Beyond the context of Polytheistic Monasticism, creating such spaces is important in terms of providing spiritual nourishment for those of us struggling to survive in a world that is experienced as overwhelming and hostile.

Gwyn might be seen as a god who not only guides the dead to the Otherworld but also oversees the passage of the living through trauma and madness to the healing art of the awenydd.

‘When frost rimes my window I cannot forget
you were there at my beginning
and will greet me again at the end.’

From Lorna Smithers: an essay on 'the mysterious ritual frenzy' of the scream over Annwfn and its modern manifestations.