How often do I see the "Horned" God depicted with Antlers. How often do I see Gods with antlers being referred to as "horned." How often it frustrates me to know that so few people understand the God to whom they are calling.

From the National Park Service:

Antlers—found on members of the deer family—grow as an extension of the animal’s skull. They are true bone, are a single structure, and, generally, are found only on males.

Horns—found on pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and bison—are a two-part structure. An interior portion of bone (an extension of the skull) is covered by an exterior sheath grown by specialized hair follicles (similar to human fingernails). Horns are usually found on both males and (in a diminutive form) females.

I used to have trouble expressing why images of Our Lord with antlers bothered me so deeply, why it never felt true. The simple truth is that my God, my Lord does not have antlers.

It feels very much like you were trying to make a blanket statement about what should and shouldn’t be considered horns versus antlers, and then in turn the nature of a deity someone has an interaction with based on how they portray themselves to that person. I think if you meant for this to be a personal revelation shared online, you might want to avoid making statements that sound like you’re stating a fact about other peoples’ practice, and maybe tag it things like #personal or #my take or whatever instead of casting as wide a net as #witchblr and #horned god.

Obviously in the end you can use whatever tags you like, and I can understand how startling it is to have unexpected pushback on a post you thought was a reasonable take. However, the responses I’ve seen (and found this post through) have been pretty civil push back against the premise you stated, and seem to come from people who want to share their own opinion and interpretation rather than just those that are insecure.

Although yes, Antlered God is semantically correct, it is far more widely recognized that Horned God can be applied to any antler, horn, or nub bearing god.

The difference between antlers and horns is actually the permanence of the growth. Antlers shed; horns don't.

I definitely know that Cernunnos is widely accepted as the "Horned" God. I made this post simply because I was excited to have words for why certain depictions never felt right or acceptable to me. While the wider community may refer to Cernunnos as a "Horned" God, I do not. Truthfully, IMO there's barely enough info for people to know for certain that Cernunnos was ever really a god. The best evidence is that cauldron you mentioned, which is also the worst evidence at once. The cauldron does not depict an anthropomorphic figure as the witch-god is often described. It simply shows a man bearing antlers. It COULD be a depiction of an ancient Gaulish deity, certainly! But it could also just be a "shamanic" practitioner of sorts. And while I'm not interested in getting into the academics of the topic here, suffice to say that I have never, in my own craft, viewed Cernunnos as the God of witches.

To be clear, I'm not indignant about this. This post wasn't made in an angry flurry, I was actually excited when I posted. I'm not sure why or how anyone would interpret the original post as being anything other than that, and that concerns me for posting anything in the future.

And with regard to the last comment. In my own view, if upsetting something that has been semantically incorrect for years makes enemies, it sounds like people are more interested in keeping a status quo than in doing any digging into their own personal gnosis about these gods. Particularly if one person's view or experience triggers them into hating someone, calling them an enemy, or demanding blood. Doubt is essential on forming beliefs. It is entirely necessary for us to truly grasp what we feel is real, and what we are simply telling ourselves is real. If a single post on a social media website is able to bring doubt to a decades old belief, I think that says more about the belief than the witch who posted the incongruous statement. Not that that is the goal in any way of my post. Again, my post was just a personal post. I think people look at the last line, which is supposed to be taken in a horror-humor tone, and took it at face value. That's not something I ever recommend on my posts.

How often do I see the "Horned" God depicted with Antlers. How often do I see Gods with antlers being referred to as "horned." How often it frustrates me to know that so few people understand the God to whom they are calling.

From the National Park Service:

Antlers—found on members of the deer family—grow as an extension of the animal’s skull. They are true bone, are a single structure, and, generally, are found only on males.

Horns—found on pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and bison—are a two-part structure. An interior portion of bone (an extension of the skull) is covered by an exterior sheath grown by specialized hair follicles (similar to human fingernails). Horns are usually found on both males and (in a diminutive form) females.

I used to have trouble expressing why images of Our Lord with antlers bothered me so deeply, why it never felt true. The simple truth is that my God, my Lord does not have antlers.

How often do I see the "Horned" God depicted with Antlers. How often do I see Gods with antlers being referred to as "horned." How often it frustrates me to know that so few people understand the God to whom they are calling.

From the National Park Service:

Antlers—found on members of the deer family—grow as an extension of the animal’s skull. They are true bone, are a single structure, and, generally, are found only on males.

Horns—found on pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and bison—are a two-part structure. An interior portion of bone (an extension of the skull) is covered by an exterior sheath grown by specialized hair follicles (similar to human fingernails). Horns are usually found on both males and (in a diminutive form) females.

I used to have trouble expressing why images of Our Lord with antlers bothered me so deeply, why it never felt true. The simple truth is that my God, my Lord does not have antlers.

If your Lord only has horns, fine. Your understanding of Him will never be mine, and I respect the way you perceive Him, and the way He's revealed Himself to you.

It’s easy to convince people that opossums and butterflies and snakes are cool. You can get an extreme arachnophobe cooing over jumping spiders or gently shutting tarantulas out of the house in a matter of months—don’t get me wrong, it’s hard work compared to selling them on kitten, but living things have innate charisma.

But how do you sell them on systems? On relationship webs? On largely invisible, interconnected, interdependent cycles that you can’t meaningfully display in a terrarium or on a food web poster? Ecology is like an enormous game of non-Euclidean, fourth-dimensional Jenga in which some of the pieces have gone missing and others have been replaced with tubes of chapstick or sticks of half-melted butter.

I haven’t really seen any talk of it on here, but us Appalachians are trying to fight the Mountain-Valley Pipeline that’s going to cut right through a lot of backyards! Not only that, but it’s slated to go through the Jefferson National Forest and even the Appalachian Trail. The company building the pipeline has already had over 300 accused water-quality violations (link also contains links to how the pipeline is going to cut through sensitive ecosystems, active seismic zones, unstable karst, and steep slopes). 

The pipeline, as of Wednesday, has potentially hit an aquifer, putting local well-water at severe risk. While the company is denying this, do we really want to mess with something that will put our water at risk? 

Here is an article from the Sierra Club that goes over the protests and potential environmental impacts of the pipeline. 

The pipeline would also desecrate land belonging to the Occaneechi band of the Saponi nation in North Carolina.  

A small petition in regards to the sediment pollution caused by the pipeline. 

They are not hesitating to use eminent domain to gain access to private property. 

10 people were just arrested for locking themselves to equipment in protest, and they’re not the first. 

Multiple people have been sitting in trees to protest, but they all have been arrested and removed. Such as a mother and daughter duo and even a professor from Virginia Tech. 

I don’t know of any bail funds at the moment. 

Exxon knew.

They knew, 50 years ago, that they were going to murder the planet and our species with their oil.

And they acted.

Oh, how they acted!

They created a campaign of lies to distort the public perception of climate change.

https://exxonknew.org/

Exxon knew.

They knew in ‘73, when their researchers told them: plastics would never be recycled. There would not be a cost effective way to recycle plastic.

And they acted.

They created a disinformation campaign to convince us plastic COULD be recycled.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

That campaign - the little recycling logos on our plastics, the upbeat videos about a future where plastic was part of a circular economy of use and recycling - convinced us to buy, wash, and sort plastic.

90% of that plastic was never recycled. It never will be.

NONE of those splashy campaigns - the announcement that all NYC school plastics would be recycled, the recycling in national parks - ever worked. They all lasted long enough to get some upbeat press, and then they quietly shut down.

This week’s NPR/Planet Money investigation by Laura Sullivan doesn’t just talk to the ex-chief lobbyists, now serving as belated Oppenheimers, lamenting the impending destruction of our planet.

It also talks to the current round of executives who have announced a fresh round of plans to recycle plastics - completely disingenuous, insultingly obvious distraction tactics to convince us that their projections of TRIPLING production by 2050 isn’t a form of mass murder.

Then Sullivan circles back to those retired executives, the ones who oversaw the first disinformation campaign, and they confirm that this latest round of promises are literally the same tactic, barely updated for a world on fire.

The world is on fire. My sky has been orange all week. Our family’s socially distanced meetings with friends in parks or back yards have been cancelled because we cannot breathe outside.

Exxon - and Chevron, and the rest of Big Oil - knows.

In a secret recording released to the New York Times, oil execs meet to cheerfully discuss how they will burn the world and murder us all but make a buck in the process.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html

Their plans for climate change don’t involve reducing emissions - they’re building bunkers and hiring mercenaries to keep us at bay when we come for them. They know what they’ve done.

Exxon knows.

Exxon knows.

When I searched for the “Exxon Knew” campaign to find a link for this piece, the top of Google’s search results included a blisteringly expensive ad for a disinformation site, paid for by Exxon.

The sky is orange. The oceans are choking. The air is unbreathable. Your body is full of microplastics.

Exxon.

Fucking.

A Cornish protection charm -

To be drawn onto paper with the written addition of “Whosoever bareth this sign need fear no foe. So shall it be!”, folded and presented into a square bag made of velvet or felt & held with a cross of thread (or otherwise contained). Carry in a pocket or bag for protection.

If you cannot find representations for a given element, remember…

You are supported by a rigid skeleton made of minerals. You are earth.

Your body is over 70% fluid. You are water.

Your lungs take in and expel breath. You are air.

Your blood is warm and your brain runs on electrical impulses. You are fire.

Your essence, however you describe it, resides within you. You are spirit.

You are composed of gifts from every element, and every element is given marvelous life in you.

Never feel that you are insufficiently magical for lack of icons or accoutrements or accessories.

Fearsome Diana, who with keen falcons and steed, hunts those who disdained her.

Wrathful Diana, whose hands hold the profane under water— transfixed in the tide.

Righteous Diana, whose priest-king broke his bonds and fought for his freedom.

Fair Diana; her long plait cliched in a mobius strip; two bright stones for eyes.

Queen Diana, her crown the stone of mountains; in hand, a silver sword of stars.

You can’t make meth out of baby formula. You can stretch some drugs by cutting it with baby formula but “Drug dealers sometimes use the powdered formula to dilute heroin and methamphetamine or to stretch the product when supplies run low. However, experts say that more often than not, formula is stolen because of its high market demand among consumers rather than drug dealers.”