Editing Horned God (section)

===Names===
[[File:Horned God and Mother Goddess (Doreen Valiente's Altar).jpg|thumb|right|Altar statues of the Horned God and Mother Goddess crafted by Bel Bucca and owned by the "Mother of Wicca", [[Doreen Valiente]]]]

[[Doreen Valiente]], a former High Priestess of the [[Gardnerian Wicca|Gardnerian tradition]], claimed that Gerald Gardner's [[Bricket Wood coven]] referred to the god as [[Cernunnos]], or '''Kernunno''', which is a Latin word, discovered on a [[pillar of the Boatmen|stone carving found in France]], meaning "the Horned One". Valiente claimed that the coven also referred to the god as '''Janicot''',{{needs IPA|lang=en|date=March 2024}} which she theorised was of [[Basque language|Basque]] origin, and Gardner also used this name in his novel ''High Magic's Aid''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Rebirth of Witchcraft |publisher=Robert Hale Ltd |first=Doreen |last=Valiente |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7090-8369-6 }}</ref>{{rp|52–53}}

[[Stewart Farrar]], a High Priest of the [[Alexandrian Wicca|Alexandrian tradition]] referred to the Horned God as '''Karnayna''', which he believed was a corruption of ''Cernunnos''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=What Witches Do |publisher=Robert Hale Ltd |first=Stewart |last=Farrar |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-7090-9014-4}}</ref> The historian [[Ronald Hutton]] suggests the term derived instead from the Arabic ''[[Dhul-Qarnayn]]'' meaning "Horned One", as Murray offered in her 1931 book ''The God of the Witches'', a source that likely influenced [[Alex Sanders (Wiccan)|Alex Sanders]].<ref name="triumph">{{Cite book |title=The Triumph of the Moon: a History of Modern Pagan Witchcaraft |publisher=Oxford Paperbacks |first=Ronald |last=Hutton |year=1995 |isbn=0-19-285449-6 }}</ref>{{rp|331}} Prudence Jones has suggested that the name may instead derive from [[Carneia|Karneios]], a [[Sparta]]n deity conflated with [[Apollo]] as a subordinate consort to [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]].<ref name=jones2005>Jones, P. 2005. A Goddess Arrives: Nineteenth Century Sources of the New Age Triple Moon Goddess. ''Culture and Cosmos'', '''19'''(1): 45–70.</ref>

In the writings of [[Charles Cardell]] and [[Raymond Howard (Wiccan)|Raymond Howard]], the god was referred to as '''Atho'''. Howard had a wooden statue of Atho's head which he claimed was 2200 years old, but the statue was stolen in April 1967. Howard's son later admitted that his father had carved the statue himself.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thewica.co.uk/coven-of-atho |first = Melissa |last =Seims |date =2007|title=The Coven of Atho |publisher=Thewica.co.uk }}</ref>

In [[Cochrane's Craft]], which was founded by [[Robert Cochrane (witch)|Robert Cochrane]], the Horned God was often referred to by a Biblical name; [[Tubal-cain]], who, according to the [[Bible]] was the first blacksmith.<ref name="Roebuck">{{Cite book |first=Mike |last=Howard |title=The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition |publisher=Capall Bann Publishing |isbn=1-86163-155-3 |year=2001 }} Chapter One.</ref> In this neopagan concept, the god is also referred to as [[Brân the Blessed|Brân]], a Welsh mythological figure, [[Wayland the Smith|Wayland]], the smith in Germanic mythology, and [[Herne the Hunter|Herne]], a horned figure from [[English folklore]].<ref name="Roebuck"/>

In the neopagan tradition of [[Stregheria]], founded by [[Raven Grimassi]] and loosely inspired by the works of [[Charles Godfrey Leland]], the Horned God goes by several names, including [[Janus|Dianus]], [[Faunus]], Cern, and [[Actaeon]].<ref>{{cite web |author=WiseWitch |title=Wicca- Wiccan Symbols the Ultimate Guide |url=https://witchcraftandwitches.com/wicca-wiccan/wiccan-symbols-ultimate-guide/ |date=5 August 2020 |orig-date=24 October 2017}}</ref>

In the Hinduism, the Horned God is referred to [[Pashupati]], See [[Pashupati seal]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Hindu- Pashupati and the Harappan seal |newspaper= The Hindu |url= https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/pashupati-and-the-harappan-seal/article65070760.ece/amp/ |date=2022 |last1= Pattanaik |first1= Devdutt }}</ref>