Horned one that guards our entrance is the devil only when you suppressed all the wild, rejected all that you persecuted and exiled to dark corners, that you took homeland – the wilderness – from and covered it with rational concrete jungle of straight angles and straight rules out chosen Book ( be it Bible, Torah, Quran or DSM )
It is not the first time it happens, you likely carry superstition from generations of this rejection. When so called “older brothers”, the ancient Isrealites grabbed the land of Kaanan for the first time, they demonised in their myth everything that was sacred to its inhabitants. That is why today you may fear the Ba’al Zabub, old Baal of the Phillistines, that is why all over the world rejection of feminine – and of untamed sexuality is considered “morality” – because the patriarchal herder invaders considered fertility religions and temple sex an “abomination”, Why do you think Cain’s offering of the fruits of the Mother was rejected by the jealous Father?
Again, and again, when the wild was conquered, same story, whether in Celtic or Slavic forests whose animist gods and spirits were turned into Christian devils, or jungles of the new world, same thing, same exclusion and persecution of the serpent and of the hoofed trickster hiding in the dark.
This is not just a folk story, this has consequences. Unless you understand that what was rejected really rules you and is the enemy only as a consequence of rejection, then no amount of sterile talk therapy, no dose of logos will cure you and immunise to the inevitable chaos of life.
Many lands away, in Indus valley same image is found on ancient seal, not far away from where before Muslim colonisation Shiva Pashupati ruled and was worshipped in ritual dance. That is one of the ways, among them plants, to dance, not reason your way out of desert of meaningless, pointless life of modern despair. Ecstasy is not meaning, it is felt experience.
And when you fear to be led by the trickster, fear he will abandon you in the wilderness, remember what even most of locals in the Amazon, afraid of Chullachaqui seem to have forgotten – that the price you should pay is reverence, respect and offering to the very world that until now you just wanted control and subdue. Chullachaqui is only dangerous to those hostile to the forest.