The Witches’ God Janet and Stewart Farrar I* THE WITCHES’ GOD Lord of the Dance by )anet and Stewart Farrar I* Contents List of Illustrations List of Figures Introduction Part I: Faces of the God I The Son/Lover II The Time-Measuring God III The Sun God IV The Wisdom God V The Vegetation God VI The War God VII The Craftsman God VIII The Horned God IX Oak King and Holly King X The Sacrificed God XI The Underworld God XII The Monopolist God XIII The Anti-God XV The Grass Widower XVI Restoring the Balance Part II: Invoking the God XVII Pan XVIII Osiris XIX Tammuz XX Thoth XXI Herne/Cernunnos XXII Shiva XXIII The Dagda XXIV Loki XXV Zeus XXVI Eros XXVII Ra and Amun-Ra XXVIII Wavland and Smith Part III: Gods of the World Appendix I: Casting and Banishing the Circle Bibliography I* Illustrations In Chapter XIX 1 Honduras maize god 2 Bacchanalian Revel before a Term of Pan, by Nicolas Pouccin 3 Mithras sacrificing the bull 4 Thoth in his baboon form <; Ganesa. Hindu god of good fortune, wisdom and literature 6 Hermes, from the Temple of Artemis, Ephesus 7 Coven of the Enchanted Forest. Berkeley, California 8 Assyro-Babylonian seal impression of the Sun god Shamash 9 Hercules,.Hadrian's Wall, 2nd-yd century.AD 10 Pan, from lacob Epstein's Family of Man n Mercury instructing Cupid before Venus, by Antonio Allegri da Corregio In Chapter XXIV 12 Zeus-Ammon, ad iqo-20Q 14 Achilles 17 Hindu Sun god Surva lSXmtaur.battl.ing.with Lapith IQ Assyro-Babylonian Sun god Shamash with King Hamurabi 20 The High Priestess x Draws Down the Sun1 to invoke the essence of the God into the High Priest 21 Antlered god statuette bv Philippa Bowers and Shiva PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS Stewart Farrar, Museum of Mankind, National Gallery, London, British Museum, Rick Welch, Ian Rorke (photographer), D. Hoo- ley.