Pronunciation: bluh DIE weth ("th" as in "weather")
Blodeuwedd is the Welsh Goddess of spring created from flowers!
Blodeuwedd was punished for her sins by being transformed into the night-bird, the owl, though She kept her name--in Welsh, blodeuwedd, meaning "Flower-face", is a name for the owl.
She represents temporary beauty and the bright blooming that must come full circle through death: She is the promise of autumn visible in spring.
Blodeuwedd was the Flower Maiden, made by men, for a man, in “the image of their own desires, feelings and ideas about what a Lover should be.
“Not of father nor of mother
Was my blood, was my body.
I was spellbound by Gwydion,
Prime enchanter of the Britons,
When he formed me from nine blossoms,
Nine buds of various kind;
From primrose of the mountain,
Broom, meadow-sweet and cockle,
Together intertwined,
From the bean in its shade bearing
A white spectral army
Of earth, of earthly kind,
From blossoms of the nettle,
Oak, thorn and bashful chestnut -
Nine powers of nine flowers,
Nine powers in me combined,
Nine buds of plant and tree.
Long and white are my fingers
As the ninth wave of the sea.”
Thank you for your endless support and love! ♥️ Yours truly, Plum!
