She is known in the Irish tradition as Danu . To accept all of her aspects is to accept all of nature, youth and age, growth and decay, life and death. She is served by her consort The Horned God . He is the horned god of the hunt and of the forest, lord of the sabbat and of the underworld. He is the embodiment of wild nature and the male principle.
Paganism is considered to be an eccentric faith in the West.
Christianity is the accepted norm, and even its ancient enemies such as the other patriarchal monotheisms of Judaism and Islam are treated with greater respect than witches and druids, who at the very best are held to be harmless cranks. For centuries Christianity has equated the horned one with the devil, the Christian god of evil. When the Christians were not demonising the old gods, they were quietly recruiting them. Carnac in Brittany, France, is a small town famous for its proximity to hundreds of menhirs placed in neat rows, several miles long, during the bronze age. Although now a Christian community there are records of ancient pagan rites being performed amongst the stones by the local villagers as late as the end of the 19 th century.