#oneida mythology

[drownmeinbeauty]

HOMELANDS

A long-running semi-permanent exhibit at the national Museum of the American Indian, Native New York, gives a straightforward, text-heavy account of native communities in New York State. Backlit maps and diagrams show who lived where and how. Communities in present-day Manhattan clammed at its northern tip, carved canoes along the Hudson, settled among the ponds at its center, and hunted beavers in its streams. Then in 1626 Peter Menuit gave the Lenape 60 guilders and claimed the entire island for the Dutch West India Company. The fiction of harmonious coexistence ended, and the struggle for sovereignty began.

Of all the artifacts on display (clay bowls, beaded mocassins, hand-hewn arrowheads, feathered spears, gourd-rattles, canoes dug from tree trunks, cartoons on newsprint, wool blankets), the most poignant is a Haudenosaunee passport, issued by a league of six Iriqouis nations (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora) and carried by enrolled members when they travel abroad. But it offers little security outside their homeland. It is recognized by the Irish government, only irregularly by the United States government, and not at all by the governments of Canada, Bolivia, Peru, and the European Union. One Canadian official, in denying the Haudenosaunee national lacrosse team entrance, called it a "fantasy document."

This little book mimics the pocket size, midnight blue color, and gold stamping of a US passport. In the low and low-lit museum vitrine it gives off a plasticky shine and won't lie flat. Why does it seem inert? Why doesn't it posses the same unquestioned, mythological, authority of a United States passport? The United States was created by proclamation, conjured with words and documents, not so long ago. Why don't we grant others the power to do the same?

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Maeve Rhydderch

Vaughan's Wife Maeve Rhydderch (2020)

Yorath and Deryn's daughter-in-law, and Vaughan's wife, Maeve Rhydderch. An Irish-Catholic woman living in Wales and a strong though slender female wrestler and mother. She's stayed with Vaughan through his time in prison.

"For better or worse, forever and always."

Name

Full Legal Name: Maeve Deirdre Blathnaid Rhydderch (Née Pelletier)

First Name: Maeve

Meaning: Anglicized form of the Irish name 'Medb' meaning 'Intoxicating'.

Pronunciation: MAYV

Origin: Irish, Irish Mythology

Middle Name(s): Deirdre, Blathnaid

Meaning(s): Deirdre: From the Old Irish name 'Derdriu', meaning unknown, possibly derived from 'Der 'Daughter'. Blathnaid: Modern Irish form of 'Bláthnat', meaning 'Little Flower' from Irish 'Bláth' 'Flower' combined with a diminutive suffix.

Pronunciation(s): DYEGR-drya. BLA-ned

Origin(s): English, Irish, Irish Mythology. Irish, Irish Mythology

Surname: Rhydderch (Née Pelletier)

Meaning: From the given name 'Rhydderch', rom the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'King'. (Pelletier: Derived from Old French 'Pelletier' 'Fur trader'.)

Pronunciation: HRUDH-ehrkh (PEHL-TYEH)

Origin: Welsh (French)

Alias: Hunter Princess, Maeve Rhydderch

Reason: This is Maeve's ring name.

Nicknames: Mae

Titles: Mrs, Ma'am

Characteristics

Age: 42

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-French Mix. Dual Citizenship UK-FRA

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: February 13th 1978

Symbols: Bows, Arrows, Swords, Crowns

Sexuality: Bisexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: French

Spoken Languages: French, English, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), Welsh

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Aquarius

Theme Song: 'Tell It To My Heart' - Taylor Dayne (1996-)

Voice Actor: Eva Green

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Limoges, Haute-Vienne Prefecture, France

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 5'4" / 162 cm

Weight: 127 lbs / 57 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Blonde

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 5

Piercings: Ear Lobe (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Viola Nye, Giselle Herbert, Ursula Rhydderch, Moira Rhydderch, Vanessa Rhydderch, Unity Rhydderch, Whitney Rhydderch, Oneida Rhydderch, Yvette Rhydderch, Ragnhild Rhydderch, Beatrix Rhydderch, Genista Rhydderch, Gertrude Rhydderch, Gethsemane Rhydderch, Ginger Rhydderch, Mulan Dreesens, Dalisay Driessen, Marilag Hanraets, Bedisa Pelletier, Lali Pelletier

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Vaughan Rhydderch

Mentor: Malcolm Pelletier

Significant Other: Vaughan Rhydderch (41, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Malcolm Pelletier (72, Father), Dilys Pelletier (73, Mother, Née Mag Aonghuis)

Parents-In-Law: Yorath Rhydderch (71, Father-In-Law), Deryn Rhydderch (72, Mother-In-Law, Née Heffernan)

Siblings: Leonti Pelletier (39, Brother), Mulan Dreesens (36, Sister, Née Pelletier), Makar Pelletier (33, Brother), Dalisay Driessen (30, Sister, Née Pelletier), Matvei Pelletier (27, Brother), Marilag Hanraets (24, Sister, Née Pelletier), Saveli Pelletier (21, Brother), Bedisa Pelletier (18, Sister), Sviatoslav Pelletier (15, Brother), Lali Pelletier (12, Sister)

Siblings-In-Law: Amihan Pelletier (40, Leonti's Wife, Née Dahlmans), Maksimilian Dreesens (37, Mulan's Husband), Ligaya Pelletier (34, Makar's Wife, Née Dreessen), Porfiriy Driessen (31, Dalisay's Husband), Marikit Pelletier (28, Matvei's Wife, Née Goossens), Sevastian Hanraets (25, Marilag's Husband), Khatuna Pelletier (22, Saveli's Wie, Née Heijmans), Neifion Rhydderch (38, Vaughan's Brother), Beatrix Rhydderch (39, Neifion's Wife, Née Patenaude), Olwen McDermott (35, Vaughan's Sister, Née Rhydderch), Caden McDermott (36, Olwen's Husband), Gwen McCracken (32, Vaughan's Sister, Née Rhydderch), Caderyn McCracken (33, Gwen's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Talullah Rhydderch (18, Niece), Saffron Rhydderch (15, Niece), Raffferty Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Quasimodo Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Pallas Rhydderch (6, Niece), Olivia Rhydderch (3, Niece), Nash McDermott (15, Nephew), Mack McDermott (12, Nephew), Lark McDermott (9, Niece), Kaylyn McDermott (6, Niece), Jameson McDermott (3, Nephew), Ian McCracken (12, Nephew), Halcyon McCracken (9, Niece), Genesis McCracken (6, Niece), Farley McCracken (3, Nephew), Leonty Pelletier (19, Nephew), Bituin Pelletier (16, Niece), Makari Pelletier (13, Nephew), Divina Pelletier (10, Niece), Melor Pelletier (7, Nephew), Mayumi Pelletier (4, Niece), Saveliy Pelletier (1, Nephew), Baia Dreesens (16, Niece), Savely Dreesens (13, Nephew), Endzela Dreesens (10, Niece), Svyatoslav Dreesens (7, Nephew), Lela Dreesens (4, Niece), Terenti Dreesens (1, Nephew), Makvala Pelletier (13, Niece), Terentiy Pelletier (10, Nephew), Manana Pelletier (7, Niece), Timofei Pelletier (4, Nephew), Mzia Pelletier (1, Niece), Vadimir Driessen (10, Nephew), Nana Driessen (7, Niece), Varfolomei Driessen (4, Nephew), Natela Driessen (1, Niece), Vasili Pelletier (7, Nephew), Rusudan Pelletier (4, Niece), Vasily Pelletier (1, Nephew), Tsisana Hanraets (4, Niece), Vassily Hanraets (1, Nephew), Tsisia Pelletier (1, Niece)

Children: Abigail MacChruim (21, Daughter, Née Rhydderch), Zechariah Rhydderch (18, Son), York Rhydderch (15, Son), Xaviera Rhydderch (12, Daughter), Wendy Rhydderch (9, Daughter), Varg Rhydderch (6, Son), Ul Rhydderch (3, Son)

Children-In-Law: Mungo MacChruim (22, Abigail's Husbaand)

Grandkids: Elain MacChruim (1, Granddaughter)

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Haute-Vienne, France

Trainer: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Managers: Vaughan Rhydderch

Wrestlers Managed: Vaughan Rhydderch

Debut: 1996

Debut Match: Maeve VS Deryn Rhydderch. Maeve won via submission

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Technician

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (1998-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Knife-Edged Chop, Back Suplex, Delayed Vertical Suplex, Atomic Drop, Inverted Atomic Drop, Bridging Belly To Belly Suplex, Dropkick, Top Rope Dropkick, Indian Deathlock, Sleeper Hold, Snapmare, Swinging Knee Lift

Finishers: Diving Knee Drop, Figure-Four Leglock, Fisherman's Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Maeve Rhydderch (Née Pelletier) of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch family. Maeve married into the family, specifically marrying the 'Hunter' Vaughan, becoming the 'Hunter Princess'. She's Half-Irish, Half-French.

Trivia: Nothing of Note

[cucullas]

Autumn special | Four Fall Legends from around the world

Nonell de la Neu - Catalonian Pyrenees (Protector of sheeps hears during cold months)  | Autumn Leaves - Great Lakes Oneida nation (how the bear hunting in the sky colors leaves)  | The rabbit in the Moon - Korea (Asian tradition linked to Chuseok festival )  | El Coquena - Andean Argentina and Atacama (magical protector of guanaco and vicuña herds)

Nonell de la Neu : When, at fall the first snow appears in the Pyrenees peak an enormous dog-like creature. Aggresive to hunters and famished beasts it protects sheeps herds during the winter. Nonnell was not always a mystical sheperd dog. Once he was a man with hair and beard as red as autumn leaves, extremely beautiul many girls died for his love and false promises. A beautiful foreign lady seduced him and transformed him to make him pay for his crimes, he is now Nonell of the Snow.  

Autumn Leaves : This Oneida legend starts with a particulary cold year, with cold came famine and a tribe has nothing to eat, so three brothers decided to hunt a bear, they followed the bear through forest and lakes, finally, trapped the bear jumped to the sky and the hunter followed. They formed the constellation of Ursa Majoris. With the arrival of autumn the follower get close to the bear and hurt him, his blood painting trees leaves. 

The rabbit in the Moon : Seeing a rabbit in the moon is an Asian tradition, but the moon is also a protagonist of Korean Mid-Autumn festival of Chuseok. The rabbit arrived here after the Emperor of Heavens asked animals to bring him food, some brought fruit or fish but the rabbit didn’t find anything worthy and sacrificed himself. As a reward he became protector of the Moon. 

El Coquena : Vicuñas, an animal from the family of the llama producing a extremely fine wool, are sacred since precolumbian times. In the North of Chile of Argentina they are said to be protected by a mystical creature called El Coquena or Yestay or Llestay. Appearing to hunters he can show compassion if respected or punish those who kill calfs. During the festival of Chaccu in June (fall in the southern hemisphere) communities aught to ask for his permission before shaerding semi-wild vicuñas.

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[cryptophasia-nabros]

A little on the significance of the constellations Canada is viewing. I'm probably reading too much into it but let's go.

Polaris: the North star

The bird - POSSIBLY Cygnus: the swan, but also known as to the Northern cross.

Pretty obvious - Canada is known as the Great White North and the True North

HOWEVER, Cygnus is a summer/fall constellation, while all the others are winter. It could possibly be Columba, the dove, which can be (faintly) seen in the winter. No real mythology as it's a pretty recently named constellation (like 1500s recent) but we do have "Columbia" and/or "British Columbia".

The Twins/Gemini/Castor and Pollux: Okay, so here's where things get REALLY interesting.

So, in brief, the twins implication is obvious. But let's go deeper.

Versions of the conception of Castor and Pollux vary. In some, they are identical twins. But in Others, they are still twins but have different fathers (yes, this is entirely possible).

The awesome thing about this is it would allow for the implication of France as Canada's father (or "father" if you prefer) and England as America's.

Less awesome for me is that heteropaternal superfecundation only results in half-siblings, while I prefer Matt and Alfred as identical twins in my own head canon. Others said that "both Castor and Pollux, being identical twins, were inseparable in their looks and actions".

So, as you will.

They are sometimes said to have been born from an egg (along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra). They also are sometimes associated with snakes. Castor is a white star, while Pollux, is brighter and "golden orange".

In some Native American stories, Canada and America are described as a silver and a gold snake, respectively.

Depending on the story, Pollux is immortal and Castor mortal. Regardless, when Castor dies, Pollux is inconsolable and refuses to be separated from him, resulting in their being placed in the sky as a constellation.

They were also associated with horsemanship - cowboys, mustangs, Mounties, etc.

They were described as "blond haired, large eyed, fair complexioned, and well-built with trim bodies". Sound like any Hetalia characters we may know?

(Though I prefer our boys with darker skin reflecting Indigenous heritage.)

As stars, Castor is part of a system of six stars circling a common center. Commonwealth?

Pollux meanwhile, is a solitary star, like our own sun.

Hetalia wavers back and forth as Canada and America's exact relationship. The only thing straightforward has been that they have the same face and don't know who's older.

There is this strip, take that as you will.

Finally, the Bear. I'm not sure if this is Ursa Major or Ursa Minor. Regardless, there are myths from all over the world (including indigenous people from North America) describing the constellation as a bear(s).

Obviously, Kumajiro.

Now, the constellation appears to be a bear with a tail. The Oneida tell a story of How the Bear Lost His Tail, in which the bear is tricked into dipping its tail into freezing water until it breaks off. It appears that Canada is telling that legend, which explains why it looks like Kuma is tearing up.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

A Different Ex-Moonie Perspective on RBG

A response to a recent HWDYKYM post memorializing Ruth Bader Gingsburg “Should we cry when the Pope die? My request:
 We should cry if they cried when we buried Malcolm…” - Tupac

For many of us in the United States, as these uprisings have taken place and the realities of police violence are becoming undeniable, we’ve been seeing democracy in a new light the past few months. As we’ve dug into the history of the police, we’ve come to grips with American democracy being an utter failure, and irredeemable. 

People in Portland, Oregon, have been kidnapped by the State in unmarked vans, and Black activists keep mysteriously going missing or dying under mysterious circumstances. As we know, the FBI considers Black activists to be their greatest domestic threat, and this has been the case since COINTELPRO.

This seems to be happening all over the world, as we see the right securing their power and fascist elements consolidate. We see fascism bursting with new life as the logical conclusion of capitalism.

In the Philippines, activists, including nuns and priests, are being murdered by the State for being communist terrorists, despite having no affiliation with the Communist Party or the New People’s army. And in the US, the president seems to be convinced that anarchists are controlling whole cities. Both Biden and Trump want to create more political prisoners and imprison anarchists. The thing is, these crises aren’t new. Our democracies has always been in crisis. Again, for those of us in the United States, many of us have come to realize that even if we benefitted from the privileges of being a US citizen, we can see those privileges are built on genocide, slavery, and continual exploitation of Black and Brown people here and abroad. We’ve come to see the United States needs to be abolished.

Of course, many of us also have been shocked by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, knowing that we are about to tip into another set of crises. That being said, the crises are inevitable when living in US empire. Whether it is Trump or Biden, Bush or Obama, the bombs keep going, pipelines keep getting built, the police continue to grow in military-power, children keep being put in cages, etc.

For many of us, RBG is no hero, but the face of progressive imperialism, or better yet, progressive fascism. She opposed Indigenous sovereignty - you can look up what she did to the Oneida people. In the courts, she stood by the view that colonizers stealing land from Indigenous peoples as justified. No matter what, as a member of the ruling courts of US empire, she was an enemy to colonized people. 

I did not mourn the death of Rev. Moon, and I will not mourn RBG.  More on Ruth:  Realization in Ginsburg’s final months highlights complex impact on tribal issues, including in the Northwest Another Negative Obituary: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Video: The Tears of Clowns: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Never Going To Save You. Don't Mourn Her.

Recommend reading on US imperialism: Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Note

Another Negative Obituary: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

https://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2020/09/another-negative-obituary-ruth-bader.html

is on a blog with the subtitle “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist reflections”

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The video

The Tears of Clowns: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Never Going To Save You. Don’t Mourn Her.

was narrated by Black Red Guard who wrote: “RBG was an unabashed and open class enemy, a eugenicist, a racist, anti-Indigenous, and generally a perfect representative of the interests of the capitalist-imperialist ruling class. Liberals fail to seek class at the root of all things and thus condemn themselves to political irrelevance, steamrolled by Trump's clique and ignored by the proletarian masses. Black people know better. We've never had any rights that this country respects.”

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Recommended reading on Mao:

Monthly Review: Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?

[dweemeister]

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Few other film directors have contributed to the United States’ mythologizing than John Ford. Championed by the likes of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, and others, Ford’s reputation has nevertheless suffered in recent years partly due to cursory analyses of the values found in his numerous Western movies. Those same critics also point to Ford’s long personal and professional relationship with John Wayne in many of those Westerns, as guilt by association. Ford’s filmmaking and storytelling are distinctly American. He often relies on an individual’s struggle amid a broader attempt to define – typically amid the din of violence – the values of America. In 1939, John Ford made three movies that speak to that discovery of Americanness in the wake of violence (released in this order): Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and Drums Along the Mohawk. Stagecoach wrestles with American mythic allegories as the stagecoach’s passengers depend on each other for survival. Young Mr. Lincoln is a legal drama that champions the United States’ legal system.

The weakest of Ford’s three 1939 releases, Drums Along the Mohawk, is a story set during the American Revolutionary War. The war split the indigenous peoples living within and in the outskirts of the U.S., most visibly members of the Six Nations (formerly the Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee): the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. For 20th Century Fox’s Drums Along the Mohawk, it is Ford’s least politically potent and cinematically innovative work of 1939. But it remains a fascinating chapter of Ford’s American mythos-making and his only foray into the conflict which set that mythologizing in motion.

In July 1776, revolutionary fervor is all around in upstate New York’s Mohawk Valley. A fertile region blessed with numerous waterways, the valley is home to a convergence of the usual immigrants of English descent alongside ethnic Germans and American Indians. Gilbert “Gil” Martin (Henry Fonda) has just married Magdalena “Lana” Borst Martin (Claudette Colbert) and moved them from Albany to the Mohawk Valley. The valley is populated by numerous German-Americans, and they are beginning to form a militia in anticipation of potential warfare. One of Gil’s friends, Blue Back (Chief John Big Tree), an affable Oneida, warns of indications that the neighboring Seneca and British troops are planning to attack farmsteads in the Mohawk Valley. The American Patriots brush the warnings off, but I think you can guess what happens next. As the Americans retreat within the confines of the newly-built Fort Schuyler, they rebuild their lives as the threat passes. However, the realities of war are never far away.

The film also stars Edna May Oliver as the scene-stealing wealthy widower Sarah McKlennar, Eddie Collins as Christian Reall, John Carradine as British officer William Caldwell, and Roger Imhof as General Nichoals Herkimer. John Ford stock actors Ward Bond, Arthur Shield, and Francis Ford (John’s elder brother) also star.

Drums Along the Mohawk, based on the novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds, seems to suffer from its highly episodic structure from screenwriters Sonya Levien (1933’s Cavalcade and 1955’s Interrupted Melody) and Lamar Trotti (Young Mr. Lincoln, 1944’s Wilson). Torn between various subplots and whether or not it wants to say anything politically, Drums Along the Mohawk is curiously unfocused. Its lack of cohesiveness and inability to smoothen transitions between scenes of homespun domesticity and those with violent rhetoric or actions makes it a bumpy viewing experience. For those who do not know much about the American Revolution, Drums Along the Mohawk is not suitable as an introduction – Ford assumes the viewer knows of the significance of Gen. Herkimer and what happens at the nearby Battle of Oriskany (one conflict in part of the larger Saratoga Campaign). The film largely declines to launch a dialogue regarding the causes and motivations behind the American Revolutionary War, further consigning it to those who have more than a superficial understanding of the history within.

Ford’s attitudes towards American Indians and their role in the history of the American frontier (whether in rural New York or in the Southwestern deserts) changed over time. Sympathetic to the plights of his indigenous cast and crewmembers off-screen, Ford rarely afforded his indigenous characters multiple dimensions on-screen until his late-career picture, Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Like in Stagecoach, the opinions of the film’s antagonistic Seneca warriors are indecipherable. They might as well be the same as those of the British soldiers, fighting to keep subject the Thirteen Colonies to their King’s empire. Chief John Big Tree, as Blue Back, hints at divisions between the tribes formerly comprising the Iroquois Confederacy. The Oneida tribe, to whom Blue Back is a member of, sided with the American forces while the Seneca allied themselves with the British. This tragic division among formerly united tribes – with both hoping for a post-war settlement that might respect the territorial integrity of their lands, and forming opposing alliances after making different calculations – is a missing element to Drums Along the Mohawk that could have injected a pathos that this film desperately needs. As a character, Blue Back is too often the butt of a joke. His boisterous religiosity (he is a Christian convert) and pointedly imperfect grasp of English – in itself, an indigenous American’s imperfect English is not necessarily a negative depiction, but framing it as a repeated punchline is a tired approach – deprives him of a recognizable humanity.

What about the depiction of the American Patriots? Other than several scenes showing them as God-fearing churchgoers who invoke Scripture to justify their rebellion, Ford and the screenwriters do little than paint them more than a band of ragtag fighters that offer comic relief. Certainly, religion played a role in stirring the American Patriots for opposing the British. But it was not a primary, let alone a secondary, motivation. Unlike his later films involving the U.S. military – see his unofficial U.S. Cavalry Trilogy – the troops in Drums Along the Mohawk are an inchoate collection of men with little in common beyond their church attendance and religious identity. In Drums Along the Mohawk, the local militia is less a family unit (as one sees in the Cavalry Trilogy) and more a necessary collective of acquaintances. Patriot forces, whether a part of Washington’s Continental Army or local militias, were mostly not professional outfits. That professionality would come at least a century later, as Ford shows in his later works set during the American Indian Wars and World War II. The young United States of America, Ford argues, is partly forged through its military history. With it come the values that will define a nation. In contest with history and evolving minds, those values do not look the same at the end of John Ford’s career (1960’s Sergeant Rutledge , Cheyenne Autumn) as they do the beginning (Drums Along the Mohawk, Stagecoach).

Without personal insights into most of these characters – the glorious exception being Edna May Oliver’s talkative and no-nonsense Mrs. McKlennar – the film loses any sense of characterization or interest beyond its leads. An unusually rigid and emotionally blank performance from Henry Fonda does not help matters. Fonda, fresh off his career-best (at that point) performance in Young Mr. Lincoln has an empty faraway stare in tense moments, one that belongs more to stage acting than film acting. His detached approach makes any of Drums Along the Mohawk’s His stiffness during scenes with Claudette Colbert – as Lana, the screenplay gives her character little to do other than scream at the sight of Native Americans and worry over her future in the valley – results in nary any chemistry between the two. Colbert, who I imagine as more of an urbane comedienne, seems out of place in a film set in the wilderness. Yet interestingly enough, one can make the argument that Drums Along the Mohawk principally uses Lana as the lens through whom the audience experiences this motion picture.

Bert Glennon (1916’s Ramona, Sergeant Rutledge) and Ray Rennahan’s (1923’s The Ten Commandments, 1955’s The Court Jester) Technicolor cinematography immerses the viewer into the New York frontier, even if this northeasterly frontier was shot mostly in Utah. Ford’s ability to work with his cinematographers to paint rich landscapes is well-documented. In conjunction with framing those landscapes to suit his dramatic needs, no American director does it better. As a first effort in color for Ford (this was the first color feature for Colbert, who was nervous to see how she might look like in color – just as wonderful as usual, thank you), Drums Along the Mohawk uses its palette beautifully – most notably during a foot pursuit amid a partly cloudy sunset of looming black storm clouds obscuring the warm orange of early evening. Yet landscapes alone can only do so much, especially as storytelling issues abound. As usual, Ford’s imagery upholds the stories of the supposed nobility of the white men who fought for their young nation as it violently asserted its independence.

For a conflict that made American history entirely possible, American movie studios rarely tackle the Revolutionary War. Due to the lack of this conflict’s depictions in Hollywood, some grade school teachers in the U.S. considered Drums Along the Mohawk fit for a classroom. If for some reason an educator decides to show Drums Along the Mohawk, one certainly hopes they contextualize the film’s depiction of the indigenous characters and an extremely brief inclusion of a black character (slavery remained legal in the North, although steeply in decline). What an educator is less likely to understand is where Drums Along the Mohawk fits in film history and in John Ford’s filmography. As the one person who set the mythologizing of America’s history more than any other filmmaker other than arguably Walt Disney, John Ford is responsible for much of the nation’s sense of self-image. 1939, already an annus mirabilis for American cinema, was also one for Ford himself. Drums Along the Mohawk, together with his far superior 1939 works in Stagecoach and Young Mr. Lincoln, establishes him as one of the essential figures in the United States’ dynamic cinema.

My rating: 6.5/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

[dustedmagazine]

Listening Post, March 2017

It’s been a while since the Dusted staff has gone over the things we’ve been listening to (besides what we’re reviewing) of course, and a (relatively) new year and some new faces seemed like as good an occasion as any. Some witchcraft-based Liars reminiscing starts us off for a conversation that covers everything from the powerful emotions of the new Mount Eerie to a percussion record you can’t get digitally to the blues, and much, much more...

Ian Mathers

I guess one of the things about getting older as a music fan is that there's more chances with every year and every crop of new acts/albums to have a band you love but haven't played or thought about in a while pop into your head apropos of basically nothing. I still remember being back home some holiday weekend in my first year of university, idly flipping on MuchMusic, and seeing Ladytron's video for "Playgirl". It was shockingly out of step with what people were doing in 2001 (or at least what I was paying attention to), and I simultaneously loved it and felt vaguely marginal for doing so. Remembering "Playgirl" had me going back to their old albums, and slightly to my surprise I found that while I love them all (including 604, the most overtly throwback-y) the one that's aged the best is actually their slightly atypical synthpop/shoegaze (synthgaze? shoepop?) Witching Hour, from 2005.

My wife saw The Witch (or, I guess, The VVitch) when it played as part of the Toronto International Film Festival two years ago, and had been after me to watch it with her ever since, but I only felt in the right mood for it recently. Sure enough I loved it, but while I did think the score/sound design were great, ultimately it mostly had me reaching for my favourite Liars album (and, I suspect more and more, one of my favourite albums full stop), They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. It is, uh, not an optimistic record when it comes to human nature, politics, empathy, xenophobia, etc. I wish this didn't feel like such an apposite historical moment to brace ourselves and remember that sometimes there's just no avoiding the steamroller (cf. "Hold Hands and it Will Happen Anyways”). That the album tries anyways, if for nothing else than at least to leave a record of the injustice, feels important.

Damien Jurado, who has some fans here at Dusted, is a guy who's work I always respect but oddly enough generally can't get into that much; the exception is his 2006 album And Now That I'm in Your Shadow. I found myself listening to it late one night recently, which really is the perfect time for the record. I'd hesitate to call it a narrative, let alone anything like a concept album, but conceptually and emotionally it feels very much of a piece; whether or not these are the same people or even the same places the songs are suffused with desolation, infidelity, murder, loneliness. I've given his more recent work a listen or two and it's always been good but I think it's that for me And Now That I'm in Your Shadow is so singular in effect that Jurado's other work in the Catch 22 of me wanting it both to be exactly the same and somehow not just a retread. I do like one earlier (and creepier) song I heard somewhere, "Amateur Night", so maybe I should just find the album that's on and go from there. But maybe someone here has guidance for me.

Jennifer Kelly

Oh, Ian, you have just brought up two bands I LOVE, and, god dammit, we like different albums. 

Per Liars, I am a dyed-in-the-wood They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top fan. It was my gateway, for one thing, to ESG. I am also partial to a split they did early on with Oneida, one of those you-cover-mine-and-I'll-cover-yours deals, so here they are revisiting "Rose and Licorice."

One of the top live experiences of my entire life was a show with Yeah Yeah Yeahs opening (after the first EP, before the first album), Liars (just off Trench) and Sonic Youth (I'm thinking maybe Murray Street?), where I just kept saying, this cannot get any better, the next band will be a let-down, and then the next band ratcheted it up and obliterated everything before it.

I also like that Jurado album, which was, I believe, the last one before he hooked up with Richard Swift and went less acoustic folk, more psychedelic, but my favorite ever of his is Mariqopa. I feel like he kinda flattened out the mythology by explaining it (circa Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Sun), but in this album it's just sort of luminously, weirdly there, like a spaceship in the middle of a cornfield. You have no idea what it's about, and that makes it about everything.

Bill Meyer

I can't contribute much to discussion of the Liars or Jurado; neither exerts much attraction upon me. Two records that have ben drawing me back are Jon Mueller's DHRAANWDN (aka Hand Drawn) (Rhythmplex) and Eli Keszler's Last Signs Of Speed (Empty Edition). Both are limited edition double LPs by drummers, and both transcend whatever expectations you might have of a drummer's record. Beyond that they are very different. Mueller's comprises four sides of solo performance drawn from a six hour session he recorded in a Shaker meeting house. The drum kit plays the room's acoustics, resulting in waves of surging, polyrythmic sound. The sleeve, which varies a lot of white space with die-cut cut-outs that reveal a text about transformative experience and images of human-free environments, expresses the album's titular concept, as does the fact that you can only buy the physical object - there aren't even any digital promos.

Keszler's album, on the other hand, is a response to his performances over the past couple years at electronic music and dance venues. The extravagant bass presence counterbalances the precisely choreographed blizzard of discrete sounds that he generates with the rest of his kit, creating an impression of multi-dimensional space. Keszler creates a virtual space in part through physical effort, while Mueller inhabits a space that is physical but devoted to the spiritual. Both records are beyond solid. 

Derek Taylor

I can’t really speak to any of Ian’s musical selections so I’ll speak to his filmic one instead. I too loved the The VVitch for its exacting verisimilitude and expertly wrought and rising dread. Lots of great themes to unpack therein and Robert Eggers decision to go all in on a “what if there was actual veracity to events presaging to the Salem hysteria” scenario is a bold one as is the “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” plot arc of the film. Great casting too and a hair-raisingly satisfying denouement in the primeval (or is that prime evil?) woods that still sticks with me.

As to listening it’s been the usual juggle of new releases with older favorites. On the former front there’s, Deuce, tenorist Stephen Riley’s latest duo with pianist Peter Zak. The pair has a previous encounter and two more with Zak as a member of Riley’s quartet. It’s the usual amalgam of ancient standards this time with three interstitial “Interludes” by Riley interspersed and a gorgeous rendering of Joe Henderson’s “Tetragon”. They also tackle my favorite standard “Everything Happens to Me”, Riley pulling apart and contorting the melody like fluffy cotton candy with his inimitable hardened-reed rasp and without losing sight of the gentle fatalism at the tune’s core.

In terms of classics, it’s been the series of bootlegs documenting the Charles Mingus Sextet/Quintet's 1964 American/European tour (Cornell, Town Hall, Amsterdam, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bremen, Paris x2, Wuppertal, and Stuttgart). Every date has its ample charms, but the Cornell University hit released on Blue Note back in ’07 is the one I go back to most frequently, both for the quality of the concert and its capture on tape. Trumpeter Johnny Coles had yet to fall ill and is featured splendidly alongside Eric Dolphy and Clifford Jordan and calling Jaki Byard and Dannie Richmond a rhythm section is like reductively referring to James Baldwin as an African American author, it barely scratches the surface.

Bill Meyer: Peak Mingus!

Jennifer Kelly: Have any of you been listening to Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked at Me? So powerful, so beautiful, absolutely harrowing...but I can't imagine how you could possibly review it.

Bill Meyer: I've never listened to Mount Eerie much, but this one is in my inbox and I didn't delete it because of the story attached to it. I think I need to check it out.

Ian Mathers: I need to get my hands on that Mount Eerie and listen, but I'll admit to being a bit daunted... my mother-in-law died in 2015 and it made (for example) the Sufjan Stevens album from last year a simultaneously important and really challenging listen. My wife is still dealing with a lot of the emotional fallout, and we are both Microphones fans from back in the day, so I might give it some solo listens first, so she has some idea of how tough it might be.

Jenny, I absolutely adore They Threw Us All in a Trench... too, I wish I'd had the chance to see them around then! I'm sure they're still good in concert, but there's something about that record that seems like it would be ferocious live. And your cornfield spaceship description honestly makes me really excited to check out Mariqopa—honestly the fact that Jurado did extend the mythology made me a bit wary, but as a standalone maybe I can approach it.

Bill, that Kezsler sample is pretty damn interesting.

Mason Jones

I'm a fan of Liars' They Threw Us... as well, and saw them around that time here in SF playing with Animal Collective if I recall correctly. They put on an entertaining show. That album and They Were Wrong... were both pretty powerful at the time, and then they lost steam somehow and became more predictable. Interestingly I thought their most recent album, Mess, was an improvement. Though slicker than it needed to be, there were good ideas percolating through it.

On the newer side, I've been surprised by how much I'm enjoying the newest Grails album, Chalice Hymnal. It's a pretty great combination of heaviness, stonedness, and kosmische rock. I also stumbled on the self-titled album by Helén, which is intriguing. Some is reminiscent of early Circle given the strong rhythmic foundation, but it gets into some rock-epic portions and, I don't know, prog-opera-something? Hard to describe and I haven't made up my mind whether it all works or not. But it's a worthy listen.

Bill Meyer: All right, I'm going to check out Mount Eerie. 

I'll mention one other thing I've been playing lately. Having spent a bit of time with the Bruce Langhorne tribute album The Hired Hands this past month and the excellent Robbie Basho tribute Basket Full Of Dragons last fall, I'm ready to turn down my disdain for tribute records - at least when they involve very strong acoustic musicians honoring a great guitar player. So I dug out the first Basho Tribute, We Are All One, In The Sun, which was released by Important Records in 2010. I've been playing it over and over. Like Dragons, it was assembled by Buck Curran , who sure knows how to pick people who know their Basho. It begins and ends with Steffen Basho-Junghans playing variations on a couple of his namesake's tunes on a 12-string, and his lyric extrapolations make me really wish he would put out another record and finally tour the USA. But that's not to slight the excellent contributions by Meg Baird, Helena Espvall, and several others.

Brett Marion

I was witness to that same fantastic Liars/Yeah Yeah Yeahs tour leg too, caught them upstairs at the Magic Stick in Detroit. I was pretty smitten with Karen O at the time—from the cover of that first ep, and the range of her vocals—sometimes country accent, sometimes speak-sing, sometimes fragile, like on that “Crimson & Clover”-esque last song, “Our Time,” and then how she impossibly strangles the title to “aaaaaaaarrrrrrt staaaaaarrrr.” And Liars’ Angus Andrews seemed like seven feet tall. He might be. Great stage presence, both bands—exuding lots of confidence and attitude—but naïve, friendly, and approachable. I liked Trench a lot but thought They Were Wrong, So We Drowned was even better—it just nailed an overall Halloween feel.

Lately, I’ve had a hard time digging too deep in any one direction. The last half year or so I’ve been doing okay keeping up with Stephan Mathieu’s ambitious 12 CD release, Radiance, issued one month at a time, I think he’s through about ten so far. The last two, To Have Elements Exist In Space and Feldman have been one-track near hour-long pieces, so I haven’t made it all the way through those yet. The newest Six Organs of Admittance, Taylor Deupree, and PAN label stuff have been on, but not absorbed entirely. I also find myself getting sidetracked with making compilations that I occasionally post on Mixcloud (sort of the whole ‘80s-‘90s ‘mixtape’ thingy I’m sure we’ve all done for people), my latest—not completed—mixes/drafts being a ‘beginner’s guide to Alice Coltrane’ and ‘GAS,’ but it’s always a long process and I only ever get around to completing one or two a year, tops.

Bill Meyer: What does Mathieu sound like these days? I'm a bit out of the loop, although I have enjoyed some of his records immensely in the past.

Brett Marion: He sounds quite a bit like he always has—that grainy, shifting textural drone. Some tracks hit where it hurts so good, while others… meh. The last few year’s it seems he’s been into exploring more long-form pieces. One release, Nachtstucke, from 2015, featured a one hour piece, a piece over two hours, then two more around the half an hour mark. I wonder how many have made it through that over two hour piece more than once.

Bill Meyer: Well, I did just buy an LP he made with Kassel Jaeger and Akira Rabelai, I'll see how that one goes. Can't get everything.

Matt Wuethrich

I assume you mean Zauberberg on Shelter Press, Bill? Excellent LP. It's very diffuse in structure but still feels like there's a lot to take in. It's kind of a marvel how they embed they approaches within each other and shapeshift through different sonic spaces (Mathieu's manipulations of mechanical/acoustic historical recordings, Jaeger's field recordings, Rabelai’s digital treatments).

In my own listening I've been pretty deep into the official reissue of Giusto Pio's Motore immobile on Soave, sublime minimalism from Italy that first probably appeared on most people's radar through Alan Licht's minimalism lists (specifically Minimalism Top Ten III). Just organ/piano, voice and violin. Rich and hypnotic.

Bill Meyer: Yes, that's the one. I haven't scratched the surface but I am glad to hear that you find it deep. Gotta check out the Pio.

Justin Cober-Lake

I've been digging into a somewhat random cross-section of blues recently, connected to a project looking at possible points of connection between that genre and psalms of lamentation and maybe the book of Lamentations (though that may have a different focus). I don't have much to say on the subject yet, but I've been thinking about how the hill country artists really dig into an issue and stick there until it's worked out (or until the tape runs out or whatever). Charles Caldwell is the guy standing out to me right now, particularly his confused complaint on "Hadn't I Been Good to You."  The Junior Kimbrough I grabbed this morning, All Night Long, was a sort of comical comparison, since it's largely a sex album.

There's something about the groove that makes this connection more noticeable, though I'm not sure how much it will translate to trance-blues acts like Otis Taylor (or even R.L. Burnside) who often use repetition more to set up storytelling or to do other things.

Derek Taylor: That’s an area of music near & dear to me, Justin. I coincidentally spun that Caldwell album this weekend too after re-opening a rabbit hole with the George Mitchell Collection box set. Such a shame it was Caldwell's first & last. Kimbrough (and really nearly all of those hill country guys from Burnside on down to T Model Ford) had copulation on the brain much of the time and its more misogynistic manifestations ("You Better Run") more often that I'd like. 

I remember catching Burnside prior to & during the self-parody phases of his career and being pretty demoralized by the latter seeing him run through the tropes (“Well, well, well…”), and take copious swigs off a decapitated kewpie doll filled to the severed neck w/ whiskey. T-Model Ford was like that too (“It’s Jack Daniel’s Time!!!”, apparently between EVERY song). Fat Possum did a lot of arguable good in getting those guys gigs/tours/etc., but they did a fair share of bad too in enabling/reinforcing a lot of their worst tendencies. 

Guessing you‘re familiar w/ Mitchell & the box, but if not I can’t recommend it highly enough. Mitchell did work similar to the Lomaxes, but with a level of candor & self-awareness that they often lacked. The accompanying booklet is nearly as priceless as the music as it’s filled with anecdotes of Mitchell’s travels & encounters, often hilariously so. This missive about Big Joe Williams is one of my favorites as it really captures the essence of the guy: "At one point, we drove with him down to St. Louis to find Walter Davis and Henry Townsend. On the way down, Big Joe announced that he had to take a shit, and I told him we'd pull into the next service station. And he said, "No, I like country shits. Just pull over to the side of the road—I want to take me a good old country shit."

Matt Wuethrich: A big, big second on that George Mitchell set...it seems to be rather low profile considering the wealth of material on it. Every time I spin it I discover some new gem. (For five discs, it's relatively inexpensive, too.)

Jennifer Kelly: Anyone else (besides Bill Meyer, who’s reviewed it) into that new Tinariwen?  And, quick question, if anyone has access to liners, is that Mark Lanegan?

Also really, really digging that the Bug Vs. Earth collaboration, so dark and clanky and post-atom-bomb-ish, exactly what I need at this point.

Bill Meyer: That’s Lanegan.

Ian Mathers: I've heard you and others praise the Bug Vs. Earth album, Jenny, and honestly the two make for such weirdly fitting collaborators I'd want to check it out just based on the combination. "Dark and clanky and post-atom-bomb-ish" sounds about perfect for 2017. Would you mind uploading it to the drive at some point?

The blues are one of those genres where I know I like at least some of it, but something's kept me from going much deeper with it. My dad got the (de rigeur, I assume) Robert Johnson box set when I was a kid and I love a lot of that, and I've gotten the odd album or comp I've loved from Son House or Howlin' Wolf or Buddy Guy (in the latter case, specifically Sweet Tea) but that itch feels mostly scratched at this point?

Bill Meyer: I just listened to a bit of it, Ian. Yeah, it's dark and clanky all right. I think the sounds are cool, and I'm intrigued that the Bug has cottoned to Earth's restraint. I expected an attempt to lure Earth into less measured venting of darkness.

Derek Taylor: Guy’s Sweet Tea is a curious case as it involved him jumping on the Hill Country bandwagon w/ Kimbrough & Cedell Davis covers and a Fat Possum production facsimile. Some called it a crass cash-in, others a sincere stab at homage. I don’t go back to it often & when I do just in doses, but considering Guy’s place in the music I’m inclined to go with the latter take. Guy’s been a proponent of commercially viable blues since he got his start in Chicago with Muddy Waters, so it makes sense that he would be attracted the Fat Possum aesthetic at that time although the guys there have taken pains over the years to stress just how shakey that business paradigm is in the larger music business scheme.

Speaking of Davis, he’s definitely one to delve into especially the early material released on the L+R Living Country Blues USA series, half a cd, Highway 61, on the Wolf label, and his first for Fat Possum, Feel Like Doin’ Something Wrong. Utterly unique approach to slide guitar necessitated by partial paralysis from a youthful bout with polio. Some enterprising (if largely erroneous) journalist dubbed him the “Ornette Coleman of blues guitar”, if I recall correctly, for his ability to make familiar fascinatingly foreign through tonal plasticity. He’s apparently still kicking at 89 and put a record out last year. Some vintage footage:

Ben Donnelly

Liars’ dedication to conceptual switcheroos shows the long-term hazards of being dedicated to approaching each album as a blank slate. My fatigue has generally increased each time I try out the latest Liars, to the point that I don't check their releases out right away. I'm sure I'm missing some gems in there, and suspect it will all make more sense in the future. The ramblings of The Fall and Wire fifteen years into their careers makes more sense now.   That said, that first pivot between the on-trend disco punk to graveyard junkyard percussion was landmark, one of those moments where the leading edge re-shuffles the received history. The arc from 1981 Danceteria to No Wave to Einstruzende Neubauten is pretty direct, but by 2000, all I could see was that one end resulted in "Love Shack" and the other in post-rock. Liars sent out a big signal - they were looking at history differently, felt free to jump between the connections they saw, and their revision enlivened everything. The early single "You Know I Hate Stupid Phones" goes a lot of places in two minutes, one of those gems that gets lost in their constant shuffle:

Ladytron I like even better. Artists who are so ready for Vogue Italia will always be held in suspicion in less fashionable quarters. I liken them to Siouxsie and the Banshees: art bands who are facile with hooks and glamour to the extent that it's easy to underestimate them. Approaching both, there's the temptation to put aside the style statements and the associations with lesser goth/electro acts and try take the brilliant singles and remixes as stand-alone artifacts. But that's a mistake—the mascara is as necessary as with Bowie and Prince. When they declared "they only want you when you're seventeen, when you're twenty one you're no fun" it's impossible to tell which side of the cynicism holds their sympathies. Probably both, which is why their best tracks frequently slap me like I haven't heard them a hundred times. This high concept obscurity, Missy Elliot rethought as Japanese synth-punk, still bewilders.

Ian Mathers: Derek, that Cedell Davis video is damn good, I'll have to track down an album.

Ben, I can't believe I forgot to mention Ladytron's "Oops" cover—literally one of one my favourite covers ever, and one where I love both it and the original about equally in a way that means I don't even know which one I'd pick if forced to (and also, incidentally, the place where Ladytron got closest to Add N to (X), if anyone remembers them). That early Liars track, though, I'd somehow never heard. I really, really love the bass sound on their early records.

Derek Taylor: Tenorist Fred Anderson’s birthday yesterday (he would’ve been 88) sparked a shelf perusal of his work. The flurry of activity in his final years leaves a pretty respectable discography. I opted for Black Horn Long Gone on Southport, a ’90 studio trio session in Chicago with Malachi Favors and the erstwhile AJ Shelton released in ’09. It’s a loose & limber date with Favors negotiating Fred’s singular horn vernacular in a sometimes akimbo manner that takes a bit of getting used to. Shelton, operating under his woke moniker Ajaramu, isn’t always entirely on the same page either, but occasional surface discombobulations don’t detract in the least from the deep reservoir of feeling feeding the music. The solo “Ode to Clifford Jordan” is the rare chance on record to hear Fred in that format for the duration of a piece.

Time spent with Anderson usually means revisiting the other two Freds that comprise my Fred triumvirate, McDowell & Wesley. Currently ears-deep in the Arhoolie collection Good Morning Little School Girl which cherry-picks from McDowell’s Janus-worthy repertoire of blues and spirituals. His wife Annie Mae & a small contingent from their Como, MS congregation join him on a couple of the latter.

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RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AMONG THE HAUDENOSAUNEE (IROQUOIS)

This excerpt is from my post: ‘THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY: THE RED ROMANS AND THE RED COATS’.

For yet another Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) religious society, see an excerpt about: ‘THE FALSE FACE SOCIETY’. (the standing masked figure pictured above is an example)

BUSHY HEADS/HUSK FACE SOCIETY

The ‘Bushy-Heads’ are a religious society within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga and the Cayuga) which represented a group of spirits that focused on hunting and agriculture. The latter is represented by the fact that these masks were made of braided or woven corn husk. This is what granted them one of their other names, the ‘Husk Faces’. They were also seen as messengers of the agricultural ‘Three Sister Spirits’; corn, squash and beans. Their ceremonies involved water; they would sprinkle water on their patients in order to heal, cleanse and nourish them, again relating to agriculture. (example of this member is shown above, the crouching masked figure)

‘IDOS MEDICINE SOCIETY’

The ‘Idos Medicine Society’ was similar to the ‘Midewiwin Medicine Society’ of the Algonquin speaking Natives west of the Iroquois that I mentioned in another post [LINK]. This group however was not a single group but incorporated several different groups, an example being the ‘Company of Mystic Animals’. The origins of this society stems from a tale of the ‘Good Hunter’ that was killed by another person and was then revived by the animals of the forest.

^ Osprey – ‘Men-at-Arms’ series, issue 395 – Tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy by Michael G. Johnson and Jonathan Smith (Illustrator).

The ‘Company of Mystic Animals’ had a variety of different mask variants, many of which were in the form of animals, they performed rituals to maintain the balance between man, nature and animals by performing specific dances meant to keep them happy. During their rituals they would carry and toss red-hot stones and use corn-husk dolls to mimic dancing. Wearing masks without eye-holes, they were able to dance around the Longhouse and pick up objects previously hidden by members. During ceremonies if someone (usually new members) would laugh and mock the dancer as they doubted their abilities. The dancer, while virtually blindfolded, would cut the strings of the skirt of the offender’s doll. Being that the masks lacked eye-holes they wouldn’t notice this till later as the other members begin laughing because the offender’s skirt or pants were also mysteriously cut, leaving them exposed.

‘SOCIETY OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE’

The members of these masked societies were lured there either by dreams that they believed showed them their destiny or by way of a seer that saw it in them. Not all of these groups wore masks though, one of these was a group known as the ‘Society of the Little People’. Being that the members were known to sing and dance in dimly lit areas and at night, they were also referred to as ‘Dark Dancers’.

^ Land of the Iroquois by John Buxton.

The Jogäoh or ‘Little People’ were small nature spirits that are usually invisible to us, only revealing themselves to us when they wish to – usually to children, the elderly and medicine men. Those that treated their homelands with respect and left them offerings of tobacco would aid farmers with their crops and protect man from dangerous and often unseen monsters or spirits. There are various types of these powerful spirits, each defending those who cared for them or their environment while harming those that endangered their ecosystem, either directly or indirectly (by not protecting you from monsters and spirits).

The Gandayah were spirits that protected vegetation from pests and sickness, and are especially associated with strawberries. There was a spring festival known as the Strawberry Ceremony (Middle of May) in which these spirits were thanked for providing them with strawberries, there would be dancing and music which these spirits would join in, thought unseen, they were heard. They were also known as messengers since they would take on the form of certain living creatures and visit man bringing warnings; robins were a sign of good fortune, owls warned the opposite while bats represented a life-and-death struggle.

The Gehonga dwelled in and around caves, rivers, streams and rocks; they were known for their strength and competitive nature, loving contests and sports. The third type were the Ohdowas who dwelled underground and are similar to the European myths of fairy rings or elf circles as they would arise at night and dance around leaving rings where vegetation would no longer grow (Elves in Germanic mythology, though some tales speak of them leaving a ring of flowers) or leaving a ring of mushrooms (fairies in Celtic mythology). Another similar feature is that if someone watches them dance or spends time with them, time passes either very rapidly (hours into years) or very slowly (days where time never passes). The underworld they dwelled in was believed to have been a forest inhabited with wildlife.

If there are any errors please privately inbox me so I can update it. As always, if you’d like to read or learn about any specific historical subjects just let me know what they are and I will take note of them.

SEE ALSO:

THE COUNCIL OF THREE FIRES AND THE PONTIAC-GUYASUTA UPRISING – This post covers some of the history, culture and religion of the Native American inhabitants of the Great Lakes region of North America, focusing on the Pontiac-Guyasuta Uprising and the Council of Three Fires (the Ottawa, Ojibwe and the Potawatomi); the peace-pipe, the Delaware prophets, Rogers’ Rangers, the sport that inspired lacrosse, and some Native battle tactics.

THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY: THE “SAVAGE” EMPIRE – The origins of the Iroquois Confederacy, the early wars they were involved in, the effects that disease epidemics incurred upon them, the Iroquoian cultural use of torture, scalping, and cannibalism, the tomahawk and its symbolism (bury the hatchet), as well as the taking of captives during mourning wars and adopting them in order to replace lost tribal members.

THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY: THE RED ROMANS AND THE RED COATS – This post covers the religious beliefs of the Iroquois Confederacy, their origin story, their belief in duality (like yin and yang), their secretive and mysterious masked societies, and their involvement in the conflicts between their two great colonial neighbors (New France and the New England) like the famed French and Indian War. I’ll also speak of their involvement in the American Revolutionary War as well as the famed Joseph Brant, a Freemason Mohawk leader who swayed most of the Iroquois Confederates into siding with the British. It is believed that without the aid of the Iroquois Confederacy, North America would now be speaking French instead of English and that France would’ve held a massive portion of the eastern half of North America, leaving a massive battlefield for the French and Spanish to battle over.

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D.U.D.E Bios: Eithne O'Hannagan

The Ogre Princess of C.R.C Eithne O'Hannagan (2020)

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's niece and Rhodri's daughter, Eithne. An Irish-Catholic woman living in Wales and a confident, outgoing and fiery mother. She's the only sister who jokes around as much as Fionn does.

"Can I call the ring 'my swamp' if we're making Shrek jokes?"

Name

Full Legal Name: Eithne Méabh Flann Nessa O'Hannagan (Née Rhydderch)

First Name: Eithne

Meaning: Possibly from Old Irish 'Etne' meaning 'Kernel, Grain'

Pronunciation: EH-nya

Origin: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish

Middle Name(s): Méabh, Flann, Nessa

Meaning(s): Méabh: Modern Irish form of 'Medb' meaning 'Intoxicating'. Flann: Means 'Blood Red' in Irish. Nessa: Anglicized form of 'Neasa', from Old Irish 'Ness', of uncertain meaning.

Pronunciation(s): MYEW/MYEHV. FLAN. NEHS-a

Origin(s): Irish, Irish Mythology. Irish, Old Irish. Irish, Irish Mythology

Surname: O'Hannagan (Rhydderch)

Meaning: Variant of 'O'Hannagain', from Irish 'Ó hAnnagáin', which means 'descendant of Annagán'. 'Annagán' is a diminutive of 'Annadh' meaning 'Delay'. (Rhydderch: From the given name 'Rhydderch' from the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted')

Pronunciation: O-ha-na-GUN (HRUDH-ehrkh)

Origin: Irish (Welsh)

Alias: Ogre Princess, Eithne O'Hannagan

Reason: This is Eithne's ring name

Nicknames: Ena, Ness

Titles: Mrs, Ma'am

Characteristics

Age: 32

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: April 18th 1988

Symbols: Ogres, Ogresses, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Aries

Theme Song: 'So Unsey' - Alanis Morissette (2006-)

Voice Actor: Eva Birthistle

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 5'5" / 165 cm

Weight: 150 lbs / 68 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Maeve Pritchard, Deirdre Llewellyn, Bridget Griffiths, Rosaleen O'Sullivan, Aisling O'Hannigan, Caoimhe O'Hannegan, Kathleen Mulrennan, Haf McFarlane, Tydfil McFarland, Olwen McDermott, Gwen McCracken, Branwen McCormick, Llinos McConnell, Gardenia Lum, Judith Ibarra, Sabina Volkov

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Januarius O'Hannagan

Mentor: Rhodri Rhydderch

Significant Other: Januarius O'Hannagan (33, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Rhodri Rhydderch (77, Father), Grania Rhydderch (78, Mother, Née Kavanaugh)

Parents-In-Law: Garvan O'Hannagan (53, Father-In-Law), Lile O'Hannagan (5, Mother-In-Law, Née McDaniel)

Siblings: Fionn Rhydderch (47, Brother), Aisling O'Hannigan (44, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Caoimhe O'Hannegan (41, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Uilliam Rhydderch (38, Brother), Ivor Rhydderch (35, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Unity Rhydderch (48, Fionn's Wife, Née Sauvageon), Keaton O'Hannigan (45, Aisling's Husband), Cadell O'Hannegan (42, Caoimhe's Husband), Whitney Rhydderch (39, Uilliam's Wife, Née Sauvageau), Oneida Rhydderch (36, Ivor's Wife, Née Richelieu)

Nieces & Nephews: Rachel MacGregor (27, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Bruce MacGregor (28, Rachel's Husband), Queen MacEntire (24, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Coinneach MacEntire (25, Queen's Husband), Pace Rhydderch (21, Nephew), Urve Rhydderch (22, Pace's Wife, Née MacEalair), Odin Rhydderch (18, Nephew), Naomh Rhydderch (15, Niece), Macy Rhydderch (12, Niece), Comhghall Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Kaiser Rhydderch (6, Nephew), Jacinth Rhydderch (3, Niece), Ida Scott (24, Niece, Née O'Hannigan), Cillian Scott (25, Ida's Husband), Hale O'Hannigan (21, Nephew), Briallen O'Hannigan (22, Hale's Wife, Née Sangster), Gabriel O'Hannigan (18, Nephew), Faith O'Hannigan (15, Niece), Eartha O'Hannigan (12, Niece), Dagda O'Hannigan (9, Nephew), Cade O'Hannigan (6, Nephew), Bambi O'Hannigan (3, Niece), Aaliyah Wallace (21, Niece, Née O'Hannegan), Matháin Wallace (22, Aaliyah's Husband), Zayden O'Hannegan (18, Nephew), Yorick O'Hannegan (15, Nephew), Xavia O'Hannegan (12, Niece), Wednesday O'Hannegan (9, Niece), Vance O'Hannegan (6, Nephew), Uhtric O'Hannegan (3, Nephew), Tacey Rhydderch (18, Niece), Sadb Rhydderch (15, Niece), Raeburn Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Quirinus Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Paisley Rhydderch (6, Niece), Olive Rhydderch (3, Niece), Napoleon Rhydderch (15, Nephew), Macdara Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Lalla Rhydderch (9, Niece), Kayleen Rhydderch (6, Niece), James Rhydderch (3, Nephew)

Children: Iain O'Hannagan (12, Son), Haidee O'Hannagan (9, Daughter), Garnet O'Hannagan (6, Daughter), Fabius O'Hannagan (3, Son)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Rhodri Rhydderch

Managers: Januarius O'Hannagan

Wrestlers Managed: Januarius O'Hannagan

Debut: 2006

Debut Match: Eithne Rhydderch VS Grania Rhydderch. Eithne won via submission

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Grappler

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (2006-)

Regular Moves: Rotating Punch To The Stomach, Backbreaker, Running Knee Lift, Belly To Belly Suplex, Diving Shoulder Block, Dropkick, Gorilla Press, Lariat, Scoop Powerslam, Spinning Spinebuster, Three Point Stance Tackle, Tiger Suplex

Finishers: Boston Crab, Senton, Sitout Gutwrench Powerbomb, High Angle Belly To Back Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Eithne O'Hannagan (Née Rhydderch) of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch Family. When Rhodri dies Eithne will have a 1/48th ownership of the promotion. Eithne is an 'Ogre Style' (Grappler) trainer. She's a quarter-Welsh and three quarters-Irish

Trivia: Nothing of Note

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D.U.D.E Bios: Ivor Rhydderch

The Ogre Prince of C.R.C Ivor Rhydderch (2020)

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's nephew, and Rhodri's son, Ivor. An Irish-Catholic living in Wales and a gentle and honest father. He tries his hardest to ignore his brothers pranks.

"Go be gross somewhere else."

Name

Full Legal Name: Ivor Lonán Dylan Brian Rhydderch

First Name: Ivor

Meaning: From the Old Norse name 'Ívarr', which was probably derived from the elements 'Ýr' 'Yew tree, Bow' and 'Herr' 'Army, Warrior'

Pronunciation: IE-var

Origin: Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English

Middle Name(s): Lonán, Dylan, Brian

Meaning(s): Lonán: Means 'Little Blackbird', derived from Old Irish 'Lon' 'Blackbird' combined with a diminutive suffix. Dylan: From the Welsh prefi 'Dy' meaning 'To, Toward' and 'Llanw' meaning 'Tide, Flow' Brian: Meaning Uncertain, possibly related to the Old Celtic root 'Brixs' 'Hill, High' (Old Irish 'Brii') or the related 'Brigā' 'Might, Power' (Old Irish 'Briig')

Pronunciation(s): LUW-nan. DUL-an. BRIE-an

Origin(s): Irish, Old Irish. Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology. English, Irish, Old Irish

Surname: Rhydderch

Meaning: From the given name 'Rhydderch', from the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted'

Pronunciation: HRUDH-ehrkh

Origin: Welsh

Alias: Ogre Prince, Ivor Rhydderch

Reason: This is Ivor's ring name

Nicknames: Ivo, Bri

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 35

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: November 25th 1985

Symbols: Ogres, Ogresses, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Theme Song: 'Jesse James' - The Pogues (2003-)

Voice Actor: Aidan Turner

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 6'2" / 187 cm

Weight: 300 lbs / 136 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Hairy

Facial Hair: Clean Shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both)

Scars: No Noticeable Scars

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Jarlath Rhydderch, Patrick Rhydderch, Lochlainn Rhydderch, Uilliam Rhydderch, Sean Rhydderch, Wyn Rhydderch, Vaughan Rhydderch, Neifion Rhydderch, Roderick Rhydderch, Flann Rhydderch, Heath Ott, Urbano Marino, Zacarías Huerta, Donato Santos

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Oneida Rhydderch

Mentor: Rhodri Rhydderch

Significant Other: Oneida Rhydderch (36, Wife, Née Richelieu)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Rhodri Rhydderch (77, Father), Grania Rhydderch (78, Mother, Née Mac Ghabhann)

Parents-In-Law: Carbrey Richelieu (56, Father-In-Law), Aran Richelieu (57, Mother-In-Law, Née Cullen)

Siblings: Fionn Rhydderch (47, Brother), Aisling O'Hannigan (44, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Caoimhe O'Hannegan (41, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Uilliam Rhydderch (38, Brother), Eithne O'Hannagan (32, Sister, Née Rhydderch)

Siblings-In-Law: Unity Rhydderch (48, Fionn's Wife, Née Sauvageon), Keaton O'Hannigan (45, Aisling's Husband), Cadell O'Hannegan (42, Caoimhe's Husband), Whitney Rhydderch (39, Uilliam's Wife, Née Sauvageau), Januarius O'Hannagan (33, Eithne's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Rachel MacGregor (27, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Bruce MacGregor (28, Rachel's Husband), Queen MacEntire (24, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Coinneach MacGregor (25, Queen's Husband), Pace Rhydderch (21, Nephew), Urve Rhydderch (22, Pace's Wife, Née MacEalair), Odin Rhydderch (18, Nephew), Naomh Rhydderch (15, Niece), Macy Rhydderch (12, Niece), Comhghall Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Kaiser Rhydderch (6, Nephew), Jacinth Rhydderch (3, Niece), Ida Scott (24, Niece, Née O'Hannigan), Cillian Scott (25, Ida's Husband), Hale O'Hannigan (21, Nephew), Briallen O'Hannigan (22, Hale's Wife, Née Sangster), Faith O'Hannigan (15, Niece), Eartha O'Hannigan (12, Niece), Dagda O'Hannigan (9, Nephew), Cade O'Hannigan (6, Nephew), Bambi O'Hannigan (3, Niece), Aaliyah Wallace (21, Niece, Née O'Hannigan), Matháin Wallace (22, Aaliyah's Husband), Zayden O'Hannegan (18, Nephew), Yorick O'Hannegan (15, Nephew), Xavia O'Hannegan (12, Niece), Wednesday O'Hannegan (9, Niece), Vance O'Hannegan (6, Nephew), Uhtric O'Hannegan (3, Nephew), Tacey Rhydderch (18, Niece), Sadb Rhydderch (15, Niece), Raeburn Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Quirinus Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Paisley Rhydderch (6, Niece), Olive Rhydderch (3, Niece), Iain O'Hannagan (12, Nephew), Haidee O'Hannagan (9, Niece), Garnet O'Hannagan (6, Niece), Fabius O'Hannagan (3, Nephew)

Children: Napoleon Rhydderch (15, Son), Macdara Rhydderch (12, Son), Lalla Rhydderch (9, Daughter), Kayleen Rhydderch (6, Daughter), James Rhydderch (3, Son)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Rhodri Rhydderch

Managers: Oneida Rhydderch

Wrestlers Managed: Oneida Rhydderch

Debut: 2003

Debut Match: Ivor Rhydderch VS Rhodri Rhydderch. Double Count Out

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Grappler

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (2003-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Rotating Punch To The Stomach, Backbreaker, Running Knee Lift, Belly To Belly Suplex, Diving Shoulder Block, Dropkick, Gorilla Press, Lariat, Scoop Powerslam, Spinning Spinebuster, Three Point Stance Tackle, Tiger Suplex

Finishers: Boston Crab, Senton, Sitout Gutwrench Powerbomb, High Angle Belly To Back Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Ivor Rhydderch of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch Family. When Rhodri dies Ivor will have a 1/48th ownership of the promotion. Ivor is an 'Ogre Style' (Grappler) trainer. He's a quarter-Welsh and three quarters-Irish

Trivia: Nothing of Note

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D.U.D.E Bios: Uilliam Rhydderch

The Ogre Prince of C.R.C Uilliam Rhydderch (2020)

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's nephew and Rhodri's son, Uilliam. An Irish-Catholic man living in Wales and a playful, rugged and tough father. He's a jokester like his older brother, Fionn.

"Could be worse, Ash, could be way worse."

Name

Full Legal Name: Uilliam Meallán Geraint Carthach Rhydderch

First Name: Uilliam

Meaning: Irish form of 'William', from the Germanic name 'Willehelm' meaning 'Will helmet' composed of the elements 'Willo' 'Will, Desire' and 'Helm' 'Helmet, Protection'

Pronunciation: OOL-yam

Origin: Irish

Middle Name(s): Meallán, Geraint, Carthach

Meaning(s): Meallán: From Old Irish 'Mellán', derived from 'Mell' meaning either 'Pleasant, Delightful' or 'Lump, Ball' combined with a diminutive suffix. Geraint: Meaning unknown, possibly a Welsh form of 'Gerontius', from a Late Latin name that was derived from Greek 'Geron' meaning 'Old Man' Carthach: Means 'Loving' in Irish

Pronunciation(s): MYA-lan. GEHR-ient. KAR-hakh

Origin(s): Irish. Welsh, Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Romance. Old Irish

Surname: Rhydderch

Meaning: From the given name 'Rhydderch', from the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted'

Pronunciation: HRUDH-ehrkh

Origin: Welsh

Alias: Ogre Prince, Uilliam Rhydderch

Reason: This is Uilliam's ring name

Nicknames: Liam, Uillead, Ulick

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 38

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: September 1st 1982

Symbols: Ogres, Ogresses, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Theme Song: 'Dirty Old Town' - The Pogues (2000-)

Voice Actor: Dylan Moran

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 5'7" / 170 cm

Weight: 160 lbs / 72 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Hairy

Facial Hair: Clean Shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Jarlath Rhydderch, Patrick Rhydderch, Lochlainn Rhydderch, Fionn Rhydderch, Ivor Rhydderch, Sean Rhydderch, Wyn Rhydderch, Vaughan Rhydderch, Neifion Rhydderch, Roderick Rhydderch, Fergus Rhydderch, Flann Rhydderch

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Whitney Rhydderch

Mentor: Rhodri Rhydderch

Significant Other: Whitney Rhydderch (39, Wife, Née Sauvageau)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Rhodri Rhydderch (77, Father), Grania Rhydderch (78, Mother, Née Kavanaugh)

Parents-In-Law: Éanna Sauvageau (59, Father-In-Law), Fionnuala Sauvageau (60, Mother-In-Law, Née Ó Domhnaill)

Siblings: Fionn Rhydderch (47, Brother), Aisling O'Hannigan (44, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Caoimhe O'Hannegan (41, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Ivor Rhydderch (35, Brother), Eithne O'Hannagan (32, Sister, Née Rhydderch)

Siblings-In-Law: Unity Rhydderch (48, Fionn's Wife, Née Sauvageon), Keaton O'Hannigan (45, Aisling's Husband), Cadell O'Hannegan (42, Caoimhe's Husband), Oneida Rhydderch (36, Ivor's Wife, Née Richelieu), Januarius O'Hannagan (33, Eithne's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Rachel MacGregor (27, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Bruce MacGregor (28, Rachel's Husband), Queen MacEntire (24, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Coinneach MacEntire (25, Queen's Husband), Pace Rhydderch (21, Nephew), Urve Rhydderch (22, Pace's Wife, Née MacEalair), Odin Rhydderch (18, Nephew), Naomh Rhydderch (15, Niece), Macy Rhydderch (12, Niece), Comhghall Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Kaiser Rhydderch (6, Nephew), Jacinth Rhydderch (3, Niece), Ida Scott (24, Niece, Née O'Hannigan), Cillian Scott (25, Ida's Husband), Hale O'Hannigan (21, Nephew), Briallen O'Hannigan (22, Hale's Wife, Née Sangster), Gabriel O'Hannigan (18, Nephew), Faith O'Hannigan (15, Niece), Eartha O'Hannigan (12, Niece), Dagda O'Hannigan (9, Nephew), Cade O'Hannigan (6, Nephew), Bambi O'Hannigan (3, Niece), Aaliyah Wallace (21, Niece, Née O'Hannegan), Matháin Wallace (22, Aaliyah's Husband), Zayden O'Hannegan (18, Nephew), Yorick O'Hannegan (15, Nephew), Xavia O'Hannegan (12, Niece), Wednesday O'Hannegan (9, Niece), Vance O'Hannegan (6, Nephew), Uhtric O'Hannegan (3, Nephew), Napoleon Rhydderch (15, Nephew), Macdara Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Lalla Rhydderch (9, Niece), Kayleen Rhydderch (6, Niece), James Rhydderch (3, Nephew), Iain O'Hannagan (12, Nephew), Haidee O'Hannagan (9, Niece), Garnet O'Hannagan (6, Niece), Fabius O'Hannagan (3, Nephew)

Children: Tacey Rhydderch (18, Daughter), Sadb Rhydderch (15, Daughter), Raeburn Rhydderch (12, Son), Quirinus Rhydderch (9, Son), Paisley Rhydderch (6, Daughter) Olive Rhydderch (3, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Rhodri Rhydderch

Managers: Whitney Rhydderch

Wrestlers Managed: Whitney Rhydderch

Debut: 2000

Debut Match: Uilliam Rhydderch VS Rhodri Rhydderch. Double Count Out

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Grappler

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (2000-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Rotating Punch To The Stomach, Backbreaker, Running Knee Lift, Belly To Back Suplex, Diving Shoulder Block, Dropkick, Gorilla Press, Lariat, Scoop Powerslam, Spinning Spinebuster, Three Point Stance Tackle, Tiger Suplex

Finishers: Boston Crab, Senton, Sitout Gutwrench Powerbomb, High Angle Belly To Back Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Uilliam Rhydderch of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch Family. When Rhodri dies Uilliam will have a 1/48th ownership of the promotion. Uilliam is an 'Ogre Style' (Grappler) trainer. He's a quarter-Welsh and three quarters-Irish.

Trivia: Nothing of Note

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D.U.D.E Bios: Caoimhe O'Hannegan

The Ogre Princess of C.R.C Caoimhe O'Hannegan (2020)

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's niece and Rhodri's daughter, Caoimhe. An Irish-Catholic woman living in Wales and a gentle, optimistic and caring mother. Caoimhe helps train her kids as well as her nieces and nephews.

"So gross, but that's Fionn for ya."

Name

Full Legal Name: Caoimhe Meadhbh Gráinne Niamh O'Hannegan (Née Rhydderch)

First Name: Caoimhe

Meaning: Derived from Irish 'Caomh' meaning 'Dear, Beloved, Gentle'

Pronunciation: KEE-vye

Origin: Irish

Middle Name(s): Meadhbh, Gráinne, Niamh

Meaning(s): Meadhbh: Modern Irish form of 'Medb', which means 'Intoxicating'. Gráinne: Possibly derived from Old Irish 'Grán' meaning 'Grain' or 'Gráin' meaning 'Hatred, Fear' Niamh: Means 'Bright' in Irish

Pronunciation: MYEHV. GRAW-nye. NYEEV

Origin(s): Irish, Irish Mythology. Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish. Irish, Mythology

Surname: O'Hannegan (Née Rhydderch)

Meaning: Variant of 'O'Hannagain', from Irish 'Ó hAnnagáin', which means 'descendant of Annagán'. 'Annagán' is a diminutive of 'Annadh' meaning 'Delay'. (Rhydderch: From the given name 'Rhydderch' from the Old Welsh 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted')

Pronunciation: O-ha-neh-GUN (HRUDH-ehrkh)

Origin: Irish (Welsh)

Alias: Ogre Princess, Caoimhe O'Hannegan

Reason: This is Caoimhe's ring name

Nicknames: N/A

Titles: Mrs, Ma'am

Characteristics

Age: 41

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: March 1st 1979

Symbols: Ogres, Ogresses, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Pisces

Theme Song: 'Mary Jane' - Alanis Morissette (1997-)

Voice Actor: Caitríona Balfe

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 5'4" / 162 cm

Weight: 124 lbs / 56 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Maeve Pritchard, Deirdre Llewellyn, Bridget Griffiths, Rosaleen O'Sullivan, Aisling O'Hannigan, Eithne O'Hannagan, Kathleen Mulrennan, Haf McFarlane, Tydfil McFarland, Olwen McDermott, Gwen McCracken, Branwen McCormick, Llinos McConnell, Viola Nye, Giselle Herbert

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms /Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Cadell O'Hannegan

Mentor: Rhodri Rhydderch

Significant Other: Cadell O'Hannegan (42, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Rhodri Rhydderch (77, Father), Grania Rhydderch (78, Mother, Née Kavanaugh)

Parents-In-Law: Meurig O'Hannegan (62, Father-In-Law), Elin O'Hannegan (63, Mother-In-Law, Née Morgan)

Siblings: Fionn Rhydderch (47, Brother), Aisling O'Hannigan (41, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Uilliam Rhydderch (38, Brother), Ivor Rhydderch (35, Brother), Eithne O'Hannagan (32, Sister, Née Rhydderch)

Siblings-In-Law: Unity Rhydderch (48, Fionn's Wife, Née Sauvageon), Keaton O'Hannigan (45, Aisling's Husband), Whitney Rhydderch (39, Uilliam's Wife, Née Sauvageau), Oneida Rhydderch (36, Ivor's Wife, Née Richelieu), Januarius O'Hannagan (33, Eithne's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Rachel MacGregor (27, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Bruce MacGregor (28, Rachel's Husband), Queen MacEntire (24, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Coinneach MacEntire (25, Queen's Husband), Pace Rhydderch (21, Nephew), Urve Rhydderch (22, Pace's Wife, Née MacEalair), Odin Rhydderch (18, Nephew), Naomh Rhydderch (15, Niece), Macy Rhydderch (12, Niece), Comhghall Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Kaiser Rhydderch (6, Nephew), Jacinth Rhydderch (3, Niece), Ida Scott (24, Niece, Née O'Hannigan), Cillian Scott (25, Ida's Husband), Hale O'Hannigan (21, Nephew), Briallen OHannigan (22, Hale's Wife, Née Sangster), Gabriel O'Hannigan (18, Nephew), Faith O'Hannigan (15, Niece), Eartha O'Hannigan (12, Niece), Dagda O'Hannigan (9, Nephew), Cade O'Hannigan (6, Nephew), Bambi O'Hannigan (3, Niece), Tacey Rhydderch (18, Niece), Sadb Rhydderch (15, Niece), Raeburn Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Quirinus Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Paisley Rhydderch (6, Niece), Olive Rhydderch (3, Niece), Napoleon Rhydderch (15, Nephew), Macdara Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Lalla Rhydderch (9, Niece), Kayleen Rhydderch (6, Niece), James Rhydderch (3, Nephew), Iain O'Hannagan (12, Nephew), Haidee O'Hannagan (9, Niece), Garnet O'Hannagan (6, Niece), Fabius O'Hannagan (3, Nephew)

Children: Aaliyah Wallace (21, Daughter, Née O'Hannegan), Zayden O'Hannegan (18, Son),Yorick O'Hannegan (15, Son), Xavia O'Hannegan (12, Daughter), Wednesday O'Hannegan (9, Daughter), Vance O'Hannegan (6, Son), Uhtric O'Hannegan (3, Son)

Children-In-Law: Matháin Wallace (22, Aaliyah's Husband)

Grandkids: Gwilym Wallace (1, Grandson)

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Rhodri Rhydderch

Managers: Cadell O'Hannegan

Wrestlers Managed: Cadell O'Hannegan

Debut: 1997

Debut Match: Caoimhe Rhydderch VS Grania Rhydderch. Caoimhe won via submission

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Grappler

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (1997-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Rotating Punch To The Stomach, Backbreaker, Running Knee Lift, Belly To Belly Suplex, Diving Shoulder Block, Dropkick, Gorilla Press, Lariat, Scoop Powerslam, Spinning Spinebuster, Three Point Stance Tackle, Tiger Suplex

Finishers: Boston Crab, Senton, Sitout Gutwrench Powerbomb, High Angle Belly To Back Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Caoimhe O'Hannegan (Née Rhydderch) of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch Family. When Rhodri dies Caoimhe will have a 1/48th ownership of the promotion. Caoimhe is an 'Ogre Style' (Grappler) trainer. She's a quarter-Welsh and three quarters-Irish.

Trivia: Nothing of Note

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D.U.D.E Bios: Aisling O'Hannigan

The Ogre Princess of C.R.C Aisling O'Hannigan (2020)

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's niece and Rhodri's daughter, Aisling. An Irish-Catholic woman living in Wales and a hard-working but sweet mother. She's thoroughly disgusted by her older brother, Fionn.

"Why must you belch into the mic, Fionn, why?"

Name

Full Legal Name: Aisling Muadhnait Órlaith Sadhbh O'Hannigan (Née Rhydderch

First Name: Aisling

Meaning: Means 'Dream' or 'Vision' in Irish

Pronunciation: ASH-lyen

Origin: Irish

Middle Name(s): Muadhnait, Órlaith, Sadhbh

Meaning(s): Muadhnait: Means 'Little Noble One', derived from the Old Irish poetic word 'Muad' meaning 'Noble, Good' combined with a diminutive suffix. Órlaith: Means 'Golden Ruler', from Old Irish 'Ór' 'Gold' combined with 'Flaith' 'Ruler, Sovereign, Princess'. Sadhbh: Modern Irish form of 'Sadb', which is probably derived from the Old Celtic root 'Swādu' meaning 'Sweet'

Pronunciation: MOO-nat. OR-la. SIEV

Origin(s): Irish. Irish, Old Irish. Irish, Irish Mythology

Surname: O'Hannigan (Née Rhydderch)

Meaning: Variant of 'O'Hannagain', from Irish 'Ó hAnnagáin', which means 'descendant of Annagán'. 'Annagán' is a diminutive of 'Annadh' meaning 'Delay'. (Rhydderch: From the given name 'Rhydderch' from the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted')

Pronunciation: O-ha-ni-GUN (HRUDH-ehrkh)

Origin: Irish (Welsh)

Alias: Ogre Princess, Aisling O'Hannigan

Reason: This is Aisling's ring name

Nicknames: Ash

Titles: Mrs, Ma'am

Characteristics

Age: 44

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: December 21st 1976

Symbols: Ogres, Ogresses, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Theme Song: 'Kiss Me Deadly' - Lita Ford (1994-)

Voice Actor: Katy Wix

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 5'3" / 160 cm

Weight: 124 lbs / 56 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Maeve Pritchard, Deirdre Llewellyn, Bridget Griffiths, Rosaleen O'Sullivan, Caoimhe O'Hannegan, Eithne O'Hannagan, Kathleen Mulrennan, Haf McFarlane, Tydfil McFarland, Olwen McDermott, Gwen McCracken, Branwen McCormick, Llinos McConnell

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Keaton O'Hannigan

Mentor: Rhodri Rhydderch

Significant Other: Keaton O'Hannigan (45, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Rhodri Rhydderch (77, Father), Grania Rhydderch (78, Mother, Née Mac Ghabhann)

Parents-In-Law: Cledwyn O'Hannigan (65, Father-In-Law), Glennis O'Hannigan (66, Mother-In-Law, Née Mac Cárthaigh)

Siblings: Fionn Rhydderch (47, Brother), Caoimhe O'Hannegan (41, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Uilliam Rhydderch (38, Brother), Ivor Rhydderch (35, Brother), Eithne O'Hannagan (32, Sister, Née Rhydderch)

SIblings-In-Law: Unity Rhydderch (48, Fionn's Wife, Née Sauvageon), Cadell O'Hannegan (42, Caoimhe's Husband), Whitney Rhydderch (39, Uilliam's Wife, Née Sauvageau), Oneida Rhydderch (36, Ivor's Wife, Née Richelieu), Januarius O'Hannagan (33, Eithne's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Rachel MacGregor (27, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Bruce MacGregor (28, Rachel's Husband), Queen MacEntire (24, Niece, Née Rhydderch), Coinneach MacEntire (25, Queen's Husband), Pace Rhydderch (21, Nephew), Urve Rhydderch (22, Pace's Wife, Née MacEalair), Odin Rhydderch (18, Nephew), Naomh Rhydderch (15, Niece), Macy Rhydderch (12, Niece), Comhghall Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Kaiser Rhydderch (6, Nephew), Jacinth Rhydderch (3, Niece), Aaliyah Wallace (21, Niece, Née O'Hannegan), Matháin Wallace (22, Aaliyah's Husband), Zayden O'Hannegan (18, Nephew), Yorick O'Hannegan (15, Nephew), Xavia O'Hannegan (12, Niece), Wednesday O'Hannegan (9, Niece), Vance O'Hannegan (6, Nephew), Uhtric O'Hannegan (3, Nephew), Tacey Rhydderch (18, Niece), Sadb Rhydderch (15, Niece), Raeburn Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Quirinus Rhydderch (9, Nephew), Paisely Rhydderch (6, Niece), Olive Rhydderch (3, Niece), Napoleon Rhydderch (15, Nephew), Macdara Rhydderch (12, Nephew), Lalla Rhydderch (9, Niece), Kayleen Rhydderch (6, Niece), James Rhydderch (3, Nephew), Iain O'Hannagan (12, Nephew), Haidee O'Hannagan (9, Niece), Garnet O'Hannagan (6, Niece), Fabius O'Hannagan (3, Nephew)

Children: Ida Scott (24, Daughter, Née O'Hannigan), Hale O'Hannigan (21, Son), Gabriel O'Hannigan (18, Son), Faith O'Hannigan (15, Daughter), Eartha O'Hannigan (12, Daughter), Dagda O'Hannigan (9, Son), Cade O'Hannigan (6, Son), Bambi O'Hannigan (3, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: Cillian Scott (25, Ida's Husband), Briallen O'Hannigan (22, Hale's Wife, Née Sangster),

Grandkids: Commgán Scott (4, Grandson), Alexandria Scott (1, Graanddaughter), Orlagh O'Hannigan (1, Granddaughter)

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Rhodri Rhydderch

Managers: Keaton O'Hannigan

Wrestlers Managed: Keaton O'Hannigan

Debut: 1994

Debut Match: Aisling Rhydderch VS Grania Rhydderch. Aisling won via submission

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Grappler

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (1994-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Rotating Punch To The Stomach, Backbreaker, Running Knee Lift, Belly To Belly Suplex, Diving Shoulder Block, Dropkick, Gorilla Press, Lariat, Scoop Powerslam, Spinning Spinebuster, Three Point Stance Tackle, Tiger Suplex

Finishers: Boston Crab, Senton, Sitout Gutwrench Powerbomb, High Angle Belly To Back Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Aisling O'Hannigan (Née Rhydderch) of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch Family. When Rhodri dies Aisling will havea 1/48th ownership of the promotion. Aisling is an 'Ogre Style' (Grappler) trainer. She's a quarter-Welsh and three quarters-Irish

Trivia: Nothing of Note

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D.U.D.E Bios: Fionn Rhydderch

The Ogre Prince of C.R.C Fionn Rhydderch

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's nephew, and Rhodri's son, Fionn. An Irish-Catholic living in Wales and a comedic and wise-cracking father. He takes training his kids seriously.

"Wait for it, wait for it… (burps), perfection."

Name

Full Legal Name: Fionn Odhrán Lleu Cathal Rhydderch

First Name: Fionn

Meaning: From the Old Irish name 'Finn', derived from 'Finn' meaning 'Fair, White'.

Pronunciation: FYOON/FYEEN

Origin: Irish, Irish Mythology

Middle Name(s): Odhrán, Lleu, Cathal

Meaning(s): Odhrán: From Old Irish 'Odrán', derived from 'Odar' 'Dun-Coloured, Greyish Brown, Tan' combined with a diminutive suffix. Lleu: Probably a Welsh form of 'Lugus', which possibly comes from one of the Indo-European roots 'Lewk' 'Light, Brightness', 'Lewg' 'Dark' or 'Lewgh' 'Oath'. Cathal: Derived from Old Irish 'Cath' 'Battle' and 'Fal' 'Rule'.

Pronunciation(s): O-rawn. SHAY. KA-hal

Origin(s): Irish. Welsh Mythology. Irish, Old Irish

Surname: Rhydderch

Meaning: From the given name 'Rhydderch', from the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted'

Pronunciation: HRUDH-ehrkh

Origin: Welsh

Alias: Ogre Prince, Fionn Rhydderch

Reason: This is Fionn's ring name

Nicknames: Orangutan, Sir Burps-a-lot

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 47

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish-Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: November 25, 1973

Symbols: Ogres, Ogresses, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Theme Song: 'Sally MacLennane' - The Pogues (1991-)

Voice Actor: Dara Ó Briain

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 6'4" / 193 cm

Weight: 250 lbs / 113 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Hairy

Facial Hair: Messy 'Beard'

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobe (Both)

Scars: Facial, neck & back scars from fights, matches, etc.

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Jarlath Rhydderch, Patrick Rhydderch, Lochlainn Rhydderch, Uilliam Rhydderch, Ivor Rhydderch, Sean Rhydderch, Wyn Rhydderch, Vaughan Rhydderch, Neifion Rhydderch, Roderick Rhydderch, Fergus Rhydderch, Flann Rhydderch

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Unity Rhydderch

Mentor: Rhodri Rhydderch

Significant Other: Unity Rhydderch (48, Wife, Née Sauvageon)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Rhodri Rhydderch (77, Father), Grania Rhydderch (78, Mother, Née Kavanaugh)

Parents-In-Law: Beathan Sauvageon (78, Father-In-Law), Bronwen Sauvageon (79, Mother-In-Law, Née MacGuinness)

Siblings: Aisling O'Hannigan (44, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Caoimhe O'Hannegan (41, Sister, Née Rhydderch), Uilliam Rhydderch (38, Brother), Ivor Rhydderch (35, Brother), Eithne O'Hannagan (32, Sister, Née Rhydderch)

Siblings-In-Law: Keaton O'Hannigan (45, Aisling's Husband), Cadell O'Hannegan (42, Caoimhe's Husband), Whitney Rhydderch (39, Uilliam's Wife, Née Sauvageau), Oneida Rhydderch (36, Ivor's Wife, Née Richelieu), Januarius O'Hannagan (33, Eithne's Husband), Odalgar Sauvageon (45, Unity's Brother), Snjezana Sauvageon (46, Odalgar's Wife, Née Haralampiev), Natàlia Kaloyan (42, Unity's Sister, Née Sauvageon), Sigiwald Kaloyan (43, Natàlia's Husband), Pepin Sauvageon (39, Unity's Brother), Běla Sauvageon (40, Pepin's Wife, Née Konstantinov), Núria Vodenicharov (36, Unity's Sister, Née Sauvageon), Theodard Vodenicharov (37, Núria's Husband), Raginbert Sauvageon (33, Unity's Brother), Františka Sauvageon (34, Raginbert's Wife, Née Abadjiev), Božena Atanasov (30, Unity's Sister, Née Sauvageon), Veremund Atanasov (31, Božena's Husband), Raginmar Sauvageon (27, Unity's Brother), Libuše Sauvageon (28, Raginmar's Wife, Née Bogdanov), Ivančica Chilikov (24, Unity's Sister, Née Sauvageon), Waldo Chilikov (25, Ivančica's Husband), Raginolf Sauvageon (21, Unity's Brother), Natálie Sauvageon (22, Raginolf's Wife, Née Damyanov)

Nieces & Nephews: Too Many To List

Children: Rachel MacGregor (27, Daughter, Née Rhydderch), Queen MacEntire (24, Daughter, Née Rhydderch), Pace Rhydderch (21, Son), Odin Rhydderch (18, Son), Naomh Rhydderch (15, Daughter), Macy Rhydderch (12, Daughter), Comhghall Rhydderch (9, Son), Kaiser Rhydderch (6, Son), Jacinth Rhydderch (3, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: Bruce MacGregor (28, Rachel's Husband), Coinneach MacEntire (25, Queen's Husband), Urve Rhydderch (22, Pace's Wife, Née MacEalair)

Grandkids: Craig MacGregor (7, Grandson), Ceinwen MacGregor (4,Granddaughter), Ceridwen MacGregor (1, Granddaughter), Donald MacEntire (4, Grandson), Dougal MacEntire (1, Grandson), Vilija Rhydderch (1, Granddaughter)

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Rhodri Rhydderch

Managers: Unity Rhydderch

Wrestlers Managed: Unity Rhydderch

Debut: 1991

Debut Match: Fionn Rhydderch VS Rhodri Rhydderch. Double Count Out

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Grappler

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (1991-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Rotating Punch To The Stomach, Backbreaker, Running Knee Lift, Belly To Belly Suplex, Diving Shoulder Block, Dropkick, Gorilla Press, Lariat, Scoop Powerslam, Spinning Spinebuster, Three Point Stance Tackle, Tiger Suplex

Finishers: Boston Crab, Senton, Sitout Gutwrench Powerbomb, High Angle Belly To Back Suplex

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Fionn Rhydderch of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) Owning Rhydderch Family. When Rhodri dies Fionn will have a 1/48th ownership of the promotion. Fionn is an 'Ogre Style’ (Grappler) trainer. He’s a quarter-Welsh and three quarters-Irish

Trivia: Nothing of Note