The Making of the World

In the spirit of Lorna’s recent post about giants, a repost from our website of a Brythonic creation myth…   Before men and gods, before birds and fish, before beasts and trees and before the world itself; there was nothing. There was only a cold vastness of immeasurable size, blacker than the deepest of caves….

The Giants With Us

‘Brutus! There lies beyond the Gallic bounds An island which the Western sea surrounds, By giants once possessed, now few remain To bar thy entrance or obstruct thy reign’ Geoffrey of Monmouth Giants appear in many world myths. In Indo-European mythology we find a common theme: they are primordial beings who are killed or restrained,…

Rhiannon’s Child by Robin Herne

From Robin Herne: ‘The story below is the tale of Rhiannon’s child. She is described as a magical queen in the Mabinogion, but some historians and many pagans believe that she is the euhemerised form of an ancient British horse deity, Rigantona. She certainly has a presence in ritual.’ This story was first published on…

Shrewsbury Meetup

On Saturday 22nd April we held our annual Brython meetup. Members present were Greg, Lee, and myself. We chose Shrewsbury because of its location on a trainline in the midlands for accessibility, because it is on the Severn, and because Gerald of Wales claims that Shrewsbury was the centre of the Brythonic kingdom of Pengwern….

A Call for Submissions

This coming year we want to focus on building up a body of devotional material focusing on the Brythonic Polytheist Traditions. We want to develop and enhance the existing devotional material , and enhance it with hymns to the Gods and Goddesses, chants, hymns and poetry to mark the changing year and the deities and…

For Epona-Rigantona at Calan Mai

A thousand bird-songs illuminate the land, For your coming out from the Otherworld  

For Rigantona at Calan Mai

Rigantona, the gates of your world are open As are the blossoms on the boughs Scenting the air with Summer As you ride across the land. Rigantona, you are radiant in the dawn As sunlight on the morning dew. You are radiant at the middle-day As the Sun climbs higher in the sky. Rigantona, the…