The gods in mythology are powerful beings no matter what kind of mythology you are talking about. As a Wiccan I do believe in a lot of these ancient Gods that the ancient world believed in and because of the History of Ancient Greece, Native America...
The God of Wicca is the Horned God the ancient God of fertility: the God of forest, flock and field and also of the hunt. He is Lord of Life, and the Giver of Life, yet He is also Lord of Death and Resurrection. Like the Goddess, the nature of Her Horned Consort is also duel. For the Horned God is not only the Hunter, He is also the Hunted; He is the sun by day, but He is also the Sun at Midnight; He is the Lord of Light, but He is also the Lord of Darkness; the darkness of night, the darkness of the Shadows, the darkness of the depths of the forest, the darkness of the depths of the Underworld.
The Horned God is the group soul of the hunted animal, invoked by the primitive shaman and the tribe;: and as such, He is the Sacrificial Victim, the beast who is slain that the tribe might live, a gift from that group soul, who was often revered as the tribal totem or ancestral spirit. The Celts believed they were the descendants of the God of the Underworld, who was also the God of Fertility: the Latinised form of His name was Cernunnos, which means simply, the Horned One.
The Horned God is also the spirit of vegetation, of the green and growing things, whether of the vine or of the field, Dionysus, Adonis, and many other vegetation and harvest Gods were all often depicted as horned, wearing the horns of the bull, the goat, the ram, or the stag: of whichever of the horned beasts has held sacred in that place and time. This aspect is the Dying and Resurrecting God who dies with the harvest and is rent asunder, as the grain is gathered in the fields; who is buried, as is the seed; who then springs forth anew, fresh and green and young, in the spring, reborn from the womb of the Great Mother.
The Horned God is Osiris, who was often depicted with the horns of a bull. Osiris was believed to be incarnate, in a succession of sacred bulls, and worshiped in that form as the God Apis. This was yet another form and manifestation of Osiris as the God of Fertility and also of Death and Resurrection. And Osiris bears the marks of a lunar, rather than a solar God, for Set tears the body of Osiris into fourteen pieces, the number of days of the waning moon; and then Isis, the Great Mother, gathers those pieces together and restores Osiris to life again.
The Horned God is the Great God Pan, the Goat-foot God with a human torso and a human but the goat-horned head, the God whose ecstatic worship was so hated by the Church that they used His description for their "Devil" and called Him the lord of evil. Yet, to the ancients who worshiped Him, and to the modern Pagans and Witches that worship Him still, "Pan is greatest, Pan is least. Pan is all, and all is Pan".
The Horned God is not "The Devil", except to those who fear and reject nature, and the powers of Life, and God, and human sexuality, and the ecstasy of the human spirit. The Horned God is the God of Wicca.
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Wiccans can believe in any group of Gods and Goddesses they want to believe in and feel a strong connection to. While I do believe in all the deities the ones I observe the most are the Greek and Romans. I also inappropriate the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses sometimes . I want to get into Norse and the Celtic Gods and Goddesses too. But it all depends on what you personally believe in, what your personal path, and how you personally want to worship. Like what the girl said in the video it's personal.
