Tegid and Ked were the parents of an untoward child, whose name Avagddu is translated as having meant _utter darkness_, but as Davies observes "mythological genealogy is mere allegory, and the father and the son are frequently the same person under different points of view. Thus this character in his abject state may be referred to as the patriarch himself during his confinement in the internal gloom of the Ark, where he was surrounded with _utter darkness_; a circumstance which was commemorated in all the mysteries of the gentile world.... And as our complex Mythology identified the character of the patriarch with the sun, so Avagddu may also have been viewed as a type of that luminary in his veil of darkness and gloom. This gloom was afterwards changed into _light_ and _cheerfulness_, and thus the son of Keridwen may be recognised in his illuminated state under the title of Elphin, and _Rhuvawn Bevyr_ which implies _bursting forth with radiance_, and seems to be an epithet of the helio-arkite god." Davies continues: "Avagddu thus considered as a type of the helio-arkite god in his afflicted and renovated state has a striking coincidence of character with Eros the blind god of the Greeks".[167] The Cain or "Man in the Moon," represented herewith, has the heart of love, or Eros, figured on his headgear, and he is carrying the pipes of Pan, or of the Elphin Bard of Fairyland. It was common knowledge to our predecessors, that Titania--"Our radiant Queen"--hated sluts and sluttery and when Mrs. Page concocted her fairy plot against Falstaff she enjoined-- Then let them all encircle him about And Fairy-like to pinch the unclean Knight, And ask him why that hour of fairy revel In their so sacred paths he dares to tread. [Illustration: FIG. 41.--From _Les Filigranes_ (Briquet, C. M.).] [Illustration: FIG. 42.--British. From _A New Description of England and Wales_ (Anon., 1724).] The White May or Hawthorn which was so dear to the Elves was probably the symbol of that chastity and cleanliness which was proverbially an Elphin attribute. It is, for instance, said of Sir Thopas, when questing for the Fairy Queen, that-- ... he was chaste and no lechour And sweet as is the bramble flower, That beareth the red hip. On reaching the domain of Queen Elf, Sir Thopas is encountered by a "great giaunt" Sire Oliphaunt, who informs him-- Here the Queen of Fairie With harpe and pipe and symphonie Dwelleth in this place. Sire Oliphaunt may be connoted with the Elephant which occurs on our ancient coinage, and is also found carved on many prehistoric stones in Scotland, notably in the cave of St. Rule at St. Andrews. The Kate Kennedy still commemorated at St. Andrews we shall subsequently connote with Conneda and with Caindea.