The Sickle and the Shining Spear

The beginning of August has many names within pagan and polytheist traditions; Lammas, Lughnasadh, Gwyl Awst. All share a common theme of harvest.  Now is the time to gather in the grain harvest, the first of the lands harvests, and begin reaping the rewards of the union of land and sky. Rather than view it…

Dreams in Brythonic Tradition

Animistic and shamanistic cultures from around the world place a high value on dreams, which many believe to contain messages from the otherworld and influence individual and tribal destiny. Carvings in caves at Creswell Crag in Derbyshire (11-13BC) and Cathole Cave on Gower (12,500BC), and antler headdresses from Star Carr in Yorkshire (8,700BC) suggest the…

Guest Post – ‘Brigantia: Tribal Goddess by Sheena McGrath’

The Brigantian federation stretched over most of northern England, and their queen, Cartimandua, is one of the few female rulers known to history. But the fame of their goddess, Brigantia, comes from a Roman statue. Statue of Brigantia – Pinterest. This sandstone image, with an inscription naming Amandus, an engineer, as the man who ordered…

Inclusivity in Brythonic Polytheism

We live in frightening times. On June 12th, 49 people were shot dead in a gay club in Orlando. On June 16th, Labour politician Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a man influenced by the far-right. Since Brexit a multitude of hate-crimes have been committed against immigrants in Britain by nationalists who…

The Lord of the Waters I: Lludd, Nudd and Nodens

People have been on this island before it was an island, when it was a peninsula. They knew of the gods that formed the landscape they lived on, they knew their names and gave them masks of a sort to clothe themselves in. The masks were passed on from generation to generation, the gods who…