered to have a form that can be directed to a particular benefic end through the Gods and Mighty Ones. |
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http://pagan.nuit.ca/watch/pc090c1.html
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| | Inner Light Coven's Kernunnos History |
| | Peasant gods would be unlikely to find their way into the songs which bards sang to warrior kings." Thus, unlike other deities associated with Celtic mythology, Cernunos stands alone as a god of common people. | | | while the deities of recorded legends are those of a warrior aristocracy, the Horned God of Animals, Nature and Fecundity was primarily a god of the ordinary people. | | | Kernunos is described as a strong but gentle god. |
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http://members.aol.com/laehar3/patron/kernhist.html
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| | The Green Man (www.joodiff.com) |
| | When the Celts and their gods arrived in England, they found the inhabitants enjoying an established religion that may have already been a composite of other, earlier religions. | | | Anyone who mistakes worship of the Horned God (still an essential part of modern Wicca and many other "Old Religions") with devil-worship or "Satanism" in the Christian sense is sadly misguided. | | | In some traditions, he has subsequently diverged from the Horned God, who is more strongly associated with fertility through the generative power of the sun. |
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http://www.joodiff.com/grnman.htm
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| | Directory - Arts: Literature: Myths and Folktales: Myths |
| | The protagonists are often gods or superhuman beings. | | | Explores the quirky side of mythology with humorous research, including a Holy Database of the weird and wonderful gods from around the world. | | | Essays on mythology to give insight into what it means to be human. |
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http://www.deerlakesearch.com/default?p=3328
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| | MYTHING LINKS / COMMON THEMES: Earth Goddesses & Gods |
| | Odin was the only god who practiced it, and, again, he learned it from Freyja, acquiring traits that were perhaps originally hers.... | | | ...Freyja and her brother Freyr, who was the god of peace and plenty, were the twin children of the sea-god Njord and his sister Nerthus. | | | ...The Horned God has shown many faces to humans over the millenia of his association with them. |
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http://www.mythinglinks.org/ct~earthdeities.html
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| | Celtica - Spirituality |
| | Ritual, prayer and poetry in dedication to Holy Brighid and to the Gods of the Celts. | | | A Temple for the Manx/Celtic God Manannan Mac Lir and Spirit Communication. | | | Excellent precis of the Irish and Welsh myth cycles, plus a shrine to Horned Gods. |
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http://www.conjure.com/CELT/cspirit.html
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| | Shrine of the Horned Gods |
| | Lugodoc believes that cyberspace should contain more sacred space, and so this site is dedicated to all true horned gods. | | | Here you can read a little about their many faces, ancient, modern and even false. |
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http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/welcome.htm
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