Amaethon
Welsh · deity · mythic prehistoric · deity
Divine ploughman of the Children of Dôn, whose theft from Annwn occasions the Cad Goddeu.
Parentage
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