Pernastudios on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/pernastudios/art/Cernunnos-Sketch-Card-Soni-Alcorn-Hender-298707698Pernastudios

Deviation Actions

Pernastudios's avatar

Cernunnos Sketch Card - Soni Alcorn-Hender

By
Published:
6.3K Views

Description

:iconpernastudios:



Perna Studios is very excited to announce our very first trading card set entitled Classic Mythology. This set will focus on 6 timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic, Japanese and Hindu. We have an impressive list of artists involved on this set working on both base/promo cards and sketch cards.



pernastudios.deviantart.com



PLEASE, NEGATIVE CRITIQUES ARE NOT WELCOME. THESE ARE ARTISTS INTREPRETATIONS. DESCRIPTIONS ARE BASED ON VARIOUS STORIES THAT ALL DIFFER FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. THANK YOU.



This awesome sketch art card of Cernunnos from Celtic Mythology is created by the very talented artist Soni Alcorn-Hender :iconbohemianweasel: for our Classic Mythology trading card set.



Cernunnos – Celtic Mythology - Cernunnos is the conventional name given to the horned god of Celtic polytheism. The name itself is only attested once, on the 1st-century Pillar of the Boatmen, but depictions of a horned or antlered figure, often seated cross-legged and often associated with animals and holding or wearing torcs, are known from other instances. The theonym Cernunnos appears on the Pillar of the Boatmen, a Gallo-Roman monument dating to the early 1st century CE, to label a god depicted with stag's antlers in their early stage of annual growth. Both antlers have torcs hanging from them. The "Cernunnos" type in Celtic iconography is often portrayed with animals, in particular the stag, and also frequently associated with a the ram-horned serpent, besides association with other beasts with less frequency, including bulls (at Rheims), dogs, and rats. Because of his frequent association with creatures, scholars often describe Cernunnos as the "Lord of the Animals" or the "Lord of Wild Things", and Miranda Green describes him as a "peaceful god of nature and fruitfulness".



bohemianweasel.deviantart.com



bohemianweasel.com
Image size
383x539px 159.55 KB
© 2012 - 2024 Pernastudios
Comments12
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
DrBookworm's avatar
Nice job reflecting Celtic culture with the red hair there (assuming the ancient Celts were indeed kissed by fire)! :D