page_title: Horned deity
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Horned deity / By continent / Europe
context_page_description: Deities depicted with horns or antlers are found in many different religions across the world.
context_section_description: Pan was a Greek god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds and rustic music.
  Depictions in Celtic cultures of figures with antlers are often identified as Cernunnos ("horned one" in Latin). The prime evidence for this comes from a pillar in Paris which also features the Roman god Jupiter.
  Cocidius was the name of a Romano-British war-god and local deity from the region around Hadrian's Wall, who is sometimes represented as being horned. He is associated with warfare and woodland and was worshipped mostly by military personnel and the lower classes.
  Eliphas Levi, the 18th century French occultist, believed that the pseudohistorical god Baphomet (that the Roman Catholic Church had claimed was worshipped by the heretical Knights Templar), was actually the horned Libyan oracle god (Ammon), or, the Goat of Mendes.
  For many years scholars have interpreted the Gundestrup Cauldron's images in terms of the Celtic pantheon. The antlered figure in plate A has been commonly identified as Cernunnos.
caption: Cernunnos on the Pillar of the Boatmen
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