1. Animal Symbolism In Celtic Mythology Overview article by Lars Nood©n, discussing the tie between animals in Celtic and welsh mythology with fertility and vitality. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/rel375.html

Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology A paper for Religion 375 at the University of Michigan by Lars Noodén, 22 November 1992 Animals in Celtic and Welsh mythology are tied in with fertility and vitality, because they are living, moving, and growing. They also provide vitality and continued life for the tribes through their meat, skins, and bones. In addition, they are a connection to the realm of spirits and the gods. This connection is seen through their use in the hunt, search for secrets and wisdom. Specific animals have specific associations depending on the characteristics of the type of animal. Birds, fish, serpents, deer, cattle, swine, and so on all tend to be used as symbols. Boars fishes serpents birds , and herd animals are the most frequently described. In addition to representing fertility and wealth, boars symbolize courage and strong warriors MacCulloch , 356) for they are strong, dangerous, and very hard to kill. Their appearance in dreams and visions also indicates warriors. Isolt's forewarning of the death of Tristan, a great warrior, came in a dream about the death of a great boar

2. Behind The Name: Welsh Mythology Names names. welsh mythology Names. The ARANRHOD f Welsh, welsh mythologyPossibly means huge wheel or round wheel in Welsh. In Welsh http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/wel-myth.html

t h e e t y m o l o g y a n d h i s t o r y o f f i r s t n a m e s Welsh Mythology Names The names listed here occur in the mythologies and legends of Wales. ARANRHOD f Welsh, Welsh Mythology Possibly means "huge wheel" or "round wheel" in Welsh. In Welsh myth Aranrhod was the mother of the twin brothers Dylan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes. In earlier myths she was a goddess of the moon. ARIANRHOD f Welsh, Welsh Mythology Variant of ARANRHOD , influenced by the Welsh word arian "silver". ARTHUR m English, Welsh Mythology Pronounced: AR-thur The meaning of this name is unknown. It could be derived from Celtic art "bear" combined with viros "man", or it could be related to Irish art "stone". Alternatively it could be related to an obscure Roman family name Artorius . Arthur is the name of the central character in Arthurian legend, a 6th-century king of the Britons who presided over the knights of the Round Table. He may or may not have been an actual person. BEDIVERE m Welsh Mythology Anglicized form of the Welsh name Bedwyr , which is of unknown meaning. In Arthurian legends Bedivere was one of the knights of the Round Table, one of the original companions of King Arthur. He was the one who threw Excalibur into the lake after the king died.

3. Welsh Mythology Known welsh mythology consists of ancient celtic tales originating before Roman timesand embellished through the storytelling tradition over many centuries. http://www.heartoglory.com/Categories/welshmyth1.htm

4. Lugodoc's Guide To Celtic Mythology An overview of the Welsh and Irish canons.Category Arts Literature Myths British and Celtic...... The more ridiculous of these (such as St Patrick sending Cuchulainn to hell) I haveomitted as irrelevent Christian fantasy. welsh mythology, or. The Mabinogian. http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/myth/myth01.htm

Lugodoc's Guide to Celtic Mythology Through a monstrous perversion of the Bard's art, Lugodoc has reduced the entire canon of Celtic myth into bite-sized chunks, easily digested by today's 3-minute attention spanned video game-addicted goldfish-minded web-surfing generation. This is not a telling of Celtic myth, only a map. Chronological sense is maintained except where this would ruin the flow of the Celtic knot of interweaving stories. Try too hard to put these in proper order and you will go mad. Myth is not history. Some stories appear under their traditional titles, some I have had to make up. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots. There are two main cannons of myth, Irish and Welsh Irish Mythology The oldest of these stories were composed in the pagan Celtic iron age of Ireland, possibly as early as 300 BC, and passed on in the druidic oral tradition until the coming of Christianity and the decay of the druidic priesthood in the 5th century AD. The stories were then passed on by wandering bards, added to and bits lost, until the first scraps were first written down in a highly confused order with odd legal and historical notes on cow-hides by early Irish Christian monks in the 7th century. The oral tradition continued to grow and mutate, monks kept writing them down, and manuscripts were copied and then lost. These myths are scattered about in several still extant ancient Irish manuscripts written by Christian monks between the 12th and 14th centuries AD, such as The Book of the Dun Cow (LU), The Book of Leinster (LL) and The Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL). Some were written as late as the 18th century. The original pagan myths therefore suffer from varying degrees of Christian contamination.

5. Mabinogion, TheMyth From The Mid-thirteenth Century Consists Of Four Parts, Each and oral) ever attempted as a continuous narrative of welsh mythology. Although Walton does not list her primary http://www.cyberphile.co.uk/~taff/taffnet/mabinogion/mabinogion.htm

Please sign the Guest Book these have. Many of the links below go to abbreviated versions of the tales. Go here to get the full versions Introduction The Mabinogion consists of four branches, or tales: Pwyll Prince of Dyfed Branwen The Daughter of Llyr Manawyddan The Son of Llyr Math The Son of Mathonwy Each tale tells of members of the Welsh Royal households, but these personages are embodiments of the ancient gods and goddesses of the land. Over the years, the ancient themes have become entangled with the more modern veneer of royalty and Christian references. The earliest text of any part of the Mabinogion is dated in the mid-thirteenth century, but the style and content indicate that it probably took its current form some 200 years before this. In actual fact, the collection referred to as The Mabinogion today feature about eleven tales. Only the first four end with a comment such as "Here endeth the first branch of the Mabinogion", which is what the introduction above relates. I will start by addressing the tales referred to by Jeffrey Gantz in his book "The Mabinogion".

6. Behind The Name: Welsh Names ARANRHOD f Welsh, welsh mythology Possibly means huge wheel or round wheel in Welsh. BEDWYR m Welsh, welsh mythology Welsh form of BEDIVERE. http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/wel.html

t h e e t y m o l o g y a n d h i s t o r y o f f i r s t n a m e s Welsh Names The names listed here are used in Wales. AFANEN-HAUL HEDDWYN-YORATH AFANEN f Welsh Means "raspberry" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name. AFON f,m Welsh Means "river" in Welsh. This is a Welsh name of recent origin. ALED m Welsh Means "offspring" in Welsh. ALIS f Welsh Welsh form of ALICE ALUN m Welsh Welsh form of ALAN . This name appears in the Mabinogion, a collection of tales from Welsh myth. ANDRAS m Welsh Welsh form of ANDREW ANEIRIN m Welsh Welsh name, originally spelled Neirin , which possibly means "noble". ANEURIN m Welsh Form of ANEIRIN ANGHARAD f Welsh Means "more love" in Welsh. In the Mabinogion, a collection of tales from Welsh myth, Angharad Golden-hand is the lover of Peredur. ANWEN f Welsh Means "very beautiful" in Welsh. ARANRHOD f Welsh, Welsh Mythology Possibly means "huge wheel" or "round wheel" in Welsh. In Welsh myth Aranrhod was the mother of the twin brothers Dylan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes. In earlier myths she was a goddess of the moon. ARIANRHOD f Welsh, Welsh Mythology

7. Welsh Language Courses And Dictionaries want to visit Amazon UK. This link will take you to their search pageon Welsh Language. Go to welsh mythology Return to Home Page. http://www.heartoglory.com/Categories/welshlanguage1.htm

8. Macleod 's Welsh Mythology Page MACLEOD'S welsh mythology PAGE. Back WELSH DEITIES CHILDREN OF DONOne of the rival dynasties of welsh mythology, and equated with http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dungeon/4785/Welsh.html

MACLEOD'S WELSH MYTHOLOGY PAGE Back WELSH DEITIES CHILDREN OF DON One of the rival dynasties of Welsh mythology, and equated with the Tuatha de Danaan of Ireland, the Children of Don includes Gwydion, a warrior magician, and Aranrhod, sky goddess and symbol of fertility. Their sons were Dylan, associated with the sea, and Lleu Llaw Gyffes. CHILDREN OF LLYR Bendigeidfran, Branwen and Manawydan, who appear in the story of 'Branwen Daughter of Llyr. AMAETHON The Welsh god of agriculture. ARIANRHOD Celtic earth goddess. She is the daughter and/or wife of Don, sister of Gwydion. BRAN Bran ("raven"), son of Llyr and Penarddun, and brother of Branwen and the sea god Manawydan, and half brother Nisien and Efnisien. He is a hero god and perhaps also the god of poetry and the underworld. BRANWEN Branwen is the Celtic goddess of love and beauty, also worshipped in Manx and Wales. She is the sister of Bran the Blessed and Manannan mac Lir, daughter of Lir, and wife of the Irish king Matholwch. After the death of her brother Bran, due to a war caused by her husband, Branwen died of a broken heart. She corresponds with Aphrodite and Venus. BELATU-CADROS(Belatucadros) The Celtic god of war and of the destruction of enemies. His name means fair shining one. The Romans equated him with their god Mars.

9. Welsh Mythology Contents Page The Page of welsh mythology. More stories will be added to the followinglist, as I find them, and as I can type them all in. Spellings http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/2330/welshindex.html

The Page of Welsh Mythology More stories will be added to the following list, as I find them, and as I can type them all in. Spellings of names and places etc will be seen to vary and I have used for each story the spellings used by the translator of the stories. Names in brackets after story titles indicate the translator of this version of the story. Index of Welsh Names in the stories Tales from the Mabinogion Pwyll Lord of Dyved [Gantz] Branwen Daughter of Llyr [Gantz] Manawydan Son of Llyr [Gantz] Math Son of Mathonwy [Gantz] ... Return to the Map

10. Welsh Mythology Books Books about welsh mythology available for purchase. Books about WelshMythology use your back button to return from Amazon Beowulf http://home.clara.net/stephengavin/robert_macdonald/books_welsh_mythology.html

Books about Welsh Mythology available for purchase previous Home Contact Books R Macdonald etc. ... Books on Maori Topics Click the links below to go to Amazon's website where you can see details of these books. If you wish they can be bought with a credit card and delivered to you. Books about Welsh Mythology use your back button to return from Amazon Beowulf : A Dual-Language Edition ~Howell D. Chickering(Editor), H. Jr Chickering The Mabinogion (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) ~Gwyn Jones(Editor), Thomas Jones(Translator) A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature ~Donna R. White Dave Slinger's Fantastic Welsh Beasts and Where to Find Them ~Dave Slinger Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth ~Kath Filmer-Davies The Welsh Fairy Book ~W.Jenkyn Thomas Forbidden Journeys : Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers ~Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher(Editor) Site design Stephen Gavin

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13. A World Of Idolatry: Celtic Mythology We will go through Irish and welsh mythology. Introduction To IrishMythology. http://www.angelfire.com/pa/WoundedDove/celtic.html

Celtic Mythology Celtic pertains to the Celts (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages including Breton, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. A Celt, historically, is a Gaul but has been extended to include members of other Celtic-speaking or recently Celtic-speaking peoples. The Celts (derived from the Greek Keltoi meaning "barbarian") were people of Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Brittany. Cornish - Pertaining to Cornwall. Manx - Language of the Isle of Man that belongs to the Gadhelic branch of Celts. The term "Celtic Mythology" has been used since the early 20th Century. It usually denotes Old Celtic, Medieval Irish, and Welsh sources. We will go through Irish and Welsh mythology. Celtic gods/goddesses are often accompanied by animals or birds and are primarily associated with the fertility and sovereignty of the land as well as the embodiment of the powers of life and death. Birds Symbols of freedom and transcendence and represent the human soul in flight. Irish Druids used ravens as birds of omen in augury for predicting the future by studying their flight. Cauldrons Symbols of abundance, inspiration, and divine knowledge. They are sources of metamorphosis and spiritual rebirth.

14. The Mabinigion - A JOURNAL OF A POET - THE GODDESS AS MY MUSE Mabinogion. These tales were taken from welsh mythology and folklore,and tend to deal, for the most part, with Arthurian legend. The http://www.angelfire.com/journal/ofapoet/mabinogion.html

Protect Your Site! THE MABINOGION In exploring Celtic mythology, it is important to note that many of its Goddesses, including Rhiannon, Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd, Cerridwen and Branwen are referred to in a collection of Welsh tales known as The Mabinogion The Mabinogion was written between the second half of the 11th Century and the end of the 13th Century C.E. While many people believe that the myths in the collection are the original myths, that belief is false. Rather, the mythology itself was developed by the Welsh bards, in a much earlier period, and it was from them, that the myths were taken, and then substantially changed. The various myths in The Mabinogion are based upon the old oral bardic tradition, which actually makes them much older then they appear in that work. The majority of the changes to the myths were made by the patriarchal Christian Church, in an effort to control the masses, and make them conform to the Church's own particular views, especially those having to do with morality. Once the people had been indoctrinated into the Church's views, then it could easily introduce it's patriarchal religion and ways into a society that had previously followed a matriarchal, pagan way of life, worshpping the Goddess. The Mabinogion was written in two separate manuscripts: the White Book of Rhydderch (circa 1300-25), and the Red Book of Hergest (circa 1375-1425). During the period 1838-39 C.E., Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest translated the Red Book of Hergest into English for the first time.

15. Sacred Texts: Legends And Sagas Poetic and prose texts from various cultures including AngloSaxon, Arabian, Arthurian, Celtic and Category Arts Literature Myths and Folktales Myths...... The Mabinogion has two portions the first, an arc of four stories ('Branches')of welsh mythology, along with some additional myths set in Arthurian times http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/

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16. RealMagick Article: Gods Of Ancient Wales And The Celtic Britons By John Patrick One can easily speculate that the deities of welsh mythology once had a broaderappeal throughout Britain, as has the mythic Celtic mortal from the region http://realmagick.com/articles/33/2033.html

Services Home Newsletters Discussions Treasure Chest ... Awards RealMagick Keyword Search Advanced Similar Articles Current Topic Home Comments or Suggestions? Email Gwydion Gods of Ancient Wales and the Celtic Britons [credits] by John Patrick Parle A common temptation is to think that civilization reached Great Britain through the vehicle of Roman occupation. But Celtic civilization existed in Britain centuries before the Latins' arrival, and before the Celts, societies existed in Britain sophisticated enough to build Stonehenge. The mythology of the Celtic Britons harkens back to a time before there was an England (that is, before the invasion of Angles and Saxons brought Germanic-speaking tribes to Great Britain). The Celtic Briton myths are centered mostly in Wales and are written in Welsh, a Celtic language. One can easily speculate that the deities of Welsh mythology once had a broader appeal throughout Britain, as has the mythic Celtic mortal from the region known to us as King Arthur. The pantheon of Welsh gods and goddesses came largely from two mythic families: the Children of Dôn and the Children of Llyr. Dôn was a goddess of the sky, and Llyr was a god of the sea. Charles Squire speaks of a struggle and opposition of these two divine families of the sky and of the sea. He envisages a general conflict of the powers of the sky/light/life versus the sea/darkness/death.

17. RealMagick Article: Celtic Gods And Heros: Introduction To Celtic Mythology By J Celtic mythology is largely an Irish and Welsh phenomena. Celtic gods and goddessesappear throughout Irish and welsh mythology, as do male and female mortals. http://realmagick.com/articles/10/1310.html

Services Home Newsletters Discussions Treasure Chest ... Awards RealMagick Keyword Search Advanced Similar Articles Current Topic Home Comments or Suggestions? Email Gwydion Celtic Gods and Heros: Introduction to Celtic Mythology [credits] by John Patrick Parle Youngsters of school age almost effortlessly learn about the gods and heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Names like Zeus, Hercules, Diana, Ulysses, Mercury, Venus, and others become widely familiar. Paintings, popular movies, and books trace their stories for enjoyment and enrichment. Most people even know something of Germanic mythology from films about the Vikings or the operas of Wagner. Thor, Odin, Siegfried, and the Valkyries are well-known, and in the English language, four of the seven days of the week are named after German gods. Well, a wonderful surprise awaits Americans and others of Irish, Welsh, and Scottish descent. A Celtic mythology of broad dimensions and rich quality exists, recounting the heroic stories of ancestral peoples of some 2,500 years ago. This Celtic mythology has hundreds of characters and is perhaps even more fantastical than Greek and Roman myths. And lovers of ancient stories who are not of Celtic descent will no doubt appreciate the many splendid Celtic myths, which for most are relatively unknown. For a thousand years of antiquity, the Celtic myths were in the domain of an oral tradition, not yet reduced to writing, and told to the members of each generation by bards, the Celtic poets and lyric story-tellers. Then, sometime after 500 A.D., Irish monks and their Welsh counterparts began capturing the Celtic myths of old on parchment and paper. The Irish monks applied the alphabet of the Romans to the Irish Gaelic language and diligently recorded the mystical stories of their ancestors in a Celtic tongue. In doing this, according the P.B. Ellis, the Irish Celts created Europe's third oldest literature, behind Greek and Latin.

18. Untitled1 allusions John Montague uses in his poem Madron from Conversations with DavidJones. Throughout this piece he refers to welsh mythology, Irish and French http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr5/madrone/madrone.html

The following notes will hopefully clarify some of the historical allusions John Montague uses in his poem "Madron" from "Conversations with David Jones." Throughout this piece he refers to Welsh mythology, Irish and French geography and historical happenings in Ireland. Aisling a poetic representation of a vision Patrick Sarsfield Patrick Sarsfield was born around 1655 and died in his thirties due to a wound incurred in battle. He was known for his ability to inspire allegiance in the Irish Jacobite war and was the most written about Irish rebel before Wolfe Tone. He is known to the Irish as "Father of the Nation" and united the Palesmen and the Gaels to fight against the English republic's redistribution of Irish land; his followers could be found among all classes of Irishmen. Since he died young, he never commanded the Irish army in battle or he may have surpassed the Duke of Marlborough to become the greatest soldier of his age. Fuit Ilium they fled (Latin). Fuseliers gunmen.

19. Fortean Times - Iain Sinclair Interview ground of paranoia and conspiracy and the right hand path into Wales could be tracedby the narrator trying to trace elements of welsh mythology and notions http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/147_iainsinclair.shtml

FT 170 out now! The Angel of Mons Yogic Flying for Peace The terrible Griffin City Brain: Iain Sinclair interview "A fter Lights out for The Territory, a man sent me an X ray of his brain tumour. He'd superimposed it over a map of London and was trying to heal himself by walking out its routes through the city." Iain Sinclair's dense and feverish explorations of London have made him one of Britain's most respected authors. From the word storms of White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings , which interweaves dark tales of the contemporary book trade with channelled glimpses of the Ripper murders, to the all-encompassing, microscopic sprawl of the essays in Lights Out For the Territory , Sinclair's vision is unique. For his latest book, Landor's Tower , Sinclair has gone West, to Wales, incorporating Alfred Watkins, Arthur Machen and the 25 unsolved defence industry 'suicides' of the early 1980s. MARK PILKINGTON and PHIL BAKER met him in his East London Home.

20. Alexa Web Search - Subjects > Arts > ... > Myths And Folktales > Myths > British Symbolism in Celtic Mythology Overview article by Lars Noodén, discussing the tiebetween animals in Celtic and welsh mythology with fertility and vitality. http://www.alexa.com/browse/general?catid=3377&mode=general

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