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The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light. [1] The idea comes from a translation, or mis-translation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome 's Latin Vulgate Bible , and many later vernacular translations dependent on that.
Most often, the Horned God is considered a male fertility god. [48] The use of horns as a symbol for power dates back to the ancient world. From ancient Egypt and the Ba'al worshipping Cannanites, to the Greeks, Romans, Celts, and various other cultures. [49] Horns have ever been present in religious imagery as symbols of fertility and power.
The Horned God is one of the two primary deities found in Wicca and some related forms of Neopaganism.The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th-century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god partly based on historical horned deities.
Cernunnos on the Gundestrup cauldron (plate A). He sits cross-legged, wielding a torc in one hand and a ram-horned serpent in the other. Cernunnos is a Celtic stag god. His name is only clearly attested once, on the 1st-century CE Pillar of the Boatmen from Paris, where it is associated with an image of an aged, antlered figure with torcs around his horns.
Male deities from various cultures who have horns or antlers upon their heads. ... Pages in category "Horned gods" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of ...
Deities from various cultures who have horns or antlers upon their heads. Subcategories. ... Horned gods (6 C, 32 P) B. Baphomet (40 P) G. Golden calf (1 C, 14 P)
The name means "Loki's horned face" and "formed like a caribou," referring to the fact that its frill displays horns of different lengths on each side, like caribou antlers.
According to legend, Alexander went on pilgrimage to the Siwa Oasis, the sanctuary of the Greco-Egyptian deity Zeus Ammon in 331 BC. There, he was pronounced by the Oracle to be the son of Zeus Ammon, [2] allowing him to therefore have the Horns of Ammon, which themselves followed from Egyptian iconography of Ammon as a ram-headed god or, in his Greek-form, a man with ram horns. [3]