Identifier: mythologyofallra03gray (find matches)
Title: The Mythology of all races ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Louis H. (Louis Herbert), 1875-1955 Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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eli and Belinus may represent the god Belenos, who wasequated with Apollo; and Beli is victorious champion of theland and the preserver of its qualities in a Taliesin poem, inwhich the singer implores him ^^ — perhaps a reminiscence ofearlier divine traits. A Triad calls Beli father of Arianrhod,and Rhys, assuming that this is Arianrhod, the daughter ofDon, makes Don consort of Beli, equates Don with Danu, and,without the slightest evidence, assigns to Danu as consort theshadowy figure Bile, father of Mile, invented by Irish annal-ists. Beli and Bile are then equated with the Celtic Dispater,the divine ancestor of the Celtic race, whom he assumes tohave been a dark god, ruling a dark underworld. Allthis is modern mythologizing. Caswallawn is confused in the Triads with Cassivellaunus, awarrior who may have been named after him; and he is calledwar-king, an epithet which may recall his divine functions, PLATE XI Gauls and Romans in CombatBas-relief from a sarcophagus found near Rome.
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THE MYTHS OF THE BRITISH CELTS 107 those of a god invisibly leading armies to battle and embodiedin chiefs who bore his name. Yet the epithet might be that ofactual warriors, just as the German Emperor calls himself thewar-lord. Lludd,as King, rebuilt London orCaer Ludd, and was buriedat Ludgate Hill, which thus preserves his name and points toan earlier cult of Lludd at this place.^^ He is also said to havebeen enclosed in a narrow prison — an unexplained referenceto some tale now lost. In the story of Lludd and Llevelys ^^ hiscountry of Britain was subjected to three plagues — the Cora-nlans who heard every whisper, like Math Hen; a shriek onMay-Eve caused by a foreign dragon attacking the dragon ofthe land and producing wide-spread desolation; and the mys-terious disappearance of a years supply of food. Llevelys badeLludd bruise certain Insects In water and throw the mixtureover his assembled people and the Coranlans; the latter alonewould be poisoned by it. The dragons were to

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