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the Bards and Triads, that it is evident, our writers and engravers had precisely the same system in view. And this unity of design gives the strongest support to the credit of our national monuments.

The fabrication of the coins cannot be stigmatized as a modern device for the purpose of elucidating the Bards: nor will the judicious critic assert, that the works of the Bards are recent forgeries, with a view to the explanation of the coins. Both the one and the other have remained inexplicable for ages; but, in my opinion, they may now be regarded as consistent, not only amongst themselves, but also, allowing for local peculiarities, with the most ancient and general system of mythology, developed by two of the first antiquaries of our age.

The Bards, the mythological Triads, and the coins, are therefore proved by mutual evidence, in which there can be no collusion, to be genuine monuments of the heathenish superstition of Britain.

And they unite in their testimony, that this superstition, notwithstanding the singularity of a few minuter features, could boast of no great and fundamental principle, which was appropriate to itself. Like the general error of other nations, it consisted of certain memorials of the preservation of mankind at the deluge, and some perverted reliques of the patriarchal religion, blended with an idolatrous worship of the host of heaven.

INDEX.

TO THE

Mythology and Rites of the British Druids.

A

Abyss, the abode of an evil principle, 49 Ape, sacred, 122, 568

Account of the British Triads, 27
Acorns offered by the bards, 503
Actions of Eidiol, or Ambrosius, 343, 349
Adar Ban, birds of augury, 509
Adder, symbolical, 544
Addvwyn Gaer, 507, &c.
Adras, a mystical character, 449
Adytum of Stonehenge, 304-of a bar-
dic temple, 384

Aedd, the arkite god or his priest, 122, 259
Aeddon, 117, 348-elegy of, 553
Aeron, the splendid one, 338
Aervre, battle of, 343

Aethereal temple, 353

Agitators of fire, 531

Al adur, a sacred title, 528

Αλαδε Μυσαι, 237

Allegory relating to mystic rites, 419
Amber, 339-wreath of Hengist, 327
Ambrosial stones, 385

Ambrosius poisoned by Eppa, 344
Amreeta, the water of immortality, 227
Anachronism of the chair of Glamorgan,

33

Analogy between the British and Greek

rites, 220, 221-and mysteries, 262
Ancient bards, 2

Andras, Andrasta, a British goddess, 617
Aneurin, an ancient bard, 2-not de-
graded for having seen naked swords,
62-mythology of, 113-a North Bri-
ton, his age, 317-authorities and
vouchers of, 322, 347-wounded, 341

a prisoner, 356-corresponds with
Taliesin, ib,-released by a son of
Llywarch, 357-takes a retrospect of
historical events, 377-is a half pa-
gan, 386

Angar, 52-son of Ladon, 526
Anghen, the goddess of necessity, 188
Angor, a sacred title, 116, 367
Angues, druids, 18

Anguinum, 208, 209, 419, 577.
Animal kept by the druids, 138, 524
Annwn, the deep, the abyss, 198, 206
Anwas, the winged, a mystical cha-

racter, 288

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Aphorisms of the bards, 75

Apology for the ancient triplets, 76-for
Arkite mythology, 90

Appeal from the chair of Glamorgan to
ancient documents, 36
Apple-tree, symbolical, 11, 284
Arawn the arkite, king of the deep, 198,
Apple-trees of Merddin, 465, 480

417, 420

Arberth, a seat of mysticism, 418, 422
Arbor frugifera, 23

Arcol, a mystical character, 414, 415
Arderydd ag Eryddon, battle of, 463,

474, 480.

Area of blood, 544

Aren, the ark, 193

Arenees, temple of Apollo in the, 194
Argat, the ark, 200

Argoed, men of, made a league with
Hengist, 379

Arianrod, 205, 266-the rainbow, 268
-daughter of Don, 205-of Beli, 447
Ariant Gwion, 275

Ark, worshipped in conjunction with the
moon, 90-symbolized by islands and
rafts, 154, 160-deified and repre-
sented as the mother, the consort, or
the daughter of its builder, 178
Ark of Aeddon, 118, 554-of the world,
a name of the bardic temple, 113, 369,
393-arkite, 584

Arkite cell inclosed fire, 199-arkite
goddess, 175-venerated by the Ger-
mans, 179-of the druids, 183-god,
titles of, 559

Arkite lore, 507, &c. 555-memorials,
170-establishedin Britain,266, 267—
rites, prevalent in Britain, 131, 184,
537-sanctuary, 157-temple in Mon-
mouthshire, 434-theology of the dru-
ids, 492-arose from the corruption of
the patriarchal religion, 495-why in-
corporated with Sabian idolatry, 493,
&c.

Arkites styled just ones, 118
Arthur, a mythological character, 187
188, 199, 202, 394, 404, 432, 522

INDEX.

Arthur's llyn llion, 143-stone, a crom-
lech, 394-table, 396
Arts of the pheryllt, 215
Ascending stone of the bards, 250
Aspirant, a mystical infant, 230, 233—
swallowed by the arkite goddess, 230
-cast into the sea, ib.

Associates, the society of bards, 369
Astronomical principles remarked in the

British temples, 302, &c.
Astronomy of the druids, 53, 217
Atlantis, the antediluvian continent, 148
Auchinleck MS. 447

Augur, in the act of divining, 512
Augury of the druids, 44-by birds, 39
Authenticity of the mystical poems, 5
Authorities from the bards, why inserted
at length, 86
Authority of the arch-druid, 57 - of
princes, supported by the bards, 59-
of the small sprigs, or lots, 487
Avagddu, son of Ceridwen, 190, 203, 204
-the same as Elphin, 241-regene-
rated, 263

Avallen beren, arbor frugifera, 23, 483
Avanc, 95-the shrine of the patriarch,
142, 267-the beaver, an emblem of
the patriarch, 129
Avaon, 135, 200

Avenue to Stonehenge, 371
Awen, o bair Kyrridwen, 20-origin of,
40-renders the aspirant complete,
256-a mystical character, 468-the
bardic muse, 528

Awyr, the sky, a name of the open tem-
ple, 353

B

Bacchanalian rites, 169
Bacchus worshipped in Britain, 89-the
helio-arkite Noah, 127-inventor of
agriculture, 128-styled a bull, 127,
174

Barua, conical stones, which repre-
sented the gods, 389
Bala, the going forth, 192

Balls and rings on British coins, 600, 605
Banawg, what, 128

Ban carw, battle of, 359
Bane of corruption, 142
Bangu, a sacred ox, 140, 141
Banners of the bards, 20

Banquet of mead, 313-mystical, 422
Bard, what the term anciently imported,

467

Bard slain at the feast at Stonehenge,
313, 317, 326, 353, 362
Bardd Cadair, 25, 200-Caw, 165---
Ogyrven, 17

Bardic ænigmas, how to be expounded,
405-mount of assembly, 489-peti.

tion, 16-questions, 52-vow, 285–
worship, 17

Bardism of the chair of Glamorgan, 32
-supported the spirit of independ-
ence, 283

Bards, an order connected with the dru-
ids, 11-constituted judges, 12, 19-
disciples of the druids, 9, 84-priests
of the ancient Britons, 387-professed
magic, 42-promised to recant before
their death, 283-sometimes warriors,
63-works of, genuine, 3-consistent
with history, 88-town of, in Angle-
sea, 399-of Beli, 457-of the house-
hold, 271, 272—of the middle ages, 9
Bardsea, 164, 503
Bath, mystical, 218

Battle of Gwenystrad, 62-of mystery,

133

Bear, representative of Arthur, 187
Beaver, 129-emblem of Noah, 267-
see Avanc.

Bed of mystery, 422-bed dilan, 193–
Tidain, ib.-beddau, heathen sanctua
ries, ib.

Bedwen, a may-pole, phallus, &c. 539
Bedwyr, son of Pedrawc, a mystical cha-

racter, 340-phallus, 441

Bees, deposited by the mystical sow, 426
Belenus, a Celtic god, 116—temple of,
-symbols of arkite ministers, 433
in the Arenees, 194

Beli, name of Hu, the helio-arkite god,
116, 121, 143, 562-son of Manhogan,
436-herds of, 352

Beliagog, 457

Benefits of initiation, 252
Berwr Taliesin, 275
Beverage of the festival, 509
Bird, transformation of Gwion, 230, 235
-of augury, 509-of Gwenddoleu,
463-of wrath, 266, 287, 560
Bitch, transformation of Ceridwen, 232
Birth of Taliesin, mystical, 239

Black horse of the seas, a sacred ship,
475

Black stone, 427, 437

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Blanche Flour, a mystical lady, 447, 455
Blessed ones, Menwyd, 172/
Blue robes of the bards, 14

Boar, arkite symbol, 425, 442-of the
spray, 614

Boar's heads, arms of Sir Tristrem's
knights, 450

Boat, attribute of Ceridwen, 186, 237-

of Ked, 176-vale of the, 418-boat.
of glass, 211, 277.

Boiling of the mystical cauldron, 213
Books of astronomy, 213-of the druids,
266-of the pheryllt, 213

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Breaking of sprigs, 339, 359

Brengwain, Bronwen, Proserpine, 452
Brewer of the mystical cauldron, 279
Brindled ox, 138, 523

British Ceres, 184-council, over ruled

by Vortigern, 361-documents, 1-
corroborated by mutual evidence, 624
British mythology, how far investigated

by the author, 85-analogous to that
of early heathens, 123-arkite, 289
Britons addicted to magical rites, 37–
hyperboreans, 131

Bro yr Hud, land of mystery, 417
Bronwen, daughter of Llyr, 400
Bryant's heathen theology, 90
Brychan instructs the Welsh in the
Christian faith, 282

Brynach, a northern mystagogue, 427,
462

Brython, inhabitants of ancient Britain,
506

Buanawr, a sacred title, 539
Buarth Beirdd, 136, 535

Bûdd, victory, a sacred title, 364, 584
Bûdd, Buddugre, titles of Hu, 116
Bûd Nêr, god of victory, 468
Bûddud, Buddug, goddess of victory,
314, 317

Buddvan, horn of victory, 344
Buddwas, a title of Hu, 118, 557
Bull, 127, 200—of battle, 116, 133, 351,
359, 363-Becr lled, 120, 157, 537—
Beli, 134-of brass, 131-demon, 135,
478-emblem of the patriarch, 131-
of flame, 137-of fire, 537-of the
host, 347, 573-mystical, 465, 577—
sovereigns, 134-of the sphere, 133
Bull, title of the god, or his priest, 172
slain, ib.

Bull and dragon, sacred to Hu, consi-
dered as Bacchus, 128
Bulwark of battle, sacred title, 362
Bun, the maid, the British Proserpine,
327, 445, 468, 484, 488
Buto, sacred lake of, 159

C

Cabiri, 216-Cabiritic divinity, Noah,
216-rites, arkite, ib.
Cad Goddeu, a mystical poem, 100, 538
Cadair Ceridwen, 260-Teyrn On. 120,
527-Taliesin much older than the
sixth century, 280-Vaelgwn, 22
Cadair, an amicable knight, 199
Cadeiriaith Saidi, 199, 292, 324
Cadväon, conference of, 488

Cadwaladyr, supreme ruler of battle, a

name of Hu, 121, 488

Caer, a name of the sacred ship, and
druidical sanctuary, 134

Caer, or sanctuary of Ceridwen, 285, 286
Caer Conan, 352-Echinig, 335-Pedry-
van, 517-Rheon, seat of the nor-
thern druids, 478-Sëon, 169, 448,
546, 547

Caer Sidi, 201, 292, 299, 407, 515, 516-
represented as a floating vessel, 154-
implied the ark, 293-the zodiac, ib.
-the druidical temple, 294-circle of
revolution, 294-sanctuary of Ceres,
295-form of, 296, &c.-pourtrayed
on the sacred shield, 544

Caer Wydyr, name of the ark, 212, 521
Caers which represented the ark, 516–
sacred, 531

Cæsar's accurate information relative to
the druids, 45

Cainc yr ychain Banawg, 129
Caledonia, forest of, the haunt of Merd-
din, 73, 552

Caledonian druids, respected by the
southern Britons, 475-wood, seat of
the northern druids, 489
Cantref y Gwaelod, 241
Canu y byd mawr, 53
Car of Hu, drawn by oxen, 139
Caradoc, character of, 347
Cardigan bay, 162, 242, 251
Caredig, caradwy e glod, 346
Carns, attached to temples, 301
Carousal of the bards, 136
Casnodyn, 35― describes the day of
judgment, 101
Cat, paluc, 427

Cathedral bard, 272
Cath Vraith, 438

Cattraeth, import of, 323, &c.-place of
conference with Hengist, 331
Cauldron, mystic, 16, 21-of Awen,
530-of Ceres, 222-of Ceridwen, 20,
26, 185, 213, 265, 502-what it im-
plied, 217-divided, 214-an emblem
of the deluge, 225, &c.
Cauldronof the ruler of the deep, 119,165
-warmed by the breath of nine dam-

sels, 518-cauldron of five plants, 279
Cave of the arch diviner, 73-sacred,
456

Cedig, title of the arkite goddess, 464
Ceidiaw, mystical father of Aurelius, 377
Celestial circle, name of a druidical
temple, 41, 138, 550

Cell of Kêd, 372-of initiation, 236, 390
-mystical, 537-of the tauriform god,

137

Cells pertaining to British temples, 301

Celtæ, had Cabiritic rites, 216-were

governed by their priests, 386
Celtic glory, deplored by Aneurin, 379 |
Cenig y Gododin, 321
Cerddglud Clyd Lliant, 467
Cerdd Ogyrven, 14

Ceremony of arkite procession, 537-of
the bardic feast, 370-of degradation,
64-of drawing the avanc out of the
lake, 129-meaning of, 170
Ceres worshipped in Britain, 89-of the
Britons, 184symbolized by the moon,
279-worshipped in the twelfth cen-
tury, 286

Ceridwen, 175, 205-the Ceres of Bri-
tain, 185, 289-described as a fury,
229, &c. 260-as a botanist, 213-as
the first of womankind, 184-as a gi-
antess, 256-as the goddess of corn, 8
➡as the modeller of youth, 285-as
the moon, 270-as a mystic goddess,
18-as ruler of bardism, 20-as a sail-
ing vessel, 256-transformed into a
bird, 390—cauldron and sanctuary of,
502-extraordinary endowments of,
169, 265-various emblems of, 257-
how described in the twelfth century,
284 worshipped in the twelfth cen-
tury, conjointly with the moon, 285
Ceto, the ark, 114

Ceugant Beilliawg, 247

Chain of the sacred oxen, 111, 129, 141

of the diluvian patriarch, 187, 515
Chair, bardic, 502-of Caer Sidi, 292, 295
-of Caermarthen, 33—of Ceridwen,
a mystical poem, 265-imitated by
Meilyr, 10 of Glamorgan, 32, 35,
56, &c. of the solar divinity, 528,
531-of Taliesin, 73, 269
Challenge from the chair of Glamorgan,
64
Character of Ceredig, 346-of Cerid-
wen, 183, &c.of Hu, compared with
Noah, 111-of the patriarch, in Bri-
tish mythology, 105, &c.—of Taliesin,
mystical, 239

Characters supported by the mystic
priests, 289

Cherisher, or brooding hen, Ceridwen,

259

Chest of the aspirants, 255
Chief druid, sovereign of Britain, 119,122
Chief singer of NoE, 114
Child of the sun, 488-of Teithan, that
is, the helio-arkite god, 114
Chinese tradition of the deluge, 149
Christianity of the Welsh bards, blended
with druidism, 17
Cibddar, mystic, 134, 200

Circle of Anoeth, 314-of gems, 544–
of the mystical tree, 489-of Sidin,
that is, the zodiac, 296—of stones, 121,
486-of twelve stones, 302—a term for
a British temple, 313-of the world,
name of a bardic temple, 113, 266,
369-circle with its cromlech, 513-
circle and wand of the magician, 42
Circles of rude stones in druidical tem-
ples, 387

Circular dance, 172-entrenchment, 300,
585-temple, with its central crom-
lech, 395-temples, sacred to the sun
and Vesta, 304-destroyed, 550
Cities of Cantre'r Gwaelod, 242
City of the bards, 23, 350
Clattering of shields in a British proces-
sion, 172-of arms in the festival of
Bacchus, 175

Clergy and monks persecute the bards,
283

Clydnaw, ship-bearer, a mystical cha-
racter, 364

Code of the chair of Glamorgan, 32-
objections to the authority of, 33
Coelbreni, 43, 490

Coins, British, 589-display the image
of Ceridwen, 257-antiquity of, 590
-impressed with sacred symbols, 589,
590-exhibit druid temples, 591-
found at Karn-brê, 591-regarded as
druidical badges, 591-impressed with
magical devices, 591-talismanic, 593,
610-design of, consistent with bardic
imagery, 598-legends of, 607.-See
Horse.

Coll, son of Collvrewi, 426, 428-a Cor

nish mystagogue, 429— foreigner, 446
Collar of the sacred ox, 138, 524
Colours of the glains, 211
Columba persecutes Merddin, 471-
Commemoration of the deluge in China,
150

Community of bards, 473
Complete system of druidism exhibited
by Taliesin, 58

Completion, a mystical term, 288
Compound figure of the arkite goddess,

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