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  gilfaethwy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In Celtic mythology, Gilfaethwy was a son of Danu and Beli.
Gwydion and Gilfaethwy were supposed to be with him, but they snuck back.
Gilfaethwy was, for one year each, a hind, boar and she-wolf.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Gilfaethwy.html   (172 words)

  
 Welsh Gods/Goddesses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Arianrhod is the daughter of Don, mother of Dylan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes, and sister of Gilfaethwy and Gwydion.
Gilfaethwy is the brother of Gwydion and Arianrhod, son of Don, and nephew of Math vab Mathonwy.
Math is the uncle of Gilfaethwy and Gwydion and Lord of Gwynedd (Northern Wales).
www.angelfire.com /pa/WoundedDove/welsh.html   (1611 words)

  
 Gilfaethwy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In (Click link for more info and facts about Welsh mythology) Welsh mythology, Gilfaethwy was a son of the goddess (A European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov) Don.
Gwydion was, for one year each, a (Adult male deer) stag, (An adult female hog) sow and (Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs) wolf.
Gilfaethwy was, for one year each, a (Any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers) hind, (An uncastrated male hog) boar and she- (Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs) wolf.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/gilfaethwy.htm   (220 words)

  
 Gwydion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gilfaethwy develops a lust for Math's foot-maiden, Goewin, a very beautiful and high born maiden, and Gwydion agrees to help his brother satisfy his lust for her.
Gwydion and Gilfaethwy head to Pryderi's court and Gwydion goes on to entertain them all with tales until he has won their favour, including Pryderi.
The offspring, a fawn, a piglet and a cub, born to the two brothers are transformed into human boys, given names and fostered out.
www.janih.com /kitiana/celtic/gwydion.html   (483 words)

  
 Math ap Mathonwy - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In Celtic mythology, Math ap Mathonwy was a king who needed to rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war, or wanted to be.
When one of his virgins, Goewin, was raped by Gilfaethwy, she was replaced with Gilfaethwy's sister, Arianrhod.
She immediately gave birth to a young boy (Dylan) and a blob.
www.classicalenthusiast.com /wikipedia/ma/Math_Mathonwy.html   (59 words)

  
 Art111   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In the tale, Gilfaethwy *(Ghil-vath-ee) falls in love with the maiden Goewin, the virginal foot bearer of their lord, Math.
Gilfaethwy breaks into Goewin's room, with the help of his brother Gwydion *(Gwud-yon) and rapes her one night when the king, Math, had gone to battle.
Gilfaethwy being first the female and Gwydion the male; the next time they would reverse their sexes.
www.unc.edu /celtic/catalogue/cult/buray.html   (386 words)

  
 Gwydion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This in turn would render *Gwydichonn, becoming Welsh Gwydion.
Gwydion helped Gilfaethwy rape Goewin, Math ap Mathonwy's foot-holder.
Gwydion and Gilfaethwy were supposed to be with him, but they sneaked back.
leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gwydion   (613 words)

  
 BBC - Wales History - Mabinogion - Fourth branch - Welsh myths and legends
The story centres on the children of Don - Gwydion (a magician), Gilfaethwy and Arianrhod, and their uncle Math the wizard king of Gwynedd.
Gilfaethwy falls in love with Goewin, and Gwydion plots to start a war so that Gilfaethwy can be with her.
When Goewin tells him that Gilfaethwy has raped her, Math promises to marry her himself and issues a ban denying the brothers food and drink within his kingdom.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/history/sites/myths-customs/pages/myth-mab4.shtml   (1203 words)

  
 GAU-TO-GOD, page of celtic mythology
Gilfaethwy confided his feeling to hi brother Gwydion.
Gwydion and Gilfaethwy went to Dyfed with ten companions.
The dispute ends with a single combat between Gwydion and Pryderi and "by the magic and charms of Gwydion, Pryderi was slain." When Math returns he finds Gilfaethwy and Gwydion gone into exile.
www.celtic.mythology.50megs.com /gau---god.html   (1449 words)

  
 Otherworld Fantasies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
She is also known as a goddess of the moon and the name Silver Wheel could be a poetic name for the moon.
Daughter of Don and Beli, she was the sister of Amaethon, Gwydion, Govannon, Gilfaethwy and Nudd.
Legend has it that to prove she was a virgin, she stepped over the magic wand of Math, her uncle, gave birth to her two sons, Dylan and Lleu.
otherworldfantasies.com /myth/welsh_people.htm   (1981 words)

  
 Arianrhod ferch Dôn
According to the story, when Gwydion creates a war with Pryderi so that Math can lead his men into war--thus leaving Math's footholder Goewin unattended--Gwydion's brother Gilfaethwy has a window of opportunity to rape Goewin, thus curing his "wasting sickness".
It is thought that the original, oral version of this story may have been the rape of Arianrhod by Gwydion, and the subsequent adventures of their incestuous-but-magical child.
This would explain Arianrhod's pregnancy and her subsequent hatred for her brother, as well as the disappearance from the story of Gilfaethwy and Goewin.
www.maryjones.us /jce/arianrhod.html   (463 words)

  
 Math
The maiden currently with him was Goewin daughter of Pebin of Dôl Pebin in Arfon; she benig the fairest maiden of her age.
Goewin dwelt with Math constantly, but Gilfaethwy mab Dôn had set his affections upon her, loving her so much that he knew not what he should do on her account.
As punishment for the rape of Goewin (whom Math now marries) Gwydion and Gilfaethwy are turned successively, by dint of Math's magic and the aplication of his hulath (magic staff) into male and female deer, swine and wolves to spend a year in each form and to bear sons one upon the other.
www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_m/math.html   (1270 words)

  
 11ch10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
However, he cannot live when he is not engaged in warfare unless his feet lie in the lap of a virgin, Goewin, as though he is forever still emerging from the womb.
When his cousin Gilfaethwy lusts after her, Gilfaethwy's brother Gwydion, also a sorcerer, devises a plan to get her out from under Math's feet.
Like the disgraced Gilfaethwy, the women are erased from this text, their fecundity null or perverted.
www.luc.edu /publications/medieval/vol11/11ch10.html   (4175 words)

  
 Welsh gods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In Welsh mythology, Gwydion was a son of the goddess Don (goddess).
Gwydion was, for one year each, a stag, pig and wolf.
Gilfaethwy was, for one year each, a deer, boar and she-wolf.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Welsh-gods   (318 words)

  
 Math fab Mathonwy: The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
The maiden was with Math all of the time, but Gilfaethwy set his heart on the maiden, and loved her so much that there was nothing he could do because of her.
And in the bed[30] of Math, Goewin daughter of Pebin was put to sleep with Gilfaethwy, and the maidens were forced out rudely, and she was slept with against her will that night.
Gilfaethwy son of Don and the household that was with him toured the circuit of Gwynedd as was their wont — but without coming to court.
www.mabinogi.net /math.htm   (10286 words)

  
 In Celtic mythology Celtic mythology Gwydion was a son of Beli...
He helped Gilfaethwy Gilfaethwy rape Goewin Goewin, Math ap Mathonwy Math ap Mathonwy's foot-holder.
Gwydion was, for one year each, a stag stag, sow sow and wolf wolf.
Gilfaethwy was, for one year each, a hind hind, boar boar and she-wolf wolf.
www.biodatabase.de /Gwydion   (332 words)

  
 Mabinogion - Math the Son of Mathonwy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
And Math dwelt always at Caer Dathyl, in Arfon, and was not able to go the circuit of the land, but Gilfaethwy the son of Don, and Eneyd the son of Don, his nephews, the sons of his sister, with his household, went the circuit of the land in his stead.
Now the attack was made by thy nephews, lord, the sons of thy sister, Gwydion the son of Don, and Gilfaethwy the son of Don; unto me they did wrong, and unto thee dishonour." "Verily," he exclaimed, "I will do to the utmost of my power concerning this matter.
And Gwydion and Gilfaethwy came not near the Court, but stayed in the confines of the land until it was forbidden to give them meat and drink.
www.red4.co.uk /Folklore/mabinogion/math.htm   (6446 words)

  
 Gwydion the Wizard
Gwydion’s brother Gilfaethwy desired the maiden, but there seemed no way he could approach her.
Amid the noise and uproar, when Math was occupied in battle, Gilfaethwy sought out Goewin and raped her.
He did, and caused Gwydion and Gilfaethwy to come to his fortress, Caer Dathyl, to make reparation for the men and animals lost in the foolish battle, for the needless death of Pryderi and for the shame of Goewin.
home.iprimus.com.au /sidhe/gwydion1.html   (633 words)

  
 The Mythologies: Llew
Math, the son of Mathonwy, had to sleep with his feet in the lap of a virgin, unless he was caught up in war.
When Goewin, his footholder, is abducted and forcibly married to Gilfaethwy, Math’s nephew, Gwydion suggests his sister, Aranrhod as the girl’s replacement.
A summons is sent to Aranrhod and she is asked to step over Math’s magic staff to test her virginity, the state of which she’s already sworn.
www.spiritrealm.com /Melinda/Myth/Llew.html   (688 words)

  
 Our Stuff\website\mabinog
Math's very existence, then, lay in the 'maiden' aspect of the Feminine Principle (as we have said, he was an extension of Don) and Goewin, which means sprightly - denoting youth, was the earthly representative of such a principle on the mundane stratum of myth.
This demonstrates a slow turning from a tradition in which the woman chooses her man in a matriarchal society - the ultimate breach coming soon in the tale.
As the maiden represents Don, the lusting of Gilfaethwy after a symbolic mother may point to a taboo on incest.
www.btinternet.com /~kynran/mabinog.htm   (670 words)

  
 Gwydion
Gwydion disguises himself and Gilfaethwy as bards, and creates the appearance of ten more bards travelling with them, and under this pretense travel to Dyfed to speak with Pryderi.
Likewise after a year, Math transforms Gwydion into a sow and Gilfaethwy into a boar; and after another year, Gilfaethwy becomes a she-wolf, and Gwydion a he-wolf.
After enduring these three transformations, Gwydion and Gilfaethwy are restored to their human shapes.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/86929   (1143 words)

  
 Goewin
Gwydion finds out that his brother, Gilfaethwy is in love with Goewin and he creates a plan whereby Gilfaethwy could lie with Goewin.
Gwydion, Gilfaethwy and their men return to the north, house the stolen swine in a sty at Arllechwedd before returning to Math's Llys at Caer Dathyl.
Math mab Mathonwy returned to Caer Dathyl whilst Gilfaethwy mab Dôn and those of Math's household who were with him went to make a circuit of Gwynedd, as was their wont, whithout approaching the Llys.
www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_g/goewin.html   (834 words)

  
 The Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
His name is Gilfaethwy and also Gronw, the ardent one.
"Gilfaethwy set his heart on Goewin, and loved her so that he did not know what to do...
one night Gwydion arranged that Gilfaethwy and Goewin be thrust together into Math's chamber.
www.ynysprydein.org /arianrhod/Mirror.html   (83 words)

  
 The Story
Gwydion was a cunning man, whose ambition was to be a better magician than his uncle, whilst Gilfaethwy was of a passionate temperament and was pining for love of Goewin, the king's virgin.
While he was away the young men entered the castle, and dragged Goewin into Math's bedchamber where she was forced to lie with Gilfaethwy, and some say, with Gwydion too.
Math took his magic wand and struck Gilfaethwy, so that he turned into a doe, and before Gwydion could run way, he struck him too and turned him into a stag.
www.ynysprydein.org /arianrhod/Story.html   (3070 words)

  
 Gwydion
He contrived Gilfaethwy's rape of the maiden Goewin, Math's foot holder.
But he and Gilfaethwy doubled back and Gwydion forced the other women to leave Goewin with Gilfaethwy, who raped her.
When she confessed this to Math, he levied as punishment on his nephews that they spent three years as animals, Gwydion as a stag, a wild sow, and a wolf, breeding each year with his brother Gilfaethwy who was hind, boar, and she-wolf.
www.pantheon.org /articles/g/gwydion.html   (191 words)

  
 Math ap Mathonwy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In Welsh mythology, Math ap Mathonwy was a king of Gwynedd who needed to rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war.
In order to gain access to the virgin,Goewin, whom his brother Gilfaethwy had fallen in love with, the magician Gwydion (Math's nephew) arranged a war between Dyfed and Gwynedd, which led to the death of Pryderi.
While Math was away Gilfaethwy and Gwydion raped Goewin.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Math-ap-Mathonwy.htm   (657 words)

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