Plentyn Don V. Plentyn llyr

[Lee]

im off home in a day or two for xmas so might not be around so decided to throw a couple of threads on the boards.

something i have been thinking about is that possibly the children of Don (can we be sure don is female?) represent the mythos of the irish people migrating over into north wales. after all, the children of don can be equated wqith the tuatha de dannan.

so im wondering, are the children of don an invading pantheon? would that make the pyll, Rhiannon, and children of Llyr our own native group of gods?

itrs interesting that the children of don seem to be beating shit out of the otherworld gods, pryderi etc and generally dominating the scene.

happy yule, christmas, midwinter.

lee

[Blackbird]

Interesting thought - and I shall have to give this more thought, I think ;D

As a start, yes Don must be female - as we know she was wife to Beli Mawr.

There are big similarities between the Plant Don and the Tuatha de Danaan, and I expect that many stories crossed back and forth between Ireland and Britain. They may represent the Irish people, but my instinct tells me this is not so. They may represent the people who came to be the Britons - or like the TDD, be the mystical race that preceded an equivalent to the Sons of Mil.

But this is interesting... and I shall think more on it.

[Brochfael]

Plentyn Singular
Plant plural
nuff said

[caeraustralis]

Sorry this is a bit late, but yes Don would have to be female, as there is a parrallel with the Irish Danu and the Gaulish Danu, of who the Danube is named...
Rhys