Geocoin GCC "Blodeuwedd"

GeoCoinClub May 2018

In Welsh mythology, there is an enchanted hero akin to Heracles or Odysseus named Lleu Llaw Gyffes.  He suffers a tynged (magical curse) from his mother Arianrhod to never have a human wife.  To overcome this dweomer, Lleu receives help from the magicians Math and Gwydion.  They gather the blooms of oak, broom flower and meadowsweet and from these beautiful florals they conjure into being the most beautiful maiden on earth... Blodeuwedd ( Flower Face).   Lleu is constantly off on adventures and Blodeuwedd grows lonely and eventually takes a lover.  Together with her lover she conspires to kill the near-immortal Lleu.  They almost succeed in their murderous plot before Lleu escapes the attempt.  The magicians Gwydion and Math are enraged that their conjured flower-face girl should so blatantly rebel against her purpose that they set out to bring her to justice.  They capture her and transform her into an owl.  She is cursed to never dare show her face again in the light of day.  All other feathered creatures will hate her and attack her on sight.  It will be the nature of all birds to hate her, despise her and harass her wherever she should run to over the whole earth.  For all time though, she will retain her name "Blodeuwedd" (Flower-Face).

• Design: Chris Mackey
• Size: 5cm
• Thickness: 3,5 mm
• Finish: shiny Silver
• Enameling: Soft Enamel
• Trackable at geocaching.com
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