Wales Seeking a Celtic Past

The idea of a Celtic mythology for Wales was kept alive by ancient bards, like the legendary Taliesin.
Then revived, and regrettably fabricated, by Edward Williams, or Lolo Morganwg.
These fabrications included detailed descriptions of the Druids.
Whose main evidence for their existence in Wales comes from the probably unreliable Julias Ceasar.
The modern order for which Lolo Morganwg was responsible for creating.
Including their worship of a monotheistic God.
In truth Lolo Morganwg had searched for a Welsh folklore and literature from the Medieval period and found nothing.
This reflects the paucity of written work especially when compared to Ireland and Iceland, which themselves, were mostly written by Christian critics.
Lolo's philosophy represented a fusion of Christian and Arthurian influences, a romanticism comparable to that of William Blake and the Scottish poet and forger James MacPherson.
The revived enthusiasm for all things Celtic, and such elements of bardic heritage as had survived within the Welsh-language tradition.
He was to assert the Welshness of South Wales, particularly his home region of Glamorgan (Cowbridge, even today a most English town within Wales), against the prevalent idea that North Wales represented the purest survival of Welsh traditions.
The metaphysics elucidated in his forgeries and other works proposed a theory of concentric "ings of existence, proceeding outward from Annwn (the Otherworld) through Abred and Ceugant to Gwynfyd (purity or Heaven).
There were many unsubtle attempts to distinguish and demonise the Welsh from those within the English Marches.
But then the Welsh themselves have lapped up the label of difference, pointing to a unique Celtic heritage.
Much can be blamed on Lolo Morganwg, who constructed a whole Pagan history for Wales.
But again this was lapped up by the Welsh themselves and enshrined into those Victorian institutions, we have come to see as authentically Welsh.