The Stag Lord Cernunnos or Old Horney Himself

When the muse comes she sometimes comes disguised as Cernunnos himself. The Celtic God of Fertility and the Hunt. This was created by a great carver/sculptor (my beloved other) who modestly goes by a pen name Mazola.

The Celts all over Europe before Christ worshiped the Stag Lord Cernunnos. He has the horns of a stag, a rams horned serpent, a stag to represent the hunted, a wolf representing the hunter and oak leaves and acorns for fertility and the cycles of life. Cernunnos is usually portrayed as a mature man with long hair and a beard, he coincidently looks exactly like the carver. He wears a torc: this was an ornate neck-ring worn by the Celts to denote nobility. He often carries a torcs in his hands or hanging from his horns. The torc in this case helps support the antler and was carved from cottonwood and covered with gold leaf.

The Song of Cuerunnos

I am a stag of seven tines,
I am a wide flood on a plain,
I am a wind on the deep waters,
I am a shining tear of the sun,
I am a hawk on a cliff,
I am fair among flowers,
I am a god who sets the head afire with smoke.
I am a battle waging spear,
I am a salmon in the pool,
I am a hill of poetry,
I am a ruthless boar,
I am a threatening noise of the sea,
I am a wave of the sea,
Who but I knows the secrets of the unhewn dolmen ?

Origin obscure but certainly Celtic
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