Gwydion Pendderwen
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Gwydion Pendderwen was born Thomas deLong in California in 1946 and died in a car accident in 1982. As a child he became craft-son to Victor Anderson and studied his Feri Tradition. A songwriter and musician, he released two albums entitled "Songs for the Old Religion" (1975) and "The Faery Shaman" (1982) that were received with acclaim by the pagan community. Gwydion served for a time as a court bard to the West Kingdom in the Society for Creative Anachronism. After being recognized for his music at a celebration in Wales in 1976, he returned to California, quit his job, and purchased a plot of the Greenfield Ranch in Mendocino County. Naming his parcel Annwfn after the Welsh underworld, he later gift-deeded the property to the Church of All Worlds with which he had long been involved.