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 Math fab Mathonwy, the Celtic Savitr-Prajapati and Goewin, the Goddess of Night: Part 2 < Part 1 One further level of comparison must be brought to bear on this picture by examining an esoteric analogy of the Savitr-Ratri myth. This Night goddess, Ratri/Goewin, can also be seen as an instantiation of the cosmic “Uncreate” (that is, the dark, unmanifest state underlying existence), but within the material cycle. I n the Vedic interpretation of scholar Stella Kramrisch, this "pre-cosmic" darkness is analogous, though on a different level, to the darkness of the cycle which is Night. Night’s rape would then be a repetition on the level of the individual day of the violation of the Uncreate by the more abstract and primordial Prajapati ("Lord of Creatures," Vedic creator god), who, according to Kramrisch 1 , in some sense creates the cosmos out of a violation of the Uncreate in the Brahmanas. The o...

Math fab Mathonwy, the Celtic Savitr-Prajapati and Goewin, the Goddess of Night: Part 1 The Greek Goddess Nyx Despite Welsh  Blodeuwedd being a striking parallel of Helen of Troy, her “Dawn”-related role is somewhat unclear in the existing texts, though she is, suggestively, made of flowers. A larger theoretical framework of the tale  Math fab Mathonwy  must be developed, then, in order to see Blodeuwedd in her auroral position. Blodeuwedd’s auroral role can be best seen in relation to her creator, Math fab Mathonwy. As such, a Vedic parallel myth will be given for the myth of Math and his cohort, which will then suggest his role as the creator of a goddess who must be closely related to, or identified with, the Dawn.  The parallel is sketched out as follows: Math "could not exist" without resting his feet upon the lap of the virgin goddess Goewin, as Vedic Savitr, god of the solar power at night and during sunrise and sunset, rests before rising with his virgin...