From Rigantona to Rhiannon
Rigantona* ('Great Queen') is the reconstructed name of a Brythonic goddess. By an identified process of linguistic development from Brythonic to Welsh her name becomes Rhiannon in the medieval Welsh tales known as the 'Four Branches' of Y Mabinogi which have been translated into English, together with other tales, under the general title of The Mabinogion. This site explores her identity via scholarly sources for Brythonic archaeology and Celtic Studies and offers assessments of other speculative approaches to her appearance in other texts, images and mythological reflexes of divine female figures on horseback.
