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  2. Horned deity - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Category:Horned gods - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Horned God - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] The Horned God represents the male part of the religion's duotheistic theological system, the consort of the female Triple goddess of the Moon or other Mother goddess. [2]

  5. Category:Horned deities - Wikipedia

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    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)

  6. Dhu al-Qarnayn - Wikipedia

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    The reasons behind the name "Two-Horned" are somewhat obscure: the scholar al-Tabari (839-923 CE) held it was because he went from one extremity ("horn") of the world to the other, [28] but it may ultimately derive from the image of Alexander wearing the horns of the ram-god Zeus-Ammon, as popularised on coins throughout the Hellenistic Near ...

  7. Lists of deities - Wikipedia

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    List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king; Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions

  8. Horns of Ammon - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter Ammon, depicted in a terracotta fragment. A fossil ammonite, showing its horn-like spiral. Ammon, eventually Amon-Ra, was a deity in the Egyptian pantheon whose popularity grew over the years, until growing into a monotheistic religion in a way similar to the proposal that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity evolved out of the Ancient Semitic pantheon. [2]

  9. List of Egyptian deities - Wikipedia

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    The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...