The Old Gods of Britain: Forgotten Pagan Deities

Long before the saints and the churches, this island prayed to hundreds of forgotten deities — a god for every spring, a goddess for every hill, a nameless mother for the field across the river. Then, across a few short centuries, almost all of them were buried: renamed, demoted, forgotten, paved over. Tonight we dig them back up, one carved stone at a time. This is a calm, feature-length journey through the ancient Celtic gods; the lost pantheon of Britain — Sulis of the hot spring at Bath and her drowned curse tablets; Nodens the healer and his temple of dogs; Coventina of the well and her thirteen thousand coins; the war gods of the northern frontier; Andraste, the goddess Boudica called on as her army burned the Roman towns; the great mothers Brigantia and the Matres; the gods who escaped death by hiding inside the Welsh fairy tales; and the Anglo-Saxon gods who are still hiding in plain sight inside the days of your week. Settle in, let the fire burn low, and remember a few forgotten names. ⏳ Chapters below. 0:00 Cold Open — The Coin in the Water 3:30 The Silence Beneath 7:43 The Gods in the Water 16:16 The War Gods of the Frontier 22:25 The Mothers of the Land 26:21 The Gods Who Became Fairy Tales 32:49 The Gods in Your Week 38:49 What Is Buried Is Not Gone 🔔 Subscribe for more forgotten folklore, myth and legend.