Llaw Gyffes

Llaw Gyffes , in the Welsh Celtic Mythology, is a character who appears in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi: Maths wire of Mathonwy . Sometimes the direction of its nickname “which with the fast hand” is to be brought closer to that of “lamfada” (“with the long arm”) that one gives to Lug in Ireland and of which it is an equivalent, without in being exact counterpart.

Three geisa

Its birth, like that of its twin Dylan Eil Your, results from a magic practice, when the king Math wants to test the virginity of Arianrhod. To be avenged for the insult, his/her mother pronounces three geisa on the child: she deprives it of name, she prohibits to him to carry weapons and to have a human woman, which prevents it, in fact, to be a man. However, the child having grown, his mother notes his address and calls it, which causes to raise the first geis . Then, his/her uncle and tutor Gwydion the constrained one to take the weapons by simulating an attack against its residence. For the third interdict, king Math, who is also magician and its Gwydion nephew make to him a woman with flowers and plants (broom, primula, queen-of-meadows, hawthorn, etc); thanks to their magic, their “creature” is more beautiful than most beautiful of the women, it is named Blodeuwedd what means “face of flowers”. The union is celebrated and is equipped with a Cantref (field), but one day that visit returns Them to king Math, in his residence of Caer Dathyl, Blodeuwedd accommodates Goronwy (sometimes called Gronw Pebyr), lord of Penllyn, which drives out in the country. It falls in love and the lovers project to kill the husband. But is a god who can be killed only according to certain methods: He cannot be killed inside, nor outside, when he overlaps or that he goes. In fact, it can be assassinated only in only one position: when it takes its bath with a foot on a goat and the other on a cauldron, by an especially forged lance, during one year and a day. These conditions being joined together, the god is killed and transforms himself into eagle; into retortion, Gwydion transforms Blodeuwedd into owl, revives Them and human form gives again to him, which enables him to be avenged and kill the lover.

In a deteriorated form, it is the Welsh representation of the paramount god side-Celtic Lug.

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Source

  • Anonymous, the Four branches of Mabinogi translates for average Welsh, presented and annotated by Pierre-Yves Lambert, Éditions Gallimard, collection the paddle of the people , Paris, 1993.

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