Day Ten of Twelve Days of Devotion to Gwyn ap Nudd
I come this tenth day
to consider Your kingdom.
What is a kingdom?
What is a king?
Is it a matter of inheritance
or something within?
The devils
who God was said
to put in You to prevent
the destruction of the world?
The spirits and monsters of Annwn
whose fury You contain within Your realm,
in whose nature You partake and who are part of You?
You are a ruler, You are a leader, You are many,
one of them too, yes, they, themselves…
You rule an other kind of kingdom.
You are an other kind of king.
Like all good kings
You and Your land are one –
both Gwynfa and Gwyn,
King and Annwn.
The Sanctuary of Vindos 
I relate to the thoughts in this poem! I’ve spent so much time musing on what kingship means, since I started following a God who answers to “King.” I feel it’s complicated because kingship feels like an idea that was stolen and twisted by the rulers of Thisworld–I suspect they wanted the power without any of the sacrifice. Whereas Gwyn (and the face of His that I know as Minos) seem to view the king as “the person who dies for the good of the land and people” at some point in his reign.