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Cranus
A Brythonic God: Lord of the Woods
Cranus is a Brythonic god known from a single inscription found at Thetford, England where he is equated with Roman Fauus, an oracular deity of the woods. Thus it would seem that Cranus had both arboreal and divinatory qualities. |
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Bryth: Lord of the Woods
Cranus is known only from a single inscription found at Thetford in Norfolk where he is addressed as Faunus Cranus. Faunus was a Roman pastoral deity, equated with Pan; as an oricular deity he could predict the future. Sometimes Faunus was associated with Silvanus.
It would seem therefore, by association with Faunus that Cranus was a woodland deity. His name seems to be derived from cran, Cymric pren (wood) thus it would seem that he was a deity of wood and woodlands. He may also have had prophetic or divinatory associations (cf Myrddin Wyllt).
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