Cymidei Cymeinfoll
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Cymidei Cymeinfoll (pregnant in battle or big belly of battle in Welsh), was a Welsh goddess of the Mabinogi. Cymidei gave birth to one fully-formed and armed warrior every six weeks.
She was the wife of Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid, smaller and subservient to her. Together, they lived under a lake in Ireland and were the keepers of the Cauldron of Regeneration, into which they would throw dead warriors, who would then come back to life mute.[1]
Matholwch of took the family in, but tired of them and ordered them thrown into an iron building which was then heated from the outside. Everyone died but Cymidei and Llasar, who escaped with the cauldron, which they gave to Bran the Blessed of Ireland as a peace offering.[2][3]
They are both mentioned in the legend of the wedding of Branwen and Matholwch.[4]
[edit] Internal Links
- Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid
- Branwen
- Badb
- Bran the Blessed
- Matholwch
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://lightwind-de-domnu.tripod.com/id14.html
- ^ http://www.celticgrounds.com/chapters/encyclopedia/l.html Filed under the entry for Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid.
- ^ http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deities.html
- ^ http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/MYTH/MYTH06.HTM The Mabinogian (scroll down to Book II).
[edit] External Links
- Celtnet page on Cymidei.
- Review of a book giving alternate guardians for the Cauldron of Regeneration, as mentioned in the Hanes Taliesin.
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