{"id":158,"date":"2012-02-03T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=158"},"modified":"2013-07-10T00:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:16:33","slug":"cernunnos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/pbp\/cernunnos\/","title":{"rendered":"PBP Fridays: C is for Cernunnos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cernunnos is the name usually used to describe the Horned God of Celtic traditions. In terms of artifacts, very little is attested to that name specifically, and even the etymology isn&#8217;t entire sussed out. In terms of modern-day pagan worship, Cernunnos is seen as a god of the Wild Hunt, a god of fertility and sexuality, a god of nature and wild animals, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodandbone.wordpress.com\/cernunnos-devotional-2\/\">much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To me, Cernunnos is<\/p>\n<p>the darkness beneath the trees<br \/>\nhoofprints left in loamy soil<br \/>\nan endless trail to follow<br \/>\na god so far ahead he&#8217;s never seen<br \/>\nsignals left on the path<br \/>\nblood pumping through veins<br \/>\ncool air, warm skin<br \/>\nmuscles flexing and contracting<br \/>\nsweat<br \/>\nsex<br \/>\nnight-time wind<br \/>\nthe smell of damp earth and greens<br \/>\nshadows under leaves<br \/>\nstars in the sky<br \/>\nthe forerunner of the path I&#8217;m on<br \/>\nnot a person, only a presence<br \/>\nnot a person, only a concept<br \/>\nnot a person, only a feeling<\/p>\n<p><i>April 21, 2010, personal journal:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hadn&#8217;t realized the bedroom window was open. After I took my hot shower, I came back into the bedroom with Vas&#8217;s <i>Unbecome<\/i> playing&#8230; and just <i>stopped<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The smell. Cool warmth. Enough moisture in the air to turn shadows into dark, waxy green leaves. The sound of passing cars intimate and grittily real, underlaid with haunting music. The touch of the wind on my warm, bare skin and how it slipped into my lungs like pure oxygen, a prayer of flesh.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the Horned God; it was His smell, His taste, His touch, His dark forest overlaying my pedestrian reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small>This post brought to you as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/paganblogproject.com\/\">Pagan Blog Project<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cernunnos is the name usually used to describe the Horned God of Celtic traditions. In terms of artifacts, very little is attested to that name specifically, and even the etymology isn&#8217;t entire sussed out. In terms of modern-day pagan worship, Cernunnos is seen as a god of the Wild Hunt, a god of fertility and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,5],"tags":[33,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}