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ケルティベリア人の中では、ケルヌンノス型の角や角を持った像として、カンデラリオ（Candelario） (サラマンカ（Salamanca）) から出土した二つの顔と二つの小さな角を持つ「ヤヌスのような（Janus-like）」神、リオティント（Ríotinto） (ウエルバ（Huelva）) の丘から出土した角を持った神、ロ－リザン（Lourizán）(ポンテベドラ（Pontevedra）) の祭壇近くにいたヴェスティウス・アロニエカス（Vestius Aloniecus）神の表現と思われるものなどがある。角は「攻撃的な力、遺伝的な活力、繁殖力」を表すとされる<ref>Francisco Marco Simón, "Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula," ''e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies'' 6 (2005), p. 310.</ref>。
ケルト人が人間の姿をした神々を描くようになったのは、ローマ帝国のガリア征服以後のことだという説があるが、ケルヌンノス型の神像はその例外である<ref>Webster, "Creolizing the Roman Provinces," p. 221.</ref>。ケルトの「角のある神」は、図像ではよく知られているが、ローマ民俗誌のケルト宗教の記述では確認できず、ローマ時代のパンテオンに翻訳するには特徴が強すぎたためか、いかなる解釈も与えられていないようである<ref>Jane Webster, "Creolizing the Roman Provinces," ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 105 (2001), p. 222; distinctiveness of Cernunnos also in William Van Andringa, "Religions and the Integration of Cities in the Empire in the Second Century AD: The Creation of a Common Religious Language," in ''A Companion to Roman Religion'' (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 87–88.</ref>。
Divine representations of the Cernunnos type are exceptions to the often-expressed view that the Celts only began to picture their gods in human form after the [[Gallic Wars|Roman conquest of Gaul]].
The Celtic "horned god", while well attested in iconography, cannot be identified in description of Celtic religion in [[Roman ethnography]] and does not appear to have been given any ''[[interpretatio romana]]'', perhaps due to being too distinctive to be translatable into the Roman pantheon.<ref>Jane Webster, "Creolizing the Roman Provinces," ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 105 (2001), p. 222; distinctiveness of Cernunnos also in William Van Andringa, "Religions and the Integration of Cities in the Empire in the Second Century AD: The Creation of a Common Religious Language," in ''A Companion to Roman Religion'' (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 87–88.</ref>
While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as [[Mercury (god)|Mercury]],<ref>David M. Robinson and Elizabeth Pierce Belgen, "Archaeological Notes and Discussions," ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 41 (1937), p. 132.</ref> [[Actaeon]], specialized forms of [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], and [[Dis Pater]], the latter of whom [[Julius Caesar]] said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.<ref>Phyllis Fray Bober, "Cernunnos: Origin and Transformation of a Celtic Divinity," ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 55 (1951), p. 15ff.</ref>
