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	Goddess Within - Workshops, Events, Information
		Blodeuwedd then tries to kill the magically born Llew by devious means, but Llew can only die if he is struck by spear one year in the making, not within a house or without and not on horseback or on foot.
		Blodeuwedd, like Rhiannon, is a love Goddess, she chooses her lovers as she pleases and is unrestricted by castle walls or contianment of the social morals of the day.
		Blodeuwedd is portrayed as a betrayer and is chased out of her communal home into the wilds where she adopts another face, that of the owl.
	www.goddesswithin.co.uk /may.htm (790 words)

	Blodeuwedd
		Blodeuwedd (pronouced BLOD-oo-eeth) is the Lily Maid or Flower Maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies, and is the maiden form of the Triple Goddess.
		Blodeuwedd was created by the magicians Math and Gwydion as a wife for their nephew, the young god Llew Llaw Gyffes.
		Gwydion chased Blodeuwedd through the forests, finally capturing her and turning her into an owl, a bird that prefers the night and hunts by the light of the moon.
	members.shaw.ca /kitchenwitch/kitchenwitch/blodeuwedd.htm (1586 words)

	Blodeuwedd
		However, Blodeuwedd had an affair with Goronwy Bebyr and egged-on by her lover determined the magical way in which Lleu could be killed.
		Blodeuwedd was created from nine types of flowers: oak, meadowsweet, broom, cockle, bean, nettle, chestnut, primrose, and hawthorn; thus she is in and of herself magical, being a nine-fold maiden.
		The part Blodeuwedd palys in the attempted murder of Lleu and her conversion into an owl may indicate that she was a goddess of death and the otherworld.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_b/blodeuwedd.html (217 words)

	Blodeuwedd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Welsh mythology, Blodeuwedd is the later name of Blodeuedd, a woman made from flowers.
		Her story is part of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion, the tale of Math son of Mathonwy.
		You will not lose your name but always be called Blodeuwedd.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blodeuwedd (387 words)

	Blodeuwedd
		Blodeuwedd was created out of flowers by Gwydion to wed Llew Llaw Gyffes.
		She asked him to explain this, and he did: he could be killed only if it were twilight, wrapped in a fish net, with one foot on a cauldron and the other on a goat, and if the weapon had been forged during sacred hours when such work was forbidden.
		Blodeuwedd convinced him to demonstrate how impossible such a position was to achieve by chance, and when he was in it, het lover Goronwy leapt out and struck.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/blodeuwedd.html (189 words)

	Lleu Llaw Gyffes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blodeuwedd had an affair with Goronwy and tricked the secret of his death out of him, since Lleu could not be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made.
		He could only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat and with a weapon forged during the hours when everyone was at mass.
		He killed Goronwy and Gwydion turned Blodeuwedd into an owl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Llew (322 words)

	Blodeuwedd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blodeuwedd is originally created as a Flower Maiden bride from Meadowsweet, Broom and Oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion.
		Their neighbour Gronw is hunting and he arrives on the scene and woos Blodeuwedd so that she reveals the secret of Lleu's death.
		Blodeuwedd request Lleu to demonstrate his death and Gronw hurls a spear, made in a year and a day, Lleu dies.
	www.gwdihw.com /blodeuwedd.htm (238 words)

	Blodeuwedd
		The Legend of Blodeuwedd is also the story of Llew’s struggle for his kingship which was averted and made more difficult by the Goddess Arianrhod who tried Her best to prevent Llew, Her son, his birth-right due to the shame brought upon Her by his companions.
		Due to the nature of Her Birth, Blodeuwedd - whose name means either ‘Flower Face’ or the ancient name for the Owl - and represents the Earth in full bloom.
		Blodeuwedd is seen as a part of his hard and difficult destiny.
	www.druidry.org /obod/deities/blodeuwedd.html (1025 words)

	Loesje.info : Blodeuwedd
		Blodeuwedd staat voor de vraatzuchtige aardgodin die dorst naar het bloed van de heilige koning om haar bodem te bevruchten.
		Blodeuwedd spoelt terug naar de scène met de kiem van het verraad en speelt hem nog eens af.
		Zuig hem tot diep in je cellen, je botten, je bewustzijn.
	www.loesje.info /esoterie/blodeuwedd.htm (621 words)

	Gwydion and Lleu
		Blodeuwedd had the form of a beautiful woman, and seemingly all the love of a good wife, but she was frail and, at the center, false.
		All through the afternoon, while Blodeuwedd watched from her castle wall, the hunters appeared an disappeared among the trees, and at last, at twilight, she heard the shouts that heralded the kill.
		Blodeuwedd offered them shelter so that they would not have to ride to their own lands in the dark.
	home.iprimus.com.au /sidhe/gwydion2.html (3207 words)

	WWW.PRESSBILD.COM
		Blodeuwedd - flickan som skapades av blommor handlar om Trollkvinnan Arianrhod som föder en son, trots att hon lovat Fursten av Mörkret att avstå från män, som tack för sin häxkonst.
		Som hämnd sänder Trollkvinnan en vacker jägare som Blodeuwedd skall förälska sig i.
		Blodeuwedd är en magisk fantasiförställning, en legend, som handlar om förälskelse och hämnd samt "vem är ond och vem är god".
	www.pressbild.com /go/mellerud/mellerud.html (261 words)

	Blodeuwedd---Celtic---Spring Goddess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After Blodeuwedd and Llew Llaw were married for a time, she fell in love with a hunter and chose him for herself.
		The Maiden form of the Triple Goddess, her symbol was the owl; Goddess of the Earth in bloom.
		Blodeuwedd was transformed into an owl, to haunt the night in loneliness and sorrow, shunned by all other birds.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Arc/3860/goddess/blodeuwedd.html (432 words)

	MatriFocus, Blodeuwedd
		Blodeuwedd tricked Llew into telling her the ingredients of the protection spell that protected him from being killed.
		Blodeuwedd is a maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess.
		Blodeuwedd is seen as a great rebel, a woman who refused to stay in the patriarchal box put around her.
	www.matrifocus.com /IMB02/spotlight.htm (750 words)

	BBC - Wales History - Mabinogion - Fourth branch - Welsh myths and legends
		Lleu and Blodeuwedd are married and Math gives them the lands of Eifionidd and Ardudwy to rule over so they move their court to Mur Castell (overlooking Trawsfynydd).
		He can be killed only by a spear which must be a year in the making, but he must be standing with one foot on a trough built on the side of a river with a roof over it, and the other foot on the back of a billy goat.
		Blodeuwedd, knowing that they're coming tries to run away but Gwydion catches her at Llyn Morwinion (overlooking Porthmadog) and turns her into an owl, so that she can never show her face in daylight again, because the other birds will attack her.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/history/sites/myths-customs/pages/myth-mab4.shtml (1203 words)

	blodeuwedd
		Blodeuwedd is " Nature's Child"...Goddess of the Earth in full bloom, Lady of Healing FlowersandLunar Mysteries...
		Blodeuwedd, She who is the Ninefold SpringGoddess created by Math and his nephew Gwydion to be Llew's wife.
		The Owl transformed Blodeuwedd from a meek,gentle beautiful, perfect mate to a Woman who is assertive,independent,self-realized and Wise.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Parthenon/3946/blodeuwedd.html (119 words)

	Blodeuwedd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Celtic mythology, Blodeuwedd was a womanmade by flowers by Llew Llaw Gyffes, who could not marry a humanwoman.
		Blodeuwedd had an affair with Goronwy and tricked the secret of his death out ofhim, since Llew could not be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed andnot naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made.
		He could only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and oneon a goat and a weapon forged during the hours when forging weapons was forbidden.
	www.therfcc.org /blodeuwedd-145525.html (134 words)

	Llew Llaw Gyffes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She said that he was a bright lion with a sure hand and he took the name Llew Llaw Gyffes ("bright lion witha sure hand").
		Blodeuwedd had anaffair with Goronwy and tricked the secret of his death out of him, since Llew couldnot be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by anyweapon lawfully made.
		He could only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat and a weapon forged during thehours when forging weapons was forbidden.
	www.therfcc.org /llew-llaw-gyffes-145546.html (225 words)

	Goddesses in the Avalonian Tradition
		Blodeuwedd is the Welsh Maiden Goddess, revered on Avalon as the Goddess of new beginnings, independence and empowerment.
		The name "Blodeuwedd" means "Flower Face", which refers to Her Flower origins as well as her association with the owl....
		The angry Arianrhod swears that the child in Her brother's arms will never have a name, never bear a sword, and never marry a woman of the Earth - for all of these things can only be granted by the child's Mother.
	www.sisterhoodofavalon.org /goddesses.html (1195 words)

	Blodeuwedd
		Blodeuwedd is the Celtic goddess of Lunar Mysteries.
		Blodeuwedd was transformed into an owl, for her trickery.
		She was doomed to haunt the night in loneliness and sorrow, shunned by all other birds.
	www.mooresartgallery.com /blodeuwedd.html (104 words)

	British Mythology - Math the son of Mathonwy
		Blodeuwedd invited him in to eat, and from the moment she set eyes on him she was filled with love for him.
		Accordingly, when Llew returned, Blodeuwedd pretended great concern for him, saying that she was so worried he might be taken from her by death.
		That very day, Blodeuwedd approached Llew and said how she had been thinking about what he had told her a year ago, and that she did not understand how it would be possible to stand on a buck and a cauldron at the same time.
	www.ynysprydein.org /myth/math_tale.htm (3202 words)

	The Flower Maiden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blodeuwedd nodded, and withdrew again into the castle, while outside the horn continued to sound.
		As she said the words, Blodeuwedd realized that she did not wish to be bound to Llew Llaw Gyffes, that she would choose this other man, this stranger before her who spoke to her as if she were his equal.
		Blodeuwedd went to her husband, and again mentioned his mortality.
	www.fables.org /crown_thistle/blodeuwedd.html (1439 words)

	Celtic Improvisations: Armorica and the Gods
		A counterpart of Olwen was Blodeuwedd, "Flower aspects," the wife of Llew, the sun god.
		She had a lover, and together they plotted the death of Llew, but Llew was brought back to life, and Blodeuwedd was changed into an owl.
		Blodeuwedd represented the dawn and dusk; her lover, the night - but the sun vanquished them both.
	www.writer2001.com /gods3.htm (1661 words)

	PathWalkers.Net Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blodeuwedd is the flower maiden, Arianrhod represents the mother and The Morrigu at last is the crone.
		They took the blossoms of the oak, then the blossoms of the broom and of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw.
		Blodeuwedd fell in love with another man than Lleu however and managed to change him into an eagle.
	www.pathwalkers.net /interactive/print.php?sid=259&POSTNUKESID=61c3c923f50a622bf6beff8210d00924 (397 words)

	The Myth of Blodeuwedd
		After she had become his bride, and they had feasted, said Gwydion, "It is not easy for a man to maintain himself without possessions." "Of a truth," said Math, "I will give the young man the best Cantrev to hold." "Lord," said he, "what Cantrev is that?" "The Cantrev of Dinodig," he answered.
		Blodeuwedd looked upon him, and from the moment that she looked on him she became filled with his love.
		When Blodeuwedd heard that he was coming, she took her maidens with her, and fled to the mountain.
	www.geocities.com /ariannon/blmyth.html (2071 words)

	Paul Flynn MP - Newport West - Newport Delight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The High Sheriff, Neville Waters witnessed the unveiling of an erotic statue of Blodeuwedd and Llew Llaw Gyffes at the Ffwrrwm Caerleon.
		Blodeuwedd denied him love for five months than took him to a lakeside where a goat was tethered.
		He then killed Goronwy, but Blodeuwedd was turned into an owl.
	www.paulflynnmp.co.uk /newportdetail.jsp?id=698 (442 words)

	NLApril2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blodeuwedd, true to her treacherous ways, used her seductive wiles to elicit this secret from her husband.
		He told her that he had to be bathing under a thatched roof over a cauldron by the side of a river, while standing with one leg touching a deer in order to be vulnerable.
		Blodeuwedd quickly passed on this information to her new found lover who then set about making the spear over the course of a year.
	www.whisperingwood.homestead.com /NLApril2004.html (3924 words)

	Blodeuwedd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Created by Gwydion and Math ap Mathonwy out of flowers, she was intended to be the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes; however, forced into this marriage, she took as a lover Gronwy, a local lord, and gave him the secret of how to slay Lleu.
		In Blodeuwedd, we have the ultimate arranged marriage--she is created specifically for one man. Unsatisfied with her fate, she commits adultery and, with her lover, plots to kill her husband.
		The fact that Blodeuwedd was created is not enough; there are so many transformations, shapeshifting, gender identity and space issues, running rampant in Math ap Mathonwy that there can be no definitive answer as to Blodeuwedd's nature.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/blodeuwedd.html (298 words)

	Blodeuwedd, Welsh Spring and Owl Goddess--Celtic gods and goddesses white goddess pagan gods and goddesses wiccan art ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blodeuwedd is the Welsh goddess of spring created from flowers, and the wife of Lleu, son of
		In the late Christianized myth, She was created by the great magicians Math and Gwydion to be Lleu's mate, in response to a curse pronounced by his mother that he would never have a wife from any race then on the Earth.
		Blodeuwedd was punished for this by being transformed into the night-bird, the owl, though She kept her name--in Welsh, blodeuwedd, meaning "Flower-face", is a name for the owl.
	thaliatook.com /blodeuwedd.html (338 words)

	Tomen y Mur
		But Blodeuwedd and her maidens fled north towards the mountains where Gwydion caught up and changed her into an owl,"because of her dishonour and her evil never to show her face again by day".
		But Blodeuwedd proved inconstant and plotted with her lover, Grouw Pebyr of Bala, to slay Lleu with a javelin, and when they had slain him, they seized Tomen-y-Mur and ruled the land around from there.
		The maidens, walking backwards, fell into the lake of the Maidens (Llyn Morwynion) and were drowned, while Blodeuwedd was turned into an owl to shun the daylight for all eternity, and Gronw was slain as he had slain Lleu.
	www.castlewales.com /mur.html (764 words)

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