#iolo morganwg was a liar

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I have literally been obsessed with Hypnos the god of sleep in Greek mythology for years, to the point I did an art project based on sleep in art school.

 I have also been obsessed with the relationship he has with his twin brother Thanatos (death) his wife, one of the Charities Pasithea, and his son Morpheus.

The fact that the god of sleep and the goddess of hallucination and relaxation bore the god of dreams is amazing.

The fact that sleep is the twin of death, that they are very similar but very different. That death is a permanent sleep and a permanent step into dreams, which actually links more to the Welsh myth of the afterlife Annwn which is the land of gold and plenty

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Tri Thiws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain | Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain Series: 1/13  - Dyrnwyn, the Sword of Rhydderch Hael

The Dyrnwyn ("White-Hilt") is said to be a powerful sword belonging to Rhydderch Hael,[3] one of the Three Generous Men of Britain mentioned in the Welsh Triads. When drawn by a worthy or well-born man, the entire blade would blaze with fire. Rhydderch was never reluctant to hand the weapon to anyone, hence his nickname Hael meaning "the Generous", but the recipients, as soon as they had learned of its peculiar properties, always rejected the sword.

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Historically, a sword identified as Excalibur (Caliburn) was supposedly discovered during the purported exhumation of Arthur's grave at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191.[26] On 6 March 1191, after the Treaty of Messina, either this or another claimed Excalibur was given as a gift of goodwill by the English king Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) to his ally Tancred, King of Sicily.[27] It was one of a series of Medieval English symbolic Arthurian acts, such as associating the crown won from the slain Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd with the crown of King Arthur

Excalibur - Wikipedia

such as associating the crown won from the slain Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd with the crown of King Arthur

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Not seeing a bad side here

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My thoughts get pulled between Hellenic and Cymraeg polytheism constantly, which comes from worshipping two very different pantheons.

But it happens in my life too, like the two jobs I have had this year one has been in Cwmbran (Bran - Welsh) and Swansea/ Abertawe (Swan - Zeus - Hellenic), and my new job that I start in a month is back in Cwmbran.

A coincidence maybe, but it is something I think about.

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Just realised that white animals (especially canines) tend to be deaf due to:

So that means considering that welsh mythology says that white animals belong to the gods, this means the gods prefer deaf animals and that creatures such as the cwn annwn are most likely deaf

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When I think of Annwn:

Annwn, Annwfn, or Annwfyn (in Middle Welsh, [ˈanʊn] Annwvn, Annwyn, Annwyfn, Annwvyn, or Annwfyn) is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd), it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease was absent and food was ever-abundant. It became identified with the Christian afterlife in paradise (or heaven).

I think of Gustav Klimt’s paintings