Atho: Horned God of the Witches
In the early 1960’s a man named Raymond Howard offered a correspondence course called “The Coven of Atho”. The first lesson begins by telling the reader that they are going to be taught about the symbolism and rites of a “Clan of White Witches” that are known as The Coven of Atho
It was taught, “ATHO” is the name of the Horned God of Witchcraft.”
One witch named Doreen Valientewrote about ATHO in her book, An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Presentmade a drawing of it and included it next to the well-known image of Baphomet “the God of the knights Templars” drawn by Elphas Levi. She writes a good bit about her personal observations of this wooden head that was carved from single piece of dark oak.
The horns were decorated with the signs of the zodiac and in the centre of the head were five circles, which stood for the five different types of circles cast by a witch. Some symbols are a bit harder to notice like the nose in the shape of a chalice..
Atho: The Horned God of the Witches: can be found here: http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ussc&c=words&id=13989
The Coven of Atho Lesson course can be found here: http://www.atho777.com/library/TheCovenofAtho.html