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HIS STORY IN THE MABINOGI When his mother Arianrhod was magically tested for virginity by Math she gave birth to Lleu as a blob, together with his brother Dylan Eil Ton. The blob was placed in a chest by Gwydion , Arianrhod's brother. The furious Arianrhod created three '' Geas a'': only she could give him a name; only she could give him weapons; he would have no human wife. Arianrhod denied him the three aspects of masculinity. Gwydion raised him anyway, even without a name. Later Arianrhod saw him killing a Wren with a single stone. She said that he was a bright one with a sure hand and he took the name Lleu Llaw Gyffes ("bright, with a sure hand"). Gwydion then tricked her into arming him by feigning an attack on her stronghold. Gwydion and Math created a woman for Lleu out of flowers, Blodeuwedd . Blodeuwedd had an affair with Goronwy and tricked the secret of his death out of him, since Lleu could not be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. He could only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat and with a weapon forged during the hours when everyone was at mass. She then led him to his death. Lleu became an Eagle , but then Gwydion switched him back to human. He killed Goronwy and Gwydion turned Blodeuwedd into an Owl . ETYMOLOGY
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