The Hunt Master

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Fascinating. Ive recognized an emergence of a new animal: the antlered one. Now I remember I was drawing pictures of myself with antlers since at least Korea where I saw the crowns of the ancient Silla kings that were always antlered. And then at folkfest I felt a lot like an elk or deer and Anita was wearing that necklace. And At the peak of it I felt a lot like an elk during the rut. Running around with a swollen neck and bloodshot eyes. Snorting with my head lowered.

And then Jose told me the story of St. Hubert:

Hubert sallied forth to the chase. As he was pursuing a magnificent stag, the animal turned and, as the pious legend narrates, he was astounded at perceiving a crucifix between its antlers, while he heard a voice saying: "Hubert, unless thou turnest to the Lord, and leadest an holy life, thou shalt quickly go down into hell". Hubert dismounted, prostrated himself and said, "Lord, what wouldst Thou have me do?" He received the answer, "Go and seek Lambert, and he will instruct you."


And here after studying with a celtic shaman I learned of Cernunnos:

Cernnunos, as The Horned God, Lord of the Animals is portrayed as human or half human with an antler crown. Though he wears a human face his energy and his concerns are non-human. He is protector of animals and it is Cernnunos who is the law-sayer of hunting and harvest. While He is recognized most often through his connection to animals and our own deeply buried, dimly recalled, instinctual animal natures, Cernnunos is also a tree, forest, and vegetation god in his foliate aspect of The Green Man, Guardian of the Green World. His branching antlers symbolize the spreading treetops of the forest as well as his animal nature. As Master of the Sacrificial Hunt, His is the life that is given in service of new life. His wisdom is that the old must pass away to make way for the new. In his Underworld aspect Cernnunos is The Dark Man, the god who dwells in the House Beneath the Hill, the Underworld. He is the one who comforts and sings the souls of the dead to their rest in the Summerlands of the Otherworld. Cernnunos, as Master of the Wild Hunt, who pursues the souls of evil doers, is not associated with a biblical or even modern morality, but with the protection and continuance of the Land and Nature and the spirits that dwell therein.

All this correlates further to the song Ive been singing:

Chase the Chaser through the valley of death.

This antlered god seems to be both the hunter and the prey.