Post #1398721
2026-04-05 09:54 UTC
I had originally considered Brychan a parallel for Irish Breoghan - who Taliesin's Map has previously identified as being cognate with the #Hindu "Absolute" or "Monad": "Brahman".
I provide the reasons why I thought this was the case, but during the drafting I discovered that "Fionn" shaped myth, above, and realised Brychan was not the Absolute, but the "Demiurge", akin to Hindu Prajapati. This places him alongside the saints Cíarán, who I covered previously, and also Bile and Tadhg.
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@seachaint@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-05 09:55
Happily, this identification has also turned up a few other IDs for closely related saints - Saint Cadoc as a Gwyn (~Fionn) type saint, and his father as a parallel for Cumhall or Galamh/Míl. As to his mother, it's not clear in the Irish case who Muirne corresponds to, of the better-understood gods - so, comparatively, I'm not sure who Gwladys corresponds to in "big picture" goddess sense either. She's Muirne, or Apollo's mother Leto: a goddess whose role seems fully maternal in nature. (3/4)