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Cernunnos - Celtic God

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Definition: Cernunnos is a horned god associated with fertility, the underworld, and wealth, and especially associated with horned animals like the bull, stag, and a ram-headed serpent. Cerunnos is born at the winter solstice and dies at the summer solstice.

The horned or antlered-god Cernunnos may be shown in tailor pose (sitting cross-legged), with torques around his neck, a sack, a ram-headed serpent, and a female companion holding a cornucopia, or with some combination of these, according to "Cernunnos: Origin and Transformation of a Celtic Divinity," by Phyllis Fray Bober; American Journal of Archaeology, (Jan., 1951), pp. 13-51.

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