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Published: 2013-12-01 05:28:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 28089; Favourites: 587; Downloads: 297
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This is Cernunnos, the Celtic "Horned God" of nature and fertility. He is born at the winter solstice, marries the goddess at Beltane, and dies at the summer solstice to be reborn next winter.Winter tree reference thanks to ~Hokota
I've always been fond of the look of these early winter evenings and all the mythologies that center around the winter solstice. Hope you enjoy as well, and happy winter!
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Cerruleanvii,
Love this picture, could I use it in my celtic workbook? I mean buy the picture?
thanks
Ann
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Exquisite! You are a truly gifted artist. The figure's pose, the entire composition, lighting, and shading are exceptional.Β
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oh that looks awesome, I was doing some research on Celtic gods. and I found depending on what god/goddess you look at there can be very little information 
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Thats beautiful! omg he's so wild, yet cultured, and the sun and the moon on either side of the picture is gorgeous!
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Beautiful rendering of Cernunnos.Β His face is beautiful.
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Absolutely stunning work! 
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This is very nice.Β I also follow The Green Man.Β All of your work is wonderful..............
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I love this so much! Everything about it is beautiful. And I find it inspiring...
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thanks so much! How I'd love to read a story!
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Astounding piece of work!
Thanks for sharing...
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thanks, and thanks so much for the feature!
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Very nice!Β I like that you've used stag-type horns for him.Β I've seen him depicted with goat horns and that just seems wrong to me.Β And in my religion he is said to die on Halloween night (Samhian), not summer solstice, but perhaps it's different for different beliefs.
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Thank you - yes the stag horns seem to be closest to the original depictions of him from two thousand years ago.
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Amazing highlighting and style to the look grate profile to the pose!
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Oh, man.Β What a great pic.Β My favorite is all of the colors you've used in the skin tones.
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Oh wow!Β This is fantastic!Β Love the horns and the tats.Β I especially love the eyes! Excellent work!
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Thanks! I've never done such a decorated figure before, with all the jewelry and tattoos. But he really needed them to be Cernunnos.
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Your welcome!Β I think you did a fantastic job!Β yay!Β
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Wow, This is beautiful and perhaps one of my favorite things you've done so far!! Β I love this!!!!
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Thanks, glad you like it!
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stunning, really gorgeous character you created,
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Cernunnos, perhaps my favourite Celtic figure. Beautiful work!
Have you ever seen Robin of Sherwood, the Goldcrest tv production of 1983-1986. Thr horned god was very important in that series. One of my fave television programs of all time. Well, several decades, anyway.
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Thanks, glad you like him! No I don't remember that show - I'm surprised an old Celtic god would figure prominently in what must have been Christian times? How did they work that in?
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Many things can exist together. Not all people are christians, nor Celts, nor Wiccans, nor Buddhists, or Muslims, or atheists. They all exist at the same time in the same world and even in the same town.
Or even to some degree in the same person. I am a pantheistic Taoist, Zenian, and atheist of Celtic [Cymric/Welsh], and Norse ancestry with a touch of English and Lowland Scot for spice.
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Agreed. I believe in everything and nothing.
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The things I believe/agree with tend to be consistent with each other, to form a coherent whole, but they are philosophies, outlooks, not religions. I don't believe in everything, though I do believe in some things and totally disbelieve others for which there is no evidence nor consistence with the reality I see around and in me every day.
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