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Gwydion

Magician, hero and trickster from Welsh mythology

A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Family

The family of Gwydion

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As documented
The family as a list · 4

Kinship in an account 1

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Family 3

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

3 statements on this record

  • 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Nationalmuseet, Roberto Fortuna og Kira Ursem · Public domain

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