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'''Brân the Blessed''' (Welsh: Bendigeidfran or Brân Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Raven") is a character in Welsh mythology. | '''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 | + | "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 – 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> |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 17:02, 19 February 2013
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."[1] 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 – whether it was a homosexual priesthood I do not pretend to know."[2]
References
- ↑ 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"
- ↑ Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A historical grammar of poetical myth, amended and enlarged edition, Faber & Faber, ?1960, page 53.
