This is peak Cernunnos content 🦌 the comments are very insightful as well. I was a little sad when the Reims Relief didn't appear in the video as it's my favorite Cernunnos piece and I love to hear people's thoughts on it, but you gave me more to think about for sure!
Yes, I didn’t even feature an image of it did I? Big oversight on my part. That’s what comes of not really planning your videos 😂 Maybe in ‘part 2’ … 🤔 thanks for watching and commenting 🦌✨🌙
The autumn vegetation makes me feel particularly reflective of the Celts and their belief in Cernunnos. You can almost feel his silent presence there, looming in the musty decay of the leaves, and can imagine the way the Celts may have felt looking out into the eyes of the forest from the warmth of their fires and relative safety of their camps and hamlets.
Whilst hiking in n the great Canadian shield a couple weeks ago.... I found a set of antlers. Oddly, a week or so later I felt the urge to listen to Celtic music. I've never done this. Ever. Suddenly I am now a fan of Celtic music... With that discovery, I felt interested in learning about Celtic mythology. I then found cernnunos.... Now I have found you! This far I'm loving your style of communication and forthcoming position... In conjunction with your creativity and storytelling... You also look like we might have shared ancestry. I'm Canadian but blood wise I'm 40 percent eaten European but the rest is a mix of English Scottish Scandinavian...
This is… very interesting. We’re sent clues in the most unusual of ways and clearly something was giving you a nudge. I’ve got distant family over in Canada, mainly Newfoundland. Heaps of Irish and South West English over there… good luck on your journeying. Love your beautiful country. All that deep deep Wild. Yeah I’m British /Irish and A bit of Scandinavian, but hey we’re all mongrels on these islands. So you lot are too most likely 😂
Really like the way you have connected Shiva and Odin with Cernunnos. Amongst others. Totally agree with your web connection concept between older and newer Gods. They are all one in the same IMO, just modified through time and culture based on similar mythology. Different but similar myths for different folk in different areas, all of the same entity (whatever that is). The horned God seems to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest of the so labelled Gods. Will be watching again - great storytelling yet again - love it.
I really enjoyed this video and think you make some good points, particularly by connecting the figure to Woden/Odin as well as the Indus horned god. But I do think that some of the connections you draw are based on outdated ideas we take for granted, for example, that the Wild Hunt is an actual archetype across european cultures rather than a modern invention we try to squeeze various disparate stories of ghostly/divine/elven processions into. Mythillogical did a really good job of looking into the actual sources on that, I recommend their video on it. I also think the idea that Siberian or Amazonian tribes have remained unchanged for thousands of years is a very outdated idea, especially with recent discoveries about possible urban societies in the Amazon. Again though, great video, I'll continue to watch more since I think your universalist approach where you try to make connections between different cultures is similar to my own approach.
I was reading about the ancient British constellations recently in Dani Robertson’s book All Through the Night. Researching further I learned that the constellation Orion was known as either Mabon or Cernyn (Cernunnos) to the ancients. If we look at the stars in Orion they overlap the image of Cernunnos on the Gunderstrup Cauldron perfectly.
@@TheStoryCrow Dani Robertson is the Dark Skies officer for North Wales. It’s only recently I learned about the old British constellations and their associated mythologies. It’s a shame that most things Celtic seem to have been sidelined in favour of the Classical. The constellations were taught are of Greek and Arabic origin. One wonders why
@@drowsyZot oh yes. The old British equivalent of the Gemini twins Castor and Pollux are Gwyn and Gwythyr, at war with one another over the love of a woman. They symbolise the fight between summer and winter I think.
I grew up in a fairly isolated valley in West Cumbria. I spent my early to mid teens roving alone through the surrounding forests and in my mid teens I encountered the antlered god. It was one mid summer night, when a full moon hung over the valley and I felt his mighty presence hanging extremely strong on the night. My father was interested in the modern witchcraft movement that was very popular at the time, so I can't say that there was no external nudge there, but what I found in the wild was something very ancient and not easily bound to contemporary pagan thought. He is a proto-deity, who echoes through the later gods, as you describe, and he has his roots in the pre-agricultural human past. Hence, he is not a king but a shaman; not a ruler but a teacher. I've absorbed a lot of knowledge about him. I prefer to call him 'Herne' because, although I know the available provenance of that name is recent, I feel that it is more fitting and it distinguishes him from Cernunnos, who I think is a Romanised version of him. I know of Pashupati and his earlier Indus valley incarnations and I agree with the Odin link. I think Odin was originally a shamanic god, who had aspects of kingship and warlikeness grafted onto him. There is a lot of Herne in the one-eyed stranger who walks the world watching all. I also think Manannan, another of my patron deities, has a touch of Herne about him, being the trickster-magician-teacher. I'm not so certain that the trope that Christians took the old horned god and demonized him as the Devil is correct. The horn imagery comes from the book of Revelation, which draws heavily from other pre-Christian biblical apocalyptic writings, in which horns represent power. It's unlikely that this related originally to a pagan deity. Satan originally represented the urge within Yahweh to tear down his creation and start again. It was the Hebrew flirtation with Zoroastrianism that turned him into a sort of Anti-God. I have a theory about the Wild Hunt. I was out walking one night in Cumbria, when the sky suddenly seemed to be filled with the cries of hounds. We had a local fox hunt, so I knew that sound very well, and I thought for a moment that it was the Wild Hunt itself, but it was a flock of migrating geese. The sounds are eerily similar and I can understand how this might have been integrated into legend. Your video didn't contain any fresh information for me, but it was good to revisit what I found in my own journey, and it's the first time I've seen it collected in one place, which is quite an achievement in itself. Thank you.
I got a knight out der in that worlderness. Following on same stretch of rd. I actually thought it was person. Try shaking its hand just went through. It had a old style basic lamp. I thought it was serial killer. Id run or bike off it still follow but after a mile it be gone.
Since you have witchcraft in your family, you are very vulnerable to all things paranormal. We had witchcraft in our family it sticks like a glue. You won´t listen to this because you are fascinated by what you are writing about but anyway - maybe one day near or far you will remember it when the time comes and fascination will turn into need for freedom. So here it comes - get away from it it will ruin your life or of your childern and their children and generations to come. These things are all the same. They only want your destruction. No matter if it´s hindu gods or european pagan gods, they are demons nothing more. There is nothing interesting about them they are the most boring of all creation. Every little bug every little dandelion are far more fascinationg. You won´t know now because likely you need to get burnt to be rid of your fascination. But you don´t have to. You can get out now, just distance yourself from it and never look back. You don´t have to go trhough all the pain when you are in too deep and in need of exorcisms. So think of this as your free pass to freedom with no pain at all. Just walk away. You can do it you have free will. When you are in too deep because you didn´t walk away and sooner or later it will start to cost you more than you are willing to pay or you have children and you don´t want them to pay - there is still way out. Walking away is no longer an option because you are in too deep. You got deceived by most boring and manipulative things in existence which does happen. It sucks but it happens. There is still way out. Jesus. So now you cannot listen because you are not there but you will remember later on. Call Him. He is the only God. There has never been any desire in Jahve to destroy his creatin and start over. If there was Jesus wouldn´t die on cross. Satan is free being with his own free will. It sounds like mythology applied to Christianity. It´s not true. You will see one day when the payment gets too high. He doesn´t destroy he saves. He will save you as well. And your children if you are in it long enough to pass it to them. Like it was in our family. But that´s future which may never happen because you have an open window now. You can leave it behind, you can stop your fascination with demonic and fall in love with only God there is. Jesus. Now I am talking to your future self who is beaten down with supernatural enough to be able to listen: you missed your window but there is still way out. Just remember this. Call to Jesus. a
Wow I'm so glad I found this video and comment! I once read a description for a visualisation to visit the 'World Tree' travel to its branches and meet an 'spirit animal guide'. I didn't think much of it I was just curious, however that night during sleep, it was as if I awoke in front of the tree in a magically beautiful garden as the book had described as the visualisation. Sat at it's base, as if the tree were it's throne, was a being cross legged and horned. I originally took it for male, but after reflection later I think it's hermaphrodite. It's got the obvious part man part animal aspect, but I also got a vibe of it being made out of a cross between bark and obsidian, vegetable and mineral too. I could absolutely understand if someone got the association of 'demonic' with it but to me it's energy was totally stags headbutting and birds singing rather than malice. I had a distinct impression that I wasn't supposed to be there, I also was afraid of it, and I could tell it could see through me and knew my thoughts, and it was amused at my disorientation. I totally had that feeling of wanting to back out ASAP but fearing that showing weakness or running might make it chase me and then 'awoke' again as normal, I managed to write it off as a dream for a couple of decades. A few things made me reconsider, one being the idea of archetypes. Another was chatting to someone online I'd come across about their NDE, they described the typical journey, through the Darkness into the Light, then their account was something I've never come across before, they described knowing that they were about to meet someone extremely important and powerful as they were heading towards it, they instinctively recognised it's presence and knew it would be the one who took them to their particular destination, not necessarily the judge but something. They were resuscitated before they got close enough to see the being or know what it looked like, but their description was that they could see the location that they were headed towards, and it was the World Tree and it was sat at the bottom according to them. I then discovered that the description of one of the duties for Pan according to the ancient Greeks was a Psychopomp, to the escort the soul to the afterlife...
As a Pagan that has Cernunnos showing up often in my journey this was a very enjoyable and educational video! Definitely subscribed and will be going through your backlog, I thoroughly enjoy your storytelling and how you explain things with such enthusiasm. I had never thought of some of the connections you made, but they make perfect sense. I fully believe that all Gods and Goddesses are facets of the same overarching spiritual energy, shown through the lens of whatever culture is recording them. So it makes sense to me that Cernunnos has so many similarities to other Gods. The Shaman aspect is fascinating and I really think you're on to something there! I think it's a shame that many historians and archeologists tend to be very tunnel visioned/closed minded...it seems they get an idea of what some thing means and they stick with it despite anything contrary or complimenting it, especially when it comes from a different culture than the one they study. I agree with you that Cernunnos is more of a guide, for a myriad of things, hence him being linked to so many things: animals, fertility, commerce, water/travel, death/mortality etc. Thank you again for such a lovely video!
Fellow pagan here! Very cool to see someone with the same view of divinity as me, I also think gods are just highly focused views of universal energies or whatever youd wanna call it
@@tux_duh Awesome! And yeah, I feel like if others could just see every God as one in the same energy, things would be so much more peaceful in the world. Like I follow different Gods, someone else follows different Gods, cool, we're both getting what we need from the universe XD
Interesting how much Cernunnos symbology and imagetic is common to Hekate, both highly revered in modern paganism. A bridge between the wild, the human and the godly.
First time viewer I am a Norse pagan and I don't know much about the many other pantheons and gods aside from mine and this has given me a whole new insight I will definitely be watching more of your videos and you have a new subscriber thank you for what you do
Anglo saxon heathen here, and I'm in the same boat. The indo european connection between all European religious cultures is extremely interesting, I love to study the comparisons and look at how the cultures differentiated over the years.
I really enjoyed this video! It was fascinating to learn about the history of the Horned God and its connection to nature, duality, and transformation. As I celebrate the new Sun today (December 22), I found especially meaningful to connect these ideas to the winter solstice in my “worship”. Astronomically, the solstice marks the suns lowest point in the skyward appears to “stand still” for three days before gradually rising higher again - symbolizing death and rebirth. The Horned Gods duality - life and death, crossroads and renewal - mirrors this natural cycle. The sun’s journey through the year has always been a guide for human understanding of life and time, with half of the year symbolizing waning energy and the other half renewal and growth. It also makes sense how these ancient beliefs evolved into modern religious narratives. The cross roads, death, and rebirth aligns so well with astronomical phenomenon of the sons pause and it’s returned a strength just as Christ story mirrors the cycle. I would like to know more about how the Horned God might play into this cycle of rebirth with the three days specifically. For me, these symbols are a way to honor the natural cycles of life, death, and renewal. They feel deeply real and grounding and remind me that our stories are often just reflections of the cosmos. Thank you for creating such a thoughtful and insightful video, It deepened in my understanding of these connections and give me a lot to reflect on.
I read somewhere about the similarities between Siberian Shamans gaining enlightenment through sitting in a tree for days without food and Odin sacrificing himself to himself in the tree to gain wisdom. Which is where he lost his Eye and he had a spear through his side.There was also a suggested link there with Jesus on the wooden cross with a spear through his side. The theme I guess is one of rebirth through ordeal.
@@TheStoryCrow No worries. I think it was a book by Brian Bates, The Real Middle-Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages. Think you'd find it interesting.
Hermes and Thoth are closely associated, Thoth is a magician and guide often connected to the moon. He's depicted sometimes wearing a crescent shaped sun disk on his head. I wonder if there's a connection to an earlier horned deity that became syncretized with the sun worship of Egypt, changing the horns to a solar disk.
I am so happy I came across your video! I've been obsessed with deer, wolves, and antlered iconography since I was very little, from reoccurring dreams, and a fascination with animals and nature has been an important part of my life. I love learning about Cernunnos or just nature deities in general. Subscribing to hear more about folklore and other gods! :) Similarly, I have also drawn Jungian-oriented conclusions about this deity manifesting in other cultures, so it's neat to hear that sentiment echoed.
As someone who generally forms my own spiritual beliefs, being informed from various religions spirituality, personal experiences and philosophies, without choosing any particular one, I really enjoyed this video. And as someone who doesn’t attribute myself to Wicca nor neo-paganism, but is very interested in these ideas, I would appreciate it so so so much, as I believe others would too, if you’d make a video in the style about the triple goddess as well?? please ❤ thanks for the amazing content and storytelling!
Thank you for this wonderful weave, bringing together the different threads of the Horned God. One of my favourite beings in Welsh mythology is Arawn, and I have always thought that his story reflects a far older aspect, and that he is indeed connected with a wild hunt, or that he is an aspect of death: his grey horse, and grey cloak and his ability to traverse worlds.
so my friend sent me this because I'm a practicing witch and Cernunnos is actually my patron! I'm super glad she did. this video was so wonderfully researched and just incredible to listen to and your passion for the subject really does come across. not only that, but I've done a lot of research on this deity and yet you've still brought ideas to my attention that i never previously considered - with images I'd never seen before too! the history of the horned god archetype has always been fascinating in how long it's survived and in just how much power it holds as a concept and i do believe Cernunnos is the purest form of that archetype. the links back to woden make so much sense, as do the links back to Greco-Roman myth and honestly everything here is so well thought out and webbed together so thank you for the time you've spent on this video. this is absolutely going in my Cernunnos resources for when fellow pagans and witches would like to know more ❤️
Everything you’re saying has not only confirmed my research but has gave clarity and confirmed for me at least that an experience I had with Lord Shiva was genuine. Thank you 🙏
I have heard the horned god being turned into an evil being to reform pagans, but never heard the horned god was leading humanity to knowledge, art, language --"out of the woods," so to speak, which still is in the Christian myth-tree of knowledge and as a snake guide too. Maybe I'm a bit thick, but knew next to nothing about the "horned god." So much in this video! Thank-you. Loved it.
I agree with you. Christianity vilified a lot of pagan iconography. Hooves and horned head is associated with the devil and also snakes were revered in many ancient cultures but in the Judeo-christian snakes are evil.
Yes, the myth of the tree and the serpent and the emergence of man has a lot of resonances with the horned god, I should have talked about that 😂 not thick at all, very insightful of you ☺️
Your mention of Artemis/Diana leading the Wild Hunt in Greek myth is so interesting as she also wears a crescent moon on her head, is associated with fertility and birth, with crossroads and transitional states, with the wilderness and wild animals - with her most sacred animal being the deer. I could go on listing things but you do likely already know 😊 I just had to comment as it is so strikingly similar 🌙 Really enjoy your research (and the "non-academic" theories) and your style of storytelling! Another thought: Diana was claimed during the witch trials of Europe and Britain to lead witches in a spectral hunt - so I guess the Diana and Cernunnos connection was established clearly in their minds at that point.
"If you're meditating you can't be thinking about... tits all day, can you?" Subscribed. Beautiful narrations throughout, and I'm fascinated with the connections you're noticing. Please keep going with this series.
I mean, I dunno, you can use anything as a focus. I'm not sure an erection would bother me when I'm meditating. It does sound like a challenge, though, I'd probably laugh too much to stay focused well. Tantric masturbation, I guess. It sounds doable, but ridiculous.
My name is Justin. Rather found you by accident, but I'm glad I spent the time. You and I share a lot of the same thoughts, and it is refreshing to hear a similar but different perspective. Here in my home Hekate is worshipped along side Cernunnos as both have similar aspects..
Very interesting! I loved the idea of horned god who helped humans to become humans. Slavs had an old goddess of fertility with moose or raindeer antlers. Big Dipper in the sky was a Mother Moose too.
The dolphin being ridden by a man on the Gundestrup cauldron is very reminiscent of the story of Dionysos turning the pirates into Dolphins. Dionysos is also often associated with Satyrs and Pans, who are horned half-animal half-human creatures. The use of hallucinogens and shamanism also aligns with Dionysos the God of Madness, Wine, and forest bacchanals of Maenads similar to the scene of Cernunnos among the animals and leaves.
Yes, that’s a great point there, also the vine imagery on the cauldron. Who knows. It may have held wine? Probably laced with something 😂 Good comment. Thanks
i can’t remember where i heard this but there’s a theory that dionysus is an evolution of the mycenaean greek underworld god zagreus and that his madness elements were his original ones based on the ancient greek god of sleep and dreams (hypnos) also being an underworld god this along with the surreal dream like imagery could further link zagreus/Dionysus and other gods of madness and the underworld with cernunnos
Loved this brother 🙏 Great vibes watching your merge with the forest , loved the insight and passion and line of enquiry 🙏 aligned perfectly thank you brother ✨
Thank you so much, Cernunnos is possibly my favorite god, and you did a great job with this! Also, your willingness and ability to draw these kinds of connections is exactly why you're my favorite. I love history and archaeology. I read and watch a lot about them, and I totally understand why academics need to be more conservative. But you explore and illuminate the deeper patterns that so clearly emerge from these stories. I think those deeper patterns that let us glimpse something bigger and older about ourselves. Maybe it's shared memory, or perhaps it's something to do with the nature of the human mind or the world itself. Either way, I think every glimpse brings us closer to who are are. And you do such a great job illustrating all of this. You bring it to life and place us right in the middle of it. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for these words, it really means a lot to have people appreciate what I do. Also, you’re my first patron so gratitude to you too my friend 🙏🦌🌳
First time viewer, and didn’t really know what to expect, stumbling onto this, but so very glad I did. Enjoyed every single minute, particularly the thorough and thoughtful examination of history/myth/story/etc., which bridged both chronological gaps and cultural barriers alike. 👏🙌
Very interesting video! I noticed too that a lot of the horned god images throughout the video specifically also feature a snake in some way-Vishnu has one around his shoulders, the image on the cauldron has one in hand, the one in that cave painting held a snake in the same hand, the Amazonian art has someone riding a snake. Which makes sense, there was a lot of linking of snakes to rebirth and healing/death with the whole shedding skin and venom being used heal and hurt.
This is beautiful. These are the kind of stories that truly inspire. I really enjoy the way you present this. I absolutely resonate with the thought that academics tend to trap the things they observe as opposed to tracking. I have felt that for a long time, but you are the first to say it in such a clear beautiful way. I look forward to more stories and folklore. W.A.I.N.E
just stumbled across this by accident - instant subscribe! Really interesting and informs a lot of stuff I've been learning about this subject. Plus the enthusiasm and delivery are top notch and make watching this video feel like hanging out with a mate who knows some very interesting stuff and is happy to share their knowledge.
@storycrow if you are interested you may check a character in Hindu mythology named risharinga. There is Hindu temples dedicated to him as well. The image is striking. How cross cultural references happen is amazing
I presented on that exact bowl at university drawing the same conclusions on shamanic tones and potential origins! I think your analysis overall deserves a lot more credit 👏 This video is just so good and people need to really consider the resonance of these connections.
@@achilles7607ooooooh. Joseph Campbell is a great place to start. Also. Mircea Elaide. Perhaps Jung’s memories, dreams, reflections, and anything g by Heinrich zimmer. And of course keep watching my videos. Thanks for the support 🙏😊
Wow. Hats off. Great information with personality to hold your attention. Best video on Cernunnos on youtube. Loved it. Thanks for the great work and content.
i had a random deep interest in cernunnos in the latter 2010s, this video just brought it back i always feel more alive in natural areas, especially from forests, its hard to describe but its an undeniable mystical presence, makes sense how people would associate the forest with deities, wood nymphs and what not
I personally believe that his antlers are made out of wood, basically tree branch antlers, which symbolize his mastery over plant life as well as animal life.
Ok, I'm only at 00:53, so I don't know yet if it's going to be discussed, but what's the difference between Cernunnos & Herne? I've heard folk say that Herne is another name for Cernunnos, but that never sat well with me.
I wouldn’t say they are one and the same. It doesn’t sit well with me either when people mash together figures from different times and equate them - even if there is a link. Cernunnos is a Gallic Celtic deity, and herne is a figure from much later English folklore. But they are connected through a web of symbolism and perhaps represent similar things to the deep mind
When I was around 5 years old, I had a dream of what I thought was God, but he had antlers and was hanging on my wall like a mounted deer head. He was telling me something serious and told me I was going to "forget". I remember insisting I would not forget. I have no idea what it was he was telling me now. I was in my 20s when I saw a candle holder that was carved into the image of Cernunnos and got chills .... my dream God was Cernunnos. It was a strange moment.
His name is Nero and he’s a Romanian rescue (or an ancient being trapped in dog form, I’ve yet to work it out) thank you so much. Never been called a film maker before but I do spend a lot of time editing 😆🙏✨
The weird thing is. once on a psilocybin trip when i meditated and quieted my mind I heard a voice in my head saying eat.... Eat air... I laughed and started breathing the way it wanted and before you know it I felt my body get tingly and very light like I was floating, then next thing I knew I was in a place in my head slowly going down beneath the ground and I could see the dirt and root systems going throughout the soil but to my left looked like bark and the trunk of a big tree that kept going down all the way to the bottom. And there was a horned man meditating at the base of a tree. Eyes were just white and he was in the shadows so hard to see much. But just thought I would share that. It felt kind of earie and it was dark, I felt scared but kind of welcomed.
I tried to follow quite a similar trajectory in in tracking Dionysus. I personally conceive of Pashupati, Bada Dev, Shiva, Dionysus, Bacchus, Cernunnos, Green Man, Wild Man, Osiris, Baphomet and Christ/Satan as a sort of continuum of various ways that this deity who is part god, part human and part animal. I like to think that here are potential etymological connections between the names Bacchus/❛Puck❜ and the word ❛buck❜. You touched on Cernunnos as being a kind of Christ figure, but I find that Ceurnunnos more closely equates to Dionysus, whom imperial religion (ie, Christianity) split into the bipolar elements of Jesus and Satan. I see Cernunnos as retaining the same type of wholeness that is present in the figure of Dionysus and Shiva, rather than the being a purely ❛good❜ figure as was Jesus. He is a god of life AND death, of darknes AND light. He is the image of the completely whole man. 😈
Totally agree. Dionysus is such a fascinating enigma to me. He’s a part of this story too. I wish we knew more of what went on in his cult. Your etymological theory is interesting too. Like Mythology, I think it’s much more of a labyrinth or a maze even, then people sometimes assume. Always more connections, not less.
Lots of fascinating connections here. It would be interesting to follow up the part that star-based mythological figures like Orion (the hunter sign) might be interconnected with this cultic lineage. Also, from a folkloric angle, how the traditions surrounding the figure of Robin Hood might tie in with the 'green man/ green knight' archetypes.
The connection to the past is on my channel, I found the quartz crystals and stones these people created. Some beasts on them, only need one minute of your time.
Very interesting! And pretty much convincing. Greetings from Poland. As you probably now, there are Celtic traces in southern Poland. The most important ones are around the Sleza range, not far away from my place (city of Opole). Me and my wife go there once in a while. The range is really three mountains. The highest one (Sleza) was connected with the Celtic solar rituals, and the lower one (Radunia) was evidently connected with the lunar rituals. Both are fantastic places. Anyway, thank you very much for the story. Is that a bottle of beer, by the way?
I can see you in the olde days in a warm hearth cave telling us about the tales of the Gods. It's comforting. Edit/add on: I'm sitting here. Listening and Watching this man speak with such Wild Passion, Sitting in EXACTLY the same position as the Horned God. I'm just in Awe at the way the Spirit takes over and you take on the essence of what's being spoken about. I mean all you needed was a horned mask yourself and I'd say you were in a state of trance.
I was thinking that during the edit, that I was doing the posture of the gundestrupp bowl. Must have been unconscious 😂 Thanks for watching my friend 🙏
Eden - Elen, the thorn crowned god who could eat from the tree of life without being poisoned. Also known as Beal Samhan, or Baal Sammin. Baphomet, Orion, Horus. Holding the serpent & ring, Drace & Ursa Minor. The Ring & Rod. The female and male side of the god in balance.
I really enjoyed this. I thank the algorithm god and will now sub. The amount of effort he put into the research, the beautiful scenery while he speaks, and the enthusiasm for telling this story. All amazing!
Yes indeed. He is the oldest god. He's been around in many pantheons. India: Pashupati Celtic: Cernunnos Scandinavia: Wodanaz Slavic: Veles Greek: Pan Roman: Faunus Frankish: Baphomet Hail the horned one! He's the god before all gods who shall endure to the end of the earth and beyond!🤘👹😈🖤
Father sky and Mother earth both work hand in hand and always have. One just isn't the same without the other, so I don't understand when people try and say one is the first god or better ect.. it shows their ignorance really.
I really appreciated this video, your style is great, as you said, as a folkloreist you're more about the flesh and blood of it rather than some dry academic approach
I really appreciate your content and they way you presented this topic in a really inmersive way. This is one of the deitys i most like to learn to and you expanded on it in a brillant way connecting roads/dots from all over the world. Amazing job. Big hug from Argentina.
Awesome tales ! I've been watching your videos lately and thanks for sharing these, mate ! Love the connections you've made with Wotten and other dieties from other mythologies, Cernunnos is a really insteresting figure !
Thanks for the incredible video. I have been drawn to Cernunnos ever since I had a spiritual awakening in the difficult times of 2020. I have written a musical piece about him called Cernunnos : An Dia Adharcach (The Horned God).
Wow. Thank you so much for this informative, entertaining, deep dive into Cernunnos. I've tried to learn more about Cernunnos from other you tube presenters but none have been as interesting or as thorough as you have been in this presentation. Absolutely enjoyed learning and hearing the stories. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to exploring more and hearing new things.
He is the Father of all the Gods. Lord of the Forests and Skies, Guardian and Consort to the Great Mother. What I used to describe the Master of the Hunt in a piece of flash fiction. Very interesting figure.
1st time here. Thoroughly enjoyed, and was amazed by how much you covered without getting sidetracked or belaboring anything. Also, I could feel your enthusiasm, which is contagious enough I've subscribed. BTW, yes, you are cool, and I'd totally join you on a walk if I could.
I study Shamanism, and also perceived him to be Shamanic. As the boat man, could be seen as an exorcist/Shaman that is helping souls cross over. Horns are also seen on Indigenous Shaman drawings.
Great stuff my friend. There is a font in Brecon cathedral that they found in a field nearby with a horned god on it. I've always loved how imagery and ideas are able to travel through dogma and remain relevant. Keep up the storytelling.
Fantastic… I myself own almost every “ holy book” and “occult book” I can get my hands on. I have also seen the same connection to Shiva and Oden and some of the Fae spirits of nature to the horned God of old and new. I really enjoyed watching and learning from someone else’s, very similar perspective. Thank you 😊 I ❤ it!!
This is peak Cernunnos content 🦌 the comments are very insightful as well. I was a little sad when the Reims Relief didn't appear in the video as it's my favorite Cernunnos piece and I love to hear people's thoughts on it, but you gave me more to think about for sure!
Yes, I didn’t even feature an image of it did I? Big oversight on my part. That’s what comes of not really planning your videos 😂 Maybe in ‘part 2’ … 🤔
thanks for watching and commenting 🦌✨🌙
The forest in the background looks so beautiful, like a painting
It is a beautiful, tiny, tiny scrap of ancient British forest. 🌳
The autumn vegetation makes me feel particularly reflective of the Celts and their belief in Cernunnos. You can almost feel his silent presence there, looming in the musty decay of the leaves, and can imagine the way the Celts may have felt looking out into the eyes of the forest from the warmth of their fires and relative safety of their camps and hamlets.
Looks that way
Thanks!
No problem ☺️
Man, that would be awesome. You are doing an amazing job. Would love to hear your thoughts on Avalon
Oh hey, and thanks for the super thanks!
Avalon. I live about 45 minutes away from Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, so I probably should 🤷♂️🌳 🍏😂
You can see the Awen alive in your stories and in your love for them. Keep crushing it dude you’re a legend .
Cheers mate. Thanks for the support ☺️🙏👍🦌
Whilst hiking in n the great Canadian shield a couple weeks ago.... I found a set of antlers. Oddly, a week or so later I felt the urge to listen to Celtic music. I've never done this. Ever. Suddenly I am now a fan of Celtic music... With that discovery, I felt interested in learning about Celtic mythology. I then found cernnunos.... Now I have found you!
This far I'm loving your style of communication and forthcoming position... In conjunction with your creativity and storytelling... You also look like we might have shared ancestry. I'm Canadian but blood wise I'm 40 percent eaten European but the rest is a mix of English Scottish Scandinavian...
This is… very interesting. We’re sent clues in the most unusual of ways and clearly something was giving you a nudge. I’ve got distant family over in Canada, mainly Newfoundland. Heaps of Irish and South West English over there… good luck on your journeying. Love your beautiful country. All that deep deep Wild.
Yeah I’m British /Irish and A bit of Scandinavian, but hey we’re all mongrels on these islands. So you lot are too most likely 😂
Julie Fowlis is a top recommendation for Gaelic folk singing, it's almost like a rap 👍
Thanks! ✝✡
Thank you my friend 🙏✨☺️
Really like the way you have connected Shiva and Odin with Cernunnos. Amongst others. Totally agree with your web connection concept between older and newer Gods. They are all one in the same IMO, just modified through time and culture based on similar mythology. Different but similar myths for different folk in different areas, all of the same entity (whatever that is). The horned God seems to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest of the so labelled Gods. Will be watching again - great storytelling yet again - love it.
Yes it’s a bit ‘Million Masks of God’ isn’t it?
Thanks for the support friend 🙏 🦌 🌙
@@TheStoryCrowthe oldest god is the sun. How is this even a question?
Well Yahweh seems like a new boy then 😂
bratty child !@@strangetrip837
@@jessejennings3828how is there a question?
Who, or what invented it?
I really enjoyed this video and think you make some good points, particularly by connecting the figure to Woden/Odin as well as the Indus horned god.
But I do think that some of the connections you draw are based on outdated ideas we take for granted, for example, that the Wild Hunt is an actual archetype across european cultures rather than a modern invention we try to squeeze various disparate stories of ghostly/divine/elven processions into. Mythillogical did a really good job of looking into the actual sources on that, I recommend their video on it. I also think the idea that Siberian or Amazonian tribes have remained unchanged for thousands of years is a very outdated idea, especially with recent discoveries about possible urban societies in the Amazon.
Again though, great video, I'll continue to watch more since I think your universalist approach where you try to make connections between different cultures is similar to my own approach.
I was reading about the ancient British constellations recently in Dani Robertson’s book All Through the Night. Researching further I learned that the constellation Orion was known as either Mabon or Cernyn (Cernunnos) to the ancients. If we look at the stars in Orion they overlap the image of Cernunnos on the Gunderstrup Cauldron perfectly.
Now that is interesting. I had no idea, I want to read this book now. I’ll definitely be looking at Orion in a new light. Cheers for this! 🦌 💫 🙏
@@TheStoryCrow Dani Robertson is the Dark Skies officer for North Wales. It’s only recently I learned about the old British constellations and their associated mythologies. It’s a shame that most things Celtic seem to have been sidelined in favour of the Classical. The constellations were taught are of Greek and Arabic origin. One wonders why
Really? That is exciting!
@@drowsyZot oh yes. The old British equivalent of the Gemini twins Castor and Pollux are Gwyn and Gwythyr, at war with one another over the love of a woman. They symbolise the fight between summer and winter I think.
@@TreforTreforgan that is marvelous! Now I need to read up on constellations from the British isles!
Mythological Emergence is an interesting concept. You could say the woes of human existence are universal, and thus so are our stories.
I really appreciate what you are saying. Ive been saying this for the past 5 years. Its good to see I wasnt the only one who could see the link.
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I grew up in a fairly isolated valley in West Cumbria. I spent my early to mid teens roving alone through the surrounding forests and in my mid teens I encountered the antlered god. It was one mid summer night, when a full moon hung over the valley and I felt his mighty presence hanging extremely strong on the night. My father was interested in the modern witchcraft movement that was very popular at the time, so I can't say that there was no external nudge there, but what I found in the wild was something very ancient and not easily bound to contemporary pagan thought. He is a proto-deity, who echoes through the later gods, as you describe, and he has his roots in the pre-agricultural human past. Hence, he is not a king but a shaman; not a ruler but a teacher.
I've absorbed a lot of knowledge about him. I prefer to call him 'Herne' because, although I know the available provenance of that name is recent, I feel that it is more fitting and it distinguishes him from Cernunnos, who I think is a Romanised version of him. I know of Pashupati and his earlier Indus valley incarnations and I agree with the Odin link. I think Odin was originally a shamanic god, who had aspects of kingship and warlikeness grafted onto him. There is a lot of Herne in the one-eyed stranger who walks the world watching all. I also think Manannan, another of my patron deities, has a touch of Herne about him, being the trickster-magician-teacher.
I'm not so certain that the trope that Christians took the old horned god and demonized him as the Devil is correct. The horn imagery comes from the book of Revelation, which draws heavily from other pre-Christian biblical apocalyptic writings, in which horns represent power. It's unlikely that this related originally to a pagan deity. Satan originally represented the urge within Yahweh to tear down his creation and start again. It was the Hebrew flirtation with Zoroastrianism that turned him into a sort of Anti-God.
I have a theory about the Wild Hunt. I was out walking one night in Cumbria, when the sky suddenly seemed to be filled with the cries of hounds. We had a local fox hunt, so I knew that sound very well, and I thought for a moment that it was the Wild Hunt itself, but it was a flock of migrating geese. The sounds are eerily similar and I can understand how this might have been integrated into legend.
Your video didn't contain any fresh information for me, but it was good to revisit what I found in my own journey, and it's the first time I've seen it collected in one place, which is quite an achievement in itself. Thank you.
Great comment. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge 👍🦌🌳
I got a knight out der in that worlderness. Following on same stretch of rd. I actually thought it was person. Try shaking its hand just went through. It had a old style basic lamp. I thought it was serial killer. Id run or bike off it still follow but after a mile it be gone.
Everything you said was fascinating. You should make videos.
Since you have witchcraft in your family, you are very vulnerable to all things paranormal. We had witchcraft in our family it sticks like a glue. You won´t listen to this because you are fascinated by what you are writing about but anyway - maybe one day near or far you will remember it when the time comes and fascination will turn into need for freedom. So here it comes - get away from it it will ruin your life or of your childern and their children and generations to come.
These things are all the same. They only want your destruction. No matter if it´s hindu gods or european pagan gods, they are demons nothing more. There is nothing interesting about them they are the most boring of all creation. Every little bug every little dandelion are far more fascinationg. You won´t know now because likely you need to get burnt to be rid of your fascination.
But you don´t have to. You can get out now, just distance yourself from it and never look back. You don´t have to go trhough all the pain when you are in too deep and in need of exorcisms.
So think of this as your free pass to freedom with no pain at all. Just walk away. You can do it you have free will.
When you are in too deep because you didn´t walk away and sooner or later it will start to cost you more than you are willing to pay or you have children and you don´t want them to pay - there is still way out.
Walking away is no longer an option because you are in too deep. You got deceived by most boring and manipulative things in existence which does happen. It sucks but it happens. There is still way out. Jesus. So now you cannot listen because you are not there but you will remember later on. Call Him. He is the only God.
There has never been any desire in Jahve to destroy his creatin and start over. If there was Jesus wouldn´t die on cross. Satan is free being with his own free will.
It sounds like mythology applied to Christianity. It´s not true. You will see one day when the payment gets too high. He doesn´t destroy he saves. He will save you as well. And your children if you are in it long enough to pass it to them. Like it was in our family.
But that´s future which may never happen because you have an open window now. You can leave it behind, you can stop your fascination with demonic and fall in love with only God there is. Jesus.
Now I am talking to your future self who is beaten down with supernatural enough to be able to listen: you missed your window but there is still way out. Just remember this. Call to Jesus.
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Wow I'm so glad I found this video and comment! I once read a description for a visualisation to visit the 'World Tree' travel to its branches and meet an 'spirit animal guide'.
I didn't think much of it I was just curious, however that night during sleep, it was as if I awoke in front of the tree in a magically beautiful garden as the book had described as the visualisation. Sat at it's base, as if the tree were it's throne, was a being cross legged and horned.
I originally took it for male, but after reflection later I think it's hermaphrodite. It's got the obvious part man part animal aspect, but I also got a vibe of it being made out of a cross between bark and obsidian, vegetable and mineral too.
I could absolutely understand if someone got the association of 'demonic' with it but to me it's energy was totally stags headbutting and birds singing rather than malice.
I had a distinct impression that I wasn't supposed to be there, I also was afraid of it, and I could tell it could see through me and knew my thoughts, and it was amused at my disorientation. I totally had that feeling of wanting to back out ASAP but fearing that showing weakness or running might make it chase me and then 'awoke' again as normal, I managed to write it off as a dream for a couple of decades.
A few things made me reconsider, one being the idea of archetypes. Another was chatting to someone online I'd come across about their NDE, they described the typical journey, through the Darkness into the Light,
then their account was something I've never come across before, they described knowing that they were about to meet someone extremely important and powerful as they were heading towards it, they instinctively recognised it's presence and knew it would be the one who took them to their particular destination, not necessarily the judge but something.
They were resuscitated before they got close enough to see the being or know what it looked like, but their description was that they could see the location that they were headed towards, and it was the World Tree and it was sat at the bottom according to them.
I then discovered that the description of one of the duties for Pan according to the ancient Greeks was a Psychopomp, to the escort the soul to the afterlife...
Hey this is cool man. I bet you gonna be on Rogan in no time, this is right up his alley no lie. keep rockin it brother
Bring it on Joe. Love me a bit of Rogan 😂
As a Pagan that has Cernunnos showing up often in my journey this was a very enjoyable and educational video! Definitely subscribed and will be going through your backlog, I thoroughly enjoy your storytelling and how you explain things with such enthusiasm.
I had never thought of some of the connections you made, but they make perfect sense. I fully believe that all Gods and Goddesses are facets of the same overarching spiritual energy, shown through the lens of whatever culture is recording them. So it makes sense to me that Cernunnos has so many similarities to other Gods. The Shaman aspect is fascinating and I really think you're on to something there! I think it's a shame that many historians and archeologists tend to be very tunnel visioned/closed minded...it seems they get an idea of what some thing means and they stick with it despite anything contrary or complimenting it, especially when it comes from a different culture than the one they study. I agree with you that Cernunnos is more of a guide, for a myriad of things, hence him being linked to so many things: animals, fertility, commerce, water/travel, death/mortality etc.
Thank you again for such a lovely video!
Very glad you enjoyed my musings. More deity videos to come. Thanks for watching and engaging 🙏✨🦌🌲
Fellow pagan here! Very cool to see someone with the same view of divinity as me, I also think gods are just highly focused views of universal energies or whatever youd wanna call it
@@tux_duh Awesome! And yeah, I feel like if others could just see every God as one in the same energy, things would be so much more peaceful in the world. Like I follow different Gods, someone else follows different Gods, cool, we're both getting what we need from the universe XD
Interesting how much Cernunnos symbology and imagetic is common to Hekate, both highly revered in modern paganism. A bridge between the wild, the human and the godly.
Absolutely. Good insights there. Thanks for sharing them 🦌🌳✨🌲
Fantastic! I love overlap of deities from different pantheons and this is next level origin stories.
Thank you!
Thank YOU! 🙏
First time viewer I am a Norse pagan and I don't know much about the many other pantheons and gods aside from mine and this has given me a whole new insight I will definitely be watching more of your videos and you have a new subscriber thank you for what you do
Good to hear James. I mean to do an odin / Woden one soon
Literally the same.
Anglo saxon heathen here, and I'm in the same boat. The indo european connection between all European religious cultures is extremely interesting, I love to study the comparisons and look at how the cultures differentiated over the years.
I really enjoyed this video! It was fascinating to learn about the history of the Horned God and its connection to nature, duality, and transformation. As I celebrate the new Sun today (December 22), I found especially meaningful to connect these ideas to the winter solstice in my “worship”. Astronomically, the solstice marks the suns lowest point in the skyward appears to “stand still” for three days before gradually rising higher again - symbolizing death and rebirth. The Horned Gods duality - life and death, crossroads and renewal - mirrors this natural cycle. The sun’s journey through the year has always been a guide for human understanding of life and time, with half of the year symbolizing waning energy and the other half renewal and growth. It also makes sense how these ancient beliefs evolved into modern religious narratives. The cross roads, death, and rebirth aligns so well with astronomical phenomenon of the sons pause and it’s returned a strength just as Christ story mirrors the cycle. I would like to know more about how the Horned God might play into this cycle of rebirth with the three days specifically. For me, these symbols are a way to honor the natural cycles of life, death, and renewal. They feel deeply real and grounding and remind me that our stories are often just reflections of the cosmos. Thank you for creating such a thoughtful and insightful video, It deepened in my understanding of these connections and give me a lot to reflect on.
I read somewhere about the similarities between Siberian Shamans gaining enlightenment through sitting in a tree for days without food and Odin sacrificing himself to himself in the tree to gain wisdom. Which is where he lost his Eye and he had a spear through his side.There was also a suggested link there with Jesus on the wooden cross with a spear through his side. The theme I guess is one of rebirth through ordeal.
That’s excellent, I didn’t know that about arboreal Siberian shamans. Good possible link there. Thank you 🙏
@@TheStoryCrow No worries. I think it was a book by Brian Bates, The Real Middle-Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages. Think you'd find it interesting.
Hermes and Thoth are closely associated, Thoth is a magician and guide often connected to the moon. He's depicted sometimes wearing a crescent shaped sun disk on his head. I wonder if there's a connection to an earlier horned deity that became syncretized with the sun worship of Egypt, changing the horns to a solar disk.
I am so happy I came across your video! I've been obsessed with deer, wolves, and antlered iconography since I was very little, from reoccurring dreams, and a fascination with animals and nature has been an important part of my life. I love learning about Cernunnos or just nature deities in general. Subscribing to hear more about folklore and other gods! :)
Similarly, I have also drawn Jungian-oriented conclusions about this deity manifesting in other cultures, so it's neat to hear that sentiment echoed.
Pleased to hear it. Welcome! 🙏✨🦌
As someone who generally forms my own spiritual beliefs, being informed from various religions spirituality, personal experiences and philosophies, without choosing any particular one, I really enjoyed this video. And as someone who doesn’t attribute myself to Wicca nor neo-paganism, but is very interested in these ideas, I would appreciate it so so so much, as I believe others would too, if you’d make a video in the style about the triple goddess as well?? please ❤ thanks for the amazing content and storytelling!
That is a great idea, I’ve been thinking about something along those lines for a while
Yes!!! Please!!
Yes, agree
Love how you did the finding. Top Notch, love the background, excellent, keep this ip, stay head up, you are fabulous.I'm talking it all in.
Thank you. Those are some zany emojis 😂
Thanks emoji for your fanzanity. Love to you, loved that talk it was fabulous.@@TheStoryCrow
Thank you for this wonderful weave, bringing together the different threads of the Horned God. One of my favourite beings in Welsh mythology is Arawn, and I have always thought that his story reflects a far older aspect, and that he is indeed connected with a wild hunt, or that he is an aspect of death: his grey horse, and grey cloak and his ability to traverse worlds.
Yes I should have talked more about him. Perhaps in a video about the wild hunt. Thanks for watching ☺️👍🦌
Gwyn ap Nudd is a closer correlation to Cernunnos . He is a leader of the Wild Hunt , though he is not specifically spoken of as being horned .
That works too. Kings of Annwn 🌙
Thank you man, I like your style. The whole time I was considering the Dionysus / Cernunnos crossover. Shiva is the Vedic Dionysus afterall.
Thank you friend 🙏 🍷 🍇
so my friend sent me this because I'm a practicing witch and Cernunnos is actually my patron! I'm super glad she did. this video was so wonderfully researched and just incredible to listen to and your passion for the subject really does come across. not only that, but I've done a lot of research on this deity and yet you've still brought ideas to my attention that i never previously considered - with images I'd never seen before too! the history of the horned god archetype has always been fascinating in how long it's survived and in just how much power it holds as a concept and i do believe Cernunnos is the purest form of that archetype. the links back to woden make so much sense, as do the links back to Greco-Roman myth and honestly everything here is so well thought out and webbed together so thank you for the time you've spent on this video. this is absolutely going in my Cernunnos resources for when fellow pagans and witches would like to know more ❤️
Really glad to hear that. Thanks for writing. Wish you well on your journey through the forest 🙏✨🦌🌳
Everything you’re saying has not only confirmed my research but has gave clarity and confirmed for me at least that an experience I had with Lord Shiva was genuine. Thank you 🙏
I have heard the horned god being turned into an evil being to reform pagans, but never heard the horned god was leading humanity to knowledge, art, language --"out of the woods," so to speak, which still is in the Christian myth-tree of knowledge and as a snake guide too. Maybe I'm a bit thick, but knew next to nothing about the "horned god." So much in this video! Thank-you. Loved it.
I agree with you. Christianity vilified a lot of pagan iconography. Hooves and horned head is associated with the devil and also snakes were revered in many ancient cultures but in the Judeo-christian snakes are evil.
Yes, the myth of the tree and the serpent and the emergence of man has a lot of resonances with the horned god, I should have talked about that 😂 not thick at all, very insightful of you ☺️
Your mention of Artemis/Diana leading the Wild Hunt in Greek myth is so interesting as she also wears a crescent moon on her head, is associated with fertility and birth, with crossroads and transitional states, with the wilderness and wild animals - with her most sacred animal being the deer. I could go on listing things but you do likely already know 😊 I just had to comment as it is so strikingly similar 🌙 Really enjoy your research (and the "non-academic" theories) and your style of storytelling! Another thought: Diana was claimed during the witch trials of Europe and Britain to lead witches in a spectral hunt - so I guess the Diana and Cernunnos connection was established clearly in their minds at that point.
Yep. All good points re the queen of the wild hunt. She needs her own video really. Thanks for watching 🙏 🦌 🌙 ✨ 🌳
Hecate!
I felt a little disappointed at the male emphasis, I've always felt it was more genderless when looking at full contexts@@TheStoryCrow
Artemis/Diana isn't associated with 'birth' as she is a virgin or a maiden.
"If you're meditating you can't be thinking about... tits all day, can you?" Subscribed.
Beautiful narrations throughout, and I'm fascinated with the connections you're noticing.
Please keep going with this series.
I’m glad I left that bit in there 🙃 thanks for the sub 🙏☺️
that made me laugh pretty hard, great timing on the delivery 😂😂
I meditate about tits all the time
I second that, I love old mythology and I cannot wait to see more of this
I mean, I dunno, you can use anything as a focus. I'm not sure an erection would bother me when I'm meditating. It does sound like a challenge, though, I'd probably laugh too much to stay focused well. Tantric masturbation, I guess. It sounds doable, but ridiculous.
I’d love if you would do a video talking more about Indus Valley civilization and ancient Indo-Europeans
Noted ☺️👍
Your hand gestures are on point, absolute artist at that
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Your “grass root” intro alone got my sub, Sir. Well done.
Glad I didn’t edit it out then 😊
My name is Justin. Rather found you by accident, but I'm glad I spent the time. You and I share a lot of the same thoughts, and it is refreshing to hear a similar but different perspective. Here in my home Hekate is worshipped along side Cernunnos as both have similar aspects..
Glad to hear it Justin! Welcome 🙏🐍🌚
Very interesting! I loved the idea of horned god who helped humans to become humans. Slavs had an old goddess of fertility with moose or raindeer antlers. Big Dipper in the sky was a Mother Moose too.
The dolphin being ridden by a man on the Gundestrup cauldron is very reminiscent of the story of Dionysos turning the pirates into Dolphins. Dionysos is also often associated with Satyrs and Pans, who are horned half-animal half-human creatures. The use of hallucinogens and shamanism also aligns with Dionysos the God of Madness, Wine, and forest bacchanals of Maenads similar to the scene of Cernunnos among the animals and leaves.
Yes, that’s a great point there, also the vine imagery on the cauldron. Who knows. It may have held wine? Probably laced with something 😂
Good comment. Thanks
i can’t remember where i heard this but there’s a theory that dionysus is an evolution of the mycenaean greek underworld god zagreus and that his madness elements were his original ones based on the ancient greek god of sleep and dreams (hypnos) also being an underworld god this along with the surreal dream like imagery could further link zagreus/Dionysus and other gods of madness and the underworld with cernunnos
Romans documented a druidic/Celtic Dionysos female cult on the coast of Gaulish France..
Didn’t know that… 🙏
Makes sense. I like it! 🍷 🌙✨
Fantastic Love the links and comparative folklore aspects Thankyou
It's also the oldest and first deity in ancient India and considered the First Yogi or holy man...The description is exactly the same...
Loved this brother 🙏 Great vibes watching your merge with the forest , loved the insight and passion and line of enquiry 🙏 aligned perfectly thank you brother ✨
I do love what you do... you're a phenomenal storyteller.
Cheers mate 🦌
I learned about Cernunnos through an anime (Rental Magica). One of the main characters invoke his name when using her most powerful spell
Sounds cool!
Thank you so much, Cernunnos is possibly my favorite god, and you did a great job with this!
Also, your willingness and ability to draw these kinds of connections is exactly why you're my favorite. I love history and archaeology. I read and watch a lot about them, and I totally understand why academics need to be more conservative. But you explore and illuminate the deeper patterns that so clearly emerge from these stories. I think those deeper patterns that let us glimpse something bigger and older about ourselves. Maybe it's shared memory, or perhaps it's something to do with the nature of the human mind or the world itself. Either way, I think every glimpse brings us closer to who are are. And you do such a great job illustrating all of this. You bring it to life and place us right in the middle of it. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for these words, it really means a lot to have people appreciate what I do. Also, you’re my first patron so gratitude to you too my friend 🙏🦌🌳
@@TheStoryCrow I am glad for the opportunity to support you and your work, thank you!
Oh just fantastic!! So well thought out and so enlightening!
Glad you enjoyed it!
First time viewer, and didn’t really know what to expect, stumbling onto this, but so very glad I did.
Enjoyed every single minute, particularly the thorough and thoughtful examination of history/myth/story/etc., which bridged both chronological gaps and cultural barriers alike. 👏🙌
Really glad to hear that, I’m pleased you stumbled across this channel. Thanks for saying hello 🦌 🌳 🌙
Same! I'm hooked
You tube videos stumble onto you actually... fate or algorithm? Only Woden knows.
Very interesting video! I noticed too that a lot of the horned god images throughout the video specifically also feature a snake in some way-Vishnu has one around his shoulders, the image on the cauldron has one in hand, the one in that cave painting held a snake in the same hand, the Amazonian art has someone riding a snake. Which makes sense, there was a lot of linking of snakes to rebirth and healing/death with the whole shedding skin and venom being used heal and hurt.
Good points ☝️
This is beautiful. These are the kind of stories that truly inspire. I really enjoy the way you present this. I absolutely resonate with the thought that academics tend to trap the things they observe as opposed to tracking. I have felt that for a long time, but you are the first to say it in such a clear beautiful way. I look forward to more stories and folklore. W.A.I.N.E
Thank you for saying that, I’ve been thinking this also for a long time, but had never articulated it. Thanks to the trees for inspiration 🌲 🌳
just stumbled across this by accident - instant subscribe! Really interesting and informs a lot of stuff I've been learning about this subject. Plus the enthusiasm and delivery are top notch and make watching this video feel like hanging out with a mate who knows some very interesting stuff and is happy to share their knowledge.
Welcome aboard my friend! 🙏✨🦌🔥🍻
Absolutely phenomenal break down! I learned so much in 38min, thank you for this.
@storycrow if you are interested you may check a character in Hindu mythology named risharinga. There is Hindu temples dedicated to him as well. The image is striking. How cross cultural references happen is amazing
I will do. Thank you friend 🙏 🧘♂️ 🕉️
I presented on that exact bowl at university drawing the same conclusions on shamanic tones and potential origins! I think your analysis overall deserves a lot more credit 👏
This video is just so good and people need to really consider the resonance of these connections.
That’s very interesting to hear, I didn’t think I was the only one. Thanks for writing 🙏🦌🌳
I want to be a mythologist and folklorist like you!
I love this!
Better get reading ☺️👍
@@TheStoryCrow I do and will. But I can also keep watching your videos 😉👍 that would help no?😊
@@TheStoryCrow also recommendations?
@@achilles7607ooooooh. Joseph Campbell is a great place to start. Also. Mircea Elaide. Perhaps Jung’s memories, dreams, reflections, and anything g by Heinrich zimmer. And of course keep watching my videos. Thanks for the support 🙏😊
Wow. Hats off. Great information with personality to hold your attention. Best video on Cernunnos on youtube. Loved it. Thanks for the great work and content.
Thank you 🙏🦌✨🌳🌙
i had a random deep interest in cernunnos in the latter 2010s, this video just brought it back
i always feel more alive in natural areas, especially from forests, its hard to describe but its an undeniable mystical presence, makes sense how people would associate the forest with deities, wood nymphs and what not
So true. Thanks for watching friend 🌲🌳✨🦌❄️
Absolutely awesome storytelling. Incredible. Love listening and watching!
It makes sense to me that we started monotheistic, moving to polytheistic, and back to monotheistic.
We didn’t. We started animistic, pantheistc, poly and out of that grew heno and monotheism.
This is wonderful! I can't express how delighted I am that you have decided to tell us this story and upload it on yt. thank you
Can’t express how delighted I am that people find value in these old gods and tales 😊🌞✨❄️
I personally believe that his antlers are made out of wood, basically tree branch antlers, which symbolize his mastery over plant life as well as animal life.
I love this! Been tracking the Horned One and the path led me here . Thank you for the clarity! The path doesn't seem so brambled now lol
Enjoy tracking through those brambley mythic ways 😉
Ok, I'm only at 00:53, so I don't know yet if it's going to be discussed, but what's the difference between Cernunnos & Herne? I've heard folk say that Herne is another name for Cernunnos, but that never sat well with me.
I wouldn’t say they are one and the same. It doesn’t sit well with me either when people mash together figures from different times and equate them - even if there is a link. Cernunnos is a Gallic Celtic deity, and herne is a figure from much later English folklore. But they are connected through a web of symbolism and perhaps represent similar things to the deep mind
When I was around 5 years old, I had a dream of what I thought was God, but he had antlers and was hanging on my wall like a mounted deer head. He was telling me something serious and told me I was going to "forget". I remember insisting I would not forget. I have no idea what it was he was telling me now. I was in my 20s when I saw a candle holder that was carved into the image of Cernunnos and got chills .... my dream God was Cernunnos. It was a strange moment.
Wow. That is very cool. Thanks for sharing 🦌 🙏 🌙
Cernunnos, Hornéd One,
Cernunnos, King of the Sun.
Hern Hunted and Hunter
Stag God of the Earth!
Fantastic content! I'm so glad to have found your channel!
Welcome aboard! 😊🦌
Very engaging story telling. ❤
New sub...
Welcome aboard Juno! ✨🦌
I had a woodpecker called Juno. Random factoid.
What's your nice dogs name? Thank you for sharing yourself and the grove.
You're a great folklorest and film maker🐕🍁
His name is Nero and he’s a Romanian rescue (or an ancient being trapped in dog form, I’ve yet to work it out) thank you so much. Never been called a film maker before but I do spend a lot of time editing 😆🙏✨
The weird thing is. once on a psilocybin trip when i meditated and quieted my mind I heard a voice in my head saying eat.... Eat air... I laughed and started breathing the way it wanted and before you know it I felt my body get tingly and very light like I was floating, then next thing I knew I was in a place in my head slowly going down beneath the ground and I could see the dirt and root systems going throughout the soil but to my left looked like bark and the trunk of a big tree that kept going down all the way to the bottom. And there was a horned man meditating at the base of a tree. Eyes were just white and he was in the shadows so hard to see much. But just thought I would share that. It felt kind of earie and it was dark, I felt scared but kind of welcomed.
Love this, and I can really relate 😂
Thanks for sharing 🙏
Didn't know what to expect with this and stayed till the end. Thanks! 🦌
Thanks for watching and staying ☺️
I tried to follow quite a similar trajectory in in tracking Dionysus. I personally conceive of Pashupati, Bada Dev, Shiva, Dionysus, Bacchus, Cernunnos, Green Man, Wild Man, Osiris, Baphomet and Christ/Satan as a sort of continuum of various ways that this deity who is part god, part human and part animal. I like to think that here are potential etymological connections between the names Bacchus/❛Puck❜ and the word ❛buck❜. You touched on Cernunnos as being a kind of Christ figure, but I find that Ceurnunnos more closely equates to Dionysus, whom imperial religion (ie, Christianity) split into the bipolar elements of Jesus and Satan. I see Cernunnos as retaining the same type of wholeness that is present in the figure of Dionysus and Shiva, rather than the being a purely ❛good❜ figure as was Jesus. He is a god of life AND death, of darknes AND light. He is the image of the completely whole man. 😈
Totally agree. Dionysus is such a fascinating enigma to me. He’s a part of this story too. I wish we knew more of what went on in his cult. Your etymological theory is interesting too. Like Mythology, I think it’s much more of a labyrinth or a maze even, then people sometimes assume. Always more connections, not less.
Thank you for linking things I have been thinking of myself for years
Pleasure my friend 🦌
Lots of fascinating connections here. It would be interesting to follow up the part that star-based mythological figures like Orion (the hunter sign) might be interconnected with this cultic lineage. Also, from a folkloric angle, how the traditions surrounding the figure of Robin Hood might tie in with the 'green man/ green knight' archetypes.
Oh totally agree with you re robin of da hood there 🌳
Interestingly someone else here mentioned Orion being linked to the horned god in Britain 🦌 💫
I seem to remember Stan Gooch makes that connection somewhere.
Thanks for opening another door to life 😎
More to come! 🚪 🦌
we need more storytellers we are dieing out fast soon there will be no connection to our past
Chill
Well thankfully there’s videos…………………….
We got this 👊
The connection to the past is on my channel, I found the quartz crystals and stones these people created. Some beasts on them, only need one minute of your time.
We are all echoes of the past.
That was absolutely fascinating thank you ❤❤
Very interesting! And pretty much convincing. Greetings from Poland. As you probably now, there are Celtic traces in southern Poland. The most important ones are around the Sleza range, not far away from my place (city of Opole). Me and my wife go there once in a while. The range is really three mountains. The highest one (Sleza) was connected with the Celtic solar rituals, and the lower one (Radunia) was evidently connected with the lunar rituals. Both are fantastic places. Anyway, thank you very much for the story. Is that a bottle of beer, by the way?
Ahhh that’s very cool. I’d love to visit Poland, your forests look amazing 🌳 🌲
I can see you in the olde days in a warm hearth cave telling us about the tales of the Gods. It's comforting.
Edit/add on:
I'm sitting here. Listening and Watching this man speak with such Wild Passion, Sitting in EXACTLY the same position as the Horned God.
I'm just in Awe at the way the Spirit takes over and you take on the essence of what's being spoken about.
I mean all you needed was a horned mask yourself and I'd say you were in a state of trance.
I was thinking that during the edit, that I was doing the posture of the gundestrupp bowl. Must have been unconscious 😂
Thanks for watching my friend 🙏
@@TheStoryCrow Truly in the moment. It's amazing to see.
Keep up the greatness!!
Eden - Elen, the thorn crowned god who could eat from the tree of life without being poisoned. Also known as Beal Samhan, or Baal Sammin. Baphomet, Orion, Horus. Holding the serpent & ring, Drace & Ursa Minor. The Ring & Rod. The female and male side of the god in balance.
I really enjoyed this. I thank the algorithm god and will now sub. The amount of effort he put into the research, the beautiful scenery while he speaks, and the enthusiasm for telling this story. All amazing!
Welcome aboard! All hail the algo gods! 🦌✨🙏
Yes indeed. He is the oldest god. He's been around in many pantheons.
India: Pashupati
Celtic: Cernunnos
Scandinavia: Wodanaz
Slavic: Veles
Greek: Pan
Roman: Faunus
Frankish: Baphomet
Hail the horned one! He's the god before all gods who shall endure to the end of the earth and beyond!🤘👹😈🖤
Had a feeling you would make the indus link. Good vid well presented.
🙏 🦌 thank you
Pan is considered the oldest god by the Egyptians way back. Probably is. Whatever one calls it.
Thank you for helping me connect back to my ancestors 🙏 🙌
Wonderful research 👏 but the life giving goddess mother came first 😅😂 but yeah, god of the wild totally resonate with the shamanic link. 😊
Oh, yeah, I’m with you there 🌳🙏✨
To who?
I agree. A Mother goddess or mother godesses were worshipped first owing to their symbol of fertility and tribal care.
I don't agree with you. That's a very neopagan attitude, the original gods were animal forms, not necessarily male or female, but most likely male.
Father sky and Mother earth both work hand in hand and always have. One just isn't the same without the other, so I don't understand when people try and say one is the first god or better ect.. it shows their ignorance really.
Fine storytelling - seated by a small fire in the Autumn woodland! And the old images are so beautiful. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it
I really appreciated this video, your style is great, as you said, as a folkloreist you're more about the flesh and blood of it rather than some dry academic approach
Thanks my antlered friend 🙏🦌
I really appreciate your content and they way you presented this topic in a really inmersive way. This is one of the deitys i most like to learn to and you expanded on it in a brillant way connecting roads/dots from all over the world.
Amazing job. Big hug from Argentina.
Gracias hermano 🇦🇷🦌🙏
Awesome tales ! I've been watching your videos lately and thanks for sharing these, mate ! Love the connections you've made with Wotten and other dieties from other mythologies, Cernunnos is a really insteresting figure !
Glad you’ve enjoyed them mate ♥️
Love this! Thank you so much for the video ♥️ I have been connecting to Cernunnos more lately ♥️
You're so welcome!
Thanks for the incredible video. I have been drawn to Cernunnos ever since I had a spiritual awakening in the difficult times of 2020. I have written a musical piece about him called Cernunnos : An Dia Adharcach (The Horned God).
Wow. Thank you so much for this informative, entertaining, deep dive into Cernunnos. I've tried to learn more about Cernunnos from other you tube presenters but none have been as interesting or as thorough as you have been in this presentation. Absolutely enjoyed learning and hearing the stories. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to exploring more and hearing new things.
Welcome aboard, and thank you for your words 🙏✨🦌☺️
He is the Father of all the Gods. Lord of the Forests and Skies, Guardian and Consort to the Great Mother. What I used to describe the Master of the Hunt in a piece of flash fiction. Very interesting figure.
1st time here. Thoroughly enjoyed, and was amazed by how much you covered without getting sidetracked or belaboring anything. Also, I could feel your enthusiasm, which is contagious enough I've subscribed. BTW, yes, you are cool, and I'd totally join you on a walk if I could.
Glad you enjoyed it! Many more videos and walks in forests to come 🌲🌳✨🦌🙏
I study Shamanism, and also perceived him to be Shamanic. As the boat man, could be seen as an exorcist/Shaman that is helping souls cross over. Horns are also seen on Indigenous Shaman drawings.
I am so happy I just found your channel. This is already amazing
Pleased to have ya on board 🙏✨☺️
What a lovely piece to listen to and so important to connect back to that ancient root so many have become disconnected from Thank you 🙏💜🔥💜
Glad you enjoyed it mate 🦌
Lovely presentation, both you and that stunning forest.
The forest is a beauty. Thanks for watching 🙏🌳🌲✨
I'm DELIGHTED to have stumbled upon this video! I love Cernunnos! Thank you for sharing this beautiful info!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🦌
Great stuff my friend. There is a font in Brecon cathedral that they found in a field nearby with a horned god on it. I've always loved how imagery and ideas are able to travel through dogma and remain relevant. Keep up the storytelling.
Shut the fridge. Are you kidding? Would love to see that. Send me more information!
@@TheStoryCrow google the font Brecon priory. It's pretty cool.
Love the artwork. Cute dog too… ❤
🐕 ❤️
Fantastic… I myself own almost every “ holy book” and “occult book” I can get my hands on. I have also seen the same connection to Shiva and Oden and some of the Fae spirits of nature to the horned God of old and new. I really enjoyed watching and learning from someone else’s, very similar perspective. Thank you 😊 I ❤ it!!
Another great video. Thank you.
Brilliant video sir . Huge amount if information - Absolutely agree with you and your connections. Thoroughly enjoyed it - thank you
Glad you enjoyed it you silver fox