He is portrayed on many Celtic artworks and artifacts from as far back as they can be recovered, the most well-known being the famous Gundestrup Cauldron. As the Horned God, he is depicted with the antle of a stag or horns of a ram, and was probably the most widely worshiped God-form in European Paganism. Sometimes he is drawn with a sack of coins which he is pouring onto the bare earth, or with a club.

He was the goat representing the fertility rites of Bealtaine, and the master of the hunt who came into his full power in late summer and early fall. He was the primal fertility God, consort to the first Great Mother, and the male creative principle. He is also honored as a death deity, and the hunt is sometimes viewed as metaphor for rounding up the souls of the living to take to the Otherworld. He has also been cast as the role of the guardian of the Otherworld's gates, and as a God of the woodlands, animals, revelry, and male fertility.

His stories are sketchy and come largely from oral sources. Herne is his British name. He is equated with the Greek God Pan whose name means "all." Both Cernunnos and Pan became the prototype of the Christian anti-God, Satan. This was not a judgement on the attributes of these deities, but rather a device for frightening the European populace away from the Old Religion.

Magick and Ritual
Hunt, woodland, fertility, magick, and animals.