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1. The myth of Blodeuwedd
Blodeuwedd is a deity of Welsh mythology. His story is told in The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which in turn are included in the
Mabinogion, a collection of prose stories from medieval manuscripts Wales. His character appears in the fourth of these stories: Fab Mathonwy Math (Math, son of Mathonwy), whose plot centers on the story of King Math, god of magic and wealth.
Legend has it that the king of Gwynedd, Math, die if he did not stand upright on the lap of a virgin until he was at war, so when the girl was murdered supported it, was proposed to Arianrhod office. This was the guardian goddess of the veil that separates life and death, goddess of both death and rebirth. However I had a son, Dylan Ail Don, why I rejected Math. In his flight, ashamed at being discovered, he dropped a small object, whence came his second son, Lleu Llaw Gyffes. In the second he was punished with three curses that denied the three aspects of masculinity: not having a name, can not emplar weapons, and never have a human wife.
Math and Gwydion, Arianrhod's brother, broke the first two curses, and pitying Lleu, created a woman made of flowers of oak, meadowsweet and gorse, which they named Blodeuwedd (flower face former name of the owl). "They gathered the flowers of oak, broom flowers and flowers of the meadowsweet and their love being the girl most beautiful and perfect world. The named according to rites and then called Blodeuwedd (appearance, face of flowers "). It was beautiful, but being made of flowers had no soul and no Lleu loved, and that once she and her lover planned to assassinate him. Lleu But, being a god, he could kill only under certain conditions. You could not kill either inside or outside the home, or on horseback or on foot, and could only be killed by a spear that had been forged while people were attending mass. So Blodeuwedd convinced her lover to carve this release, and set foot on a goat and the other in a bathtub on the banks of a river, all under one roof. Lancea to Lleu lover, but when believed him killed, appeared Gwydion and cured, transforming into an eagle.
Blodeuwedd was then punished for all eternity, because owl Gwydion turned her into throwing the following incantation: "Do not kill, I'll do something worse. I'll let you go with the shape of a bird. To punish you for the embarrassment that has cast over Lleu Llaw Gyffes, you never dare to show your face in the light of day, for fear all the other birds. There will be enmity between you and all the birds and their instincts lead them to crowd around you and treat you with contempt wherever you are. Do not lose your name, but you keep calling Blodeuwedd forever. In fact, in today's language, Blodeuwedd is "owl." For this reason, the birds hated the owl. And the owl has been called so far Blodeuwedd "
And they say that is the reason why the owls are only visible at night and hide during the day and the day birds disturb their rest.
2. The triple goddess
Blodeuwedd
form, along with Arianrhod and Ceridwen, the Celtic triad, so that we might call "The Triple Goddess:
Arianrhod
represents the virgin goddess and is credited with the crescent moon. It is the guardian of the veil that separates life from death, called by the Celts "Silver Wheel", from which its name. For this reason it is sometimes also considered a goddess of death.
Due to the nature of myth and its relationship with the flowers, Blodeuwedd can represent the ephemeral beauty and bloom that always precedes death, as in all cycles. Thus, we consider "mature."
Finally, Ceridwen, owner of the cauldron of Inspiration and Wisdom, mainly represents the archetype of "witch" or "old", so that would correspond to the waning and it would close the cycle.
3. Interpretation Arianhrod, which, as it was used by man, understands his situation and compassion. The virgin goddess uses his creative power to forgive Blodeuwedd punishment, he was condemned to remain in the form of an owl. In the image Arianhrod is withdrawn from men the veil of death, which is her attribute, and therefore produces Blodeuwedd renaissance: the death of his punishment and his false identity, the rise of the true essence of a woman with flowers . What was in the beginning, before the man who should be told. is another step in the rebirth of women's power.
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