Amaethon

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

Parentage

• parent: 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 latin · Amaethon · literarySon of Dôn, god of husbandry (amaeth, “ploughman”); over whose spoils Cad Goddeu was foughtCad Goddeu; Culhwch ac Olwen (primary)

Relations

• sibling: GilfaethwyFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Dôn) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: GofannonFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Dôn) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: GwydionFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Dôn) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Culhwch ac Olwen; Cad Goddeu (Llyfr Taliesin) (primary)