I call to wise and shining Nudd, son of noble Don
and Beli Mawr the bright, father of Gwyn and Edern
who served so well the court of the far-famed king.
Nudd of the tangled tales, the confoundment
of the years, of tongues that stumble, words gone wrong,
Nudd of the many faces and the many names,
we see you reflected in the rippled pool,
we see you in shadow, we see you in the fog,
in seamist and in smoke. I call to you, O god,
granter of blessings, upholder of tribe and kin,
for all we know of you, for all we are with you,
I thank you for your many gifts, I praise your name.
(I do realize that I’ve just recently written a prayer to Lludd; as a very hard polytheist, my thoughts on this are “better safe than sorry.”)
Fieldstones 
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October 31, 2014 at 9:28 am
lornasmithers
As ‘a very hard polytheist’ where do you stand on the relationship between Nudd and Nodens?
October 31, 2014 at 8:45 pm
fieldstones
I am inclined to think that if you call to Nudd, and then call to Nodens, you will get two separate manifestations. (Whether they are truly two separate entities is something I am not wise enough to know–just that they/he show themselves differently depending on how they/he are called. I guess my position is that even if Nudd and Nodens were the same entity, they/he have manifested in those different ways and there is surely a reason for it, and it makes more sense to me to go with that. I don’t have to see the big picture, my vision isn’t that acute in any case! :))
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