Dydd y Tadau (Prydowan festival)

Dydd y Tadau (Father's Day) is a festival celebrated in Prydow centred on the veneration of ancestors and folk heroes, in which Prydowans create effigies of both out of stones, twigs or clay and line them up on the border with Pem before the bards recite the Song of Thanwen to the crowded populace. The festival is unanimously agreed by modern scholars to have originated as both a religious sacrament to honour the Covenant and summon Prydow's ancestors to the defence of the realm, and as a deliberate attempt to intimidate Prydow's Okari, and later Pemblish, neighbours. Nowadays, raffles and barbeques are common at the festivities.
Category:Festivals
Category:Prydowan culture