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Figure of Wicca
The Horned God.
Antlered lord of the wild and the harvest, who dies with the year and returns with it — the Goddess's consort in the wheel's long story.
Names & titlesThe Horned God — Cernunnos, the Lord
DomainSun, forest, hunt, harvest — dying and returning with the year
Depicted asAntlered, green, the wild half of the polarity
StandingWorshipped; the Goddess's consort in the wheel's story
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Horned God is lord of the wild, the hunt, and the harvest, and he dies and returns with the agricultural year — the Wheel's narrative arc runs on his cycle. His horns are why Wicca has faced persistent conflation with Satanism, which practitioners point out is an entirely separate matter: the horned figure derives from Cernunnos and Pan, and Wicca has no devil in its cosmology to worship.
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