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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” Carl Jung Art by Andrew Davidson
anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there
king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.
on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.
i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.
Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.
Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur
Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god
In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD
The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise
Merlin is called Myrddin
Percival is Peredur
Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man
Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar
There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story
There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.
They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.
What the fuck is the round table
Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.
This is so interesting! Does anyone know a good source/reading material where one could get more of the original Welsh versions of the stories?
The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies is your best bet! It’s got a bunch of big-ass Welsh myths in, but most relevantly it includes Culhwch ac Olwen, which is a full-on Arthurian text (plus a couple of interesting ones).
There’s a whole bunch more that’s survived in fragments, but they’re all in Old Welsh - fully readable if you speak Welsh, but obviously not much use if you don’t (I don’t know if you do or not but from context I’m guessing not lol).
There’s ‘The Black Book of Carmarthen’ too! Currently it’s housed in The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
That contains quite a few stories and is thought to the oldest surviving manuscript text soley in Welsh (I believe). There should a few translations online!
And in local legend Merlin was born in Carmarthen! There’s even a cave that is one of the places he’s meant to be sleeping in.
Good history facts and also want to add that the “Britons” are not the catch all inhabitants of the modern British isles (thought its become muddled up as a term for English, Welsh and Scottish) they were the people here on the islands before the saxons invaded and pushed back into Wales and Scotland and Cornwall.
Theres a quote from the fictional Last Kingdom series that sums it up concisely and violently. “Im a Briton, lord, I was brought up killing saxons”.
King Arthur is a figure and a myth from a time before there even was an England. We might have retold it like the romans retold all the greek stories, but if you’re going crazy on The Green Knight this summer that good! Its all ancient by now, and most versions of ancient myths are fun in their own way but try to remember he harks back to the people that became Wales and you’ll have an excellent time digging through the original myths and the roots of it in the oppression of an ethic group thats lasted for well over 1000yrs.
Biesy (singular: bies) are a personification of all the undefined evil forces in the nature. Once they were placed amongst the most dangerous and the oldest demons in the central and eastern Europe. Their name is derived from Proto-Slavic *bĕsъ, coming from the Proto-Indo-European root *bboidh-, which meant “causing fear and terror”.
Biesy can penetrate souls of individuals and control their physical actions, what eventually leads their victims into insanity (thus the adjective “zbiesiony” in the Polish language which describes someone under evil influence or devoid of free will and charisma). Sometimes they are waiting in ambush around remote crossroads, and the travellers who see animals making unusual sounds, for example cats crowing or roosters barking, are warned to turn back not to cross their path with a bies.
Biesy live in primeval forests, swamps and deep waters, usually far from human settlements. They are also believed to be guarding treasures hidden in the ground. The brave warriors who venture into their territory are warned with shill shrieks and malicious giggles.
Over the centuries, in the process of Christianization, the word bies / bes (as well as the very similar Slavic demon czart / czort / chort) became synonymous with the word “devil” in many Slavic languages, and many Slavic folk tales describe them as devil’s minions.
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fae breakdown~ faeries:
The term Faerie is derived from “Fé erie”, meaning the enchantment of the Fées, while Fé is derived from Fay, which is itself derived from Fatae, or the Fates. In Ireland, the Faeries are called the Aes Sídhe (singular Aes Sídh). Sídhe happens to be the name for the earthen mounds and hills that dot the Irish landscape. Irish mythology, legendry, and folklore claim the Faeries live under these mounds, so the term “sídhe” has come to mean Faerie in general, but it more properly refers to the palaces, courts, halls, and residences of the Faeries. However they are known by a wide variety of euphemisms, including “the Fair Folk”, “the Good Neighbors”, “the Little Folk”, “the Little Darlings”, and “the People of Peace”. This is done for two reasons. The first is to avoid attracting their attention and the second is to avoid insulting them. Faeries can be found anywhere. Mounds, caves, and other underground areas; the sea and large lakes; off-shore islands; above the clouds; and even the air itself. The gentry and the rustics can inhabit under ground or under water, but mostly they tend to inhabit the wilderness just beyond human towns and villages, such as woods, fields, hedgerows, glens, mountains, and rocky clefts. Others inhabit human funerary monuments such as dolmen and tumuli, or rings of standing stones, or mushroom rings.
Powers: Luck, good or bad, is heavily influenced by faeries who can pass good or bad fortune on those who encounter them.
The power of illusion is a hallmark of faerie magic. Whether it’s disguising themselves from humans, or altering the appearance of familiar terrain to cause confusion.
Shape shifting is common, most likely into woodland creatures or changing their size.
Avoid:
Cockiness, selfishness, lack of manners, and infringing on privacy. Fae are private creatures, never chase or attempt to sneak on them. Avoid becoming indebted to faeries- or any fae by that measure. Iron things. Especially scissors left out in plain view. Pins, knives, anything made of iron will frighten them, sometimes. Clutter, disorder, stacks of things that haven’t been sorted, and so on Bells. I know that some faeries like bells, but they are their own bells. If your cat wears a bell, or you have a very rude alarm clock, or something like that, the noise may drive away the faeries. Water. Many “psychic” experiences are attributed to a deep, hidden stream under a building. Some faeries are the opposite: They don’t like to cross a stream, hidden or visible. (Then again, we have plenty of faeries who live in or near the water, so this isn’t a firm rule.) Looking them in the eye.
To Lure/Please Faeries:
Tidiness, order, and cleanliness, especially in the kitchen Bread and cake – little bits set out in the evening Something that clearly invites them. The faerie door is a good example. Milk or water, set out in the evening, perhaps in a nice thimble (but not one made of iron or steel) Glittery and shiny things – small bells, marbles, jewelry (no iron or steel) Music – light, happy music, even singing in the shower can help Low lighting – they are most often seen at dusk and dawn, but a small candle (electric is okay) can guide them to your home
Common Misbeliefs: not all faeries are kind and forgiving, faeries are mischievous spirits above all and will not hesitate to steal your first born if you cross them. they are not butterfly winged tiny women. faeries come in a range of sizes, shapes, and types. mostly categorized by the terrain they inhabit (ex: water faerie, forest faerie, etc.)
FAE BREAKDOWN
Merfolk
TYPES:
Sirens
Sirens are the common assumption when one thinks of ‘mermaids’. They present as human women, or as having human top halves and fishlike tails, to lure and devour their victims. However, assuming any fae and good or evil is outdated. Any fae, regardless of how cute, is dangerous but they have personalities as all things do.
Sirens live in more shallow waters, on the edges of abandoned or lightly populated islands in all areas and in all oceans. Sirens are not strictly salt water bound but are mostly found in coastal areas.
Sirens have been famously encountered for thousands of years and despite being watered down as cutesy mermaids, these are highly powerful fae with illusionary ability and high intelligence. They tend to stay in packs, and all sirens are “hermaphrodic”, and are able to lure not just men but all genders to a watery grave.
Some sirens, have taken favor to humans, as all fae they tend to like kind and unselfish humans. This is very rare to find in modern accounts because most fae blame all humans for poisoning the ocean and earth.
Merfolk
Merfolk can be any size, resemble many thousands of other types of fish found in sea, streams, rivers, lakes, etc. Merfolk is an umbrella term for specific sunsets of humanoid intelligent species in the waters of the world.
Some are predatory, some are herbivorous and joyful. Merfolk can range from as big as a whale, to as small as a seahorse. They are not always as humanoid and beautiful as sirens, who are seducers by nature. Merfolk don’t have a strict 50-50 rule like disney mermaids. They have gills, rarely have hair, and often have a smooth scaly skin. There are also deep sea merfolk, large and bioluminescent.
from Brian Froud’s World of Faerie