Herne ~ Cernunnos (formerly "I thought I would share this")

Occult Forum Archive · Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:57 pm

Original post: Mmothra

SaintGeorge
06-15-2004, 10:15 AM
I thought I would share this in view of the occasionally heard debates
on the possibility that Herne the Hunter and Cernnous could be one and
the same character.
http://www.elswhere.net/herne.jpg

Herne was the favourite huntsman of Richard the Second. Mortally wounded while saving his master from a stag at bay, he was miraculously cured by a stranger, who tied the antlers of a dead stag to the dying man's brow. He claimed in payment all Herne's skill in venery. Crazed by the loss of that skill in the craft he loved, Herne fled to the forest, where a pedlar found his horned corpse hanging from an oak. But every night he returned at the head of a spectral hunt to harry the Windsor game as of old.

this is the source link (http://www.britannia.com/history/legend ... col17.html)

Occult Forum Archive · Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:35 pm

Original post: Anubis RainHawk

hmm. That's interesting

Occult Forum Archive · Fri Jul 30, 2004 4:15 pm

Original post: Ludi

I love trivia like that!

Occult Forum Archive · Fri Jul 30, 2004 4:55 pm

Original post: Darkfay

Here's the Horned God in India. The very first time I heard of Cernunnos, my mind went right back to the seal of Pashupati I had seen in my history text book. Its an amazingly small world...

http://www.geocities.com/indianpaganism/hornedgod.html

Occult Forum Archive · Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:14 am

Original post: Ludi

The horned god dates back to possibly 30,000 years (or longer), evidence the figure in the Cavern des Trois Freres.