BRYTHONIC GODS AND GUIDES
VINDOS / GWYN AP NUDD
An Introduction to Vindos / Gwyn ap Nudd
Gwyn’s Mythos
Gwyn ap Nudd and the Spirits of Annwn: Remembering the Underworld Gods
Those are but Devils
Calan Mai: Gwyn’s Battle for Creiddylad
Honouring the Death of Gwyn
Gwyn’s Feast
Nos Galan Gaeaf: Gwyn’s Hunt
Memories of Gwyn’s Hunt in Culhwch ac Olwen
Gwyn ap Nudd and the Gwyllon – ‘Wyllt-ness’ and the Healing Power of Art
Gwyn’s Sacred Animals
Dormach and the Jaws of Annwn
Cwn Annwn and the Passage of Souls
The Bull of Battle and the Great Horned Bull
Riding the White Horse
Gwyn ap Nudd and Du y Moroedd ‘the Black of the Seas’
The Crazy Owl of Gwyn ap Nudd
Gwyn and the Old North
Introduction: Gwyn ap Nudd and the Old North
The Brightness Beyond Endurance – Gwyn ap Nudd and the Battle of Arfderydd
Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwenddolau – Bull Protector of Arfderydd
Gwyn ap Nudd and Bran ap Ywerydd – Five Brans?
Gwyn ap Nudd, Meurig ap Careian and Elaeth the Poet
Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwallog ap Llenog – One Brother Dies and the Other Lives On
Vindolanda: The Land of White Springs
My Journey of Devotion to Gwyn
Honouring Gwyn ap Nudd
Gwyn’s Apprenticeship and the Role of the Awenydd
On Becoming Gwyn’s Awenydd
Married to Gwyn in Life and in Death
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CREIDDYLAD
The Favour of Creiddylad
Gwyn, Gwythyr and Creiddylad – A Story from the Old North
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NODENS / NUDD
What ails you Father? The Rain of Nodens
Nodens and the Serpents of the Deep
Nodens and the Weather Shapers
Nodens God of Dreams and Building a Dreamwork Practice
Nodens Father of Sea Horses
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ANRHUNA
Lady of the Marsh
Discovering Anrhuna
Anrhuna the Dragon Mother
The Cow of Anrhuna
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THE MOTHERS / MATRONA / MODRON
Lund-in-the-Mist and Altar to the Mothers
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MAPONOS / MABON
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BELISAMA
Belisama: Goddess of the Ribble
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ORDDU
Orddu – the Very Black Witch
The Last Witch of Pennant Gofid
Orddu and Returning to the Cave
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MYRDDIN WYLLT
The Ghost of Myrddin Wyllt
The Myrddin Who Guides Me
Myrddin’s Museum
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BRYTHONIC POLYTHEISM
Brythonic Polytheist Practices: Prayer, Meditation, and Trance
From Inner Silence to Silent Prayer
Being Present for Gwyn
Awareness – Three Guidelines from Gwyn
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SHAMANISM
Basics
What is Shamanism?
Evidence for Shamanism in Britain
Core Shamanism and its Advantages and Disadvantages
Shamanic Practitioner Training
The Gift of Shamanism
Power Animals and Power Animal Retrieval
Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval
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ANNWN
Signposts to Annwn – Places, Inhabitants, Lore
The Spoils of Annwn
The Breath of Nine Maidens and the Kindling of the Cauldrons
Annwn – A Land of the Dead or the Living?
The Mysteries of Rebirth
Those Who Live On
The Scream over Annwn
The Defwy – A Brythonic River of the Dead
The Heart of Annwn
Mystics of the Sacred Heart
Contemplating the Abyss
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LORE
LOCAL LORE
Penwortham
Greencroft Valley
Castle Hill
Fish House Brook
Penwortham Priory and the Rule of St Benedict
Preston
The River Syke
Lost Watercourses and Resacredization
Lost Wells and Watercourses of Priest Town
Industrialisation and Radicalism in Preston
Lancashire Folklore
Lancashire Boggarts
Penwortham Fairy Funeral
The Black Dog of Preston
The Edge of the Dark
Lancashire’s Last Wolf
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THE SETANTII
The Dwellers in the Water Country
Penwortham Lake Dwelling
The Water Country’s Severed Heads
They Died With Hazel
Setanta – A Hero of the Setantii?
Who was Worsley Man?
Great Woolden Iron Age Hillfort Site
Bronze Age Burials Near Highfield Moss
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THE OLD NORTH
The Thirteen Treasures of the North
The Old North from Peneverdant
Forgotten Arfderydd and the Hearsay of Corvids
Nith’s Estuary
Coille Coire Cuilc: Seeking Annwn in Caledon
Teyrnllwg: A Bright Kingdom Slips Away Like Dust
Dumbarton Rock
Glasgow Cathedral and the stories of Kentigern, Teneu and Lailoken
Hoddom and Brydekirk: The Fire of the Gods Endures
Maelawr Gawr and Gwerthmwl Wledig: Pen Dinas in Retrospect
Dogs of Carlisle
Din Eidyn and Drunken Catraeth
The Two Birds of Gwenddolau
Maelgwn and the Death Hound
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TREE LORE
Aspen – Tree of the Woman’s Tongue
Birch’s Armour
Pioneering with Birch
Daronwy – the Prophetic Oak
To Ebura
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ARTICLES IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS
‘The Gods and Spirits of Annwn’ in Sacred Hoop, Issue 129, September 2025
‘Becoming a Nun of Annwn: A Call from the Deep’ in Indie Shaman, Issue 61, July 2024
‘The Prehistoric Archaeology of Chat Moss‘ online talk for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, January 2022
‘In Moments of Terror’ in ‘People of Prayer‘, Isis-Seshat, Issue 41, Vol. 13, Spring 2018
‘The Ghost of Myrddin Wyllt’ in Pagan Dawn, No 204, Autumn 2017
‘Orddu, the Very Black Witch’ in Pagan Dawn, No 202, Spring 2017
‘A Rose for Rigantona’ in The Grey Mare on the Hill, December 2015
Excerpts from ‘The River Syke’ in Broadgate and District Magazine,
August 2014
Vignette on ‘Druidry’ in Paganism 101: An Introduction to Paganism by 101 Pagans, Moon Books, February 2014
Article on ‘Bardic Poetry’ in Preston Poets Newsletter, Winter 2013
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RESOURCES
Medieval Welsh Literature
Primary Sources
A.O.H. Jarman (transl.), Aneirin – Gododdin, (Gomer Press, 1998)
Marged Haycock (transl), Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin, (CMCS, 2007)
Marged Haycock (transl), Prophecies from the Book of Taliesin, (CMCS, 2013)
Meirion Pennar (transl.), The Black Book of Carmarthen, (Llanerch Enterprises, 1989)
Patrick Ford (transl), Mabinogi and Other Welsh Tales, (University of California Press, 2008)
Rachel Bromwich (ed), The Triads of the Island of Britain, (University of Wales Press, 2014)
Rachel Bromwich and Simon D. Evans (eds), Culhwch and Olwen, (University of Wales, 1998)
Sioned Davies (transl.), The Mabinogion, (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Secondary Sources
Greg Hill, Lore of Ynys Prydain, (2024)
Gwilym Morus-Baird, Taliesin Origins, (Celtic Source, 2023)
Kristoffer Hughes, From the Cauldron Born, (Llewellyn Publications, 2013)
Kristoffer Hughes, The Book of Celtic Magic, (Llewellyn Publications, 2014)
Mererid Hopwood, Singing in Chains, (Gomer Press, 2004)
Peter Bartrum, A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000, (National Library of Wales, 1993)
Will Parker, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, (Bardic Press, 2005)
British Gods and Goddesses
Caitlin Matthews, Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain, (Inner Traditions, 2002)
Caroline Wise, Finding Elen: The Quest for Elen of the Ways, (Create Space, 2015)
Kristoffer Hughes, Ceridwen: Celtic Goddess of Inspiration, (Llewellyn Publications, 2021)
Lee Davies (ed), The Grey Mare on the Hill, (Grey Mare Books, 2015)
Miranda Green, The Gods of the Celts, (Bramley Books, 1986)
Robin Herne, Old Gods, New Druids, (O Books, 2009)
Sheena McGrath, Brigantia: Goddess of the North, (Lulu, 2016)
Susie Fox, Ritual Journeys with Great British Goddesses, (Trafford, 2012)
Tim Clarkson, Scotland’s Merlin, (Berlinn, 2016)
Celtic Culture
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain, (Cardinal, 1974)
Bernard Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture, (The Boydell Press, 1997)
Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts (Penguin, 1999)
Barry Cunliffe, Britain Begins, (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Francis Pryor, Britain BC, (Harper Perennial, 2004)
John T. Koch (ed), The Celtic Heroic Age, (Celtic Studies Publications, 2003)
Miranda Aldhouse Green, Sacred Britannia, (Thames and Hudson, 2018)
Miranda Green, Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, (Routledge, 1998)
Miranda Green, Dying for the Gods, (The History Press, 2002)
Folk and Fairylore
Angelika Rudiger, ‘Y Tylwyth Teg. An Analysis of a Literary Motif,’ (Bangor University, 2021)
Edward A. Armstrong, The Folklore of Birds, (Dover Publications, 1958)
Francis Jones, The Holy Wells of Wales (Cardiff, 1992)
Katherine Briggs, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, (Routledge, 1967)
John Rhŷs, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901)
Mhara Starling, Welsh Fairies: A Guide to the Lore, Legends, Denizens and Deities of the Otherworldly, (Llewellyn, 2024)
T. Gwynn Jones, Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom, (Redwood Burn, 1979)
Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, (Lightning Source, 1880)
W. Jenkyn Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book, (Dover Publications, 2001)
W. Y. Evans Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, (Colin Smythe Limited, 1977)
The Old North
Guy Ragland Philips, Brigantia: A Mysteriography, (Routledge, 1976)
Nick Higham, The Northern Counties to AD1000, (Longman Group 1986)
Nicki Howarth, Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes, (The History Press, 2011)
Tim Clarkson, The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland, (John Donald, 2010)
Ronald Cunliffe Shawe, The Men of the North, (Leyland Printing Co., 1970)
William A. Young, The Ghosts of the Forest, (Print on Demand Worldwide, 2022)
Celtic Resources Online
Celtic Literature Collective
Celtic Source
Mabinogion.info
Mabinogi.net
Sacred Texts
Awenyddion and Celtic Polytheists
Awen ac Awenydd
Dun Brython
From the Forests of Arduinna
Grey Bear in the Middle
Go Deeper
Greg Hill
Land Sea Sky Travel
Living Liminally
Musings of a Scottish Hearth Druid
Rigantona
Starstruck Awenydd
The Druid’s Well
Shamanism
Books – Introductory
Green, T. (Ed) What is Shamanism?, Moon Books, (2018)
Ingerman, S. Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, (Sounds True Adult, 2020)
MacLellan, G. Shamanism (Piatkus Guides, 1999)
Books – Further Reading
Breeze-Wood, N. Walking with the Tiger, (Independently Published, 2022)
Day, Kenn. Post-Tribal Shamanism: A New Look at the Old Ways, (Moon Books, 2014)
Drake, A. M. Healing of the Soul: Shamanism and Psyche (Ann M Drake, 2014)
Drake, A.M. The Energetic Dimension: Understanding our Karmic, Ancestral and Cultural Imprints, (O Books, 2019)
Kahn, L. Deep Liberation: Shamanic Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma, (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
Harner, M. The Way of the Shaman, (Harper One, 2011)
Harner, M. Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality, (North Atlantic Books, 2013)
Hughes, J. The Heart of Life: The Shamanic Initiation and Healing in the Modern World, (Moon Books, 2015)
Ingerman, S. Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, (Harper One, 2010)
Ingerman, S., Wesselman, H. Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, (Sounds True, 2010)
Lewis-Williams, D. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art, (Thames and Hudson, 2004)
Wedlock, B. The Woman in the Shaman’s Body, (Random House, 2005)
Magazines
Websites
Indie Shaman blog
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies
The Way of the Buzzard
Society for Shamanic Practice
Polytheistic Monasticism
Books
Janet Munin (ed), Polytheist Monasticism: Voices from the Pagan Cloisters, (Moon Books, 2022)
Oisin Doyle, A New Monastic Way: Modern Polytheistic Celtic Monasticism, (Fellowship of the Nine Waves, 2017)
Websites
Pagan Monastery Podcast
The Black Stone Sanctuary
The Cloister
The Gnostic Celtic Church Monastery
The Order of the Sacred Nemeton
The Sanctuary of Vindos 