By Ron McVan
As long as a people live, their gods are immortal. The gods and goddesses of our folk help us to navigate that great mystery of life which manifests from the One. No true pagan has ever been gnawed by doubt about the divine nature; only those who betray the God within and sacrifice their soul to an eternal alien, and thereby the eternal unknown…
It was no accident that the Horned Gods of the early Euro-tribe religions would later become vilified under the alien religious domination of Christianity. It has always been the nature of rival ideologies to demonize and destroy their opposition, and the storm to power of Christianity concocted by the Flavians of Rome was certainly no exception.
In the ancient religions and arcane mysteries, horns on the human head were always symbolic of divinity and high wisdom. The horned human image was, also, representative of virility and fertility. It was most common and natural to find such characterizations on many of the early deities. Only after the rise of Christianity with its vigilant campaigns of death and torture did the nature-based pagan religions subsequently withdraw from the world stage of history. In so doing, the great esoteric wisdom and horned gods of ancient days were concealed from the vulgar. This hidden knowledge was later to become defined as “occult”, which simply means “hidden”. Occultism is, therefore, the study of the hidden, dissolving the diabolical implications of the term.
Through anthropological research, one can trace the line of horned god prototypes back to Paleolithic times. The earliest known representation of such a figure is found painted on the interior walls of the Caverne des Trois Freres in Ariege, France and dates to the late Paleolithic period. Among an assemblage of animals, a figure of a man is clothed in the skin of a stag and wearing on his head the antlers of a stag. It seems evident from the relative position of all the figures that the man is dominant and that he is in the act of performing a ceremony.
Though the stag-man cave drawing is the most important of the horned figures found in this early period of Northern Europe, there were many other smaller drawings of masked and horned men found on objects of bone and antler. The art of the Paleolithic period came to a sudden and complete end before the Neolithic era; it was utterly wiped out in Europe. The Neolithic Aryans have left few artistic remains; the surviving figures are predominantly female depictions.
In far distant times dating back to the era of Hyperboria and Atlantis the horns had an added significance. The main horned deities of that time were represented in the form of a bull. The symbol of the reigning High God “Poseidon” was the bull. The bull represented the Taurus Constellation, the “Bull of the Zodiac”. The Taurus constellation contains the celebrated cluster of stars known as “The Seven Stars”. There may be more than we really know concerning the high significance of the number seven and the horns of Taurus. There is new light now revealing the idea that Aryan Man may well have migrated here to Earth from a homeland planet in the Pleiades. There are 250 stars in the Pleiades but the most celebrated are the “Seven Stars of Taurus” which are also known as “The Seven Virgins”. At every seaport used by the Atlantean shipping merchants from the northwest coast of Europe all the way down to what was once Minoan Crete, the bull is still celebrated and held in high esteem even to this day. The Atlanteans, towards the close of their era, were strongly made up of Iberian racial stock. The Iberians were a much smaller race than the Teutons but were physically well developed with creamy white skin and jet black hair. From the influence of that Aryan racial strain were created the Black Irish of the Celts, the Spanish and Portuguese and of course the Minoans of Crete to whom the bull was celebrated perhaps more than anywhere in all of the Aryan lands outside of Atlantis. (It has been suggested by the Templar’s that the name Portugal was derived from “Port-O-Grail”, meaning “Port of the Grail”) Today, Spain continues to carry on that ancient practice with its trademark bull fights that harken back to the bull traditions and ceremonies of Minoan Crete.
The lost Atlantean metropolis of Tartessus is believed to have existed not far off of the coast of Spain. The word Tartessus contains Taurus within the name itself and considering the high importance related to Taurus in that time period, it is highly likely that is where the name originally derived. The German archaeologist Adolf Schulten wrote a book arguing that Tartessus was the key city of Atlantis, as likewise, was the capital city of Thule to Hyperborea. When Plato spoke of the capital city of Atlantis he stated: “The capital city was far grander and richer than Athens, with aqueducts and baths, bridges and docks and naval stores, and temples in which sacred bulls ran loose. They were “the fairest and noblest race of men who ever lived…”
It is into the Bronze Age when the horned figure flourished again among the Indo-European (Aryan) tribes of Egypt, Mesopotamia and India where even today the horned cow is still considered sacred. Horned gods and symbolic bulls were also quite common in Babylon as in Assyria. The copper head found in the gold tombs of Ur is believed to be earlier than the first Egyptian dynasty, displaying an advanced stage of metal-working. When Alexander the Great raised himself above the kings of the earth and declared himself a “god”, he wore a ram horned head piece as a symbol of his divinity. Polytheism appears to have arisen among the Aryan cultures, East and West, with the amalgamation of tribes, each with its own gods. The horned deities were quite prevalent throughout Greece and Rome.
The greatest horned god of Celtic Gaul was known as Cernunnos. Images of this archetype date back as far as 20,000 years ago. The English parlance was “Herne” (i.e. Wotan), or more colloquially, “Old Hornie”. In Northern Europe the ancient equivalent “Neck” or “Nick” was used, meaning “spirit”. He had such a hold on the affections of the people that the Christian church was forced to accept him. And he was canonized as “St. Nicholas”, who in Cornwall still retains his horns. Few are aware today that Santa Claus has traditional and symbolic roots to the Aryan Allfather Wotan.
Over the ages the names of deities change, but the essence more often remains the same. In addition to Cernunnos, the ancient Celtic god “Belenus” (Bel) was the most widely worshiped in all of Gaul and is still celebrated in the traditional festival of Beltane. Classical writers associate him with Apollo.
The early Greeks inherited from Mesopotamia a Nature-personified god, “Ouranos”, (which means sky). Ouranos was later usurped as sky-god by “Kronos”, later to be replaced by “Zeus”. The Celtic god “Lugus” was characterized as “The shining one”. Caesar identified him with the Roman god “Mercury”, who was often compared to “Wotan”. The all-father deity of the Teutons before Wotan was “Tyr” (Tiw, Teu) eventually giving way to Wotan.
Of all the Euro-tribal gods who have come and gone, Wotan has remained consistent. Although subtle at times, the Wotan consciousness is always ready to reemerge from the collective psyche of the Aryan folk. He is a god of many facets, which has no doubt helped him to endure through the ever-changing times. As the horned god, “Herne the Hunter”, the wearing of the stag horns is symbolic of the Ur-force, the primal power of the forest, as characterized by the Uruz rune. Wotan as Herne shares other similar characteristics with Cernunnos, as Lord of the Forest and the Animals. Wotan is, also, the spirit behind the leaf-faced “Green Man”, who is widely represented in the fine arts and architecture of European culture.
Herne was known to be the mystic guide of Robin Hood. Also, we have the connection of Wotan, personified as Merlin, who was the mystical seer to King Arthur. It is interesting to note at this point what is known as the “12 + 1 formula” found throughout the ancient Aryan mysteries. Even Christianity used this Gnostic numerology with the concept of Jesus and his 12 disciples. “Twelve plus one” personifies the sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Always there are 12 prophets, 12 patriarchs or 12 disciples: King Arthur and the 12 Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood and his 12 Merry Men, Charlemagne and his 12 Peers of the Supreme Council, Wotan and the 12 High Gods, Zeus and the 12 Great Gods of Olympus. The number 13 has profound Gnostic significance. To give more examples, Romulus, who was both King and incarnate god to the Romans, went about surrounded by his 12 Lictors. Hercules with his 12 labors. And the Danish hero Hrolf, was always accompanied by his 12 Berserks.
Rare are the men who have been able to penetrate the secret of the beginning, but all who have done so have, by spiritual duty, left a witness to the existence of this science, describing through enigmas or allegories—-but especially through theological considerations—-the process of work and the phases of becoming, without ever revealing the essential secret.” ~ R.A.Schwaller de Lubicz
It is through an understanding of the arcane mysteries, ethnic mythos and folk traditions that Aryan man sees himself mirrored back to the earliest of days, and by the comprehension of a divine spiritual and race conscious awakening to his own inner essence that he knows himself. Wotanism is the incarnation of the indestructible collective soul of the Euro-tribes. Since the first horned god was scrawled on the wall of a cave in far distant pre-historic times, the blood essence of our ancestors has continued through that Golden Chain of ongoing generations which bind us in a great linkage of destiny, beat and time.
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