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The Smart Witch

33 min tagasi / 21.03.2025, 00:49

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Blodeuwedd

In Welsh mythology Blodeuwedd, was made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet and oak by the magicians Math fab Mathonwy and Gwydion fab Dôn. They named her "Flower Face".

Weldh tradition tells of a hero, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who had been placed under a tynged ("doom") by his mother, Arianrhod, that he may never have a human wife.

To counteract this curse, the magicians Math and Gwydion then took:

"the flowers of the oak, and the

flowers of the broom, and the

flowers of the meadowsweet,

and from those they conjured

up the fairest and most beautiful

maiden anyone had ever seen.

And they baptized her in the way

that they did at that time, and

named her Blodeuwedd."

The curse broken, Lleu and

Blodeuwedd wed. In time, she took a lover, and together the lovers conspired to murder Lleu.

Lleu survived the attempt on his life, and Blodeuwedd fled. Gwydion overtook her on her flight, and turned her into an owl - said to be the creature most hated by all other birds.

Gwydion Proclaimed:

"You will not dare to show your

face ever again in the light of

day, and that will be because

of enmity between you and all

other birds. It will be in their

nature to harass you and despise

you wherever they find you. And

you will not lose your name –

that will always be "Bloddeuwedd

(Flower-Face)."

The narrative adds:

"Blodeuwedd" means "owl" in

the language of today. And it

is because of that there is

hostility between birds and

owls, and the owl is still known

as "Blodeuwedd".

Notes:

(1) Blodeuwedd - (Welsh pronunciation: [blɔˈdeiwɛð]) A central figure in Math fab Mathonwy, the last of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.

(2) Blodeuwedd - A composite name from blodau meaning "flowers" and gwedd "face" - thus, "Flowerface" or "Flower Face".

(3) Math fab Mathonwy - also called Math ap Mathonwy (Math, son of Mathonwy) was a king of Gwynedd who needed to rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war, or he would die.

(4) Gwydion fab Dôn - A magician, hero and trickster of Welsh mythology.

[Image: Blodeuwedd (1930) painting by Christopher Williams (1873-1934). Bridgeman Art Gallery.]

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