Cernunnos

   There is not too terribly much known about this God. The reason for that is that Cernunnos is a Celtic God and much of thier stories were not written down. The Celtic tradition was mostly an aural tradition.
     Cernunnos is the Horned God of the Celts and was associated with the hunt and with fertility. He was sometimes portrayed with serpent's legs, a man's torso and the head of a bull or ram. He was also shown with a stag's legs or wearing stag antlers. Cernunnos was ruler of the underworld or other world, the opener of the gates between life and death. He also was worshipped by the Romas and Gauls, who sometimes portrayed him as triple-headed.
      The name Cernunnos means simply "the horned". Cornu in modern Frech means "horned" because modern French has grown from the Latin language imposed upon them by the Romans. The Latin for horn is also cornu. The Romans had a habit of changing local names to fit the Roman pattern: Most Roman names end in us. So Cernunnos is a Roman name meaning Horned One. It was probably the new Romanised name given by Gauls to all thier very old horned gods, in which case its use may have been widespread through out Gaul after it became a roman province.
     The Celts made numerous models, or icons, of thier various gods, and there are over 60 depicting Cernunnons, from all over Europe. We know his name because it is carved on one of these icons, made my sailors in the first century A.D., by which the Gaul (France) had become a Roman province. The earliest imagine of him that has been found was carved on rock in Northen Italy in the 4th century B.C. No one knows how widespread the use of this name was: it is possible that this was the name for this antlered god No-one by the tribe this sailor came from knows. But the structure of the the name suggests otherwise.
     The images of him are fairly consistent. His main attribute are his horns, those of a stag. He is usually portrayed as a mature man with long ahir and a beard. He wears a torc: this was an ornate neck-ring worn by the Celts to denote nobility. He often carries other torcs in his hands or hanging from his horns. He is usually portrayed as well as seated and cross-legged as if in the the meditative or shamanic position.
     Cernunnos is nearly always portrayed with animals, in particular the stag. He is also frequently associated with a unique beat that seems to belong only to him: a serpent with the horns of a ram. Less often he is associated with other beasts, including bulls, dogs and rats.
     The famous Gundestrp Caludron, a large, gilt, silver cauldron dated ca 100 B.C. and recovered from a bog near Gundestrup, Denmark depicts a stag-horned Cernunnos in several scenes: as an antlerd man attended by animals, including boar, and graspic a ram-headed serpent., and grasping a stag in each hand. The cauldron is believed to be Celtic in origin, though some scholars believe it to be Gaelic.
     In contemporary Witchcraft and Paganism, the Horned god is often addressed as "Cernunnos".