If Cernunnos is his Latin name?

Question

Then what did the Celtic people call him?

Or did this god appear when the Romans conquered the Celtic world?

Is he a Celtic god or a Roman god, or both. A god for the Romans that were in the Celtic lands?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe Kernow.  

Answer 2

The ancient Celtic language was related to to Latin and belonged to the same Italo-Celtic language group. Despite sounding Latin Cernunnos is the Celtic name of the god.

Cernunnos only appears in carvings after the arrival of the Romans and should therefore be considered a Romano-Celtic god. One inscription to 'Jupiter-Cernunnos' confirms that he was considered an aspect of Jupiter in the Romano-Celtic religion.

Answer 3

He's a great big question mark.  We have no Celtic name for him.  The Celts probably have a name for him, but they don't appear to have left any record of it.  (Remember that most of the names we know about either come from documents compiled centuries after Christianization or from the invading Romans.)  The Romans do not have a god that looks like him, so his origin is unlikely to be Roman.  The Celts, on the other hand, have left pictures of antlered men all over their territories, so presumably he was originally Celtic (although we don't know if all of those pictures refer to the same guy or not)

There is no evidence they called him Herne.  In fact, there's no evidence of any supernatural being called Herne until Shakespeare wrote about an antlered ghost in Windsor forest.

Answer 4

Herne was the usual name of the Horned God in Celtic countries.

But there may have been other horned gods in old Celtic religion too; it's hard to know, because most of it was destroyed by the Romans.

Cernunnos is a Latin name -- meaning "Horned One" -- that was given by the Romans to a Celtic deity. There was originally an altar to Cernunnos under what later became Notre Dame cathedral. (It was typical Christian behavior to destroy Pagan holy sites, and then build their churches on top of them.)

Answer 5

No, he was a Celtic god, and that's what they would have called him.