The mythos in my understanding, layman’s; In order to be the king of a land you needed to have a virgin hold your feet off of the ground for as long as you lived. You are divinely chosen to be king but this is a task you must accomplish. It was the kings job to protect her virginity, and the woman’s job to keep him aloft and a king. There was a king named math. The woman who holds maths feet is found by another man of the court within the castle and she is no longer a virgin. Upon finding this out Math is outraged. He starts searching for a virgin, yet he can not step foot on the ground nor be moved from his spot otherwise he loses his title. Math tells his apprentice ceridwin* ^your main character^ * to find him a virgin. The apprentice goes to Arianrhod a goddess of fate but known to be a maiden (unwed,but not required to be celibate by definition, according to times), she is the sister of Math. They go before math and he says arianrhod must pass a test to prove she is a virgin. He lays down a wooden staff and tells her to step over it. (Enuendos feel free it’s purposefully implied) as she steps over 2 things fall from her. 1) a baby, who before the other adults in the room could grab him and anoint him in oils ( to make the boy a heir of the throne / in accordance to their religion/society hierarchy) he fled out an opening to the sea, where he became part of the waves/a creature of the waves and was named Dylan. The second thing to fall (which fell at the same exact time) was a mass of writhing flesh. It was covered in a cloak and hidden in a chest by Maths apprentice. Math being outraged that arianrhod who was not a virgin told her to leave the castle as she could not help him. She returned to her home.
The apprentice looked after the mass of flesh like you said. Upon seeing the mass take the form of a child he brought the boy to meet her and demanded she recognize him as her human child. Arianrhod was upset to not only see a spawn of hers who she never wished to birth on her own, but to be demanded to recognize it as a man immediately upon meeting. She the goddess of fate cursed the two of them for being foolish and demanding more then the gift of existence and demanding responsibility and accountability to care for and mother a child she didn’t plan to raise or have. She issued 3 curses upon the boy, which defines a man: 1) he will not be given a name or title. 2) he will never bear weapons or arms or shields or ships to protect his land home family or any other relations. 3) he will never marry a human woman. [For a boy expected to be a prince, under the king Math to never hold a name nor title unless given by her, to never be able to protect your kingdom learn about battle strategies and weapons and technology and blacksmithing and treads economies, and to never be able to marry a woman have a queen heirs or even alliances with neighboring kingdoms through marriage. It’s a brutal blow from a goddess of fate] So they disguise and trick her into naming the boy after enticing her with finely crafted human shoes. She’s outraged at the workaround but knows that he has now been named after accomplishing a kill of a bird. When wanting to have the boy now Lugh (the shinning one with good aim) [thought to be a comment on the golden hair and his aim with killing a goose/wren/swan, water bird] for him to bear arm and be taught how to use weapons (a task given to mothers to teach their sons while men worked) they created a large looking storm and the sound and display of a war and burning ships on the horizon. Everyone in fear gathered arms and prepared for battle. Arianrhod was in her doorway giving out weapons to men and when Lugh stepped in line disguised she handed him the weapons. In joy Lugh and the apprentice dispelled the false attack and celebrated the victory that he now had been given weapons through deceit. Arianrhod was understandably pissed off at these two for doing so much and scaring so many for the purpose of being armed in the future. Lugh gains power and is able to hold a kingdom/area that he rules over he needs a wife for political reasons and so the apprentice and some others gather different plants from the meadows and forests of the area. They build a woman of the sweetest flowers and bring her to life and she is named Flowerface. Lugh leaves the kingdom to visit another thinking all is well. Flowerface meets a huntsman in the woods, he is a Barron or something from another kingdom. The two are in love at first sight the flowers of the forest in love with the huntsman the huntsman the beauty of nature and this woman in one beautiful face and flowering body. They make a plan to kill Lugh, but they don’t know how. [enter Christians into the chat room as they will now influence the remaining recorded history of the original texts and oral traditions as a way to both mock the story god and culture but to also blend it with Catholicism] Flowerface asks him directly saying he is a god and she is terrified a man will try to take of the kingdom and kill him. He tells her he can not be killed unless under specific circumstances (this is where we pblame Catholicism as this is honestly complex and convoluted for the sake of mockery we know this from drawings and depictions made by Catholics of Lugh and original Lugh works) Lugh has to be freshly bathed and to be standing underneath an arched stone arbor with one foot in the water of the bath upon the edge and one foot placed on the back of a horned goat; upon being properly placed he must now be impaled by a spear through the heart fast enough to not dodge nor catch i the spear. Flowerface says she is confused and thus they must do a reenactment with every detail being spot on. He agrees to ease her worry. And then the huntsman really throws and spear through his chest after he gets into perfect death pose and a bath. Lugh doesn’t die though. He becomes a hawk and flies into the sky away from the two of them. He lands on a tree for a few days where his feathers and flesh begins to writhe and fall off covered in maggots the flesh falls to the earth and is eaten by a sow. [art depictions show Lugh always being hit by a spear and transforming into a hawk/eagle to avoid dying as a mortal. With a spear in his chest he lands on a particular kind of tree this is commonly shown and later the sow or pig is also involved.] The apprentice meets with Lugh in his damaged hawk form and heals him they travel together to meet Flowerface who was with the huntsman in the castle, making new plans for the kingdom in lughs abscence. Lugh curses her, she becomes an owl a bird that other birds are repulsed by forced to fly in the dark and cry out for ‘Lugh’ (lugh= shining/light, loo sounds like whoo hoo owl noise besides their screaming calls) It’s important to note that Dylan the other child of Arianrhod who fled to the sea like a fish-like-man-like-creature was killed by his uncle who had aimed a spear at the sea and accidentally hit Dylan making him scream in pain and collapse on the shore and action that would be echoed forever in the crash of the waves. Lugh is hit by a spear and transforms into a bird taking to the skies landing in a tree and rotting to its roots and a sow devouring his rotten flesh. He is a bird named for killing birds in the sun his arms are wings for fleeing his feet talons barely holding to a tree branch a spear through his plumage betrayed by the wife he constructed by his hands out of the surrounding land. Flowerface becomes a wife and then falls in love and is cursed to be an owl traveling through dense forest. Arianrhod is also known for having owls as her messenger animal for communication. Arianrhod is the goddess of fate and the silver wheel, the goddess of the lunar calendar and the wheel of the year aka all seasons on the earth, she is a mother goddess who proclaims the rights of women and mothers over their own bodily autonomy and the rearing and education of their children along with the ability to name them and give them direction for navigating their future. The ability to get married is allowing two families to come together, be that an arranged marriage for a benefit of some kind or one of mutual consensual pinning and love, that your son has respect and can treat humans well especially a young woman, And he has the knowledge grow to be a father that can protect and provide for their children and wife. As a woman you build the child and environment. What goes into your body comes out and you choose how to have them and raise them and what they should and shoudnt do baised on society’s requirements and your personal morals and beliefs. Do not let someone say you have no right to controlling those things as a mother as you have individual power of thought and will. Be a mother when you choose to be one and be there for your child in all things. She refuses to do all the things a good mother should do. She points out to what a good mother does and why a good mother does it by purposefully doing everything oppose. So the audience doesn’t read a story of she did everything perfect and everything was fine and normal. Things go off the rails because every step of everything is refused and with good reason. A lot of times this story is used as a rape allegory but Arianrhod may not be having to be children of her brother mayh. She sleeps with a male god of the sky and with various mermen and sea gods. She is a maiden but not a mother Theresa type maiden, she is forever beholden to no man. So it’s thought that Lugh is a god of the sky as she is the god of the the mood and lughs dad would be god of the sky Lugh would equate to the actual sun like Apollo. While Dylan sharing links to original creation turning into a fish or sea creature he controls all waves on earth, he is the son of a god of the sea and the goddess of the moon thus a god of tides. Which his name reflects (the wave that recedes/ the tide that flood/ the wave that returns) and the noise of the wave crash on loop like the lunar cycles. As a goddess of the moon and silver wheel she is said to live on an island and that she descends from the moon to the earth on a silver oar, tying her to boats the sea and the tide. also implied that she is a godess of death being a godess of cycles the night and moon. in celtic tradition boats death, travelinc water oceans rivers, and the sky birds sacred trees, all of it is sacred knowlege thats connected to the inherent aspect of life and death, existence and eternity and understanding your place as a human. its impressive to see how her twin sons are split: one to living from the land to the sky and one living from the land to the sea. all given to you by a moon godess who missed her time of the month and stepped over a wooden staff.
The mythos in my understanding, layman’s;
In order to be the king of a land you needed to have a virgin hold your feet off of the ground for as long as you lived. You are divinely chosen to be king but this is a task you must accomplish. It was the kings job to protect her virginity, and the woman’s job to keep him aloft and a king.
There was a king named math. The woman who holds maths feet is found by another man of the court within the castle and she is no longer a virgin. Upon finding this out Math is outraged. He starts searching for a virgin, yet he can not step foot on the ground nor be moved from his spot otherwise he loses his title. Math tells his apprentice ceridwin* ^your main character^ * to find him a virgin.
The apprentice goes to Arianrhod a goddess of fate but known to be a maiden (unwed,but not required to be celibate by definition, according to times), she is the sister of Math.
They go before math and he says arianrhod must pass a test to prove she is a virgin. He lays down a wooden staff and tells her to step over it. (Enuendos feel free it’s purposefully implied) as she steps over 2 things fall from her.
1) a baby, who before the other adults in the room could grab him and anoint him in oils ( to make the boy a heir of the throne / in accordance to their religion/society hierarchy) he fled out an opening to the sea, where he became part of the waves/a creature of the waves and was named Dylan.
The second thing to fall (which fell at the same exact time) was a mass of writhing flesh. It was covered in a cloak and hidden in a chest by Maths apprentice.
Math being outraged that arianrhod who was not a virgin told her to leave the castle as she could not help him. She returned to her home.
The apprentice looked after the mass of flesh like you said. Upon seeing the mass take the form of a child he brought the boy to meet her and demanded she recognize him as her human child.
Arianrhod was upset to not only see a spawn of hers who she never wished to birth on her own, but to be demanded to recognize it as a man immediately upon meeting. She the goddess of fate cursed the two of them for being foolish and demanding more then the gift of existence and demanding responsibility and accountability to care for and mother a child she didn’t plan to raise or have.
She issued 3 curses upon the boy, which defines a man: 1) he will not be given a name or title. 2) he will never bear weapons or arms or shields or ships to protect his land home family or any other relations. 3) he will never marry a human woman.
[For a boy expected to be a prince, under the king Math to never hold a name nor title unless given by her, to never be able to protect your kingdom learn about battle strategies and weapons and technology and blacksmithing and treads economies, and to never be able to marry a woman have a queen heirs or even alliances with neighboring kingdoms through marriage. It’s a brutal blow from a goddess of fate]
So they disguise and trick her into naming the boy after enticing her with finely crafted human shoes. She’s outraged at the workaround but knows that he has now been named after accomplishing a kill of a bird. When wanting to have the boy now Lugh (the shinning one with good aim) [thought to be a comment on the golden hair and his aim with killing a goose/wren/swan, water bird] for him to bear arm and be taught how to use weapons (a task given to mothers to teach their sons while men worked) they created a large looking storm and the sound and display of a war and burning ships on the horizon. Everyone in fear gathered arms and prepared for battle. Arianrhod was in her doorway giving out weapons to men and when Lugh stepped in line disguised she handed him the weapons. In joy Lugh and the apprentice dispelled the false attack and celebrated the victory that he now had been given weapons through deceit. Arianrhod was understandably pissed off at these two for doing so much and scaring so many for the purpose of being armed in the future.
Lugh gains power and is able to hold a kingdom/area that he rules over he needs a wife for political reasons and so the apprentice and some others gather different plants from the meadows and forests of the area. They build a woman of the sweetest flowers and bring her to life and she is named Flowerface.
Lugh leaves the kingdom to visit another thinking all is well. Flowerface meets a huntsman in the woods, he is a Barron or something from another kingdom. The two are in love at first sight the flowers of the forest in love with the huntsman the huntsman the beauty of nature and this woman in one beautiful face and flowering body. They make a plan to kill Lugh, but they don’t know how.
[enter Christians into the chat room as they will now influence the remaining recorded history of the original texts and oral traditions as a way to both mock the story god and culture but to also blend it with Catholicism]
Flowerface asks him directly saying he is a god and she is terrified a man will try to take of the kingdom and kill him. He tells her he can not be killed unless under specific circumstances (this is where we pblame Catholicism as this is honestly complex and convoluted for the sake of mockery we know this from drawings and depictions made by Catholics of Lugh and original Lugh works)
Lugh has to be freshly bathed and to be standing underneath an arched stone arbor with one foot in the water of the bath upon the edge and one foot placed on the back of a horned goat; upon being properly placed he must now be impaled by a spear through the heart fast enough to not dodge nor catch i the spear.
Flowerface says she is confused and thus they must do a reenactment with every detail being spot on. He agrees to ease her worry.
And then the huntsman really throws and spear through his chest after he gets into perfect death pose and a bath. Lugh doesn’t die though. He becomes a hawk and flies into the sky away from the two of them. He lands on a tree for a few days where his feathers and flesh begins to writhe and fall off covered in maggots the flesh falls to the earth and is eaten by a sow.
[art depictions show Lugh always being hit by a spear and transforming into a hawk/eagle to avoid dying as a mortal. With a spear in his chest he lands on a particular kind of tree this is commonly shown and later the sow or pig is also involved.]
The apprentice meets with Lugh in his damaged hawk form and heals him they travel together to meet Flowerface who was with the huntsman in the castle, making new plans for the kingdom in lughs abscence.
Lugh curses her, she becomes an owl a bird that other birds are repulsed by forced to fly in the dark and cry out for ‘Lugh’ (lugh= shining/light, loo sounds like whoo hoo owl noise besides their screaming calls)
It’s important to note that Dylan the other child of Arianrhod who fled to the sea like a fish-like-man-like-creature was killed by his uncle who had aimed a spear at the sea and accidentally hit Dylan making him scream in pain and collapse on the shore and action that would be echoed forever in the crash of the waves.
Lugh is hit by a spear and transforms into a bird taking to the skies landing in a tree and rotting to its roots and a sow devouring his rotten flesh. He is a bird named for killing birds in the sun his arms are wings for fleeing his feet talons barely holding to a tree branch a spear through his plumage betrayed by the wife he constructed by his hands out of the surrounding land.
Flowerface becomes a wife and then falls in love and is cursed to be an owl traveling through dense forest. Arianrhod is also known for having owls as her messenger animal for communication.
Arianrhod is the goddess of fate and the silver wheel, the goddess of the lunar calendar and the wheel of the year aka all seasons on the earth, she is a mother goddess who proclaims the rights of women and mothers over their own bodily autonomy and the rearing and education of their children along with the ability to name them and give them direction for navigating their future. The ability to get married is allowing two families to come together, be that an arranged marriage for a benefit of some kind or one of mutual consensual pinning and love, that your son has respect and can treat humans well especially a young woman, And he has the knowledge grow to be a father that can protect and provide for their children and wife.
As a woman you build the child and environment. What goes into your body comes out and you choose how to have them and raise them and what they should and shoudnt do baised on society’s requirements and your personal morals and beliefs. Do not let someone say you have no right to controlling those things as a mother as you have individual power of thought and will.
Be a mother when you choose to be one and be there for your child in all things. She refuses to do all the things a good mother should do. She points out to what a good mother does and why a good mother does it by purposefully doing everything oppose. So the audience doesn’t read a story of she did everything perfect and everything was fine and normal. Things go off the rails because every step of everything is refused and with good reason.
A lot of times this story is used as a rape allegory but Arianrhod may not be having to be children of her brother mayh. She sleeps with a male god of the sky and with various mermen and sea gods. She is a maiden but not a mother Theresa type maiden, she is forever beholden to no man. So it’s thought that Lugh is a god of the sky as she is the god of the the mood and lughs dad would be god of the sky Lugh would equate to the actual sun like Apollo. While Dylan sharing links to original creation turning into a fish or sea creature he controls all waves on earth, he is the son of a god of the sea and the goddess of the moon thus a god of tides. Which his name reflects (the wave that recedes/ the tide that flood/ the wave that returns) and the noise of the wave crash on loop like the lunar cycles.
As a goddess of the moon and silver wheel she is said to live on an island and that she descends from the moon to the earth on a silver oar, tying her to boats the sea and the tide. also implied that she is a godess of death being a godess of cycles the night and moon. in celtic tradition boats death, travelinc water oceans rivers, and the sky birds sacred trees, all of it is sacred knowlege thats connected to the inherent aspect of life and death, existence and eternity and understanding your place as a human. its impressive to see how her twin sons are split: one to living from the land to the sky and one living from the land to the sea. all given to you by a moon godess who missed her time of the month and stepped over a wooden staff.
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