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📖 Ancient Restoration Cernunnos on the Gundestrup Cauldron (Jutland, 150 BC). Seated between a deer and a wolf this horned figure is thought to be a totem god of the Celtic war-bands. The Stag god, as lord of wild animals, provided the royal hunter with prey and guaranteed his…


In 7,000 BC the first settlers of Ireland encountered a land of continuous forest - Oak grew in the fertile valleys & dense pine in the upland. Irish woodlands were home to native wolves, boar, brown bear, & red squirrel. (today's red sq. actually came from Britain 19th c.)