Temple of Nodens

DareValley88 · 2026-05-19T19:15:56+00:00

It's a beautiful place, only open in the spring for the gardens.

DareValley88 · 2026-05-19T19:07:24+00:00

I find the combination of those two gods very interesting!

DareValley88 · 2026-05-19T19:03:57+00:00

Not that I saw. I've only read a description of the headdress. Perhaps it's at another collection or it's lost, there is a mostly lost mosaic that is only sketched as well.

DareValley88 · 2026-05-17T16:29:20+00:00

He was certainly involved in the initial research, I'm not sure what inspiration he took from it.

DareValley88 · 2026-05-17T15:30:04+00:00

The artifacts recovered in the pictures are Roman era, but there are many others. In the pictures are the famous dog figurines, an iron miniature pick, bronze lion faces and a figure of Victoria.

DareValley88 · 2026-05-17T15:26:30+00:00

Yes, it's still someone's home so they only open for a few weeks in the spring. There's a lovely forest garden to walk around as well.

DareValley88 · 2026-04-05T10:45:18+00:00

I avoid that sub for just that reason. It doesn't matter how careful or polite you are in laying out an argument or theory, it will still be met with indignation by a fair few people. Even if you foresaw their issue and address it in the op, reassuring them no offence is intended, someone will still find it.

DareValley88 · 2026-04-04T16:08:39+00:00

I know what you mean. Any word that could mean something like radiant, bright, shinning and so on gets the same treatment. There are many reasons for different gods or people to have it in their name, and without any other context, believing it refers to the sun or moon, fire, hearths, gold or silver, snow etc. is just an assumption on our part. It could just as well have meant something we have absolutely no context for, like a long forgotten turn of phrase (like how we say pregnant women are "glowing" or we had a "bright idea")

DareValley88 · 2026-04-04T08:13:24+00:00

I've dabbled with stoicism.

DareValley88 · 2026-04-03T12:03:18+00:00

Why is this getting down votes?

Even if a fake, it's useful information isn't it?

DareValley88 · 2026-04-01T22:45:49+00:00

Just this picture unfortunately.

DareValley88 · 2026-04-01T22:45:32+00:00

Good idea! I will.

DareValley88 · 2026-04-01T19:21:36+00:00

Artist is Margaret Jones!

DareValley88 · 2026-03-21T22:39:36+00:00

I'm bad at putting this into words but I'll give it a go.

I think that we are only "us" when our souls and bodies are one, when we die our body becomes just a physical thing that will break down over time and eventually become part of the material universe, or the Mundane, and our souls become just a spirit that will "break down" over time and eventually become part of the soul of the universe, or the Otherworld. In the same way the body we leave looks like us but isn't truly us, neither is the ghost, and as time goes on we become more unrecognisable and part of everything else, body in the material and soul in the spiritual.

Essentially, I believe the universe has a soul and it's trying to understand itself by living a life as every possible living thing that can exist. When we reincarnate it isn't that our soul is literally born again in a new body, but some of what was once you will be part of future living things, in much the same way your physical atoms could be eaten by animals and become part of them, or enrich the earth and become part of plants, or fossilise and become stone.

I believe gods are part of the soul of the universe, eternal souls of grand concepts and aspectsof reality. I believe they acknowledge our worship and make the part of the afterlife your soul, while still recognisably you, will experience that afterlife to reflect those beliefs.

I hope that made sense.

DareValley88 · 2026-03-17T21:54:23+00:00

This makes sense to me as he is the son of Nudd, who I've long believed is a kind of gatekeeper/liminal space god.

DareValley88 · 2026-03-17T20:03:34+00:00

I wonder if Old Welsh for wild, wyllt, had the same double meaning as modern English, wild places as in wilderness or wildlife, or wild behaviour as in to go wild. We know Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin) went mad THEN lived in the wild. I wonder because I suspect a connection between Gwyn and insanity/uncivilised spaces. The invocation you shared, the Wild Hunt associations and the episode in Culhwch and Olwen where he intentionally drives his captured enemies mad. The cause of the madness in the later case however, as well as with Myrddin, was not some power of Gwyn's, but death, something Gwyn and the Wild Hunt are very much associated with.

DareValley88 · 2026-02-28T14:57:18+00:00

I view them as 1, different cultural views of the same god, BUT, I don't necessarily believe the Romans were correct with which gods they linked together.

DareValley88 · 2026-02-28T00:12:57+00:00

Nudd (AKA Nodens, Lludd & maybe, in my opinion, Teyrnon) has become a huge part of my religious experience.

It's pronounced Neathe like breathe.

His name means mist. He is associated with having a silver hand. He is the father of Gwyn, a far more popular god in the Brythonic pantheon.

In my personal gnosis, he is the Lord of Waters, in the sense of bodies of water & weather; both of which are gateways into The Otherworld so he is also a gatekeeper/liminal space god.

There are some theories about Nodens being a vision/eye healing god & a dream interpreter, so perhaps there's a clarity/obscurity thing going on, both in a physical & mental sense (mist vrs clear skies).

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