The Horned God, some of who's names are Cernunnos, Pashupati, Pan, Puck, Pachacamac, Veles, Lord of the Winter, Hu Gadarn, and Belatucadros among who knows how many others.

His symbols are horns ether set like Pan or Puck, or antlers like Cernunnos or Pashupati. For Pan the syrinx or reed pipes. Cernunnos the Torc (female symbol) & Ram-headed snake (male symbol).

Usually his image is that of a well formed human male figure who's head bears antlers, or in the case of Pan fixed horns and in the case of Pan fixed horns and the legs of a goat.

His holy days are generally The Winter Solstice (his birth), Spring (his marriage), Summer Solstice (his death).
Though this does differ with other versions and traditions.

Referring to the Horned God in the singular is perhaps a silly thing to do. There are many male deities that have as one of their aspects the possession of horns.

They can be found all over the world under dozens if not hundreds of names. Though all are separate entities from different and diverse people there is, I think, enough in common to look at them as a whole. Some of these Horned Gods are:

Pashupati: This was the deer-horned god and Lord of the Animals of Northern India some 6000 years ago in what is now Pakistan. Little is known about the civilization that gave rise to the city of Magenjo Daro, even less about the God of the region other than some images found in area.

Pan: Here we find not an antlered god but one with permanent fixed horns. Son of Hermes and Penelope (at least in some of the myths) Pan was never really much like by the other Greek deities. The god of flocks, woods, shepherds and the sources of the unreasoning fear that overtakes some people when confronted with the Wild that was given his name and called panic.

He would in later years be turned, in part , into the Christian god Satan, a character whom at no point in the Bible is ever described as being horned. Poor Pan, for once being the kidnapped one here, had this role fostered on him by monks who were not familiar with the panic of the wildwoods, but with a different fear, that of the seriously and unhealthy sexually repressed.

Cernunnos: While many today think of this God as THE Horned God that may in fact be a misnomer, as it is doubtful that long ago there was ever a group of people who referred to him by this specific name.

On the Parisii inscription ernunnos, the first letter of the name has been scraped off at some point, but can safely be restituted to "Cernunnos" because of the depiction of an antlered god below the name and the fact that in Gaulish, carnon or cernon means "antler" or "horn" . Similarly cern means "horn" or "bumb, boss" in Old Irish and is etymologically related to similar words carn in Welsh and Breton, and is the probable derivation of "Kernow" (Cornwall), meaning horn'[of land]'. These derive from a Proto-Indo-European root *krno- which also gave the Latin cornu and Germanic *hurnaz (from which English "horn").

The same Gaulish root is found in the names of tribes such as the Carnutes, Carni, and Carnonacae and in the name of the Gaulish war trumpet, the carnyx. Therefore, the Proto-Celtic form of this theonym can be reconstructed as either *Cerno-on-os or *Carno-on-os, both meaning "great horned one". (The augmentative -on- is frequently, but not exclusively, found in theonyms, for example: Map-on-os, Ep-on-a, Matr-on-ae, Sir-on-a.)

Cernunnos, by whatever names he was really called is known from archaeological sources such as inscriptions and depictions, to have been worshipped in Gaul, Northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina) and parts of Britain. The earliest known probable depiction of Cernunnos was found at Val Camonica in Italy, dating from the 4th century BC, while the best known depiction is on the famous Gundestrup cauldron found on Jutland in the westernmost part of Denmark dating to the 1st century BC. The Cauldron was likely to have been stolen by the Germanic Cimbri tribe or another tribe that inhabited Jutland as it is quite clearly from south east Europe.

In Gallo-Roman religion, his name is known from the "Pillar of the Boatmen" (Pilier des nautes), a monument now displayed in the Musée National du Moyen Age in Paris. It was constructed by Gaulish sailors in the early first century CE, from the inscription probably in the year 14, on the accession of the emperor Tiberius. It was found in 1710 in the foundations of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on the site of Lutetia, the civitas capital of the Celtic Parisii tribe. It depicts Cernunnos and other Celtic deities alongside Roman divinities such as Jupiter, Vulcan, Castor, and Pollux.

To most Neopagans Cernunnos is the God who stands at the gateway of life and death and alternates with the Goddess in ruling over life and death. Seen as the God of fertility, life, animals wealth and the Underworld he is continually born, and dies returning year after year.

Puck & Others: In the British Isles, home of the Druid's horned Hu Gadarn, and the horned warrior god Belatucadros the Shining One, the the Horned God eventually came to be known as Puck or Robin Goodfellow as well as the legend of Herne the Hunter and the Green Man.

No longer a god but not a being that could be gotten rid of ether. An echo of the Horned God is also perhaps found in the Arthurian legends in figure of the Green Knight and in Caer Bannuac or Castle of Carbonek the "Horned Castle" that was thought to be the abode of the Holy Grail.

Veles: Veles, Volos, Weles, or Voloh is a major Slavic Horned God of agriculture, animal husbandry and the dead. This Slavic Horned God, ruled horned animals, earth, waters and Underworld he was also associated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and trickery.

Pachacamac: However it is not only in Asia and Europe that the Horned God is found. In Pre-Colombian Peru we find the horned son of the Sun Pachacamac, God of life and death he is the diety of light, volcanic fires and like his far removed brothers was said to stand at the gateway between live and death.

Further North in the land that would one day be the American Southeast the Indians have tales not of a horned God, but of great horned snakes. Large enough to swallow a man whole they also possess deer antlers, and sometimes a great gem with healing properties that was lodged between these antlers.

Modern: There are still new versions of the Horned God coming about today, such as Philip Jose Farmer's John Stagg in the novel Flesh or the Forrest King in Princess Mononoke. As in the past examples, to name only a few.

These are only a few of the Horned Gods that are found the world over. A personification of early man's envy of the far mightier beasts that were a part of his daily life? Or perhaps a powerful part of our Universal Unconscious that has come through in a endless number of different forms and is still being expressed anew that is still as powerful as it ever was?