Nightmare Antlephore
DraconaAge: 16 years, 3 months, 3 weeks
Born: December 26th, 2007
Adopted: 16 years, 3 months, 3 weeks ago (Legacy)
Adopted: December 26th, 2007 (Legacy)
After millennia I took some time to sleep. I was so worn with mankind's wars killing the animals and bringing death and destruction to the very wildness they stopped realising in within them.
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Horned deities have been popular in religion and mythology for thousands of years.
» Ra-Amun - Egypt -
and Banebdjed (renamed by Christians as Baphomet) who were also associated with fertility. Hathor was a goddess associated with fertility, motherhood, dance and joy.
» Pan - Greek a god of the wilds and shepherds, as well as music and sexuality. The Romans renamed Pan to Faunus, a nature god.
» Ikenga - Igbo people in SE Nigeria - representing personal power and self-will.
» Paśupati - India-Pakistani - a proto-Shiva of the Hindu religion and was known as the god and lord of all animals.
» Enkidu - Mesopotamia - bull-man wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Great God Cernunnos, return to earth again,
Come at my call and show thyself to men.
Shepherd of goats upon the wild hills way,
Lead thy lost flock from darkness unto day.
The Horned God is our nature deity,
But modern man would from his presence flee.
Stolen are the ways of sleep and night,
Men seek for them, whose eyes have lost the light.
Open the door, the door hath no key,
The door of dreams whereby men come to thee.
Shepherd of goats, oh answer unto me,
In the Summerlands is where we shall meet thee.
Dracona (with thanks to 
Bug)Lyrics/Poem from Cruachan - To Invoke the Horned God
Cernunnos Image by Kythera of Anevern
Background clouds from Storyblocks
Historical Information from 1066.co.nz, Wikipedia,
