The Welsh Otherworld, Annwfn with Dr. Gwilym Morus-Baird | The Welsh Witch Podcast ep. 4
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- In this episode I am joined by the wonderful Dr. Gwilym Morus-Baird, we discuss Annwfn, the Welsh Otherworld in myth, folklore, and the Welsh bardic tradition. Dr. Gwilym Morus-Baird studied at Bangor University in North Wales, and is best known today as Celtic Source on UA-cam, TikTok, Facebook and elsewhere! He dispenses his knowledge via online courses and content. You can find Gwilym via the links below!
Gwilym's website: celticsource.online
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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.
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 :(
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. ✨✨
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! 😊 🏴 🐉 🧚♂️ 🌳 ⚔️ 🧙♂️ 🏳️🌈
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).
also what some people fail to
understand is that women had their
own storytelling traditions.
all the children´s stories and
songs, animal stories (that teach
traditional values), even the
personal songs that chronicle
your life (of course men had
them too), that´s all female
tradition (not even counting
girl´s and women´s dances that
were also divided by gender
and age).
the myth songs are only one genre,
deeply linked to the men´s tribal
traditions (you don´t sing the
bear songs with outsiders present,
even in recent day folklore they
kept that, "they only sing amongst
themselves").
that´s why any ideas of "common
pantheon" are so ludicrous to me
(why would you worship the ancestors
of another tribe, most likely your
enemies at some point, they didn´t,
you wouldn´t).
what i tried to say there is that
women of course were storytellers
(because it´s about skill,
memory, voice), it´s just that most
women aren´t interested in hunting
tales and war stories!
the base words for our witches /
storytellers are all gender neutral,
they simply added the gender
behind it (ärox-ku, man who sings
with stringed instrument, mant-ku,
man who tells stories by the fire,
tsirte-ne, woman who practices
witchcraft).
so when the post-modernists argue
shouldn´t it be 50% women.. no you
fuck-heads, it should be what you´re
naturally gifted / interested in!
DITCH THE WITCH