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Guinevere

  • Guinevere as Arthurian Adulteress

    Welcome to the first ever Femme Fatale Friday here at  White Rose of Avalon!    For this first post in this themed Friday series I have chosen to discuss a figure I have talked about often on this site, Arthur’s wife Guinevere.    Today I want to specifically look at Guinevere’s role as an adulteress…

  • Living in My Own World

    Living in my own world is how I phrase my personal outlook on life.    I have my own internal world that is quite a unique, and imaginative place!   I have a deeply complex imagination, and my personal loves and desires are very much things that influence everything I do.    My imagination allows…

  • Beltane

    Beltane is also known as Calan Mai in ancient Welsh Celtic societies.   It is the celebration of the beginning of May, and of the fertility of the land, and people.   Many goddesses and faerie queens are associated with Beltane.    They include Blodeuwedd, Rhiannon, and Maeve.   Guinevere is often associated with the…

  • The Uses of 3 and 9 in Celtic Belief

    The Celtic beliefs placed a large amount of significance on the numbers three and nine.    Both numbers appear in many different myths and symbols within Celtic culture!    The number three is the triple goddess, maiden mother and crone, that is utilized in some variation by most ancient cultures.    The number nine is…

  • Guinevere and Sovereignty

    Guinevere can be seen as representing a sovereignty goddess.   She married a king and cemented his reign.    In this vision of Guinevere as sovereignty incarnate we find an explanation for her romance with Lancelot.    She could never be more than lover of Lancelot because if she took him as a husband she…

  • Ancestral Mythology

    The concept of ancestral mythology is a very intriguing one.   This is the mythology that our physical ancestors would have believed in.   We each have a deeper connection to the myths and folktales of our own ancestors than to those of other cultures.   This makes for an innate feeling of interest (for…

  • Lancelot’s Celtic Roots

    Lancelot was taken in by and raised by the Lady of the Lake.   He was therefore raised by a faerie woman.   Lancelot is often tied to the Isle of Avalon due to his fosterage by the Lady of the Lake.    He becomes an amazing knight, and a true warrior thanks to his…

  • The Blodeuwedd and Guinevere Connection

    Blodeuwedd and Guinevere have many commonalities in their tales.   Both could be seen as sovereignty goddesses that had marriages that gave kingship to their husbands.   Both had marriages that began as happy, but devolved into unhappiness on the part of the wives.   Both found true love when they were already married, and…

  • Doppelgängers

    Doppelgängers are doubles, oftentimes evil ones, that come into people’s lives and often cause great changes.    The concept of evil twins comes from doppelgänger.   Physical doubles of ourselves are common themes in literature, film, and television. Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted a work called How They Met Themselves while on his honeymoon with Elizabeth…

  • Symbolism of the Color White in Tales of the Supernatural

    Since ancient times colors have had deep symbolism.   Today I want to look at the symbolism of the color white, and its association with the supernatural!   In ancient Celtic tales white was a symbol of faeries.    This symbolism of white with faeries and the Faery realm carried over into Arthurian legends.  …