Editing Cernunnos (section)

==Cernunnos and later mythology==
===Conall Cernach===
Conall is a hero of the [[Ulster Cycle]] of Irish mythology. The companion and foster brother of [[Cúchulainn]], he appears in such stories as ''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'', and several tales involving [[Fraích]] (such as ''[[Táin Bó Fraích]]'' and ''[[Fled Bricrenn]]'').<ref name=MacKillopConall>{{cite encyclopedia |first=James |last=MacKillop |title=Conall Cernach |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Celtic Mythology |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2004 |edition=Online |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-1086 }}</ref> Conall's byname "Cernach" has been linked with Old Irish word {{lang|sga|cern}} (with the meanings of "excrescence, angle", "plate", and "victory"). Through this root, there have been attempts to connect Conall with Cernunnos.<ref name=Sayers/>{{rp|348–349}}

A brief passage involving Conall in the ''Táin Bó Fraích'' ("The Cattle Raid on Fraích") has been taken by [[Anne Ross (archaeologist)|Anne Ross]] as evidence that Conall bore a connection with Cernunnos. In this episode, Conall assists the protagonist Fraích in rescuing his wife and son, and reclaiming his cattle. The fort that Conall must penetrate is guarded by a mighty serpent. This fearsome serpent, instead of attacking Conall, darts to Conall's waist and girdles him as a belt. Rather than killing the serpent, Conall allows it to live, and then proceeds to attack and rob the fort of its great treasures the serpent previously protected. Ross explains the serpent's anticlimactic behaviour with reference to the images of Cernunnos with ram-horned serpents curled around him (as on the Étang-sur-Arroux statuette).<ref>{{cite book| last = Mac Cana| first = Proinsias| title = Celtic Mythology |date=1973| publisher = Hamlyn | location = London| isbn = 0-600-00647-6 |url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/celticmythology00macc }}</ref>{{rp|47}}

===Other mythologies===
Cernunnos has also been suggested to have survived in other legends. Justin Favrod suggests that a fertility festival (perhaps involving deer costumes), held on the 1 January in some Celtic countries and suppressed by the church after Christianisation, represented a festival to Cernunnos.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Les évêques des Gaules et la fête de Cernunnos: une hypothèse sur l'origine des rogations |date=1992 |journal=Études de Lettres: Revue de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Lausanne |last=Favrod |first=Justin |issue=4 |page=67 |doi=10.5169/seals-870447 }}</ref> [[Gwilherm Berthou]] equated Cernunnos with the mythical Breton {{ill|Saint Cornély|fr}}, protector of cattle.<ref name=Olmsted/>{{rp|337}} [[R. Lowe Thompson]] suggested that [[Herne the Hunter]], an antlered ghost of English folklore first attested in [[Shakespeare]], was cognate with Cernunnos.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=R. Lowe |title=The History of the Devil: The Horned God Of The West |date=1929 |location=London |publisher=K. Paul }}</ref>{{rp|133}}