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    Modron ("mother") is a figure in Welsh tradition, known as the mother of the hero Mabon ap Modron. Both characters may have derived from earlier divine...
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    Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh and wider Brythonic literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band. Both...
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    portrays him as the son of King Urien of Gorre and of either the enchantress Modron or the sorceress Morgan le Fay. The historical Owain mab Urien, the basis...
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    attested throughout northern Europe). The name of Welsh mythological figure Modron, mother of Mabon, is derived from the same etymon (and Mabon has a cognate...
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    supernatural mother Modron, derived from the continental mother goddess figure of Dea Matrona and featured in medieval Welsh literature. Modron appears in Welsh...
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    Morgan le Fay was often thought to have originally been the Welsh goddess Modron or Irish the Morrígan. Many of these identifications come from the speculative...
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  • According to a medieval Welsh triad, Afallach was the father of the goddess Modron. The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae...
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    Arianrhod Blodeuwedd Branwen Ceridwen Creiddylad Creirwy Dôn Gwenhwyfar Modron - possible derivation of Dea Matrona Nimue Olwen Rhiannon Afallach Amaethon...
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  • is belief so strong it can shape reality".: 99  In a review of The Great Modron March, Backstab magazine contributor Philippe Tessier called the presentation...
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    Britain, he was equated with Apollo. The Welsh mythological figure Mabon ap Modron is apparently derived from Maponos, who by analogy we may suggest was the...
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  • Modron is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1978. Modron is an adventure scenario which details the village of...
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    in the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, where we find, for example, Mabon ap Modron ("Divine Son of the Divine Mother"), and in the collected Welsh Triads,...
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  • that Lleu, like Pryderi, is related to the divine son figure of Mabon ap Modron. The name Lleu is derived from Proto-Celtic *Lugus, the exact meaning (and...
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  • clockwork plane is the ultimate in order; scholars and constructs live here. Modrons, orderly geometrically shaped beings Inevitables, mechanical enforcers...
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    man is the gatekeeper?"), where it is only said of him that Mabon son of Modron is his servant. He is also memorialised with "The Death-song of Uther Pen"...
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    July or 1 August 1 February Celtic polytheism First fruits Mabon, a.k.a. Modron 21 or 22 September 21 March No historical pagan equivalent. Autumnal equinox;...
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  • Retrieved August 7, 2020. Tessier, Philippe (January–February 1998). "The Great Modron March". Backstab (in French). No. 7. p. 47. Colohan, Daniel (June 13, 2021)...
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  • the autumnal equinox in some versions of the Wheel of the Year Mabon ap Modron, a figure in Welsh Arthurian legend Maponos, a pre-Christian Celtic god...
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    court, mentioned fleetingly in Geraint ac Enid. Arawn Ceridwen Mabon ap Modron Modron Taliesin Tegid Foel Ambrosius (Ambrosius Aurelianus) Arthur (King Arthur)...
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    helps Cei and Goreu fab Custennin kill Wrnach the Giant, rescues Mabon ap Modron from his imprisonment, retrieves the hairs of Dillus the Bearded, captures...
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    around temple buildings and cult centers. Matrika Dea Matrona Dís Idis Modron Mōdraniht Nehalennia Suleviae Lindow 2002, p. 224. Simek 1996, pp. 204–205...
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  • Wartle, domain unknown. Ygorl, lord of entropy. Primus is the leader of the modrons and is the epitome of order, and possesses god-like powers in the game...
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    including hunting the Twrch Trwyth and recovering the exalted prisoner Mabon ap Modron. Cai is a prominent character throughout the tale and is responsible for...
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  • the end of the world, and is urged by what appears to be the mythical Modron Freya to choose a side. She tracks Vilgefortz to a dangerous part of the...
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    an Anglo-Norman form of Mabon, son of Morgan's early Welsh counterpart Modron. According to Roger Sherman Loomis, "it seems almost certain" that Morgan...
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    Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology, and has become the most commonly used...
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    including hunting the Twrch Trwyth and recovering the exalted prisoner Mabon ap Modron. Culhwch accepts the giant's challenge and, with the help of Arthur and...
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    Gwyn ap Nudd Hafgan Lleu Llaw Gyffes Llŷr Lludd Mabon Manawydan Math fab Mathonwy Modron Nisien Ogyruan Olwen Penarddun Pryderi Pwyll Rhiannon Taliesin...
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    Gwyn ap Nudd Hafgan Lleu Llaw Gyffes Llŷr Lludd Mabon Manawydan Math fab Mathonwy Modron Nisien Ogyruan Olwen Penarddun Pryderi Pwyll Rhiannon Taliesin...
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    of mother figures such as the Welsh Dôn, Rhiannon (‘great queen’), and Modron (from Matrona, ‘great mother’), and the Irish Danu, Boand, Macha, and Ernmas...
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