Category talk:Welsh gods
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Gods / Characters?
editShould this category reflect the contents of Welsh mythology#Characters? I think there should be some category for those individials - Welsh Legendary Characters perhaps? Spyforthemoon 18:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Inadequate proofs of godhood in an ancient "Celtic" culture?
editIt could be said that the only well-attested to instances of ANY known non-christian deities worshiped by the Welsh are those named in inscriptions on Romano-Celtic altars. The Irish candidates have less corroborating evidence yet.
There are "characters in heroic lore", and "mythic heroes", and then there are "gods and gods and goddesses". Gods and goddesses are characters who where described by the people as-such and were venerated with religious rites, i.e. "worshiped". The factors qualifying a character as a "Celtic" deity would be as mentioned, inscriptions on altars, and to a varying degree, attestations in the writings of neighboring or occupying cultures like those of Rome or Greece. Linguistically linked names of characters from the lore of the "Celtic" culture having stories and descriptions similar to known deities of the neighboring or occupying culture may qualify, albeit less certainly and are more open to debate.
We need some serious discussion on the merit of near universal custom of elevating to god/goddesshood virtually any of the primary characters in the stories of the Irish and the Welsh corpus. Earrach (talk) 13:41, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
- Such a discussion would be inappropriate here although we could discuss reliable sources that support your viewpoint. Dougweller (talk) 17:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)