Gwyn ap Nudd
Ancient British God & Hero
Welcoming the Hero!
Visitors who enter this site are welcome to explore the pages associated with Gwyn ap Nudd and our ancient past. For children, Raising Gods & Heroes provides games and stories to encourage play and the traditions of story telling. For adults, The Tor - New Signage is an ongoing debate which everyone can join in. Read about it, compare the present sign with the new proposal and offer your comments to the custodians, the National Trust. They have said signage will be replaced in 2009 so comments offered to them are likely to influence the final outcome!
For now, however, there is no reference to Gwyn on the Tor's present sign but you can learn why he is associated with the Tor in Gwyn's Kingdoms. You can explore him further in The Gwynvyd Method, an appreciation of his 13 main titles (Lord of Shadows, Lord of Darkness, Lord of Death, ..... Hunting, Constellation, Serpents, War, Love, etc). You can also apply this section to yourself as a personal programme for developing awareness.
This site began as a presentation of a major Archetypal Hero and enlarged to a promotion of a once revered and Ancient British God. In several millenniums Gwyn ap Nudd's total representation may have become less valued in the conscious mind, but even reduced to the size of a wee fairy today, he is still a King! As the Gwynvyd Method explains how we can look at generally accepted things differently, we can use models like Gwyn to affect our outlook on life and make an engagement with our own heroic archetype! Whilst it is true heroes are associated with bravery, it is also true anyone can find courage to change their own life. By discovering personal strengths and developing awareness, a better quality of life can be experienced and enjoyed for what it is.
With Life and Death always following each other, the ancients gained strength in accepting Death could not be cheated by holding onto Life but that Life could be held onto whilst living it with honour.
As it is with honour there is awareness,
it is with awareness that there is all!
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