Reply #4: The horned god? Oh gods and goddesses that's a tough one. [View All]

He's secondary at best.

The goddesses were always paramount. He represents fecundity, male sexuality, death and resurrection. He is the stag that is killed in the hunt so that we might eat and live. Like the Green Man, he waxes and wanes.

He was not central. Necessary and important, but not central. His archetypes are fairly basic. At the core is life through death. We kill animals in order to survive. Their death gives us life. That's him. He's incredibly sexual. In a way that I'm not sure we can even understand any more. He was the goddess's son, her lover, her martyr. We can accept any one of those but not all three at once..

In Celtic lore he often shows up as the hero, the god/king - always subject to the goddess. But he's closer to humanity, he mirrors our lives.


Khash.