Whats the story on Horned Gods and Devils?
RA: Most people think that Old Pagan Gods, reduced in rank and villainized by the Christian church, became demoted to “demon” status, and if there had been people in early christian times, or even later, devoted to some form of traditional communion with older powers, or people anywhere still practising or believing even debased forms of older lores, stories of “Trafficking with the Devil” would be easy to conjure. Of course, I take it to a different place; while I do agree that the older Gods tended to get a very bad reputation (as well as shameless character assassination) at the pulpits of priests and clerics, I think that the “witch” and “devil” connection comes straight from the Helrunar or the Haegtessa’s connection with the Land of the Dead Below the Ground, down the Well, or across the dividing Hedge- the Underworld of the old Queen Hel. The Term “Hell” referring to the Underworld derives from this Old Germanic Goddesses’ name- and I am of the opinion that she was the patroness
