Taranis was the pan-Celtic god of thunder, a booming deity whose club represented his strength and whose other symbol, the wheel, represented not just the speed of storms but the speed of his warriors in battle. (3) This image is derived from a carving on the Gunderstrup Cauldron, as well as other sources, however, I would like to note that Celtic scholar John Matthews in his book The Celtic Shaman states that he believes the image on the Gunderstrup cauldron to be that of a Celtic shaman and not the god Cernnunos. Matthews, John. Naked, phallus erect, He wears a crown of antlers limned in green fire and twined with ivy. In some traditions, he is seen as a god of death and dying, and takes the time to comfort the dead by singing to them on their way to the spirit world. However, this relationship is a relatively new Neopagan concept, and there is no scholarly evidence to indicate that ancient peoples might have celebrated this "marriage" of the Horned God and a mother goddess. He may have represented a long-forgotten Celtic or Anglo-Saxon deity. Cernnunos appears again in Elizabethan England, and is mentioned by Shakespeare, as Herne the Hunter, the demon and guardian of Windsor Forest, the Royal Wood. Today, many Pagan traditions honor Cernunnos as an aspect of the God, the embodiment of masculine energy and fertility and power. Lugh of the Long Arm was a young Irish god who sought revenge for his father’s unjust death. She reigned over Imbolc, a winter holiday that marked the beginning of the Irish year. God(s) Sources/Nature of Association: A: Glen Aven (and River Aven), Banffshire: Athfhinn ‘The very bright one.’ Said to be the wife of the legendary hero Fionn, she is said to have died in the river and gave her name to it. Anderson, William. Cernunnos is a horned god found in Celtic mythology. Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanism In Everyday Living. ‘Pan.’ Green Egg: A Journal of Awakening Earth Vol. Lewes BN7 1DX It is instinct, the innate wisdom of the body that guides us to Him. ‘Pan is a proud celebration of the liberating power of male erotic energy in its purest and most beautiful form.’ (5) He is portrayed as playful and cunning, but He also has a darker, dangerous nature. Our prehistoric ancestors knew him as a shape-shifting, shamanic god of the Hunt. Cernnunos Sleeps (2) At the time of First Earth, Cernnunos grew in the womb of the All Mother, Anu, waiting to be born, to come forth to initiate the everlasting, unbroken Circle of Life. London: The Aquarian Press, 1991. He is triple as She is triple. At the Sacred Centre, in the Grove of all Worlds, He sits with legs crossed beneath an ancient Oak. A fearful figure in British folklore, Herne the Hunter was a phantom who first appeared in William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Encyclopædia of Celtic Wisdom. AUTHOR’S NOTES Often experienced as traveling away from the centre to the perimeter, this is in actuality a return to the Centre. But, He is much older still. PO Box 1333 New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1994. Whatever pathways are discovered disappear in passing, and the Wood is trackless once again, for each one’s way is different. The Way of Merlin: The Prophet, the Goddess, and the Land ¬ Techniques of Transformation from the Merlin Tradition. Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth. Known as the great Chief of Bards, Taliesin was a poet, historian, and strategist of the British Isles. Badb Battle-Crow was one of the three sisters of the Morrígan, Irish goddess of war and death, who sowed fear and discord in combat and could turn the tide of battle. His music and poetry charmed women, inspired kings, and won his enemies’ property from under their noses. To put down our roots.
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