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sutexii · 3 months
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Mari Lwyd 🔔 Print X
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the-evil-clergyman · 9 months
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Illustrations from The Mabinogion by Alan Lee (2001)
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thiscatdraws · 3 months
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Annual bitter Welsh person announcement that Mari Lwyd is not a cryptid, or a creepypasta, or an evil spirit, or an ancient Druidic ritual…it’s a wassailing custom that began in the early Victorian period.
please do your research and don’t appropriate marginalized cultures into spooky stories/art. This goes for w*ndigoes, sk*nwalkers, etc etc… ✨
Happy holidays! 🎄
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birdsofrhiannon · 4 months
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Morgan Le Fay by John Stanhope
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alterlest · 5 months
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𓃶 What Is The Wild Hunt?
The Wild Hunt is a common belief among many Northern European cultures. In short, the hunt is a cavalcade of ghosts, spirits, fairies, elves, and other spiritual beings that is said to sweep across our world every year. Depending on where your beliefs come from, when it happens will differ.
It is commonly believed that the leader of The Wild Hunt is a deity or figure of importance of some kind, such as Odin/Woden in Norse and Saxon traditions, or King Arthur in British lore. Other leaders of the hunt include but are not limited to:
𖤓 Arawn or Gwyn ap Nudd, commonly seen as the Welsh lords of Annwn
𖤓 Danish king Valdemar Atterdag
𖤓 The Norse dragon slayer Sigurd
𖤓 Biblical figures like Cain, Gabriel, Herod and the devil
𖤓 Gothic king Theodoric the Great
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𓃶 What Did People Do For The Wild Hunt?
The Wild Hunt was generally seen as a bad omen; one for destruction, famine, war, plague, or the death of the one who saw it. In many traditions, witnessing the hunt would result in the viewer being abducted to Otherworld or Underworld. Other times, those who were not protected would have their souls pulled from their bodies while they sleep, and they would join the menagerie of the dead.
To avoid this fate, people in Wales, for example, began the tradition of carving pumpkins as a way to avoid being taken by the fae. In Scandinavia, offerings like bread were put outside the home as an offering to the spirits joining Odin for the hunt.
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𓃶 When is The Wild Hunt?
Depending on where your beliefs stem from, there are various answers to this question.
In Britain, The Wild Hunt is associated with the autumn season, specifically around and on Samhain/The Autumn Equinox.
Scandinavian tradition tells us that they prepared for the hunt around December, specifically Yule/The Winter Equinox.
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𓃶 What Entities Are A Part of the Wild Hunt?
Many entities are associated with the Wild Hunt in different areas. These entities include but are not limited to:
𖤓 The Fae (The Sidhe, The Tlywyth Teg, etc)
𖤓 Spirits of the Dead
𖤓 Demons
𖤓 Valkyries
𖤓 The Spirits of Huntsmen or Nobles
𖤓 Horses (sometimes with an abnormal amount of legs)
𖤓 Wolves and dogs (sometimes spiritual in nature, i.e. the Cwn Annwn)
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allmythologies · 11 months
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mythologies: spring deities
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wildbasil · 1 year
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hello tumblr, can our next mass hyperfixation be welsh myths please 🥺
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llyfrenfys · 2 months
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See, I personally find this quest to find pagan/pre-Christian elements in Welsh/Irish literature quite unnerving - I don't know about anyone else.
There's something to be said about genuinely discovering pre-Christian elements in a narrative or story and that being where evidence and study has led you. But I see some people on this fruitless quest to find pagan elements in very Christian texts and sometimes it feels like if no pagan elements can be found, people start making stuff up out of whole cloth - and that can be very dangerous for already not-well known texts in minoritised languages!
There's already so much misinformation out there about Irish/Welsh texts and literature in general - so it hurts to see people carelessly adding to the misinformation either out of ignorance or lack of respect for the source material.
I promise you the source material being Christian doesn't ruin it - you can in fact, enjoy these myths without making them into something they're not!
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mythicmayhemcomic · 4 months
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As winter festivities draw near, the party girl Mari Lwyd stirs.
Wanting to spread some cheer I’ve made a Mari Lwyd base, so you may colour and decorate your own. You may edit the line work, but please do not remove my signatures and copyright info. This base is for non commercial use. If you wish to make adopts with the base consider donating to my ko-Fi.
I’d love to see what your Mari’s will look like.
You can find a transparent and solid base below.
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death-but-once · 3 months
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"You'll find yourself a beast without name or direction,"
I wanted to draw myself a new desktop background with my story's main character, Bleddyn. He's been cursed into Ci Annwn werewolf which is fitting punishment for a man with identity issues. Cwn Annwn are characterized by their white coats and red ears/eyes. They're the hunting dogs of the Otherworld in Welsh mythology.
The symbol in the bottom right is the Ogham sigil for Elder Tree. Elder trees are meant to represent transformation, cycles, and rebirth.
The waning crescent moon is a symbol of endings as this is the end of Bleddyn's former life as a princess.
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minikker02 · 2 years
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O wow the new "prince of Wales" has decided to visit on Owain Glyndwr day (the day we celebrate and remember the last Welsh prince of Wales. He also led the sadly unsuccessful fight for our independence from the English)
They're not even being subtle about the fact they want to subjugate our people and erase our culture and history - if they really cared about us they'd relinquish the title and leave us the fuck alone
If you wanna know more then look up
King Henry VIII's Laws in Wales Act, abolishing our legal system and banning our language
All the anti-Welsh propaganda pushed particularly in the 17th century when there was a revival of our language (seriously look up Wallography it's really fucked up)
The English and Scots in the Industrial Revolution building their heavy industry pretty much exclusively in South Wales and channelling all the money from our work into England and large southern Scottish cities
The Welsh Not (an actual attempt to beat children so our language would die and we'd stop fighting against the English)
The focus of the English on the beauty and natural resources of Wales while degrading the people
The fact that until 1881 the Welsh weren't represented in politics (up until that point any politicians from Wales had to speak English and almost all of them were just English
The fact that in 1905!!! Prime minister H. H. Asquith literally said "I would sooner go to hell than to Wales"
Liverpool's creation of the Llyn Celyn reservoir in Wales without Welsh permission - to do this, they full on flooded a village which was a stronghold of Welsh culture and one of the last Welsh language only communities, Capel Celyn, and to make matters worse 35/36 Welsh MPs voted against the flooding and it still happened - This was in the 1960s
Also Liverpool didn't apologise for this blatant disregard of our rights and the forced eviction of an entire village until 2005
The Welsh language wasn't given equal footing to English until 1993 and even now English is compulsory in schools at GCSE level and Welsh isn't
The continued disdain shown by English cultural icons to the Welsh people and culture (seriously look up what Jeremy Clarkson has said about the Welsh before, particularly about abolishing the Welsh language)
How the English are killing our villages and towns by buying up our homes for "holiday homes" (really shouldn't be allowed at all but that's a different point) - this is killing business as these homes spend most of the year uninhabited (also it's not just a few, there's entire villages owned by the English which are now unlivable)
The mass strop the English media threw in 2019 when the Senedd was first allowed to refer to itself in Welsh officially, and as a parliament officially (instead of an Assembly)
Also the continued appropriation of our mythology (chiefly King Arthur but appropriation of Celtic history and mythology is a much wider issue perpetuated by a lot of people)
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deathsweetblossoms · 6 months
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— Blodeuwedd: Welsh Goddess of Seasonal Sovereignty
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the-evil-clergyman · 6 months
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Illustration from Lady Charlotte Guest's The Mabinogion by Alan Lee (2001)
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thatdamhobbit · 2 months
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My dealer: got some straight gas. This strain is called “Camlann”, you’ll be zonked out of your gourd.
Me: yeah, whatever. I don’t feel shit.
5 mins later: dude I swear that was Twrch Trwyth.
My buddy Dai, pacing: Gwaine is lying to us
Anyway go listen to Camlann. Post-apocalyptic queer found family audio drama based on Arthuriana and Welsh mythology. Great music too.
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birdsofrhiannon · 1 year
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Lady of the lake by laclillac 
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woodelf68 · 7 months
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For Dogust. The Cŵn Annwn, the red-eared white hounds of the Wild Hunt in Welsh mythology. Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld, is said to be either ruled by King Arawn (as cited in the Mabinogion, the earliest Welsh prose stories) or Gwyn ap Nudd (king of the Fair Folk in later medieval lore). Some say the hunt rides through the sky, chasing wandering spirits, others that their hunting grounds include the mountain of Cadair Idris, where hearing the baying of the hounds is a foretelling of death. "Cŵn" is plural for "hounds", the singular form is "Ci".
I'm sure they're good doggies who like ear skritches just like any other.
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