Our Forum…

I'm trying to compile as much info as I can about a celtic diety named Nudd. I know the basics of his earthly/otherworld reign overcoming the plagues of Britain and so forth.  But if anyone has any practical experience with him can you let me know. It's really important

Nodens alias Lludd Llaw Ereint
Celtic God of Health & Healing
Nodens – later known in Wales as Nudd or Lludd Llaw Ereint (the Silver-Handed) and in Ireland as Nuadu – was the Celtic God of Healing, and the son of Belenos, the Sun God, and Anu, his wife. He had a large shrine at Lydney (Lludd's Island) in Gloucestershire, where the devoted made offerings of small bronze representations of their diseased limbs. He was sometimes identified with the protective Mars or the regenerative Silvanus and his companion and symbol was the dog: a deerhound whose lick could cure the afflicted. An old story explains his connection with amputees. At one time, Nodens was the leader of the gods, but he was wounded in battle and lost his hand. Gofannon, the divine-smith, made him a new one out of Silver – hence his Welsh epithet – though he was still forced to abdicate in favour of his nephew, Lleu Llaw Gyffes (the Skilful-Handed). Later, Nodens was troubled by a constant scream that was heard the eve of every Beltane. He travelled to Gaul, where his brother, Llefelys, was particularly worshipped to ask his advice. He explained that the cry was made by two fighting dragons. Nodens managed to capture the creatures and imprisoned them deep below Dinas Emrys in Gwynedd. Nodens may have been particularly worshipped in London which, as 'Lludd's town' was said to have been named after him.

http://www.celtnet.org.uk/gods…../nudd.html

http://books.google.com/books?…..mp;f=false

http://misswealhtheow.blogspot…..age-2.html

this may also be of intrest

http://www.absoluteastronomy.c…..of_Ireland

this group may intrest u

http://www.eons.com/groups/gro…..-mythology

nuada of Tuatha Dé Danann comes up a lot with this name. are they one in the same? Had something similar to this being contacted u? if so how did this happen?  this being has peeked my Interest

if u may keep us updated

Thats a bit better than I had come up with. Do you know anything about things like offering ritual  preferences stuff like that

Just a quick thought here – if you think you may be dealing with sidhe of Welsh extraction, you might like to read the Mabinogeon if you haven't already done so, as it describes at least some dealings between humans and sidhe.

i dunno if this right or not but i got that dieties like him like milk and fruite maybe some nice wine.

well I have not worked with him but when I do work with gods. I first show intent and kind of express through energy who I want to work with and offer wine to whoever i t is.

You know…here's a radical thought. If you totally can't turn up anything useful in your research about his preferences, perhaps you could do the equivalent of very politely knocking on his door, explaining the situation and…asking him?

I generally find that anybody worth working with is not offended by that sort of thing. :)

 okay can't seem to delete the post so I'll just say this was a duplicate.

Master_Iris said:

Nodens alias Lludd Llaw Ereint
Celtic God of Health & Healing
Nodens – later known in Wales as Nudd or Lludd Llaw Ereint (the Silver-Handed) and in Ireland as Nuadu – was the Celtic God of Healing, and the son of Belenos, the Sun God, and Anu, his wife. He had a large shrine at Lydney (Lludd's Island) in Gloucestershire, where the devoted made offerings of small bronze representations of their diseased limbs. He was sometimes identified with the protective Mars or the regenerative Silvanus and his companion and symbol was the dog: a deerhound whose lick could cure the afflicted. An old story explains his connection with amputees. At one time, Nodens was the leader of the gods, but he was wounded in battle and lost his hand. Gofannon, the divine-smith, made him a new one out of Silver – hence his Welsh epithet – though he was still forced to abdicate in favour of his nephew, Lleu Llaw Gyffes (the Skilful-Handed). Later, Nodens was troubled by a constant scream that was heard the eve of every Beltane. He travelled to Gaul, where his brother, Llefelys, was particularly worshipped to ask his advice. He explained that the cry was made by two fighting dragons. Nodens managed to capture the creatures and imprisoned them deep below Dinas Emrys in Gwynedd. Nodens may have been particularly worshipped in London which, as 'Lludd's town' was said to have been named after him.

 

http://www.celtnet.org.uk/gods…../nudd.html

http://books.google.com/books?…..mp;f=false

 

http://misswealhtheow.blogspot…..age-2.html

 

this may also be of intrest

http://www.absoluteastronomy.c…..of_Ireland

 

this group may intrest u

http://www.eons.com/groups/gro…..-mythology

nuada of Tuatha Dé Danann comes up a lot with this name. are they one in the same? Had something similar to this being contacted u? if so how did this happen?  this being has peeked my Interest

if u may keep us updated

Nuada never had a brother and never had a wife, as far as I know, and I've done EXTENSIVE research for my Bachelors Thesis on him. If there's one thing that the Celtic Mythology is great at, it's keeping track of whose having relations with who and whose married to who and there is never any mention of Nuada with anyone. Ever. Though, Nuada was wounded in battle, he didn't just lose a hand, he lost a whole arm from the shoulder down. His arm was also eventually grown back by the son of Dian Cecht.

Nuada did end up abdicating his throne to someone, but it wasn't Llew (Lugh). He abdicated to Eochu Breas, who enslaved the Tuatha de Danann, before they drop-kicked him off the throne and reinstated Nuada after his arm was re-grown. Lugh (Llew) was invited to the courts because he was multi-talented, but he wasn't ever given a kingship.

Finally… and most importantly: Nuada was killed by Balor and his right hand man, the Dagda, became King of the Tuatha de Danann. Gwyn ap Nudd (Nodens) is still alive and well and ruling the Seelie Summer Court beneath the Glastonbury Tor. Though, outside of that, I don't know that much about Gwyn ap Nudd, only that he's not Nuada.

Nuada does NOT look a THING like Luke Goss in a bad platinum blonde wig. Every time anyone mentions Nuada, every one thinks that it's PRINCE NUADA from the movie. I'll have you know that you don't even pronounce his name that way. Nu-a-da. That's not how it's pronounced. It's Nu-a-THA. Nu-A-THA, and he doesn't look a THING like that. Not a THING. If I saw that coming my way out of the shower, I'd be positively terrified, all that ritualistic scaring and facial tattoos. Does not look a THING like him, and I promise you that Nuada does NOT have a brother or a sister, especially not one named Nuala. It's purely fiction. I can assure you.

The REAL Nuada has honey-blonde hair the colour of goldenrod, and emerald green eyes the colour of the rolling hills of Ireland. He's at least 7'9" tall and has a mechanical arm that can lift/move twice his own weight. He does not enjoy war, and would much rather have a conversation, rather than an all out fight.

I think I'm done ranting now… Sorry for stealing Ashy's keyboard again, but I couldn't STAND another refference to that movie. I promise, the real Nuada is glorious. ^.^

~~Silverlance