> faces

the gundestrup cauldron:

"vividly decorating the cauldron's plates are scenes of war and sacrifice, bearded deities wrestling ferocious beasts, a bare-breasted goddess standing flanked by elephants, and a commanding figure with stag's antlers brandishing a ram-headed snake in one hand and a twisted neck collar or torc in the other. most scholars agree this figure is cernunnos."

kernunnos of gundesrup:

"the horned one the celtic father of animals with his companion stag and boar is an archetype of mature masculine energy in balance with the natural world. taken from the gundesrup cauldron, this image shows the forest god in his typical yogic pose of meditative entrancement with nature. around his neck kernunnos wears the torc, commemorating his sacred marriage as husbandman to mother earth."