#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: #Lleu Llaw Gyffes was protected from harm by the strange fact that he could never be killed when inside or outside, while on horseback or afoot. Challenged by #Blodeuwedd into such an unlikely position, Lleu received his death-blow from her lover. The unfaithful wife did not go free: she was turned into the nocturnal owl.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: #Lleu Llaw Gyffes was a #Welsh god or hero. After his attempted murder by Gronw Pebr he flew to Nantlleu in #Arfon in the form of an eagle.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantref_Arfon
#LegendaryWednesday: `#Lleu received his death-blow and sailed away in the form of an eagle. His murderer did not go free: Blodeuwedd was turned into the nocturnal owl.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
#LegendaryWednesday: #Lleu Llaw Gyffes was a #Welsh god or hero. After his attempted murder by Gronw Pebr he flew to Nantlleu in #Arfon in the form of an eagle.` #Celtic
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantref_Arfon
https://todon.eu/@NeuKelte/112326761742167548
Arfon (cantref) - Wikipedia

#Celtic #BookologyThursday: `#Lleu Llaw Gyffes was protected from harm by the strange fact that he could never be killed when inside or outside, while on horseback or afoot. Challenged by his unfaithful wife #Blodeuwedd into such an unlikely position, Lleu received his death-blow and sailed away in the form of an eagle. His murderer did not go free: she was turned into the nocturnal owl.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: The #Nantlle Valley is famous within #Wales for being the main setting of the Fourth branch of the #Mabinogi, Math fab Manawydan, the story of #Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Blodeuwedd and Gwydion. The story is set mainly in the area with Gwydion finding Lleu transfigured into an eagle in an oak tree at Baladeulyn (the ground that used to exist between the two lakes before industrialisation). There are numerous references to the valley in the #Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydain) as well.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantlle_Valley
Nantlle Valley - Wikipedia

@dianmanios Váletíim Lugobo !

I love the delvá you made for Them!

I too follow the attested votives (and icons?) to the plural #Lugoves, rather than reconstructing a singular #Lugus.

My tendency has been to view #Lugh and #Lleu as different members of this collective Lugoves, rather than as being "the same" God, *Lugus.

It's worth remembering that Lugh was said to have had triplet brothers. As we see with other triplet deities in Irish literature—i.e., Brigid—They may all have the same name. So I think that is reflective of this pluralized cult to the Lugoves, which must have fallen away at some point before the tales were recorded in Medieval times.

We know there are Gods who were widely worshiped in Gaul with little direct testimony of Their names (e.g., Cernunnos), so I would not discount the possibility that this cult to the Lugoves could have been popular there. There are many possible explanations for the lack of direct testimony, as you mention.

While The Lugoves are most heavily attested in Iberia, there is also at least one votive each to Them from Narbonensis, Germania Inferior, and Germ. Superior.

In Iberia, one of the votives was made by a group of shoemakers—something I *do* believe bears connection to the Mabinogi, which tells the tale of Lleu becoming a master shoemaker using Cordovan (Spanish) leather!

Perhaps the cult of the Lugoves even originated in Iberia and spread to the rest of the Keltiké from there...

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