Also called Amaethon fab Dôn, the Ploughman.
Their story
Amaethon's name comes from the Welsh word for a farmer. In Culhwch and Olwen he is the only one who can plough a certain field for the giant Ysbaddaden. A Welsh triad and a later note on the poem Cad Goddeu say that the Battle of the Trees began because Amaethon took a white roebuck and a whelp from Arawn, king of Annwn.
Best times to give to them
- Calan Mai
- Gŵyl Awst (Lughnasadh)
- when sowing
What they like being given
- the first seeds of the year
- bread made from local flour
- compost given back to the soil
How to honour them
- Sow seeds in spring and dedicate the first to him.
- Thank farmers and growers by buying from them directly when you can.
How they can help you
- growing food
- patient work
- care of the soil
Symbols
- the plough
- the furrow
- the white roebuck
Sources
- Culhwch ac Olwen
- Cad Goddeu (Book of Taliesin)
- Trioedd Ynys Prydein
More Celtic gods
- The Dagda The good god, father of all
- Lugh Master of all the arts
- Cernunnos The antlered one of the wild
- Manannán mac Lir Lord of the sea and the Otherworld
- Aengus The young god of love
- Nuada The king with the silver hand
- Dian Cécht Physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann
- Goibniu Smith of the gods and brewer of the feast