Two years ago a small group of Brython members embarked on this blog project with the aims of developing our research into Brythonic polytheism past and present, building a calendar based around the seasons and festivals for individual deities, and sharing devotions, rites, prayers, poems etc. By doing this we aimed to increase the knowledge…
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A Visit From Gwyn ap Nudd Or ‘Twas the Night Before Solstice
by Natalie Reed Upon the sacred Tor I sit A fire of Oak, Ash, Thorn is lit I close my eyes, ask what I seek Wisdom is not for the meek Tales of mystic hero lore Memories from the days of yore Look to the sky, what do I see? A spectre looking back…
The Missing Gods by Jonathon Woolley
-I- Seven years ago, I was standing on a hillside, not far from the borders of the Wyre Forest in Shropshire. I was looking downhill, into the valley below, where a little river was plashing noisily along the bottom. There, before me, silhouetted in the moonlight and starlight, was a vast oak tree, his broad…
Devotional Poetry
Devotional poetry is defined by the Oxford Reference Library as ‘poetry expressing religious worship or prayer’. Whereas the mainstream religions possess many centuries of continuous material, within Brythonic polytheism we have no ancient devotional poetry. This is because the Druids and Bards who maintained the religious traditions of Britain and their predecessors did not write…
The Lord of the Waters III: *Neptonos
That asterisk stands out in the title. It is a philological notation to denote when a word, or in this case a name, is reconstructed. It means the word is not known from engravings or written sources, but that it is a theoretical word derived from the careful following of a breadcrumb trail back through…
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
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