Cernunnos
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Date: 11/12/2021

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The Cernunnos-type antlered figure or horned god, on the Gundestrup Cauldron, on display, at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen In Gallo-Roman religion,
Cernunnos was a deity depicted with antlers, seated cross-legged, and is associated with stags, horned serpents, dogs, bulls, and rats.
He is usually holding or wearing a torc and has been seen holding a bag of coins （or grain） and a cornucopia.
Believed to have originally been a Celtic deity, over 50 examples have been found from this time believed to be associated with him, concentrating in the north-eastern region of what was called Gaul by the ancient Romans.
Cernunnos is also associated with the Wiccan Horned God in the modern religious tradition of Wicca.
In Gaulish, the name Cernunnos is rooted in the word karnon which means "horn" or "antler".
Karnon is cognate with Latin cornu and Germanic *hurnaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k̑r̥no-.
The etymon karn- "horn" appears in both Gaulish and Galatian branches of Continental Celtic.
Hesychius of Alexandria glosses the Galatian word karnon （κάρνον） as "Gallic trumpet", that is, the Celtic military horn listed as the carnyx （κάρνυξ） by Eustathius of Thessalonica, who notes the instrument's animal-shaped bell.
The root also appears in the names of Celtic polities, most prominent among them the Carnutes, meaning something like "the Horned Ones," and in several personal names found in inscriptions.
The Proto-Celtic form of the theonym is reconstructed as either *Cerno-on-os or *Carno-on-os.
The augmentative -on- is characteristic of theonyms, as in Maponos, Epona, Matronae, and Sirona.
Maier （2010） states that the etymology of Cernunnos is unclear, but seems to be rooted in the Celtic word for "horn" or "antler" （as in Carnonos）.
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