Amaethon

Welsh · deity · mythic prehistoric · deity

Divine ploughman of the Children of Dôn, whose theft from Annwn occasions the Cad Goddeu.

Parentage

Dôn

Domains

agriculture ploughing

Powers

Plough and master the tilled earth
Win the beasts of Annwn, occasioning the Cad Goddeu
is the only man able to till and dress a certain wild field, set as a task in Culhwch ac Olwen

Epithets

the divine ploughman

Relations

sibling: Gilfaethwy
sibling: Gofannon
sibling: Gwydion

Sources

Culhwch ac Olwen; Cad Goddeu (Llyfr Taliesin)

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