Who is the mysterious horned god figure portrayed in an ancient Roman mosaic in southern England – Oceanus, Neptune, Cernunnos, or someone else?
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Massive Celtic Iron Age earthwork with a mysterious purpose
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A reference to the house of Taurus. Just like Moses. And Aaron =Aries
Herne
Heathen god maybe?
Those horns don't look like antlers, more like Crab claws / legs ? so Oceanus ?
Why sea god got hornes, forest god before trees cutted time when wolfes lived in britain
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2:10 scallop represents the sun/sun rays. As the light-bringer (lucifer), Venus rises before the sun.
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The "horns" are the lobster claws of Oceanus. Roman mosaic motifs were taken from pattern books, you wouldn't find a Celtic god there. The scallops were also associated with the cult of Isis I believe.
It is Randy, the horny god.
Bulls, man, bulls. They were crazy about them since the Crete and Persian days, ergo Indo Aryan. All related to the Celt's. Fallow deer possibly too. Horns mean sexual prowess. Sexy too.
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As a nation we are blessed with good fortune that the Roman occupiers paid lavish attention to their floors, for not much above that level, apart from defences and a few walls, survives in Britain. Without the mosaics, I would not have much enthusiasm for Romano British culture, but I think these rank among our great cultural artifacts. The features perched on his head don't really look like crab claws nor do they look like full grown antlers, so maybe they were intended to be read as either. The cheek bones, forehead and the visible upper torso look to be decorated with applied pigment, giving him the look of a great actor of the stage
The Roman's often adopted native gods when operating in their territories.
The 'wave-like pattern' at the foot of the mosaic looks to me like Celtic knotwork: I suggest this increases the likelihood of the deity being Brythonic Celtic, not Graeco-Roman.
We know from other dedications in Roman Britain that Romans acknowledged the local gods, and Roman soldiers posted to Britain undoubtably sometimes married local women, and often settled in Britain after retiring – in such a household the Mother's as well as the Father's cultural heritage might well be portrayed.
The Horned God was originally Moses, the Horns were to show he was sent from God.
Horned man motif = Festivities archetype. Faunus the horned one.
Wheeler's wife Tessa should have married a man with the surname Ray.
believe it to be lumpy-drawers himself
looks like Odin to me
Neptune? Cernunos
wasnt there wine vases? why wasnt Deionises thought of? wouldnt a rooms use have an influence on what was portrayed there?
I really have to see that mosaic floor, now. Are there others of similar scale & superlative craftsmanship further north, does anyone know?
Crushing waves across the step some what technicolor you should check your Greek origin? more west ?
There not horns its a laurel of perhaps Ivy or some other sharped tipped symmetricly dented leaf ?
look like crab / lobster claws to me.
Cernunnos seems the most obvious candidate.
To me it looks more like the Roman God Pan, their God of Wine. That's why you see what looks like goblets on either side of the central picture. So I would say it has nothing to do with the sea but with the love of drinking wine.
That should be Baal hammon by Romans, Faun or Dionysus ,Bacchus by Greeks. For some Belzebub,Satan for others Hu Baal alias Allah. According scholars. (Beast with many names).
Cernunnos, often referred to as the Horned God, is one of the most enigmatic and revered figures in Celtic mythology.
Celts gradually infiltrated all over Britain between about 500 and 100 B.C. and lived among the Iron Age ancient Britons.
Aeolus what is another name for Neptune, the name meaning Ealy or Eely what stands for smart thus a handyman and in a bad way a tricker or deceiver what is not a bad characteristic for an hunter but somewhat of a necessity. To compare with the semitic EL (Melkiart) who was all over the mediterranean. He lived on as the norse Ullr (Ulrich) the rich, splendid or Elusive one.
In the new testament he is called Satan (derived from Cetos ; sea-monster): 'Your father the Devil' and 'the synagogue of Satan'. His most important temple stood at Cadiz (tarsis, spain)
his altar flanked with 2 pillars, the horns or pillars are his sons and he is also a trinity god. To compare with Zebedeus, Mercurius (Helios, Hercules) and Gabriel the messenger.