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'''Brân the Blessed''' (Welsh: Bendigeidfran or Brân Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Raven") is a character in Welsh mythology.

"According to Robert Graves, he may have been worshipped by homosexual priesthood."<ref>Robert Graves, ''The White Goddess'', quoted at "Bran" in Randy P Lunčunas Conner and others, ''Cassell's Encylopedia of queer myth, symbol and spirit'', 1998, ISBN 0-304-70423-7. The article also mentions Graves's "internalised homophobia"</ref> However Graves's actual words do not support this claim. Graves mentions some "dog priests" in the eastern Mediterranean who indulged in "sodomitical frenzies" and goes on to say "Evidently [[Amathaon]] had seduced some priest of Bran &ndash; whether it was a homosexual priesthood I do not pretend to know."<ref>Robert Graves, ''The White Goddess: A historical grammar of poetical myth'', amended and enlarged edition, Faber & Faber, ?1960, page 53.</ref>

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