“There is a tendency among Pagans and Witches to assume that every deity we might honor during ritual is old—not just centuries old, but millennia old, and dating back to pagan antiquity. But the world is a complicated place, and there are several gods that fit into the Horned God mythos who are probably just as much a product of the modern age as they are of antiquity, but I don’t believe this makes them any less potent as gods or goddesses.
There are purists out there who will argue that a deity first discovered or named in the twentieth or twenty-first century is made-up or fictitious, and in my more pretentious days I was probably one of them. However, every deity starts somewhere, and I like to believe that there are always reasons specific deities make themselves known to us. Much of what we know and believe about gods like Pan and Cernunnos is also tied in to our modern sensibilities and interpretations, so why should other deities in the horned pantheon be any different? The Horned God reveals himself in a variety of ways.”
Jason Mankey, The Horned God of the Witches, page 103.
