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BBC News: Map may show evidence of Wales' Atlantis off Ceredigion
BBC News - Map may show evidence of Wales' Atlantis off Ceredigion
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#book quote of the day#Emily Lloyd-Jones#the drowned woods#fantasy books#ya#dark fairy tale#magic#romance novels#standalones#Welsh mythology#folklore#cantre'r gwaelod#beautiful book covers
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The Drowned Woods
This was something of a random purchase - if I'm honest it was partly because it was on sale. I was expecting a fantasy based on the old stories of Cantre'r Gwaelod, the lost kingdom of west Wales and this delivers that, but I wasn't expecting it to be a heist story so that was a pleasant surprise.
The characters are interesting and well shaped, the story is very well structured without the structure being too obtrusive and it all fitted together nicely. A heist lives or dies by the twists and this landed some nice ones.
As someone with an interest in Wales (I'm saes to the bone, but Wales is my home and a country I care about more than the one where I was born) I appreciated that it leant into Welshness in the choice of food and culture while going easy on the tricky pronunciations.
If you want a fast-moving well-written fantasy that ties in to a very old story, you might enjoy this one.
#book review#cantre'r gwaelod#the lowland hundred#the drowned woods#emily lloyd-jones#It was weird to have mostly welsh words but the occasional v in there mind#But that's probably only noticeable to welsh speakers#Also the pronunciations are easier than english once you know the alphabet
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What strangely specific scent do you give off?
mint plucked from the ground.
you're the easiest one to run to when things go wrong, and because of that, you're surrounded by a bunch of people who you swear you can help feel better, people you swear to heaven and hell both that you can "fix". you're sharp, both in scent and in practice, precise and yet vague. your practicality is unrivaled, and people seek you out for your wisdom and your sweetness, and it's draining you. your roots spread like a wildfire, and you burn away the nerves that let you feel. invasive, even if you don't want to be, because you're in every place you shouldn't be. go home, little root; go home before you don't remember what home is anymore.
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#an endless tale; headcanon#a song that echoes upon time ; taliesin#oh that last line hurts a lot#since his homes were always lost forever#cantre'r gwaelod and then rheged under yvain's rule and his children aaaaaaaa
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On this week's episode of the Family Plot Podcast, first we kick off Krysta's new segment, Krysta's corner! Krysta takes us deep into her love for the TV show Owl House and how the end of the last season warmed her heart. From there, Dean takes us to Cantre[r Gwaelod, a Welsh Kingdom which means the Lowland Hundred, where we discuss the civilizations sinking and how, if England is ever in danger, the bells of Cantre'r Gwaelod can be heard ringing beneath the waves. From there Laura takes us to Avalon, famously home to several of the legends around King Arthur. Dean takes us to Mu (and the roleplaying game Dean was trying to think of is the Arcanum), Laura swings us by Atlantis. Dean takes us to Lemuria and Laura rounds the whole thing of with a discussion of the Minoans. All this and more on this creepy, paranormal and chock full of history episode of the Family Plot Podcast!
#apple#arthur#atlantis#avalon#bermuda#cantre'r#continent#excalibur#fruit#glastonbury#gwaelod#isle#lost#mu#of#sunk#tor#trees#triangle#waves
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…dude…!
“The Welsh legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod, a lost land sunken below Cardigan Bay, has persisted for almost a millennium…..Yet there has never been any definitive geographical evidence for the mythical land… until now, perhaps.”
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hello! i really liked your post about mirmanda and it got me thinking - do you know if it's at all related to the story of ys? and do you know if there are similar legends in western europe? thank u legend
Hi! Thank you ^^
I don't know if it's related, but it's true that they have significant similarities. Ys is a Breton legend, so it's likely related to other Celtic legends about sunken cities. Wales has many legends of this kind, for example Cantre'r Gwaelod. There’s also the Arthurian legend of Lyonnesse, where Tristan was from.
There seem to be many legends about sunken cities inhabited by some kind of fae women or mythical beings. Often, the legends say they were flooded as a divine punishment (like Ys, Atlantis...) but that’s not necessarily the case for Mirmanda. I think it’s useful for legendary cities to have ended up underwater because this makes it so that people can’t go there and look for proof, it wouldn’t really work if it was in some place where we can just go check if it’s there or not. And all of this adds to the nostalgia for this marvellous place that once was.
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Masterlist of our Decks
Hi! We're @the-many-children-of-the-void and this is a masterlist post of our Magic the Gathering decks. We play most of these online, with our partner system on untap.in. This list will get updated when we remember to do so.
EDH Decks
Allie's Decks
APV-B (Atraxa, Praetor's Voice): Our budget Atraxa deck, runs infect, +1/+1 counters, stun counters and so on. This is the only deck we own a physical copy of (we don't play in-person very often) and it was built by buying Corrupting Influence and taking it apart.
Let It Go (Hylda of the Icy Crown): It's a deck that's all about tapping your opponent's creatures. It isn't very optimized yet but Allie is slowly getting there.
Broken Human (Surrak Dragonclaw): Our "fuck you" to when our partner system plays control. It was also the deck where we had a major breakthrough in deckbuilding philosophy.
Atraxa, Uncorrupted (Atraxa, Praetor's Voice): A return to our roots, re-building the oldest deck concept we ever had, an Atraxa deck without any fancy poison or stun counter shenanigans.
Annie's Decks
Annie's Project (Lathril, Blade of the Elves): It's an elf token deck. That's kinda all there is to say.
Erica's Decks
Echo (Aesi, Tyrant of the Gyre Strait): Landfall deck with lots of ramp and card draw. Usually able to get just an obscene number of lands on the battlefield.
Harbinger (Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker): Shadowborne Apostles deck with big fancy demons. We haven't had a chance to test this one yet.
Kate's Decks
Cantre'r Gwaelod (Niv-Mizzet, Parun): Card draw burn deck, pretty much. The goal is to draw as many cards as possible and slowly burn away your opponent's life.
Neiko di Angelo's Decks
Holiday // Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Marrow-Gnawer): Rat colony deck, very heavily based on Violet's deck from Game Knights #63
Lazarus (Phenax, God of Deception): Mill deck in Neiko's two favorite colors. Not much else to report back about this one.
Calvin (Gishath, Sun's Avatar): Dinosaur tribal deck. Our partner system doesn't really have a concept of "low power play" so this deck doesn't really get played but it is one Neiko is happy with.
Antithesis (Zhulodok, Void Gorger) Eldrazi, baby. I have no idea how well it works.
That's all for now.
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Explora la fascinante leyenda de la Atlántida, famosa en la antigua Grecia y su similar historia de Cantre'r Gwaelod en Gales. Descubre cómo diferentes culturas comparten historias de tierras que se sumergen bajo el mar y qué misterios esconden estas leyendas.
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(via Cantre'r Gwaelod: Masculine vs Feminine (Part II))
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Was anyone going to tell me that the Welsh had their own version of Atlantis, or was I supposed to find that out when I was looking at a list of locations in Celtic mythology?
(It's called Cantre'r Gwaelod, if you're curious.)
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REFLECT | Taliesin
|| Send "REFLECT" for a traumatic moment for my muse ; accepting!
The land was drowning.
He had known it was coming. The destruction wrought by the White Titan was unavoidable, indescribable. So much so that even centuries later the world was still changing in violent ways to try and adjust. Taliesin could only watch, silently, from the high cliffs he had perched himself upon as the land of his childhood was swallowed beneath the pounding waves.
It would be the fate of all low-lying areas in this part of the planet.
Cantre'r Gwaelod just happened to be one of the first, alongside the kingdom of Ys to the south, thanks to being coastal to begin with.
The bard inhaled shakily, watching as if transfixed as a particularly fierce wave crushed the stone towers of what had once been Elffin and Gwyddno's palace. Where he had been raised with more love than a being such as himself deserved. It made him feel sick. But there was nothing Taliesin could do besides watch. Besides remember. He'd done all he could giving warnings following the fall of the Titan and even that was going beyond what he was allowed.
What punishment would befall him for doing more than being an observer he didn't yet know.
It grated on him, being forced to simply observe and record. But that was the fault of his nature. And without it he would not exist.
But still he wanted to take on the feathers of a bird, to dive down and use the divinity he felt burning in his blood to stop the ocean's might. To force it to bend to his will all to spare the lives of the mortals and fae that had called the island kingdom home. It didn't matter that the humans were only distant descendants of the ones he had loved, who had loved him in turn. What difference did it make that the Fair Folk had never truly accepted him?
They were his...!
Yet his feet wouldn't move.
A hand, cool and familiar rested on his shoulder like the weight of the world itself no matter how light it truly was. Taliesin's frown grew darker, golden eyes narrowing against the wind and salt spray. Against the burn of tears he could feel on his cheeks though they were swept away in the tempest. Distantly he could hear the screams of horror from both the ones who had listened to the warnings and fled before the eclipse began and the ones who had remained in Cantre'r Gwaelod. A nightmarish cacaphony that would haunt him endlessly, the bard knew this instinctively. Just like how he remembered even her voice as clear as day.
"I am sorry, young Taliesin."
Arawn's voice broke through the haze, making his hands itch. Though he still couldn't tear his eyes from the disaster before him he inhaled sharply in response.
"...You'll not let their souls linger in the waters to become wraiths?"
"My hounds will gather them all, I swear to you." The lord of the Other World's oath was as binding as the magic that had brought Taliesin into being. There was nothing to fear. But still he ached terribly.
His people. His home. His life.
One last wave, higher than all the others rose up and crashed down with an echoing roar. Utter silence followed, the sea finally returning to the stillness that had long been adored by the people of the coastal lands. Finally he could close his eyes, tremors wracking his body as the sun began to reemerge from the moon's shadow.
"You should travel, Taliesin," Arawn's voice was growing misty, the god unwilling to linger in the light of day. "Travel the lands, all of them. Not just these ones where the Fair Folk reside. You have this gift as the Record, so embrace it and journey."
Easy for him to say.
Though it was a fair suggestion.
But Taliesin for now would instead sink to the ground, holding himself tightly as he wept silently.
#messages on birdwing; asks#a song that echoes upon time ; taliesin#anon ask tag;;#taliesin was deeply traumatized by the drowning of cantre'r gwaelod#he was still....RELATIVELY young at the time that Sephar showed up#and the worst he'd experienced had been gwyddno and elffin dying of old age
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The Welsh lake no bird will ever fly over and 9 other dark myths from the waters of Wales
From WalesOnline - which as a website is guaranteed to almost always crash your computer from the sheer number of clickbait popups so I'm reposting the below to keep, and refer back to, without making my laptop sound like its full of bees... and to share with you of course, since it's spooky-season
by Nathan Bevan, senior reporter. 15 October 2021.
📷The remains of ancient forests on the Welsh coastline, linked to Cantre'r Gwaelod, the mythical ancient kingdom submerged under the waters of Cardigan Bay (Image: Keith Morris)
Wales is as famed for its breathtaking scenery as for its legends.
And some of those fantastical myths and fables have been hewn from the very landscape itself. Some tales are as tall as our most ancient oaks and as windswept as those undulating hills and vales.
But those born from its lakes, pools and rivers, like the ones which we're about to tell, are very deep and dark indeed....
Llyn Tegid
📷 Llyn Tegid is home to Wales' answer to Nessie (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
According to legend, Tegid Foel had a fine palace now underneath the lake and lived a life of opulence and excess. He also had a reputation for cruelty and greed. During a lavish feast he had employed a harpist to entertain his guests. As he played, he thought he heard a quiet voice behind him whispering in his ear “vengeance will come”. After playing, he left the palace and fell asleep nearby. When he woke, he looked out on an entirely new landscape, now full of water, with the palace nowhere to be seen.
The Afanc Lake monster
People in Betws-y-coed tell the tale of a monster in nearby Llyn-yr-Afanc, which is sometimes referred to as the Welsh Loch Ness Monster.
The Afanc is said to have taken the form of a crocodile, giant beaver and a demon and was said to attack then eat anyone who entered its waters.
One tale said that the wild thrashings of the Afanc caused flooding which drowned all the people of Britain save for two, named Dwyfan and Dwyfach.
Other sites also lay claim to be home to the Afanc, among them Llyn Llion and Llyn Barfog.
Pistyll Rhaeadr Falls
Another legend that involves good triumphing over evil is that of the Dragon of Llanrhaeadr at Rhaeadr Falls in Powys.
It concerns a winged snake called a Gwybr that lived in the lake above the falls which would fly down to terrorise the villages below.
However, the canny villagers mocked-up their own dragon to trick the Gwybr and, upon attacking it, the creature impaled itself on spikes hidden therein. thus allowing the villagers to live in peace.
The Lady of the Lake
📷 Llyn y Fan Fach (Image: Creative commons/ Flickr/ Angel Ganev)
The story goes that it was at Llyn y Fan Fach, a remote lake in the Black Mountains, where a young farmer named Gwyn won and then tragically lost the love of his life.
He fell in love with a beautiful woman who emerged from the water and agreed to marry him but warned him she would leave him forever if he hit her three times.
They lived happily for many years and had three sons, but after Gwyn struck her once for laughing during a funeral and again for crying at a wedding, an accidental third meant she disappeared into the lake never to been seen by him again.
She would sometimes re-appear to her sons and teach them the powers of healing with herbs and plants.
They became known as the Physicians of Myddfai and some of their ancient remedies have survived and are in the Red Book of Hergest, one of Wales' most important medieval manuscripts.
Cadair Idris
One of Wales' most iconic peaks, standing in southern Snowdonia, its name directly translates as Idris' Chair in reference to the mythical giant who once used the mountain as his throne. There are numerous stories and legends associated with the mountain and Idris.
A few of the nearby lakes - such as Tal-y-llyn - are reputed to be bottomless, and those who venture up the mountain at night should take heed before sleeping on its slopes. It is said that those who sleep on the mountain will awaken either as a madman, a poet or, indeed, never wake again.
Cantre'r Gwaelod
The kingdom of Maes Gwyddno, more commonly known as Cantre’r Gwaelod, is said to lie under the Irish Sea in Cardigan Bay. It was ruled by Gwyddno Garanhir (Longshanks), born circa 520AD, and the land was said to be extremely fertile but depended on a dyke to protect it from the sea.
The dyke had sluice gates which were opened at low tide to drain the water from the land, and closed as the tide returned. But, around 600AD, a storm blew up from the south west and the appointed watchman was too drunk to notice the and to shut the gates. The water gates were left open, and the sea rushed in to flood the land of the Cantref, drowning more than 16 villages.
The haunted shores of Rhossili Bay
It might be one of Britain’s best beaches, but beautiful Rhossili on the tip of Gower is also a hotspot for paranormal activity.
There have reportedly been sightings of a mysterious couple in Edwardian dress at the National Trust-owned Rhossili Rectory, while, supposedly, the spirit of Reverend John Lucas can be seen galloping across the sand on his ghostly horse.
The Reverend shares the beach with Squire Mansell who, on stormy nights, is said to search the sands for buried gold in a carriage drawn by four ghostly horses.
The great flood of Gorslas and Llyn Llech Owain
There was once said to be a magic well on the mountain Mynydd Mawr, which lies just north of Gorslas. The entrance to this well was protected with a huge flagstone, which was watched over by a local farmer.
One day, a thirsty young man named Owain came by the well and removed the stone so he and his horse could drink the water within. The pair then fell asleep shortly after without covering the well back up. Masses of flowing water then flooded the land, which was only stopped after Owain galloped around it on horseback, using his magic to contain it. The resultant lake on Mynydd Mawr was hence named Llyn Llech Owain (the lake of Owain’s stone slab).
Cwm Idwal
📷Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia (Image: Les Haines/Flickr)
The lake in this valley is named after a young man who died a tragic and unnecessary death. Legend has it that Idwal was the son of the 12th century prince Owain Gwynedd.
Beautiful and clever, Idwal did not have the makings of a warrior and was sent away to stay in safety with his uncle, Nefydd, while his father was at war. Nefydd was a jealous man whose own son Rhun, in contrast to Idwal, was witless and dull. Torn apart by bitterness, Nefydd took the boys for a walk by the lake and pushed Idwal in, drowning him.
Owain was devastated and named the lake after his son. Legend has it that the birds that inhabited the lake flew away in sorrow, never to soar above it again.
Tyno Helig, the Welsh Atlantis
One of the legends associated with the Great Orme, the massive headland to the west of Llandudno Bay, is that of Llys Helig (Helig's Palace) and the lost land of Tyno Helig.
The legends surrounds the daughter of Helig ap Glannawg, the prince of Tyno Helig, who is said to have lived in the sixth century. His daughter Gwendud had a cruel heart and when she was courted by Tahal, the son of a Snowdonian baron, refused to marry him unless he acquired the golden collar worn by noblemen of the time.
Tahal murdered a Scottish chieftain, stealing his collar, and the two were wed. But on the wedding day the ghost of the murdered Scots appeared, cursing the family. Some generations later, during a night of revelry in the royal palace, sea water began pouring into the cellar before completely submerged the palace. Many believed this was the revenge the Scottish chieftain had promised.
#....for reference... 👀👀#chwedloniaeth cymraeg#long post#spooky season#Wales#Cymru#welsh folklore#Welsh myth#I've never seen a ghost but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if rhossili was haunted!#I think I have a spooky photo of rhossili from when the weather was shocking but i drove there for my birthday regardless#I'm surprised they couldn't find one suitable for the article....#Welsh legends#mythology#legend#spooky#ghost stories#ysbrydion#cantre'r gwaelod#cwm idwal#cadair idris#llyn y fan fach#halloween#calan gaeaf
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Cantre'r Gwaelod, also known as Cantref Gwaelod or Cantref y Gwaelod (English: The Lowland Hundred), is a legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales. It has been described as a "Welsh Atlantis" and has featured in folklore, literature and song.
Cantre'r Gwaelod - Wikipedia
#welsh polytheism#welsh myth#welsh folklore#welsh magic#iolo morganwg is most likely a fake#for love of Llyr#the children of darkness have my soul
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