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THE DEATH OF LLEW
A Seasonal Interpretation
By Mike Nichols
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.
—Hanes Blodeuwedd, Robert Graves, trans.
In most Pagan cultures, the Sun God is seen as split between two rival personalities: the God of Light and his twin, his “weird”, his “other self”, the God of Darkness. They are Gawain and the Green Knight, Gwyn and Gwyth ...
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