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DIA DHUIT!!!
NIL AON TINTEAN MAR DO THINTEAN FEIN!
I am MABON
The Young Son of Light. Mabon or Maponus, the Celtic god of liberation, harmony, unity and music. He may have been one of the most universally worshipped deities in the Celtic world, and was at the centre of the Druidic magical cosmology as the
original Being, pre-existent, Son of the Great Mother. He is represented in myth and legend as both a prisoner and a liberator; many other heroic and divine figures are related to
Mabon.
In the poem PA GUR two of Arthur's followers are so called: one the son
of Modron, described as the servant of Uther Pendragon, and the other the son of Mellt. This may be a duplication, the same character having Modron for a mother and Mellt for a father.
CULHWCH says he was abducted when he was three nights old. It was necessary for Culhwch to find him, as part of his quest. Arthur attacked his prison, while Kay and Bedivere rescued him.
Similarly named characters are Mobonagrain in Chr‚tien's EREC ET
ENIDE and Mabuz in Ulrichs LANZELET. In origin, these characters are perhaps all the same.
Mabon, the son of Modron, is undoubtedly the Celtic god Maponus (perhaps the equivalent of the Irish Mac ind oc) Modron originally being the Celtic goddess, Matrona, and Mellt perhaps a hypothetical god called
Meldos. C. Matthews regards the story of Mabon as a mystery cycle. G. Ashe argues that Merlin may have acted as a prophet of the god Maponos, while J. Matthews feels that the history of
Gawain replays the story of the god. Mabon is also referred to
as a sorcerer.
The mystery of Mabon is hard to disentangle and restore.The main textual source appears in CULHWCH AND OLWEN. Where textual evidence is meagre it is possible to assume further
facts about Mabon from his many aliases who appear as heroes within the MABINOGION and related literature, although we must be circumspect when drawing from secondary sources. Yet texts alone do not give us a full picture. The cult of the Divine
Youth, Maponus, was localised in both Gaul and Northern Britain.
Two place names survive: Lochmaben, a village, and Clochmabenstane, a prehistoric stone, both in Dumfriesshire. The stone was a tribal assembly point
The Romans swiftly identified many native deities as aspects of their own, as well as recognising the genii loci of the land in their own right.
Maponus was soon identified as a type of Apollo - a Greek aspect which the Romans retained, although they renamed his sister Artemis as Diana. In Greek tradition, the name of Apollo, or
Apple-Man, recalled the hidden youth of Britain whose mysteries were celebrated within a circular temple, and whose cult was associated with music and the paradisal Otherworld. Apollo the Harper, has been identified closely with Maponus
Initiates of a particular cult always spoke of their gods in such a guarded manner, while preserving the secret names and inner titles from the profane. - Within British tradition,
'Mabon is not only the Great Prisoner, he is also the Immemorial Prisoner, the Great Son who has been lost for aeons and is at last found'
- Mabon is the Wondrous Youth of Celtic tradition: like Merlin, he is the child of otherworld and earthly parents. His cult was widespread in north-west Britain, along Hadrian's Wall. Like Angus, he is the god of youth. His name merely means 'son' and so is a mystery title which is ascriable to many suitable local deities .
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Slán agus beannacht leat!
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