Kings: P

Pryderi (Worry) Prydain (White Cow) Peleur (The Maker of Gold Shoes)
(pron. pra-DAYR-ee, PREE-dare-ee) Avatar of the god Mabon: Mead. He is stolen from his crib as a baby and is rescued by Teirnyon in Gwent is Coed: The White Under-Wood and returned to his parents at four years old. He is sitting at the green place and thunder strikes, a wall of mist comes, and he discovers that he, his wife Kieva: Cherished One, his mother Rhiannon: Great Queen and Manawyddan: Son of the Sea are the only survivors. They survive on boar meat and mountain honey sucked from the heather. He and Manawydden go to Narberth in the morning and find a white boar. He chases the boar to a castle and finds a marble fountain with a golden bowl. He is trapped in the Immortal World after he is stuck to a golden bowl the Diwrnach. Manawyddan waits for him, and when the sun is fast sinking, he goes home. Riannon arrives and is also stuck to the bowl. They are finally released by the king. Prydain: Britain. Brixianus: Brescia, Gaule. His father is the god Pwyll: Weep. (73, 89, 94)

A belief in the fructifying potentialities of water has driven childless women throughout the ages to bathe and to drink at sacred wells in the hope of conceiving, and a belief in the embodiment of the supernatural essence in worms and flies seems to account for the fact that in Wales it is still said of a pregnant girl that she has swallowed an insect (pry) or a spider (corryn). Individual reincarnation is implied in most of the ancient tales. (6)