#annwfn

[liorlen]

Some illustrations I made for a module as interpretations of some passages from the Welsh poem 'Preiddeu Annwn'

#yippie!!! yahoo!!!! #i wrote 8k words on this im gonna PASS OUT NOW #how do i tag this?? #posting this feels like such an intense ‘and now for something completely different’ #taliesin #preiddeu annwn #annwfn #welsh #celtic #first illustration caption: maintained was Gwair’s prison in Caer Siddi #second: Lleog’s flashing sword was thrust into it #(though I made it a spear for a better composition) #third: monks congregate like wolves #quick explanation of Gwair: #likely either Gweir ap Gweirioed or Gweir ap Gwystyl #or a combo of both #Gweirioed is known for being a prisoner likely of the Isle of Wight or Lundy island #potentially connected to the first branch of the Mabinogion #Gwystyl is named in peredur as one of three knights from Arthur’s court and is frequently referenced for his dismal dispositation and sadnes #caer siddi is likely meant to be a reference to the fae #mead feast fort and several other names are given to it later #other translations have been Mound Fort (like fairy mound) #the fort is in the otherworld/annwn #Arthur and a retinue of men went to the otherworld to #supposedly retrieve a cauldron #specifically a cauldron that is one of the thirteen treasures of the island of Britain #likely the cauldron of dyrnwch the giant #welsh literature #medieval literature

[sedawen]

Annwfn, pagan queen!

Colored and lined by @zosalot

#Annwfn #pagans

[aerislunam]

Broken Crowns

Every dead king needs a sable raven to glut upon his breast to unpick the sinews of this soul, undo his lordship, for in the lands of the dead there is no king but Gwyn, and all souls are one.

#gwyn ap nudd #arawn #annwfn #annwn #cymru #welsh mythology #gatherer of souls #Lorna Smithers #tylwyth teg #fair folk

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[some-sort-of-siren]

Scalding hot take here BUT I don’t merit the lords little men of letters. They don’t know when their OWN LORD was born they don’t know where the wind billows and the storm ravages even the saints grave is a mystery to them. Like smh monks howl like a pack of dogs in the face of men who ACTUALLY know what they’re talking about. Tbh.

#preiddeu annwfn #cymraeg

[trans-cuchulainn]

the book i am currently reading decided to render annwfn as "anwen" and i'm like. @teashoesandhair is the otherworld now?

#fascinating. #néide has opinions about books #okay I don't know 100% for sure that it's meant to be annwfn but like. context clues

[rhyw-fath-o-seiren]

Golychaf wledic pendefic glwat ri neu rhywbeth

#cymraeg #dysgu cymraeg #preiddeu annwfn #arthuriadd #hanes barddiau

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

would love your opinion of the newest episode of DW, if you get the chance.

HAHAHAHA YES I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS

Alright okay so

I only have one complaint, which is that that wasn't a faerie ring. You could still have the shamble, no problem, but it should have been over the top of an actual faerie ring, which should be a mushroom (or, at a push, stone) circle. Not some cotton that would blow clean off the cliff edge in three minutes.

HOWEVER

This is the first time I've seen Doctor Who do a time travel story using, not Doctor Who time travel lore and rules, but Welsh faerie rules. (First time I've seen anything do it, in fact.) In Welsh myth, people who enter faerie rings or get entranced by the music become suspended in time, out of sync with the real world. They think they danced for a night, but when they return it's been 100 years, and they crumble to dust as soon as they eat/drink/step on land/etc.

In this case, this is what I think happened to Ruby. She spent that time in Annwfn, seeing what would happen if the binding on the ring was broken. When she 'dies', she returns to the spot and lasts long enough to give her younger self the warning, then crumbles to dust.

But, a time travelling Ruby is not the woman who follows her throughout the episode. That, in fact, is a gwyll.

The gwyllion were hag faeries, usually of mountain tops (though Pembrokeshire's liminal cliffs are 100% from Welsh mythology - it was said that if you found a faerie ring on one but only put one foot in, you could see the faerie islands in the sea. And that faeries used to visit the human markets in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. So while gwyllion are unusual there, it's not an impossible relocation.) They were malicious and sometimes vicious faeries who delighted in making people lose their way, could strike an uncontrollable and ungodly terror into travellers, and who feature in more that one myth as an old woman that someone tried to approach, but they always appeared at the same distance away, impossible to catch up.

CAN YOU SEE THE PARALLELS

And the best part!! Is that this is why she defeats UNIT!!!

Kate tells Ruby that her agents have necklaces of silver and salt to keep out the supernatural, but that's just generic fairytale shit. That doesn't work on gwyllion. Salt drawn in a line would provide a barrier, but the UNIT soldiers aren't trying to trap or block the gwyll; they're trying to capture her. What works, very specifically, is a knife. Iron or steel for preference of course, but it needs to be a knife.

But UNIT has no Welsh employees and the soldiers have guns, not knives. And so they all become entranced.

(This is also what I think the gwyll 'says' to everyone to turn them against Ruby. She doesn't say anything - she sings.)

This is also the first time I've ever encountered any mainstream media doing Welsh faeries and understanding the tone to strike, which is 'unknowable, unstoppable and fucking terrifying'. I think I've only ever read it in Catharine Fisher books, and she's a Welsh author so... yeah, obviously. But I basically vibrated with delight and excitement for the entire episode.

Oh my god, hang on, Roger ap Gwilliam! Okay, I have two theories about him.

My weaker theory and the one I don't like is the kind of boring and obvious one, which is that he is himself not human. A lot of Welsh folklore features the devil, and I get that vibe from his role in the story. But, I'm not keen, because I can't see the link to the gwyll.

But my strongest theory, and the one I have chosen to believe, is that he's a human who made a deal with the Fae for power, and then reneged. There's a Metric Fuckton of stories about humans fucking up Fae gifts in some way, and the punishment is usually something ironic but always results in the loss of the gift. It could be a faerie harp that makes everyone dance, and the Fae tell the giftee not to abuse it, but they cruelly force everyone to dance so long and so hard that the faerie returns, takes back the harp, and then takes the human's ability to ever make music again, so example (by taking fingers or eyes or tongues as well, often.)

So I think Mad Jack strikes a bargain for power - but, then tries to abuse that power (nuclear war). But part of the bargain is that the Fae cannot approach him directly ever again. In the real world, they therefore tempt him into the faerie ring and bind his soul there, problem solved - until the Doctor accidentally lets him out, and gets his own soul stuck. Ruby, therefore, becomes the instrument through which they manage to take that power away once again - and then, her final Fae gift for her service is that they use the temporal anomaly of the faerie ring to send her back, at the end of her life, and give her a second chance. This time, with Mad Jack's soul left bound in Annwfn.

The fun part is, RTD is a writer who understands the power of not explaining everything and leaving some things up to the viewer's imagination, so none of this is ever going to be explained lol. But yeah, that is a gwyll. The moment she appeared, I said out loud "Oh holy fuck, gwyllion." That was a gwyll.

As a final observation, I loved seeing Siân Phillips, and I choose to believe they filmed those scenes in a pub because they could only get Siân if they agreed to just come to her local. The woman is a queen.

#asks #wales! #closed for cleaning on mondays #doctor whom #doctor who spoilers

[adlamu]

UNPREDICTABLE LIKE THE SUN | annwfn dangnefeddus, andy fletcher, you're sorely missed 🦊7

#my artwork #graphics #depeche mode #depeche mode fan art #depechays #andy fletcher #andy fletch fletcher #fletch #godspeed you beautiful soul 🦊7

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Looking up some stuff led me to the Wikipedia page on Annwn, which made me go “hey that sounds like Henneth Annûn, i.e. Window on the West —> annûn = west = Valinor”, but Wikipedia’s already got it covered:

Annwn, Annwfn, or Annwfyn ([ˈanʊn]) is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn[1][2] (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd[3]), it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease was absent and food was ever-abundant.[4][5]

…J. R. R. Tolkien used the word annún in his Middle-earth mythology as a term in the Elvish language Sindarin (phonologically inspired by Welsh) meaning "west" or "sunset" (cognate with the Quenya Andúnë), often referring figuratively to the "True West", i.e. the blessed land of Aman beyond the Sea, the Lonely Island Tol Eressëa, or (in the later mannish usage) to the drowned island of Númenor. This is an example of Tolkien's method of world-building by "explaining the true meaning" of various real-world words by assigning them an alternative "Elvish" etymology. The Sindarin word for 'king', aran is also similar to Arawn, the king of Annwn.

But. The Wikipedia entry also has this:

The appearance of a form antumnos on an ancient Gaulish curse tablet, which means an ('other') + tumnos ('world'), however, suggests that the original term may have been *ande-dubnos, a common Gallo-Brittonic word that literally meant "underworld".[7]

….I’m feeling like that’s where Tolkien got Utumno from.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #the lord of the rings #medieval

[toxicdogs]

I did Welsh folklore art tonight on stream and I'm definitely going to be making this into a series!

I present, the Gwyllgi! An ominous black mastiff that can be seen wandering the fields of Wales. The Gwyllgi are also called Cwn Annwfn or Cwn Annwn (meaning "dogs of the otherworld") and Cwn Cyrff ("corpse dog").

#This was really fun to do #Welsh Folklore is dope #do not re upload my art please #my art #Wales

[wildbasil]

I love the implication that Gwyn ap Nudd potentially has the power to bring about the end of the world ("God has put the spirit of the demons of Annwfn in him, lest the world be destroyed"), thereby ending the cycle of eternal May Day battles with Gwythyr. And yet he doesn't.

Because he doesn't think he'll win the final battle? Or he kinda likes fighting Gwythyr? Or, despite being a bit of an edgelord, he doesn't want the world to end?

#risky move for god to put the guy with anger issues in charge of preventing the apocalypse #and risky move for arthur to lock gwyn in a metaphorical prison for which gwyn already has the keys #3:30am thoughts (why am i still awake????)

[cyberpreppy]

King Arthur's worst crimes. For those who don't know:

Raiding parties

In Culhwch and Olwen, Arthur and his friends sail to Ireland and, while guests in the house of Dyrnwch the Giant, kill their hosts and steal the magical Cauldron of Dyrnwch. A similar adventure is implied in the Spoils of Annwfn, in which Arthur and co. sail to the Welsh Underworld and rob it.

Imperial conquest

The Historia Regum Britanniae relates how Arthur conquered Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, France, and others. In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Arthur conquers Rome after rampaging across Europe in order to make himself the new Emperor.

Mass infanticide

In Le Morte d'Arthur Merlin prophecies to Arthur that he'll be undone by a May Day newborn. Arthur ordains that all the kingdom's May Day babies be loaded aboard a ship and set adrift to die. This attempted "May Day Massacre" fails, and one of the children is Mordred.

Rape

Everyone knows Arthur fathered Mordred by his half-sister, but this incest was at least apparently consensual. The Post-Vulgate Cycle relates how Arthur raped the daughter of a knight, and demanded that a son born of the union share his name. When "Arthur the Less" grows up, he arrives at Camelot, shares the story in court, and is lovingly received by the king, who displays no shame for his actions. The court expresses no disapproval.

#king arthur #mordred #camelot #arthuriana #merlin

[taliesin-the-bored]

The back of my Siege Perilous

Going from left to right and down, the symbols stand for Galahad, Percival, Ragnell, Blanchefleur, the Grail Heroine, the Lady of the Lake who gives Arthur Excalibur, Guinier, Gawain, Dinadan, Ector de Maris, Morgan le Fay, Caradoc Briefbras, Griflet, Isolde, Vivian, Taliesin, Tristan, Brunnisend, the Nine Witches, Laudine, the Three Queens or Morgause, Kay, Dagonet, Merlin, Palamedes, Sebile, Guinevere, Igraine, Melora, Yvain, Mordred, and Arthur.

If you’re confused about some or all of them, here’s my rationale/what the symbols are: 

Galahad and Percival have slightly different Grails. I think Ragnell is found sitting under a tree, and another story has Gawain in a relationship with the queen of Avalon, isle of the apples. Blanchefleur means “white flower”. The square with the spiral in it is the Grail Heroine’s box of hair. The sword under the wave is fairly obvious. That is the drinking horn from Guinier’s chastity test. Gawain’s is a SGatGK reference. Dinadan’s is an aro ring. Ector de Maris, Griflet, Kay, and Palamedes all have symbols or patterns from their attributed arms. Morgan le Fay takes Arthur to Avalon on a boat. Caradoc has to be saved from a serpent which is wound around his arm. The torch is a Wagner reference. Nimue traps Merlin, whose symbol is the bird who shares his name, so she is represented by a birdcage. Taliesin got his wisdom from a cauldron, and there’s a cauldron in the Preideu Annwfn. Tristan plays a harp. The formation of the relationship between Brunnisend and her eventual husband is defined by their dire yet mutually exclusive needs for a good night’s sleep. The Nine Witches’ symbol seemed cool and has a threefold element. Laudine has a magic fountain. The evolution of the nature and deeds of Anna/Morcades/Morgause/etc. seemed to sort of go with the Maiden, Matron, Crone archetype and I really couldn’t think of anything else. Dagonet eventually became a jester. Yblis, who has a magic mantle, is Sybil scrambled, and there is a strong modern association between magic and capes. Guinevere is sometimes given authority over the knights of the vergescu. My justification for Igraine’s is particularly weak and would take too long to explain. Melora wields the Lance of Longinus. Yvain befriends a lion. Mordred has a broken table because he helped break the Round Table. Arthur is King.

#original art #The Siege Perilous #arthuriana #arthurian legends #This took forever #Yes this is at my dining table #There are a few things in life that I unabashedly brag about. This is one of them. #ARThuriana #chairs

[kckatie]

Bonus Folk Friday track: Gwydion Pendderwen - The Trees of Annwfn

#earworm #folk #Folk Friday #Pagan Music #Gwydion Pendderwen #Youtube