Photo of three people in front of a big bonfire; "And when Branwen saw her son burning in the fire, she strove to leap into the fire also, from the place where she sat between her two brothers." - from Branwen the Daughter of Llyr in The Mabinogion tr. by Lady Charlotte Guest (1877) #branwen #goddess #divinefeminine #ymabinogi #mabinogi #wales #welsh

"And when Branwen saw her son burning in the fire, she strove to leap into the fire also, from the place where she sat between her two brothers."
- from Branwen the Daughter of Llyr
in The Mabinogion
tr. by Lady Charlotte Guest (1877)

#branwen #goddess #divinefeminine #ymabinogi #wales #welsh #SOA

Photo of a scribe and their instruments of the role; "The Celts embraced oral transmission of their sacred stories and practices, and by the time the tales of Y Mabinogi were written down, Wales had not been pagan for almost 1000 years." - from Jhenah Telyndru in The Celtic Goddess ed. by Trevor Greenfield (2018) #celts #celtic #ymabinogi #oraltradition #pagan #medieval #wales #welsh

"The Celts embraced oral transmission of their sacred stories and practices, and by the time the tales of Y Mabinogi were written down, Wales had not been pagan for almost 1000 years."
- from Jhenah Telyndru
in The Celtic Goddess
ed. by T. Greenfield (2018)

#celts #ymabinogi #medieval #wales #SOA

Slightly delayed July reading

#cornishfolktales #ymabinogi #narnia #wot #thefiresofheaven #stonehenge #fiction #nonfiction #folktales

#brightfirehearth

Pagan Portals: Y MABINOGI: Exploring the Magic & Wisdom of Welsh Mythology.
By our own MHARA STARLING.

#YMabinogi #Welshfolklore #Welshwitch #Welshmythology #Paganportals #booksforwitches @mharastarling.bsky.social

Book Review | Y MABINOGI
Exploring the Magic & Wisdom of Welsh Mythology.
By our own MHARA STARLING.

#YMabinogi #Welshfolklore #Paganportals #booksforwitches #witchsky #pagansky #booksky #welshsky @mharastarling.bsky.social @moonbooksci.bsky.social

New TREASURE by our own @mharastarling.bsky.social & @moonbooksci.bsky.social 🌙

#welshhistory #paganportals #YMabinogi #welshmythology

The Welsh book of the week this time has been chosen by Geriant. "I've chosen this adaptation of the Mabinogi, as they are timeless cultural stories of Wales that never get old!"

#YMabinogi #Mabinogi #BookOfTheWeek #WelshBookOfTheWeek #YourCentralLibraryHub

Geriant sydd wedi dewis llyfr Cymraeg yr wythnos y tro hwn. "Dewais i yr addasiad hwn o'r Mabinogi gan ei fod yn straeon diwylliannol tragwyddol am Gymru sydd byth yn fynd yn hen!"

#YMabinogi #Mabinogi #LlyfrYrWythnos #EichHybLlyfrgellGanolog

"Wales is one of the few nations to feature a mythical creature on its flag: Y Ddraig Goch 'The Red Dragon'. The Red Dragon first appears in a story entitled 'Lludd and Llefelys' in the Mabinogion. In this story the Red Dragon is constantly battling with a White Dragon, and their screams of rage and pain disturb the neighbourhood to the extent that crops fail and pregnant women miscarry. On the advice of the King of France, the British king Lludd digs a pit and fills it with mead. The battling beasts fall into the pit and end up consuming the mead, which puts them both into a drowsy stupor." - from Legends & Folklore Wales by Richard Holland (2015) #ymabinogi #ydraiggoch #reddragon #wales #folklore #llud #llefelys

"Wales is one of the few nations to feature a mythical creature on its flag: Y Ddraig Goch 'The Red Dragon'. The Red Dragon first appears in a story entitled 'Lludd and Llefelys' in the Mabinogion. ...
- from Legends & Folklore Wales
by Richard Holland (2015)

#ymabinogi #ydraiggoch #wales #folklore