Horned gods in European folklore/mythology 🦌🐂
Pan was a Greek god of shepherds and flocks, & mountain wilds. He has the hindquarters, legs, & horns of a goat. He is often affiliated with sex. The word "panic" comes from his name.

Pan is the only Greek god who actually dies, the famous line being "The great god Pan is dead"
The worship of Ammon was introduced into Greece at an early period, probably through the medium of the Greek colony in Cyrene. The Cyrenaican Greeks built temples for the Libyan god Amon instead of their original god Zeus, later identifying Amon with Zeus.
Moloch is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war.

Moloch was often depicted as a bull, and became a bull demon in Abrahamic traditions.
Cernunnos was the horned god, the master of wild places and things. A Celtic deity, whose name is now used to refer to many nameless horned deities of the Celtic world.

Often depicted with antlers, seated cross-legged, and associated with stags, horned serpents, bulls, & rats.
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities and was equated with the Greek god Pan.
Baʿal Ḥammon was the chief god of Ancient Carthage. He was a weather god considered responsible for the fertility of vegetation and esteemed as King of the Gods. He was depicted as a bearded older man with curling ram's horns.
In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. He is said to have antlers growing from his head, ride a horse, torment cattle, and rattle chains.
Odin/Woutan/Wodan is a god in Germanic mythology. Norse mythos associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, & frenzy. He is often considered a horned god of the hunt, leading a pack of dogs in the sky, the "Wild Hunt".
Veles is the Slavic chthonic god of cattle, but also master of the forest and of wild animals, and god of commerce. Also known as the "Horned God", Veles is a male god of the earth, incarnating the "Black God" of dual theology.
In Romano-British religion, Cocidius was a horned deity worshipped in northern Britain. The Romans equated him with Mars, god of war and hunting, and also with Silvanus, god of forests, groves and wild fields.
Hu Gadarn is a Welsh legendary figure who appears in several of a series of Welsh Triads produced by the Welsh antiquarian and literary forger Iolo Morganwg. He is sometimes considered to have horns.
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