I got emotional listening to this. It really spoke to me and discovering my Welsh ancestry has been such a blessing. My 13th Great Grandmother was from Glamora, Wales. Opening up to it is just mesmerizing. Having your own beliefs is just so powerful and being able to claim that is healing and imperative to continue the Welsh connection to ancestors for generations to come, and to keep the connection alive. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Fascinating chat! I am also a Gog. I don't mind the cultural appropriation of Welsh traditions etc per se but get very frustrated that people rarely even give us credit for it. The amount of English people that claim Arthur as an English king is unbelievable

The best crossover episode ever

Absolutely fantastic, I really enjoyed listening to you both. I'm from south wales, there seems to be a huge cultural difference between the north/south. My welsh lessons in school were very boring and sadly led me to feel loathing towards my Welsh heritage for a long time, until I stumbled upon the mabinogion in my late 20s and discovered a whole new connection and love for wales. I've always been interested in folklore and myths, but didnt learn anything of the Welsh myths or folktales until my late 20s. I find it sad that the magic of the myths of wales are not shared more and introduced to children in schools. I am mum to 3 sons and have introduced them to the mabinogi. I feel so proud to belong to the beautiful and magical welsh culture.

Excellent episode, thankyou both!

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you both for such a great discussion. Two excellent wise speakers serving up so much food for thught.

I love this! I have been watching both Celtic Source and your channel for a while and this is the best crossover! ♥️

Thank you so much !!! Excellent and fascinating discussion. Heading over to Celtic Source right now !! Hope to see more of this type of content Mhara. You asked some excellent questions and I loved hearing your experiences. ✨✨

It was lovely to hear about how both of you grew up with the Welsh myths and saw them performed. I wish when I was at school here in Lancashire we were taught about our Brythonic heritage - how we were part of Yr Hen Ogledd and that some of the stories collected in Wales contain material from northern Britain. It would likely have shaped my life very differently. I'd likely have been called to study them rather than philosophy as a source of depth and come to an experiential engagement with Annwn and its deities a lot earlier. I only discovered all this at the age of 30 :(

Mor ddiddorol. Diolch o galon! x

Diolch :)

Diolch am hyn! Diddorol dros Ben! Da chi’n gwybod be? O ni’n hollol convinced bod Arawn a Gwyn ap Nudd yr un berson! O ni’n credu bod hyna yn “settled”. 😂 Wrth fy modd hefoch gwaith chi! A swn i wrth fy modd yn cael paned hefo chi fyd Diolch eto! Diolch, Diolch, Diolch! 😊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🐉 🧚‍♂️ 🌳 ⚔️ 🧙‍♂️ 🏳️‍🌈

DITCH THE WITCH

i think once you step into the world of allegories and metaphors you also step into the world of half truths and lies.. yet that is exactly how they chose to tell the myths here too (or sing, some are half told, half sang, there´s like a living narrator in some of the myths, spirit of the story if you will). i´ve sometimes wondered why that is.. is it because the children were present, so they couldn´t tell the actual stories? or is it just the way the human mind works, only the peaks are remembered (good or bad). i know that for some myths they ordered women and children out, because they were from a different tribe (children belong to the woman´s tribe here), yet it also mentions that they simply listened outside the hut (which tells something about the tribal rules). i remember when i first started reading our myths being disappointed on the level of detail there.. it´s like a lot of repetition, those guys they like to repeat things :) and then when i went to actual folklore it turned the other way around.. you can get the most detailed description of how to build whatever tool, but nobody mentions the gods or heroes (if you don´t count the elements, of course they still spoke of sun, wind and fire, the real gods if you will). it really is exactly like he said.. the people who told the stories were separate from the other folks, they had different skills and interests (just like witches have, or anyone specialized in anything).