Cernunnos
Gaulish · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Antlered Gaulish god of beasts, fertility and wealth; name attested once on the Pillar of the Boatmen, the iconographic type far wider (Gundestrup, Val Camonica).
Domains
- beasts fertility wealth
- underworld
Powers
- Command wild beasts and the ram-horned serpent
- Pour out torcs and coin as wealth
Epithets
- Cernunnos 'the Horned One' (carn- 'horn/antler'), antlered godPillar of the Boatmen, Paris (CIL XIII 3026), reading '[C]ernunnos' (primary)
Sources
- existence: Pillar of the Boatmen, Paris (inscribed [C]ernunnos) (primary); Theonym from Gaulish *karnon 'horn'; M. Aldhouse-Green, The Gods of the Celts (1986) (secondary)