Defending pieces are represented by magickal
animals. There are many supernatural beasts throughout Celtic mythology whose
common quality is their unnatural, white colour. These animals from the
Underworld sometimes have bright, glowing, red ears, like king Arawn's dogs who
appear depicted in tales with "glittering bright white" and red ears
that glitter as brightly as their white bodies, or the "gleaming white
boar" which leads the hunters and their dogs to a magical trap. Let us
also notice that the Celtic Goddess Rhiannon arrives from the Underworld on a
white horse at an earthen mound.
I have chosen some of the relevant creatures featured
in Celtic tales and heraldry, such as the Welsh Dragon, the Cockatrice, the
Enfield, Arawn's Hound, and the "Arawen". Being the latter, an
invention of my own, a mythical creature which resembles the pureness of the
Unicorn and the fearsome of the Wild Boar, common inhabitants of the
Underworld.
Defending pieces are positioned on the holly wood (light brown) squares of the 3rd, and 4th rings, within the frontiers of Annwn and around the unassailable Central Maze.
The placement is easy, just position each pawn on the holly wood squares of the 3rd and 4th rings, leaving the two ebony squares next to the "Banishing Zone" on the third ring unfilled.
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