Goddess Cymidei Cymeinfoll  

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CYMIDEI CYMEINFOLL (pronounced KEEM-ud-day KEEM-een-vol) is the Welsh Goddess of war. Along with her husband, Llasar Llaesgyfnewid, she lived beneath a lake in Ireland, until Matholwch, King of Ireland, tried to kill them. Cymidei and Llasar escaped to Wales, taking with them the Cauldron of Regeneration which they guarded. When a warrior was killed in battle, he was thrown into the cauldron, and would emerge alive but without the ability to speak. They gave the cauldron to Bendigeidfran, King of Wales, also known as Bran.

When Bran's sister Branwen was to be married to Matholwch, their half-brother Efnisien threw a fit and mutilated several of Mathowch's horses. In appeasement, Bran gave Matholwch the cauldron as a peace offering to take back to Ireland. Unfortunately, the marriage was not a happy one and Branwen sent word back to Bran that she was being mistreated. He and Efnisien invaded Ireland to get their sister back. The Irish were winning, because the cauldron could keep regenerating their dead warriors. Efnisien leapt into the cauldron and broke it, turning the tide for the Welsh but losing his life in the process.

Cymidei Cymeinfoll's name means "big belly of battle" in reference to the fact that she could give birth to a fully armed warrior every six weeks.

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Okuninushi  

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Okuninushi is a divinity in Japanese Shinto. His name literally translates to "Great Land Master", and he is believed to be originally the ruler of Izumo Province, until he was replaced by Ninigi. In compensation, he was made ruler of the unseen world of spirits and magic. He is believed to be a god of nation-building, farming, business and medicine.

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Fates Moirae  

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The Fates have the subtle but, awesome power of deciding a mans destiny. The assign a man to good or evil. There most obvious choice is choosing how long a man lives. There are three Fates. Clotho, the spinner, who spins the thread of life. Lachesis, the measurer, who chooses the lot in life one will have and measures off how long it is to be. Atropos, she who can not be turn, who at death with her shears cuts the tread of life.

In earlier times, the Moirae were represented as only a few - perhaps only one - individual goddess. Homer's Iliad speaks generally of the Moera, who spins the thread of life for men at their birth (xxiv.209) or, earlier in the same book (line 49), of several Moerae. In the Odyssey (vii.197) there is a reference to the Klothes, or Spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth and Death were revered.

In Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existence, was called Aphrodite Urania the 'eldest of the Fates' according to Pausanias (x.24.4).The Moirae existed on the deepest European mythological level. It is difficult to separate them from the Norns, the similar age-old fates, older than the gods, of a separate Indo-European tradition.

Despite their forbidding reputation, Moirae could be worshipped as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair and women swore by them. They may have originated as birth-goddesses and only later acquired their reputation as the agents of destiny.

The Moirae can be compared with the three spinners of Destiny in northern Europe, the Norns or the Baltic goddess Laima and her two sisters, also spinning goddesses.

The three witches encountered by Macbeth are loosely based on the Moirae.

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Nymph Minthe Done  

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 ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTH, THE MINT PLANT ORIGINALLY WAS A BEAUTIFUL NYMPH NAMED "MINTHE" WHO LIVED IN THE RIVER COCYTUS IN THE UNDERWORLD; SHE WAS THE SECRET LOVER OF "HADES". IN FACT, HE ADORED HER. WHEN "PERSEPHONE" FOUND OUT ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HER HUSBAND AND THE WATER NYMPH, SHE WAS FURIOUS, AND, IN A FIT OF JEALOUSY, TOOK REVENGE ON HER HUSBAND'S MISTRESS BY STOMPING HER, EVENTUALLY CURSING AND TRANSFORMING "MINTHE" INTO A LOWLY PLANT.

ALTHOUGH "HADES" COULD NOT UNDO HIS WIFE'S SPELL, HE DID HAVE THE POWER TO ADD ONE OF HIS OWN. HE BESTOWED UPON "MINTHE "A FRAGRANCE THAT WOULD GROW SWEETER AND STRONGER WHENEVER SHE WAS TROD UPON. OVER TIME, THE NAME "MINTHE" WAS CHANGED TO "MENTHA" AND BECAME A GENUS OF THE MINT PLANT. SHE REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF THE HERBS.

ADD A TOUCH OF MINT TO YOUR GARDEN THIS YEAR AND ENJOY THE FLOWERS, AROMA, AND FLAVOR.

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