Cernunnos & The Horned God | Celtic Deity or Ancient Guide to Mankind?
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- 🌲 Step into the ancient forest with Story Crow, your guide through the labyrinth of folklore and mythology in the latest "Deity Tracker" episode.
🦌 Join me as we unravel the mysteries of the various Horned Gods, Lords of the Animals and Wild Men that have sprung from the wellspring of the collective human unconscious over the millennia.
We will look at the Celtic Deity Cernunnos from the Pillar of the Boatman, as well as the Antlered God of the Gundestrop Cauldron and the Horned God of the Indus Valley Seal.
We will look at other related deities in comparative mythologies from India to Scandinavia; including Shiva, Mercury, Odin, and Pan. We will look at the Shamanism of Neolithic Europe, Siberia and the Amazon and we will journey through European, English and Celtic folklore with figures such as Herne the Hunter, the Green Man, and the God of the Wild Hunt.
Finally we will ask the question, is this the oldest deity and ancient guide to mankind?
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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?
"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 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...
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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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 🙏✨🦌🌳
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
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 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.
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! 🍷 🌙✨
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.
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 🙏 🍷 🍇
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 🙏🐍🌚
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 👍
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!
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!!
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! 🙏✨🦌
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 🙏
You've validated my feelings with this video. I appreciate you.
And I appreciate that ✨🙏
I could sit round that fire just listening happy as a lark.
🙏🔥🍺🌳☺️
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.
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 ♥️
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 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 😉
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 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 🙏🦌✨🌳🌙
@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 🙏 🧘♂️ 🕉️
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@@sheamccurdycheers mate ❤🙏🌳🦌
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
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 😂
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 🦌
This video was right on! Very enjoyable. I'd love to see Story Crow do a deep dive into Woden / Odin - another pagan god that is a "psychopomp" (kind of like Cernunnos). Subscribed! Blessed Yule, y'all.
Oooh that’s definitely in the pipeline 👍
Thanks for watching 🙏☺️
@@TheStoryCrow Thanks for the awesome content! Loving your channel! Happy Yule 🌟
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.
Nicely done! I recently was made aware of a compelling argument for Cain ( Biblical repsentation) being a representation of Cernunnos. Very well made out, it also linked them both with someone from Indian myth....
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.
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!!
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 🌳 🌲
Oh just fantastic!! So well thought out and so enlightening!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was absolutely fascinating thank you ❤❤
Absolutely awesome storytelling. Incredible. Love listening and watching!
Your “grass root” intro alone got my sub, Sir. Well done.
Glad I didn’t edit it out then 😊
Fine storytelling - seated by a small fire in the Autumn woodland! And the old images are so beautiful. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it
Pan is considered the oldest god by the Egyptians way back. Probably is. Whatever one calls 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 🇦🇷🦌🙏
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! 🦌✨🙏
As a spiritual mystic and academic, that spiel was worth the price of admission alone! Glad to have discovered you today! 🙌🏾🙏🏾🌟
My sincere thanks 🙏 🦌 🌙 🌳
Absolutely loved the video, thank you for sharing. I find ancient and lost religion so interesting, especially when they echo so far across the world into so many different cultures😍
Glad you enjoyed it 🦌 🌙 🌳
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! 🙏✨🦌🔥🍻
I'm DELIGHTED to have stumbled upon this video! I love Cernunnos! Thank you for sharing this beautiful info!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🦌
👏 Brilliant. This Spirit is a very very good Spirit. And he has the heart of God. He is very near and dear to God. All Glory to God.
Not only was I on the same page as you, I found myself captivated by your storytelling skills. Guessing from your hand movements and expressions that you also have some sort of theater background, at the very least, high school drama club. Anyway, keep up the wonderful work you're doing keeping these stories and traditions alive.
I'm awaiting a disability decision and am dirt poor and would gladly join your patreon. Hopefully soon I will get a favorable decision. Until then I will look for and view and more than likely like them all. Blessed be, sir
Thank you my friend. And there’s really no financial pressure to join patroon, it’s only if you can. Your support is more than enough. All the best. 🙏🌳🦌
P.s. Yes I’m also an actor, but don’t tell anyone 🤫
I hear ya, Bud. I'm right there in that same boat with you.
I was watching and listening to your video while playing Civ6 on my PC. In the game, I found a relic, a bowl. I didn't really pay any attention. Then, a minute later, you started talking about a special cauldron. You showed the image of it too, and I thought, hey that's like the bowl in the game. I checked, and it's the same one in your video! The Gundestrup Cauldron. Pretty crazy coincidence, right? Great vids!
That’s fecking nuts mate.
I love that game. Clearly it’s linked to the deep mind in some way 😅
No coincidences here my friend 🙏✨🦌🍄
Every once in a while the TH-cam Algorithm just works and gives me a new channel to watch. I just had to subscribe
Welcome aboard and all hail the algorithm goblins!
Thank you for your service as a storyteller :D
My pleasure, thank you for engaging ✨🙏🔥
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 🙏✨🦌☺️
Wow you know so much I could listen all day thanks so much.
That’s really nice to hear, thank you 🙏
A true story teller so nice to hear thankyou
Thanks for listening 🦌 🌙
Found your chanel this Christmas Eve ......or perhaps this chanel found me.....I gave a listen with my tea waiting for the dawn to break. Amazing....you've brought a lot of answers to questions I didn't know I had. Blessed Be to you this Christmas with many Merry wishes. 💞🙏💞
Welcome, I’m so pleased. Hope you’re having a delightful Yule season 🦌✨🙏🎄🍄❄️
years ago i bought a necklace with a silver depiction of cernunnos. I pray to the 'god' of nature every day..
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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
This was absolutely delightful to smoke a blunt with. Cheers, mate! Glorious.
That’s the kind of thing I like to hear. Imagine that horned snake is a great big natty herb pipe 😂
I fell in love with you during this podcast. This made my night. I drink ayahuasca with tribes from the Amazon. Now I know my own ancestral shamanic diety. Gratitude 🤍🩷🤍
I’m pleased to hear it. Thank you for these words. Go well on your journeying 🙏✨🦌 🐍
The Mohendro Pashupati image , that shows a similarly horned male figure surrounded by animals , is a much older predecessor to the Gundestrup image . There is also a Romano British image of a god with the classic Cernunnos imagery where he is flanked by Hermes and Apollo , although he is not named as Cernunnos in that instance . As you say , I think the Pillar of the Boatmen is the only one where he is specifically named " Cernunnos " , but there are others that depict a , basically , identical figure .
Yes it’s frustrating that we only see that name once, and it could be a title rather then a name. Celtic gods are pretty enigmatic. Thanks for watching 🙏✨🦌
Subbed mate.
. Listening to your storytelling feels like reconnecting with an old part of my soul that Im only really noticing now, finally. All part of my personal decolonisation process.
Thanks mate
Glad to hear it mate, go well with the decolonisation process, I feel you there 🙏
Thank you love listening to you telling all these amazing stories x
Thank youuuu 🙏✨🦌
Marvelous video. Very well done.
Many thanks my friend 🌙 🦌 🌳🙏
loved how you told the story in the forest, with a campfire
I should do more of that 🌳🌲🦌
Brilliant!!!!! Made my day watching this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Realy glad i found you brother great story teller..Arrr tha hoofed one
Glad you enjoyed mate 🦌✨
Great stories, thank you. There is a copy of a hunting hod in Southwark cathedral, a stone man with a dog to his left and a deer to his right, found in an old well under the cathedral. Strange to see him holding court so close to the choir!!
YES MATE! I’ve seen that guy. Used to live in southwark. The Hunter is quite common in churches, over doors and lurking in alcoves. Some old imaginalis seeping in perchance. Yule love to you friend 🦌✨🌙
Really interesting and well told. I am subscribing, excellent.
Welcome 🙏☺️✨
Splendid theories. I study domestic history pre Victorian and back. Often these horned gods had prominent places in homes...even on articles of clothing,or the hearthstone.
That’s interesting. Especially considering the domestic context is the antithesis of the ‘wild’ but perhaps that’s the point. Thanks for sharing 🙏☺️🦌
my 2 cents - Shamans were like travelling lore men, they traded, informed & were outside local rules, they carried horns as a sign a free pass, time of the Golden Bough
Interesting idea. Could be 🦌🧙♂️
This is awesome!! Well done!! I have always thought he was the "father" of all the gods. A companion to the Earth Goddess...kind of protector, a guardian. Even incorporated him into a short story where he is described as such.
Sounds like a good story 🦌🦌🦌
@@TheStoryCrow I know your busy but if you'd like a gander at it, let me know!
I could listen to you all day ✨
you came up in my recommended list and sure glad you did... Subscribed ✔️
Welcome aboard!
yes wonderful thank you great storytelling and stitching mysteries together ❤
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️🙏🦌
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
If Cernnunos is tied to Shiva, even loosely, then he’s tied to Saturn. The connection would make sense given Saturns association with wealth, life/death, and winter festivals (Saturnalia vs The Wild Hunt).
So much of this imagery and aspect symbolism pops up again in the symbols used for various goddesses as well, three faces, horned moons, chthonic or psychopomp roles..please examine them in your next one!
Quite right! Let us not forget the female aspects of this. Ok. New video idea noted 👍🦌
Lovely presentation, both you and that stunning forest.
The forest is a beauty. Thanks for watching 🙏🌳🌲✨
The connection with the horned devil in Christianity is interesting & further strenghtened by the the fact that both the Devil & the Horned One are often associated with the crossroads. There are numerous stories of folks meeting the devil at a crossroads & selling their soul for his riches. I wonder if there are similar stories about horned gods throughout various pagan religions where one sells ones soul or spirit to gain the wealth or talents of the horned one, or if that demonization of the horned one was a purely Christian innovation
Yes the interconnections between the various figures is fascinating. The development of ‘the devil’ in folklore is really interesting. In some ways another version of the trickster / buffoon archetype
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Nice presentation. Thanks.
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This was a fantastic video. The ancient Sumerian deities are far older than this dude but that makes the information no less incredible ❤
Older then the Celtic cernnunos certainly, the image of a horned deity is arguably very very old though. But thanks for giving a shout out to the Sumerians ✊👍🙏
So glad I found this channel. I love mythology ill be sharing with my 3 Yr old grandson ❤
Ok I’ll try to swear less 😂 welcome ☺️🙏
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 figure on the cauldron can be considered to be doing a dance rather than sitting. A depiction of Odin appears to show a similar stance holding a spear with a 'wolf-man' berserker watching. Odin is said to be doing the 'Spear dance' and whipping the warriors into a frenzy.
The Horned figure could be considered to be 'calling' or 'dreaming' the animals to come to the tribe.
Yeah it seems that way doesn’t it
Made me think of the Tibetan Sha Cham (deer dance) ritual. It clearly has ancient shamanic origins.
I agree also with you & Jung..for eternity is always now..thus transcending history...love the show..
Cheers. Good luck on the long journey. See you on the other side 💫
i cant believe the absolute firehose of information and insight this guy is lol
Cheers mate 🦌✨👍 🔥 🏠
I work with Cernunnos, very excited for this video! I worship him as a deity of nature, grounding, and natural water sources, i mainly just leave him offerings of rain or stream water and invoke him whenever I meditate
I like the sound of that. Very cool. Thanks for sharing 🙏🦌✨
This was great, you connected the different God's and beings perfect! Symbolic Resonance indeed! You got a new Subscriber
Thank you 🙏🦌✨
Bruh, apostrophes don't make words plural.
This was just too delightful thank you ❤😊
Glad you enjoyed it 🦌✨🙏
fabulous, your energy is amazing, i’m loving the tales and information. You remind me of a combination of two of my mates and a wild harry enfield . sorry this is meant as a compliment only i understand . I listened all the way through. Enthralling . Thx I’m From Kernow 😊
Come on mate. Not Paul Whitehouse? 😂
Thank you for this.
My mums side of the family originally hail from Kernow. I’ve been trying to learn the old language. They’ve been moving up the West Country for the last couple of generations and settled in Wiltshire, for some reason.
I’ll head back some day, but technically I’m a grockle now… plus i cant even imagine the price of a garden shed in those parts these days.
@@TheStoryCrow ha ha ! I know a bit of Cornish : Kerensa means Love
Kerensa ha kres is Love and peace ✌️
If you get a camper you can afford to live everywhere down there 😉
i’m very proud to be Cornish ( although i live in Avalon now )
I look forward to watching and learning from more of your exciting videos . th again 😎
Really like your style of presenting very easy to listen to and fascinating subject
Thank you kindly! 🦌🙏
Fantastic video! Thank you :) Can’t wait to hear more!
Cheers ☺️🙏
Cheers ☺️✨ more to come!
I adored everything about this video. I took notes.
Thank you 😊 🙏
I stumbled across this channel quite by accident...or maybe not. I can not remember the last time I enjoyed a video this much. Looking forward to going through the rest of your catalogue. Thank you!!
Welcome aboard! ✨🙏🦌🌲
A like pretty much the view of you and the environment. Very photographic video! Congrats!
Pleasure 🦌 🍻