Post by daidafod on Apr 16, 2019 14:23:33 GMT -1
Hello everybody I'm Dai.
I notice that it hasn't been particularly active recently, but I've been doing research into Brythonic polytheism recently and I was intrigued by this site and I thought I might make an account.
I live in South Wales and I speak Welsh fluently. As a Welsh-speaker I was exposed to the idea of a druid fairly early on through Iolo Morganwg's fanciful contribution to the modern Eisteddfod (though I realise that the ancient druids were a priestly caste and that their system, which apparently originated in Britain, was likely to be just one aspect of Celtic faith.) Since my early teens I remember being intrigued by the notion of pre-Christian beliefs in Wales. Whilst studying the poem Y Gododdin at school I discovered that the ancestors of the Welsh, the Britons/Brython, used to have a domain extending all over modern England, Wales and Southern Scotland. This coupled with the theory that the real King Arthur, if there was such a person, would have been a Brythonic warlord fighting against the Saxons during about the 5th or 6th centuries really fired my imagination.
What fascinates me is the subtext that later scholars and storytellers have given Arthur and his legend; that this is an age of high magic and the last age of Faerie. This is an age druids and Celtic saints coexist, when age of Christianity is ascendant but not fully dominant, and an age there is still belief in the old religion and the old gods, even as they are in the process of being transformed into the faeries.
Ideally I would like to learn as much as I can about these old gods to understand this age, and indeed the ages before.
I've read a bit about Celtic polytheism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Taoism and Sufism and have a working knowledge of the ideas of Carl Jung. Through the help of some friends I've discussed a lot of philosophy which has led me to study it myself, though it is something I find difficult. I've researched a lot of Welsh mythology and folklore, particularly regarding my local area and particularly regarding the faeries. These have informed my worldview.
I hope I'll hear from you guys soon .
I notice that it hasn't been particularly active recently, but I've been doing research into Brythonic polytheism recently and I was intrigued by this site and I thought I might make an account.
I live in South Wales and I speak Welsh fluently. As a Welsh-speaker I was exposed to the idea of a druid fairly early on through Iolo Morganwg's fanciful contribution to the modern Eisteddfod (though I realise that the ancient druids were a priestly caste and that their system, which apparently originated in Britain, was likely to be just one aspect of Celtic faith.) Since my early teens I remember being intrigued by the notion of pre-Christian beliefs in Wales. Whilst studying the poem Y Gododdin at school I discovered that the ancestors of the Welsh, the Britons/Brython, used to have a domain extending all over modern England, Wales and Southern Scotland. This coupled with the theory that the real King Arthur, if there was such a person, would have been a Brythonic warlord fighting against the Saxons during about the 5th or 6th centuries really fired my imagination.
What fascinates me is the subtext that later scholars and storytellers have given Arthur and his legend; that this is an age of high magic and the last age of Faerie. This is an age druids and Celtic saints coexist, when age of Christianity is ascendant but not fully dominant, and an age there is still belief in the old religion and the old gods, even as they are in the process of being transformed into the faeries.
Ideally I would like to learn as much as I can about these old gods to understand this age, and indeed the ages before.
I've read a bit about Celtic polytheism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Taoism and Sufism and have a working knowledge of the ideas of Carl Jung. Through the help of some friends I've discussed a lot of philosophy which has led me to study it myself, though it is something I find difficult. I've researched a lot of Welsh mythology and folklore, particularly regarding my local area and particularly regarding the faeries. These have informed my worldview.
I hope I'll hear from you guys soon .