The Anathemata
Mabinog’s Liturgy (continued)
Iudaeorum, son of Edom, son of the Old Adam, father of foxes; but three months before the advent of the Last Age of the World,1 in the twenty-ninth of the pontificate of Caisar Awst2 the Conditor sprung of the Strider and Gwener daughter of the Thunderer, whose old vicar he was?
David Jones notes
1 When Mary made her journey to visit Elizabeth the latter was already six months with child. The Last Age of the World was reckoned from the birth of that child. Thus Nennius says of these world-ages ‘ ... the fourth from David to Daniel; the fifth to John the Baptist; the sixth from John to the Judgment when our Lord Jesus Christ will come to judge the living and the dead, and the world by fire.’
2 Caisar Awst, kei-sar owst, ei as in height, s sibilant, ow as in cow; Caesar Augustus.
additional notes
DJ note 2: Augustus was the first emperor (27 BCE – 14 CE) of Rome. He replaced the Roman republic with an effective monarchy and during his long reign brought peace and stability.
see also
The conception of Romulus is graphically described on page 87.
comments
More confusion. Marged is confusing Romulus the founder (‘Conditor’) of Rome with Caesar Augustus, its first emperor. Strider (Mars) was indeed the father of Romulus but his mother was not Gwener (the Welsh equivalent of Venus) although Venus was the daughter of Jove (‘Thunderer’).