Welsh Gods
Amaethon
The Welsh god of agriculture.
Bran
A hero god and also the god of poetry and
the underworld.
His name means 'raven'.
Belatu-Cadros
God of war and of the destruction of enemies.
His
name means 'fair shining one'.
The Romans linked him with Mars.
Dewi
The official emblem of Wales, a red dragon,
is derived from the Great Red Serpent, that once represented the god, Dewi.
Dylan
A sea god, brother of Lleu.
He was said
to have slipped into the sea at birth, possibly in order to avoid the curses their mother, Arianrhod, placed upon them.
Gwydion
Was a warrior and magician god.
He was
brother to Arianrhod.
There are various stories about him, the most well known, suggesting that he fathered Lleu and Dylan,
or that he raised and passed on his knowledge to Lleu.
Lleu
(also Lleu Llaw Gyffes)
God of arts and crafts and also a hero
god.
His name translates as 'the fair one has a skillful hand'.
Brother of Dylan, he was denied a name, by his mother,
Arianrhod, who also would not allow him to bear arms, or to marry. With help from Gwydion and Math, he overcame these
curses and bypassed the third, when Math and Gwydion created for him a woman made of flowers, whose name was Bloduewedd.
He
has similarities with the Irish god, Lugh.
Math
An eminent magician and lord of North Wales.
He
was the brother of Don, the Welsh mother goddess.
Math could only rule when his feet were in the lap of a virgin, except
when he was at war.
Returning from battle, he discovered that his foot-holder (Arianrhod) had been raped by his nephews.
Furious, he turned them first of all, into stag and a hind, then a boar and a sow and then a wolf and a she-wolf.
Pwyll
Prince of Dyfed (Southwest Wales), who
married the goddess,
Rhiannon and had a son, Pryderi.