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Episode 15: The God & the Goddess
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Welcome back Witches! This week will be our very first deity episode and we're covering the God and Goddess! While we are taking a deep dive into these deities, we ask that you use this episode as a foundation to start building your own research should you choose to work with the God or Goddess within your craft. So get in losers, and lets discuss the Triple Goddess and the Horned God.
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Introduction to Witchcraft
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft and the occult but the lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In, Loser. We're doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we have learned about the craft.
Exploring Deities
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So get in, witches, and let's learn about the goddess and the horned god.
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So.
Whiskey and Beltane Celebrations
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But also, happy belting. Happy belting. Over there drinking your coddle. I am, yeah. I've gotten to the part where it's just like the oats at the bottom, so it's not as nice anymore. But it was really nice. I have to say, it wasn't bad. I didn't mind it at all. A bit too much whiskey, but that's just me being heavy-handed. A shot of whiskey is too much. There's no such thing as too much whiskey.
00:01:16
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Right. Well, maybe not. I don't really like the taste of whiskey. You know, I don't either. The only time I actually enjoy it is in coffee, like an Irish coffee or in tea as a hot toddy. Oh yeah. See, the only time I really enjoy it is if I'm taking a shot of whiskey.
00:01:37
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Cause then it's just like down the hatch. Fine. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not a huge fan. No, that's Anthony's favorite. We have very expensive whiskeys. We have cheap whiskeys. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Mike likes it too, but, and then he'll like, he's one of those people too, but he'll drink it. And then the, can you taste the notes of it or something? He does too. And I'm like, it burns. It tastes like Bernie. Yeah. It's like rubbing alcohol. Spicy.
00:02:05
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And when we went to Ireland, I think it was when we went to Dublin, there was a whiskey museum. And to go to the museum, you had to buy a whiskey tasting. So we both bought a whiskey tasting, but Anthony just had all the whiskey. Because they would be like, here, why don't you just try this one? And I'm like, I'm not going to like it. And they're like, here, what if we do this? And they would put a single drop of water in it. And I'm like, it tastes the same to me. It burns.
00:02:32
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Yeah. Can you put my whiskey in the coffee? I'll drink it if it's in coffee. I'll drink it with tea and lemon and honey. Yuck.
00:02:43
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How is your lemonade? We, so we're going to do that later. It's been infusing. It's supposed to infuse for 24 hours. Okay. Like this evening with dinner, probably we'll probably have either a vodka lemonade or a Jen lemonade. It's really pretty though. It turned out. I can't wait to hear about it. Like it's beautiful. Like just the pictures that you have posted. It's amazing.
00:03:04
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So I found like I went, I'm one of those people all look up recipes for something and then all like kind of combined what I like from different ones and come up with my own. So I did that like all day on Friday. I was like, I want to do like a lemonade that has like different correspondences for Beltane. But while I was doing it, like I was like in the middle of like chopping up the ginger and I was like, I kind of want it to be like a pretty color because I saw lavender lemonade and it was like purple, but they used food dye and I was like, absolutely not.
00:03:34
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We're not putting food dye in our lemonade, but I have butterfly pea flowers that I use to dye noodles and dough. And so I was like, ooh, cause they don't have a, they have a slight taste, but not, not anything that would overpower the flavor of the lemonade. And when you add it to like, if you put lemon juice in butterfly pea flower tea, it turns it from like a deep, deep royal blue to purple.
00:03:58
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So it made a beautiful purple lemonade. That is beautiful and exciting. Man, I'm super jealous. I wish I was in Illinois right now. So we're going to do that. I'm going to make some oat cakes later. It's also new pictures. And then Anthony is going to grill some steaks over some fire.
00:04:15
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That's, we did that too. Yeah. Mike grilled. I say we, I didn't do any of the work. Yeah. I won't be doing any of that, but I'll make the cakes. Yes. I sat down and watched him and I sat out in nature and watched them and pick Danny lions and stuff, but we've grilled a bunch of Korean Barbie, like the Calbee ribs. So we had that over the fire and it was delicious. Yum. I'm excited for dinner tonight.
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I'm excited for our first deity episode.
The Horned God and Triple Moon Goddess
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So today we're going to be discussing the god and the goddess, more specifically as are known in witchcraft and paganism, the horned god and the triple moon goddess.
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So a lot of this stuff is going to be, I mean, just based on what we've researched and what we already know about these deities. And I will say at least for the horned God, some of the things I learned about that deity, I was blown away. Like, I mean, just crazy. So, and I know you were saying the same with the triple moon goddess as well, right? Yeah. Yeah. Like.
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the different iterations of her across different cultures, just some of the aspects of her that are just like really rooted in neopaganism and Wicca I think is the other that she's very like much so rooted in. It was just really interesting to learn some of this stuff that I had never heard before.
00:05:32
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It was amazing. So if you are interested in learning more about the God and the goddess, definitely keep listening. I mean, keep listening regardless. This episode is going to be amazing. It's probably going to be a little bit longer than some of our more recent episodes that we've done just because there's so much information, but it's a lot of
00:05:49
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wonderful information that I feel like you're not going to be able to get anywhere else because I noticed whenever I was researching there really isn't very many like podcasts or YouTube videos like dedicated to this information. I mean there's a lot of information like articles and journals, books, online and books and stuff but if you're looking for a more concise
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explanation of the God and the goddess. This is, would be a great episode to listen to, especially if you are interested in working with these deities. I would say also too, like after you listen to it, if this is something you're interested in learning more about, start looking up some of the books and some of the articles that we have listed in our show notes, because while this is going to be a great episode that gives a ton of information, I feel like I left out so much information because I knew like we were already going to be at a pretty lengthy episode.
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So there's a ton of information that we can't even cover in the amount of time for one single episode. Definitely do some extra research on this one if it's something that you're interested in. And deities in general, there's tons of information on every deity out there. They, you know, span across mythology and history, just like there's so much lore written about them. It's really, it's fun to read like the,
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actual like historical information and then see how people take that and put it into stories or movies or TV shows or, you know, it's just, it's interesting to me. It really is. And then to see how the, that lore evolves over time and how much people, you know, they will take the information that maybe was written in like a Shakespeare.
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way or some novel from the 18th century and they think that it's fact because it's been like this is believed to have been fact because of this. I also found with the triple goddess there was a lot of there were groups of people that took the information and applied it to kind of everyday general life showing like
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you know, this is how the patriarchy has used it against women or this is how they took this particular goddess and what she stands for and, you know, brought it as a way to build women up or it was just, it was cool to see that, to see like, you know, a lot of times people will take these and create these like,
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fictional iterations of them and then people take that as fact and then sometimes people will take it and use it for bad and sometimes people will take the information and use it as a way to like build up a community or it's just interesting in general. deities can be defined as being a god or goddess that are in a polytheistic religion so more that means like more than one god or goddess can be worshipped or followed or worked with
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If working with a deity is something that you want to do, you should first understand protection, banishing, and cleansing before working with
Protection and Cleansing in Witchcraft
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a deity. I don't work with a deity. I don't know if you do, Sam. No, I don't either. Yeah, I mean, I've, I know people that do. I've, you know, watched some people that I watch on like YouTube and stuff do or TikTok or whatever, but
00:09:06
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It's not something that I've ever felt like drawn to or something that I've ever done myself. So everything that I talk about from this aspect will be like research based and not like personal. Working with a deity is different from worshiping a deity. So it's more like a mentor relationship from what I understand, like a mentor-mentee relationship.
00:09:27
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And it's used more for guidance and for learning throughout your practice and your craft. If working with a deity is something you want to do, just make sure that you do your research first. You should know the pantheon that they come from. You should know their history. You should know what they stand for, what their correspondences are before you jump in and start working with them. It's not something that is required within paganism or witchcraft. Like I said, neither one of us do. But if it's something that you want to do,
00:09:57
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do your research. Many people do work with deities in their practice and those that do work with deities often have an altar to recognize them. And these altars often include like their correspondences and offering for them or gifts that they put on the altar for the deity and just a space to work spells that they work
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with that deity to help amplify and enhance them. So with that being said, I will be talking about the Triple Goddess today and Sam is going to be covering the Horned God. With the Triple Goddess, she's known by several different names that I found while researching her.
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So the more common would be the maiden, the mother, and the crone. And that's typically going to be the theme that I'm using in today's episode. But she's also known as the triple moon goddess, the maiden, the nymph, and the hag, the princess, the queen, and the goddess. Or this one is really weird to me. But it's the mother, the bride, and the layer out. And I honestly don't know what layer out is. I couldn't find
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any like solid definition to explain what it means in this aspect. But with this one, they also consider the God or the
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male perspective to be considered the son, the lover, and the victim. And I know you had said something about that one when we were talking about it earlier about him being like the son. I can't even remember what you said now. Yeah, that's definitely something that is seen a lot in the lore and the legends about the horned god is because of the fact that, and this kind of works in with Wicca and
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just the beliefs that tie into the pagan will of the year. He becomes her, the Horned God is first her son. She gives birth to him. He becomes her lover. And then he becomes a victim because whenever the plants and everything are harvested, that's when he is died and returns to the earth. And so he becomes the son or no, I'm sorry. He becomes a lover.
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at Beltane, right? Isn't that what we talked about like during the will of the year? I think a hard time remembering exactly, but yes. It was like Beltane becomes her lover. That's when they like consummate the relationship and in the fields. And then she gives birth to their son, which is him. And then, but it's like the new cycle. So like, yeah, he, he dies at the end of the cycle, essentially. And then she reversed him again.
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the beginning of the new cycle. So with that she's also attributed to the divine feminine. She's the feminine counterpart to the horned god. She provides polarity to the male essence of the horned god and she's primarily deeply rooted in neopaganism and Wicca. The triple goddess is the embodiment of the moon and is aligned with the moon phases. So
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The maiden, the mother, the crone would be the waxing crescent, the full moon and the waning crescent. And this is also attributed to the phases of a woman's life in terms of physical reproduction.
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So the maiden would be before, the mother would be during, and then the crone is after the body's ability to have a child. And then she's also the only deity that's worshiped in Dianic Wiccan, which I don't really know a whole lot about, but I thought it was interesting to note that.
00:13:32
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They, I guess they don't recognize any other deities. Yes. I've heard that too. I don't know a ton about Diana Wiccan, but I just, obviously it's just this act of Wicca and they just believe a little bit differently. And I think to their covens, I think at one time were like, they were all women covens. I don't think so. I read that. Like you can.
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join and be a male too, I think now. Okay. I could be wrong, but I think it started out, it was like all women. I could be wrong. It could still be all women, but I thought it started out like that. And I think it's different now, but it could be wrong, but that's about as much as I know about. Yeah. And Diana and Kevin's. Well, now we know that they only worship the triple goddess. Which is beautiful.
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And then the concept of the triple goddess can be traced back to ancient civilizations historically. So Hecate is actually believed to be the first iteration of the triple goddess, and she's been worshipped since approximately the eighth century BCE. She's the goddess of witchcraft, the moon, and of witches.
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And this was something that I just I don't know how like based in fact it is but a lot of the information on this section historically showed that there were several goddesses across various cultures that had three versions of themselves or they were patrons to three specific things that were different phases.
00:14:58
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So some more examples would be the Celtic goddess Brigid. She rules over three crucial skills within Celtic society. So healing, poetry, and smithcraft. And then the Greek goddess Hera has three different roles. She's the girl, the woman, and the widow. And then some texts actually show cross-culture for this. So they'll have Diana, who is part of the Roman pantheon as the maiden.
00:15:27
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Isis from the Egyptian pantheon as the mother and Kali from the Hindu pantheon as the crone. And it shows them learning from each other, teaching each other, and coming together across pantheon. So I thought that was kind of cool.
00:15:44
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That is, that's beautiful too. Usually when it comes to religions, you don't see that cross act. And especially like this is a little bit off topic, but I feel like what it reminded me of when you were talking about it is how within a lot of the major recognized religions, there is always like some character that is like Jesus, but they're named differently. And they have like,
00:16:07
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Even though like some of the stories might be similar, but for the most part they're different. It pretty much has the same like moral underlining in the story. Like the same foundation that it builds from. Exactly. Yeah. And so it makes me like think about that and how, you know, if within these religions and these different pantheons you able, you're able to see this learning and coming together, why could we not have done this with?
00:16:32
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some of the major religions. Yeah. It's like with some of the more major religions today, it's more of a war or, you know, like we have to show that we're better versus like, Hey, let's do the right thing and come together and help each other out. It's like very segregated and gross. Like we all pretty much have the same, like supposed to have pretty similar moral values, but instead we choose to hate each other for believing differently.
00:17:01
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It's weird. So with that, she celebrated across various cultures and dated back as far as the 8th century BCE was the earliest that I could find. So it's something that has
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It's always kind of been there, basically. Like throughout time, people still come back to it. So she's just been celebrated across cultures for centuries. The triple goddess is believed to rule intuitive water where our world and the other world meets. I couldn't find a whole lot on that. It only popped up like a couple of times, but with no like real explanation. It was also attributed to crossroads that she ruled over the crossroads.
00:17:46
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She teaches us how to live in balance and to fully embody each phase of our life. And she's very connected with the element earth. She has like a fierceness to her, everything behind the triple goddess. Even when she's the maiden, it's, you know, the curiosity and coming into her own and finding her power. And then as a mother, it's like, you know, it doesn't have to be like actually birthing children and mothering. It could be, you know, maybe starting a business or
00:18:14
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finding something that she's very passionate about and like working towards that thing and then as the crone she's like full of knowledge and just everything about her is backed by this like fierceness this you know ability to like persevere and come through each stage of her life without the fear of like death or
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of illness or it's just more about like living in the moment and being able to share that knowledge and build people up and bring everybody together.
Phases of the Triple Goddess
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I thought it was really interesting. If we look at each one individually, starting with the maiden, she's traditionally portrayed as a virginal young woman who has not yet been awakened and she's often depicted as like a damsel in distress or seen as innocent.
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The patriarchy tends to push women to stay in the maiden phase, pushing things like beauty products or gearing things towards staying young like plastic surgery, like cosmetic surgery, makeup, aging creams.
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I'm like drawing a blank, but you know, the beauty industry in general and like being fit and staying thin and just being young. That's like how we're pushed as women by the patriarchy to be. And it's working an agenda that makes women feel that if they age out of the maiden phase, that they'll no longer be worthy. This causes women to fear growing up, to fear their own maturity and to fear like coming into their own power.
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The maiden belongs to no one. She's independent. She moves through life with authenticity. She, you know, gains knowledge, becomes intelligent, and she's just fierce and curious. The maiden's all about enchantment and new beginnings. She has youthful ideas. She's enthusiastic. And this is also like a time of growth in a woman's life cycle.
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She's represented by the waxing phase of the lunar cycle as the moon grows from dark to full after a new moon. She's associated with dawn, sunrise, and the spring season. She represents beauty, fresh potential, and new life. She has qualities of innocence, of youth, of self-confidence, intelligence, and she's very independent. She embodies activities related to exploration, discovery, self-expression, and creativity.
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When we move into the mother, this isn't necessarily the societal role of a mother, like I said earlier, but it can be related to coming into one's own, coming into your voice, coming into one's power, coming into your sexuality. It can be something as simple as starting your own business, you're birthing a business, and then you're in charge of that business and the people that work for that business.
00:21:00
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It can be symbolic of birthing children and then raising them. This is the next phase in a woman's life that is centered on fertility, abundance, growth, and gaining knowledge. A lot of, like every phase of life for the triple goddess is about gaining knowledge, but in the crone, it's like still gaining knowledge, but sharing knowledge with others and helping others to learn, helping the new maidens to understand, you know, what it means to be a maiden, a mother, and a crone.
00:21:29
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It's believed that the maiden becomes the mother at the full moon and then gives birth to all of the abundance on earth. So like Sam was talking about earlier with the horned God and the triple goddess, it's kind of that, that growing cycle of the season. So you're like planting everything and the spring, like during this time of year, and then as it grows and then it gets harvested and the plants die out. So it's, it's just all about that life cycle, both human and seasonally with the plants.
00:21:58
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She's a natural caregiver and she's full of wisdom. She teaches others to stand on their own two feet. She's all about fulfillment, whether that's sexually, socially, or emotionally. She's fierce and she's full. The mother is represented by the full moon and she's associated with midday and her season is summer.
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As the season becomes green and fertile, so does the mother. Forest and fields begin flourishing and young animals grow into their own maturity during this time. Some qualities of the mother are nurturing, responsibility, adulthood, and a fullness of life. She is considered the giver of life and is therefore associated with manifestation.
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The mother is believed to be the archetype that inspired Gerald Gardner's vision of the divine feminine. Moving into the crone, this is the final stage of a woman's life cycle. As darkness and night grow, it is believed that the crone then steps into her power. The crone is in touch with the liminal, the intuitive, and the psychic, and is considered all-knowing. She represents the post-childbearing years of life.
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She knows the power of transmutation and she's often the woman who is full of knowledge. In historical context or in like even in fairy tales this is like the old village witch essentially. She's like the person that you go to if you're having a baby or if you're sick or unwell or if you have a little child that has a cough or something. She is usually knowledgeable about plants and medicines on you know how to help women give birth and managing different ailments.
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The crone is often considered the hag and the wise woman, the darkness of night and then eventually also death. The crone is the wise elder aspect of the goddess and she governs aging and endings.
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death and rebirth at past lives, transformation, visions, prophecy, and even guidance. She's represented by the waning moon and she's associated with autumn and the chill of winter, the dying of the earth or the ending of the growing season of sunset and night. And the crown reminds us that death is part of the life cycle. I love that because like, as you were mentioning the beginning with the maiden and how
00:24:18
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patriarchy has just taken basically that and wants us to stay in that box to see how powerful the other stages are. I think that is just amazing because as the Corona, she gets older as like the maiden becomes a mother and then becomes a crone, how much intelligence, how much power she has.
00:24:40
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Well, and it's like, you know, normally in today's society, even like as our own get older, we just kind of throw them to the side. Like here's a nursing home, live out the rest of your life there. I'll pop in and see you every now and then. But historically the crone has been that knowledgeable person that everyone can go to for something. Like if you're sick.
00:25:01
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If you're having a baby, if you just need life, what's the word? Advice. Advice. Yeah. If you just need like everyday counsel, you can go to them because they've experienced so much more than what you have at that point in your life. Yep. So just goes to show respect your elders and respect them for the knowledge that they have. Don't respect them just to respect them, but respect them for the fact that they've been there.
00:25:25
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They have that knowledge. They are, they have that power. They've seen so much. And then also too, if you are in that phase of your life where you're leaving the maiden and you're transitioning into the mother period or the chrome period of your life, don't look at it as a negative thing. Look at it as a very positive thing, because look at all the things that you've accomplished. Look at all the power that you have, all the knowledge that you have. And all the things that you can still do too.
00:25:51
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Just because, you know, you're not 19 doesn't mean that you can't go out and do all the same things that you used to do. It's just, that's how society pushes it. So with that, I found some other, like just few tidbits that I found interesting and wanted to share. This goddess, the triple goddess can be seen through a bunch of different shows and movies.
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through different tropes. And one that I found really interesting was the Freudian trio. So you see this a lot with three sisters, like in Charmed, what, like the Sanderson sisters, you see it with that too. Yeah. This isn't even like a TV show, but the first thing that popped into my head, I'm really sorry to hear my dog in the background, the Archiron sisters from Agatar.
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Yeah. And while I feel like obviously for the maiden, that would be Elaine, right? And then the matron or the mother would be Feyre. And then the crone would be the Nesta. Yeah. So with this, the maiden in the Freudian trio is considered the id.
00:26:53
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And she's often young, blonde, pretty and naive or ditzy or even like a budding seductress. The matron or the mother is the ego. And she's often like seen or portrayed as being plump and eccentric or even pregnant, which you see in a lot of these shows. And then the crone is the super ego. And she's often like sharp-witted. She's sharp tongue. She's bitter. And she might even be like,
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unsentimental. So I thought that was really interesting because like reading that particular piece of information on this, I immediately thought back to like shows that I've watched, movies that I've watched, a couple of books I like picked out and I'm like literally drawing a blank on all of them but I was like oh my god this is exactly how that is.
00:27:43
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So it's like, I never even thought about it with the Sanderson sisters. I feel like that is the best, like, that was literally the first one that popped in my head. And then I was like, Oh, charmed. Yeah. Charmed. Yeah. The original and the new, they both portray it like perfectly. I never saw the new one, but the original. Yes. I feel like too, even with like Sabrina with Sabrina and her aunt, yeah.
00:28:09
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the the matron and the crone. Yep, the crone is also often vilified in media and Disney is a good example of media that vilifies the crone. This outlook vilifies a stage of life for women and it keeps women from empowering each other by teaching women that the crone phase of their life should be cast aside and can no longer give anything of value.
00:28:32
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This divide is put between the phases as a way to disempower women and to make them fear and compete with each other because learning from women or different phases is how women can empower each other going forward in their lives. Like this is the whole thing that we were talking about earlier when you see the
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like cross pantheons showing like, you know, the Roman as the maiden and then Egyptian as the mother and then the Hindu pantheon as the crone and coming together and teaching each other and learning from each other. So it's believed that media and the patriarchy have kind of used this as a way to stamp women down and keep them from empowering each other and coming into their own.
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So with that, the maiden mother and crone is often related to society's treatment of women. The maiden is revered, the mother is honored, and then the crone is just pushed aside and reviled. Women are taking back that title of the crone, though, and spinning the outlook on the term to show that with age comes wisdom, the crone is being shown as vibrant, as sexual, and life-embracing. And then I found there was a YouTube video where
00:29:47
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someone who I believe she worked with this goddess in her practice, she was asked, she had done kind of like a little, this is who she is video, and she was asked about some gender inclusive alternatives. So this was something she came up with. I don't know, like, if she researched it and found it, I didn't find it anywhere else. But I thought it would be interesting to share, just to have some kind of gender inclusiveness to the triple goddess.
00:30:15
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So she shared that this could be instead of the maiden, the mother, the crown, it could be the warrior, the lover, and either the monarch or the mystic. The sun, because the sun is the opposite of the moon, the triple moon, and then the student, the master, the teacher, which I felt was so fitting for this particular goddess because that's, you know, the maiden is coming in and she's learning.
00:30:38
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The mother has learned and she's come into her power and she's birthing, whether it's a child or.
00:30:46
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a passion or whatever. And then the crone, she's learned everything. And now she's teaching it to the, the next role of the maiden. So I liked that. That's beautiful. Yeah. So let's talk about the horned God. The horned God is viewed as a male counterpart to the goddess. Um, he's portrayed as the consort of the goddess. And there's not one specific deity within the pagan pantheon.
00:31:11
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that is referred to as the horned God. In fact, the horned God relates to many horned gods with many different names, such as Cernunos, Pan, Yannis, the green man, and Osiris, just to name a few. And I think that, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, but I think that it is important to note this. And that's why I did too with the triple goddess, because
00:31:35
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It's not specifically just one specific deity. This is something that has been seen in every pantheon, whether it's through like Hecate being over three specific things or, and I can't even remember which goddess it was that I said no, but the one that she was like, the widow was like the crone. So she was like the child, the mother, the widow or something like that. I can't remember, but like it's important to note these because when you're new to something,
00:32:03
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like paganism or witchcraft and you're hearing all these different terms, this is why we always say do your own research because it isn't necessarily one specific thing or it doesn't have one specific meaning like you should really know what you're going into before you just jump into it.
00:32:19
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Exactly. Yeah, you are so completely correct. Before I go into a bit about each of these separate deities, let's look historically at where we get the Horned God. While researching the history of the Horned God, something I found incredibly interesting are the ties that the Horned God has with women and
Connections of the Horned God
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fertility.
00:32:37
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Folklore researcher JG McKay found evidence of a matriarchal hunter-gatherer society ruling in the highlands. This is like a pre-Celtic deer cult, and sometimes they're depicted as mortal witches, sometimes they're depicted as giants, or I guess the female version of a giant is a giant tess, so sometimes they're referred to as giant tesses, and they owned, herded, and milked deer.
00:33:05
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So in pre-Celtic, just symbolism and lore, deer were known as a sort of God or deity, and they were seen as divine messengers in much of the folklore of this time. In modern Scottish Gaelic and modern Irish Gaelic dictionaries, the word had to look this up how to pronounce it because it looks like it says fade. It's not fade. It's pronounced
00:33:32
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Feig or Fi. So I feel that way with everything like Irish, Scottish, like Celtic, it looks one way and it's not like names. That's a big one. Like, yes. Like Siobhan looks like Siobhan. Really does. Anyway, these modern Scottish, gay, like in modern Irish dictionaries literally translates to
00:33:54
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deer and God or prophet. So the fact that they have both of those definitions for that word, and I feel like that's really telling considering the folklore surrounding this deer cult. And then in fairy lore, deer were to fairies, what we use cattle for. And women fairies could transform themselves into red deer. So I wonder, have you seen like, if you look up like anything paganism,
00:34:22
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Cause you know, like I'll, I'll try to look up things to use like in our teaser videos and stuff like images. But if you look it up, like just pagan or whatever, there are a lot of times there will be an image and it's like a woman and she has like the deer antler horns and stuff. And I wonder if that's where this comes from. I always just thought it looked cool. I didn't know any history behind it. But now that you're talking about this, I'm like, I wonder if these images stem from like this particular piece.
00:34:50
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I think that's exactly where it comes from. And to me, it just was so interesting reading about how that kind of evolved into the horned God that we know now. So a quote from this researcher, JG McKay, he said, long, long ago, a state of society existed in the Highlands when women was supreme. All women were supernatural and magical. All ghosts, whether of male or female creatures were feminine.
00:35:17
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Fairyland of the other world was tenanted or inhabited exclusively by women. Men were in the hunting stage of development and feared women, their spiritual mothers, all of whom were capable of guiding the destinies of men magically, either for their wheel or woe as they chose. The deer was a god, the ghosts of deer became fairy or supernatural women, and deer were the cattle of the fairies or of supernatural beings.
00:35:45
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That is really interesting. And just the fact that, I mean, how powerful and like men were fearful of women and they were still in that hunting phase where like, I just think of like cave dwellers and women were these amazing, powerful beings. So, and then during this time, priests and priestesses and pagan animal cults, I mean, just throughout, I mean, not even just during this time, but throughout history, they often wore ornamental headdresses of
00:36:14
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a sacred animal, and an ancient Gaul, people would sacrifice animals to Artemis for permission to hunt. This practice may be based on Aboriginal Gaulish dear goddess cults, and Cernunnos is possibly the patriarchal interpretation of the dear goddess from these Celtic cults. With this, we see this masculine transformation of female divinity.
00:36:38
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So there's a reflection of the change from the matriarchal to the patriarchal societies. And today, in traditional German and English stag dances, they're performed by men who dress up in women's clothes. So it's kind of going back to those ancient
00:37:00
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Celtic traditions of women having this power and women being powerful. And so it's crazy to me that now you see it, but we have the horned God is a man. And in these, in some of, I guess, some of these places, they dress up as women and dance with Stag horns on their heads. So, and then obviously throughout the years, beliefs have changed and transformed. And now
00:37:29
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especially relating to the horned God, man is born of nature and directly tied to the fate of nature. And that's how we see the horned God. Going back to kind of talk about each of these different gods that can be a representation of the horned God. The first one
00:37:49
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is cernunos. This is the horned god in Celtic mythology. He's connected with male animals, particularly the stag. He's associated with fertility and vegetation, and he's found within the British Isles and in Western Europe. He's usually portrayed with a beard and wild shaggy hair, and he is the lord of the forest, the protector of the forest and the master of the hunt.
00:38:12
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He can be also seen as the god of death and dying, and I kind of thought this was really sweet, but he takes time to comfort the dead by singing to them on their way to the spirit world. That is precious.
00:38:24
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It is. So the green man, I've seen him sometimes portrayed with horns, usually not though. Usually it's just with like a mane of oak leaves. This is the god of vegetation and trees. He symbolizes the life that is found in the natural plant world and in the earth itself. He is portrayed as a human face surrounded again by dense foliage, usually oak leaves, and images of the green man date back to as early as 11th century.
00:38:51
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And you'll see his face carved into like churches, a lot of older churches throughout Europe. I've seen it in England since we've been here. And then also in Victorian eras, they became really obsessed with the green man for whatever reason, and they would carve it into their furniture. And if you go to basically any antique shop here in the UK, you will see furniture from the Victorian era with like the green man all over it.
00:39:17
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And I wonder why, like I wonder why that not that it's not amazing, but why not particular iteration was kind of at one point, you know, exactly. I'm not sure because I feel like too, like in the, what I was reading was like in the past, like whenever they, they churches became super popular in England and they're spreading up everywhere and.
00:39:39
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they were building them out of rock. It seemed like the masons that were putting the churches together, working on the churches, building the churches, whatever, it's like they were carving the agreement into the church kind of in secret or like as a way to rebel. Yeah, because I feel like this goes back like with the churches popping up all over England, that goes back to the whole King James I era, getting rid of anything that wasn't Christian, shunning women that knew too much kind of thing.
00:40:07
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Yeah, I do find that interesting because you know, obviously not everyone wanted to convert to Christianity, but it was that or jail or death or
00:40:17
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You know, so like that's, that's a funny way for them to be like, Oh, look at this beautiful church we built. And then they're like, ha ha. Yeah. And good luck changing that. It's going to take you like 40 years. So another one that you see a lot depicted everywhere is Pan. Um, this is the Greek God of lust and fertility. He is often seen with horns and within erect penis. And usually he's depicted chasing a wood nymph.
00:40:47
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I don't think I've ever noticed the penis part. Now I'm going to have to go back and look at images because I do, I can picture the ones like where he's chasing the little nymph around, but I don't think I've ever like looked that deep. Right. I just knew it from, um, whenever I was a kid, I remember going to, I don't even know where we were, but my dad had bought this like unpainted
00:41:09
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statue of Pan and then he painted it like himself or whatever. And I don't, I just remember that one definitely having a penis. And I was a kid and probably too young to be looking at Pan's penis, but well,
00:41:25
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According to the internet, pan is also where we get the word panic, which I thought was interesting. And then also, I guess, just that state of panic and being super frisky and having sex and like wanting to, you know, scream and like be crazy and have sex. Apparently it comes from pan. So yeah, I don't know what to think about my dad having a pan.
00:41:47
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statue. That is hilarious. Isn't it funny though like as you're like now as an adult like doing a lot of this research some of the stuff you come across now you're like oh right yeah interesting. I know he had it like on his altar so I wonder if like Pan was a deity that he worked with. Maybe.
00:42:05
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So I would like, I wish my dad was still around so I could ask him some questions about that. Um, cause I'm really intrigued, but so he rolled over nature and pasture lands and he rolled over the hunters and rustic music, which is beautiful. Also, he is often depicted with a pan flute and worship of him with
00:42:25
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seen in rural areas, so far away from populated cities. And because of that, there weren't really any temples built for his worship and he possessed the power of strength. He could run far and he was impervious to injury and he could also transform objects and he could teleport. So kind of interesting. He could, which, you know, hopefully he caught that nymph because he could teleport there.
00:42:52
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And he is wild with the creative force of nature. So just some interesting tidbits on pan and then a few gods without horns that are linked to the horned God. We have Giannis who is the double or triple faced God. Usually he's depicted looking to the past and also looking to the present. And he is the God of endings and beginnings.
00:43:19
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A few busts of him like depict him with horns, but he's not usually represented that way. So, but I've seen a few like on Google images where he did have horns. There were a couple articles that I read that said the same thing with the triple goddess that she's depicted as looking at the past, the present and the future. And those were the ones that also talked about her like ruling over the crossroads or over the waters between the veil of this world and the other worlds. So it's interesting to see it come up there too.
00:43:47
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Yes. Yeah. It is really interesting. And also with, I'm probably saying this wrong, but Tamas or Damusi, they were in Mesopotamian religions. They were the God of fertility. They ruled over anything that a shepherd would wish for. So wanting the grass to grow.
00:44:05
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wanting new livestock to be born, wanting milk to be plentiful for the new livestock that are born, you would pray to kamuz and damuzi. We do our best with pronunciations because there's not like an audible version. Yeah.
00:44:21
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What was interesting there is there's ties between his death, rebirth, and marriage that correlate to what we see in pagan and Wiccan practices surrounding the Horned God. And I'm going to discuss more on that soon. I know we already kind of discussed it already, but, um, and then Osiris, the ancient Egypt God, he was the king of the underworld, God of agriculture as well, which is really crazy that, you know, because the king of the underworld, you know, the whole thing is like,
00:44:48
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He's the king of things that are infertile because they're dead, but also he's the God of agriculture, but it kind of harkens back to that cycle of death and rebirth. And that's why, so every harvest, he was symbolically killed and his rebirth would center around when crops would begin to grow again, which kind of goes back to everything we've been talking about already. Also real quick, like Karen, you know, the first God I was talking about the Celtic God of fertility and vegetation.
00:45:15
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He also was seen as the god of the underworld. So, and then real quick, because I feel like I didn't even really want to put this in the notes, but I felt like there was too much information correlated between this and the Horned God that I couldn't keep it out. But there are times between the Horned God and Hearn the Hunter.
00:45:33
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So Herne the Hunter originally was from an unknown author in the 18th century. He's depicted as a forest keeper who feared he would lose his job due to some offense he committed. And he completed suicide by hanging himself in a tree. And because of that, he haunts others. He's usually seen wearing Staghorns. And this lore evolved from the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth and with Shakespeare.
00:45:58
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In the novel Windsor Castle that Ainsworth wrote, he is seen as the ghost of a gamekeeper who causes illness and death to livestock, um, making cows yield blood instead of milk, which is a really gross milk is gross period, but right. And then if you're going to have blood to do bloody milk.
00:46:19
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No, thank you. And he supposedly entered into a bargain with the devil, essentially to save his life after having an incident where he was gored by a stag. So the condition was that he could be saved from death if he would wear stag horns forever. And so kind of like a, a really shitty end of the deal, like if you ask me, but
00:46:42
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And then in Shakespeare's play, he had Hearn the Hunter as a cuckold. And that's all I'm gonna say about that. Because why? Shakespeare was wild. He really was. I always love when people are like, oh, Shakespeare's so boring. I'm like, are we reading the same thing? Because this is wild. Wild.
00:47:04
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And then Jacob Grimm, you know, from one of the brother's Graham or whatever, he basically, his thoughts on her and the hunter was that her and may have been based on the European pagan God who led the fairy wild hunt and folklorist Margaret Murray in the 1930s. She basically took all of this information.
00:47:25
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about her and the hunter and kind of evolved into the horned God. So basically in her book, God of the Witches, she associated her and the hunter with an ancient deity of a horned nature. And she stated that her name is the English name for the horned nature God, whom she made the main male deity of her imagined medieval and early modern pagan witch religion.
00:47:50
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So she basically took Ainsworth's novel and made it historical fact and not the legend that it was. So it kind of morphed from there, from this information that was just based on like a local legend and made it fact when that's not really the case, but you know what? It is what it is. Have you read Slew Foot by Braum?
00:48:15
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No, I haven't. So it's a work of fiction. It's not, it's purely fiction. There's nothing like historical or whatever, but it uses a lot of these elements that you're talking about with her and the hunter or the horned god, just in general, because the main character comes across a, he's like a goat man is how she describes him. And she is, it's set in like Puritan times.
00:48:38
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and so she believes him to be the devil at first but the more she gets to know him and he had like lost his memory and she's helping him like gain his memories that it's like becoming clear that he was like a nature just like a horned nature god and it's a really cool like depiction of these in a fictional book.
00:48:56
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Oh, nice. Yeah. I may have to check that out because it sounds right at my alley. Basically, or basically as time has evolved, the horned God has been reinvented as a benevolent spirit of nature. He's depicted as the Lord of animals. He's understanding and protective of the creatures of the wildwood. He's gentle, tender, and comforting. The dying God is also how he's portrayed. His death is always in service of the life force.
00:49:23
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He is untamed sexuality, powerful, and the image of what men could be if they were liberated from the constraints of a patriarchal culture, which is interesting. The Horned God is the life force. And in some Wiccan traditions, the cycle of seasons follows the relationship between the Horned God and the Goddess. And I think I misspoke earlier whenever I was kind of talking about how it relates to the Wheel of the Year I had the wrong season.
00:49:51
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So, um, I was thinking about it as you're talking and I was like, I said that wrong, but whatever. So during the fall, the horned God dies as vegetation and the land go dormant. And in the spring and in bulk, he is resurrected to impregnate the fertile goddess of the land. And this whole belief system is a neo-pagan belief because there's really nothing documented in history that says that this was actually celebrated in ancient times. And so.
00:50:18
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He is seen as the child and the consort of the triple goddess. He mates with the goddess at Beltane, dying at summer solstice only to reborn as her child at the new year or winter solstice is how other people kind of view this cycle. And he's the key symbol and birth, death.
00:50:36
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and rebirth cycles. He is also known as the hunter. So he has strong ties to Great Britain and the idea of the wild hunt. And then he's also known as, you know, outside of being very benevolent in this hunter symbolism, he's known as the taker of life, a vengeful evil hunting spirit with a pack of demonic hounds portrayed carrying a bow. And in myths, he is portrayed as Robin Hood's father.
00:51:04
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There's also links to the wizard slash druid Merlin and the horned God as Merlin was often seen in the company of stags and occasionally writing a stag. So in some beliefs, Merlin is depicted as a horned God, but I mean, it really just up for interpretation, how you want to believe it is what it is.
00:51:26
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But what I found was really interesting is there are cave paintings, one in France at Trois Frere. And this dates back to 13,000 BC. And on the painting, like it's a cave painting of a half human, half stag spirit known as the sorcerer. And it represents a shaman dressed as a stag performing a ritual to ensure good hunting.
00:51:51
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And this is associated with the Celtic God, obviously, Cernunnos, the Roman and Greek mythology, and the Hindu God, Pashupati. I'm not sure how to say that. Did my best. Look, we tried. Yeah, we tried. But what's interesting is this cave painting predates all of these cultures. So this was on the wall before we have any of these other things.
00:52:14
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Wow. And obviously, because of the horns, the horned God is often misinterpreted as a symbol of Satan. And unfortunately, this is due to 19th century paintings of Satan that include ram horns, much like what is depicted for the horned God with his staghorn. So completely wrong animal too. But you know what, people just, they can't stop themselves. They take things and run with it. Yeah. Before I kind of end with
00:52:43
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ways in which you can work with the horned God. I do want to just kind of jump back to the fact that, you know, because of, you know, the things that you researched, Tiffany, and then what I found too, it's really interesting to see how gender fluid both of these, like the God and the goddesses, like it's kind of like they're both one in the same. Yeah. And we just as humans do not have, I feel like the capacity to really understand completely what it is
00:53:13
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You know what I mean? Yeah. No, it's like, you know, we took separate sides of this, researching just one, but obviously there was crossover in between. And it's just interesting to see how deep the history of these things go. Like in yours, you found something that predates all of these cultures that we've both been talking about throughout this entire episode. So it's just, it's interesting to see that. And not only, not only that it like predates these cultures, but how each culture took it and made it their own with their own.
00:53:43
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pantheons, you know, you don't see it just in one culture or just in neopaganism or just in Wicca, but it's shown in every single one of these pantheons, they have a version of the triple goddess and the horned God. And just the fact too, that both are associated with fertility, with rebirth, with death, with everything. The full life cycle, the growing seasons.
00:54:09
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And, you know, to me, just learning about the fact that the Horned God could have been based on a very matriarchal society just really makes me wonder how these two come together. Like if it is a situation of, you know, the Horned God
00:54:25
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is an extension of the triple moon goddess and they can be worship born in the same. And they can be, you know, you're just working with different elements of them because even with the horned God, you know, if you want to work with the green man, that represents something different than if you were wanting to work with pan, obviously. So, but they're all kind of underneath this just, I don't know, this bigger Pantheon. Yeah.
00:54:47
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underneath this bigger pan on the Horned God. Like it's just, it's really interesting. And there's so much more on this topic that obviously we couldn't include because this would have been like a four hour long episode. It's already going to be super long. It's going to be a whole webinar series.
Working with the Horned God
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So to end up just what I have on the Horned God, I put together a little bit of information on working with the Horned God. So whether that be Carononos, Pan, the Green Man, whoever you're wanting to work with.
00:55:16
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And I didn't do this for the triple goddess, but I mean, a lot of this information here is going to be the same. It's just making sure you do your research. So exactly take what we have in this episode as a foundation that you go and build on through your own research.
00:55:34
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100%. So for Caranunos, ways that you can work with him is just making offerings to him, whether that be in the forest or if you have like a wooded nature area nearby, take some wine, milk, or consecrated water in a chalice and pour it on the ground while you're calling to him. You can also decorate your altar with symbols such as leaves, shed antlers, moss, and fresh clean soil.
00:55:59
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For Pan, if you're wanting to work with Pan, offerings of wine is usually what people will give him. And then they also bring honey cakes for his nymphs, which I thought was really cute. Pan loves music, so singing, chanting, and clapping your hands are all good ways to call to him. If you want to decorate your altar with Pan in mind, use signs of spring, images of
00:56:21
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pan, goats, using a pan flute in your decoration or in your ritual practice, and using colors such as purple, brown, and green are all great ways to work with pan. And then for the green man, you can keep an image of the green man in your garden where your plants grow, and you can anoint his figure with oil and ask that he bless your garden and protect it.
00:56:41
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And you can also use the green man in prosperity and protection in your house as well. So you can place him near your front door for protection. You can work with a shrine dedicated to the green man. Some herbs that you can use and working with him are patchouli, cinnamon, basil, and also having a money tree. And you can also create your own green man with oak leaves if you're creative. So you could draw a piece.
00:57:05
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picture of how you visualize the green man and then use oak leaves that you foraged to create the rest of him. So with that being said, just to kind of build upon what Tiffany has said throughout this episode when it comes to working with deities, make sure that you do your research, obviously. And when you're working with deities, this is something that I
00:57:30
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got from an author that is really prolific in the Wiccan community. He's wonderful. His name is Jason Menke. But he basically said that working with deities is a lot like asking a friend for help. You wouldn't ask a stranger for things. You would go to like a friend or something if you really needed something. So definitely establish a relationship with that deity first before you start asking for things. And then definitely do this and get to know the deity that you want to work with before you try to do invocation work.
00:58:00
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Don't just take something also without giving back. You wouldn't do this with friends. In order to have a very successful and bountiful friendship, there needs to be that give and take. The same is being said for whenever you work with deities. Make sure that you're giving back with an offering or something.
00:58:18
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ways that you can do this with the Green Man, with Pan, with Caranunos, with just the Horned God in general, whichever one that you choose to work with. You can do this by honoring and respecting nature, reducing your carbon footprint, spending time in nature, leaving a section of your garden completely untouched and wild, planting trees, vegetation, fruits, or just taking care of your house plants is a great way to kind of show your
00:58:44
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appreciation for the Horned God, building an altar dedicated to the Horned God and leaving offerings. So these are all ways that you can give back if you are wanting to work with this deity and you are wanting to do any sort of invocation work, if you're wanting to ask them for something. These are all great ways to make sure that you are creating that give and take relationship and you're not just asking without anything in return.
00:59:06
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And then with that, just like I said earlier in the episode, working with deities isn't something that you just jump into. You need to do a lot of research. You need to understand how to protect and cleanse and, you know, keep your space safe because this is, you know, it's not something that I do, but I've, I've watched a ton of YouTube videos of other practitioners that work with gods and goddesses.
00:59:30
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and one of the biggest things is like you have to be able to know that sometimes it's not going to be a god or a goddess so you have to be able to protect yourself from that. There's, I don't know her actual name. She has a TikTok and a YouTube account and she goes by chaotic witch aunt and she talks about this all the time like she has before she knew anything really about witchcraft and like how to actually like
00:59:54
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appropriately work with these things. She just tried jumping in and then it like really backfired on her. So I would do a lot of research and look up other like creators on these platforms and see, you know, how they go about it, maybe some of the advice that they give. I, you know, again, I don't do this, so I can't give you advice outside of making sure that you know how to protect yourself and cleanse your space and outside of making sure you do
01:00:20
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your research, like you need to know the history and the background of these things before you just jump into them. Exactly. 1000%. But also, I guess, you know, that's really all we have today when it comes to the Horned God and the Goddess. As always, our resources are linked in the show notes. So if you are wanting to learn more about them more than what we have been able to put in this podcast episode, definitely check out the research because it's amazing and it's very detailed and there's a lot. But like I said, there's not a lot.
01:00:50
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on YouTube or on podcasts just in general. So it's a lot of articles and a lot of research and a lot of books, and it's all really interesting. So take the time and read it. If you're wanting to learn more, if you're wanting to work with these deities that we've discussed today. And then also, I mean, I know this episode isn't going to be released for a few weeks, but we're recording this on Beltane. So
01:01:13
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If you're listening to this and you have done something for Beltane, let us know what you did. We would love to hear how you celebrated this holiday. And again, not to sound like a broken record, but just use this as a starting point. The information that we have in here is great information, but it's also minimal compared to what there is out there. So do some research.
01:01:46
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