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A drawing I did back in 2021 inspired by a photo by @maria_babintseva 💜 I’ve been reading Spring-themed poetry for inspiration, and I remember a while back a friend recommended that I draw Blodeuwedd, the Welsh goddess of flowers. So I have lots of ideas! 🌿🌸
Arguably humans are often made like robots by gods: whether from earth and clay (Pandora, Adam), carved from a trees (Aski and Embla), flowers (Blodeuwedd), or blood (as Marduk does from Tiamat's consort), many humans are artificial. #MythologyMonday
Blodeuwedd
- ringleader
- expert tactician
- expert at stealth
- queen
- flight/step without sound
- shadow organizer
- master at judo
Weapons:
- bladed feathers
- owl vision
- teleportation
(Co-designed by @/JlliclCatstrphe)
#FolkloreThursday
Welsh goddess of spring Blodeuwedd (Flower Face) so called because magicians, Math & Gwydion, made her from flowers. Later, they turned her into an owl for being unfaithful to her husband. A sombre symbol of the fleetingness & fragility of love, beauty & spring
The mythical Welsh hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes is cursed to never have a human wife, so two magicians create a beautiful maiden out of flowers, named Blodeuwedd, to be his wife. She takes a lover & conspires to murder Lleu, then gets turned into an owl as punishment. #MythologyMonday
"Blodeuwedd," from Welsh mythology, created with watercolor and acryla gouache. I still love this painting!
Prints available at https://t.co/hqyGJWiCJv
Gwydion was a warrior-magician and bardic god of wisdom in the Mabinogion. He was taught wizardry from Math. Using magics, he created Blodeuwedd from broom, meadowsweet and oak blossom as a wife for Llew. His sacred tree is the ash.
🎨 by Alan Lee
#WyrdWednesday
Maesteg artist Christopher Williams (1873–1934) painted three women from the Mabinogion. This is Blodeuwedd, the woman of flowers, in the collection of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. We lucky moderns can now buy blodeuwedd beach towels. https://t.co/W6Jdc0u7p6
The last of Lleu's three curses was that he would marry no woman born. His uncle Gwydion saw a simple solution and collected a number of herbs and flowers, placing them in the shape of a woman. The spell cast, she became a real woman, Blodeuwedd. #FolkloreThursday
🖼: Y. Leitch
Blodeuwedd, Welsh flower goddess #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/CfyJSZxh3m
Blodeuwedd was a mythical maiden born of flowers in Welsh myth, magically created as a wife to the heroic Lleu Llaw Gyffes. She was turned into an owl for attempting to murder him w/ her lover, Lord Gronw Pebr. She's a minor character in my Welsh mythical comic, The Vale of Wales
Created from flowers of broom, meadowsweet and oak by magicians, Blodeuwedd was a Welsh Goddess of both Spring and Owls #FolkloreThursday Image - Yuri Leitch
#FolkloreThursday 🌿#Spring 🦋
Welsh goddess of spring, Blodeuwedd, whose name means “flower face." 🌼
She was created by magicians to become a wife but plotted to murder this unwanted husband. Her punishment was to become an owl, forever haunting the midnight forests. 🦉
She was made from flowers to break a curse and give Lleu a wife, but the woman born of flowers would grow, develop her own will, find her own heart. And as she became her own person, Blodeuwedd came to be reviled. #MythologyMonday
🖼: C. Williams
@AnthonyHopkins Croeso adref syr, yaki da!🏴🖤
Mae Blodeuwedd yn eich bendithio🌿☀️🌿
In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl Blodeuwedd. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service 1960 was born #FairyTaleTuesday
“So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd.”
#TheMabinogion
🎨#AlanLee