#morgan le fey

[nocnitsa]

Clive Hicks-Jenkins - Morgan le Fey 

#clive jenkins #arthuriana #arthurian legend #morgan le fey

[vane-sya]

Morgan le Fey by IrenHorrors

#my edit #dark art #dark fantasy #b&w #black and white #morgan le fey #irenhorrors #monochrome #witch

[nasuversekinkmeme]

Despite Everything, Artoria never hated her sister, so when Morgan is summoned, so obviously tired, face masked like stone, Artoria does the first thing she can think of, and embraces her sister in understanding. And Morgan breaks. (because I need some catharsis.)

Aww

#anonymous #prompt #fgo #morgan le fey #saber

[versegm]

You ever had like. A group project. And you wanna play nice you know make it real teamwork, listen to everyone's inputs and work together to make something good. But as you go you realize that the people around you... kind of suck? You do your best, you know, politely probe at the lazy ones, try to explain better what you need them to do and how to get this thing done. But at best they're incompetent and at worst they're outright malicious. And the deadline is coming you know you can't spend forever dabbling with them you need to get this shit down somehow and if none of them are gonna do their fucking work correctly then you might as well do it yourself. And of course they start complaining now because you gave up on bargaining and just end up asking "do this shit or I'm booting you out" and you know that behind your back they're all calling you a bossy bitch but fuck them man if they didn't want this they should have opened their big fucking mouth and started contributing way back at the beginning. You're highkey burning out and your mental health is in shamble but god as your fucking witness this shit will get done and if anyone claims to have a better idea as to how to do this shit before the literal end of the world then they should come up to you and shoot you themself, pussies.

Picture unrelated.

#fate #lostbelt 6 #morgan le fey

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Morgan Le Fey by Brom

#Morgan Le Fey #Brom #Gerald Brom #Fantasy #Art

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Arthurian myth: Morgan the Fey (1)

Loosely translated from the French article "Morgane", written by Philippe Walter, for the Dictionary of Feminine Myths (Le Dictionnaire des Mythes Féminins)

MORGANE

Morgane means in Celtic language “born from the sea” (mori-genos). This character is as such, by her origins, part of the numerous sea-creatures of mythologies. A Britton word of the 9th century, “mormorain”, means “maiden of the sea/ sea-virgin”, et in old texts it is equated with the Latin “siren”. A passage of the life of saint Tugdual of Tréguiers (written in 1060) tells of ow a young man of great beauty named Guengal was taken away under the sea by “women of the sea”. The Celtic beliefs knew many various water-fairies with often deadly embraces – and Morgane was one among the many sirens, mermaids, mary morgand and “morverc’h” (sea girls/daughters of the sea).

Morgane, the fairy of Arthurian tales, is the descendant of the mythical figures of the Mother-Goddesses who, for the Celts, embodied on one side sovereignty, royalty and war, and on the other fecundity and maternity. In the Middle-Ages, they were renamed “fairies” – but through this word it tried to translate a permanent power of metamorphosis and an unbreakable link to the Otherworld, as well as a dreaded ability to influence human fate. The French word “fée” comes from the neutral plural “fata”, itself from the Latin word “fatum”, meaning “fate”.

There is not a figure more ambivalent in Celtic mythology – and especially in the Arthurian legends – than Morgane. She constantly hesitates between the character of a good fairy who offers helpful gifts to those she protects ; and a terrible, bloodthirsty goddess out for revenge, only sowing death and destruction everywhere she goes. Christianity played a key role in the demonization of this figure embodying an inescapable fate, thus contradicting the Christian view of mankind’s free will.

I/ The sovereign goddess of war

It is in the ancient mythological Irish texts that the goddess later known as Morgane appears. The adventures of the warrior Cuchulainn (the “Irish Achilles”) with the war-goddess Morrigan are a major theme of the epic cycle of Ireland. The Morrigan (a name which probably means “great queen”) is also called “Bodb Catha” (the rook of battles). It is under the shape of a rook (among many other metamorphosis) that she appears to Cuchulainn to pronounce the magical words that will cause the hero’s death.

The Irish goddesses of war were in reality three sisters: Bodb, Macha and Morrigan, but it is very likely that these three names all designated the same divinity, a triple goddess rather than three distinct characters. This maleficent goddess was known to cause an epileptic fury among the warriors she wanted to cause the death of. The name of Bodb, which ended up meaning “rook”, originally had the sense of “fury” and “violence”, and it designated a goddess represented by a rook. The Irish texts explain that her sisters, Macha and Morrigan, were also known to cause the doom of entire armies by taking the shape of birds. Every great battle and every great massacre were preceded by their sinister cries, which usually announced the death of a prominent figure.

The Celtic goddesses of war have as such a function similar to the one of the Norse Walkyries, who flew over the battlefield in the shape of swans, or the Greek Keres. The deadly nature of these goddesses resides in the fact that they doom some warriors to madness with their terrifying screams. One of the effects of this goddess-caused madness was a “mad lunacy”, the “geltacht”, which affected as much the body as the mind. During a battle in 1722 it was said that the goddess appeared above king Ferhal in the shape of a sharp-beaked, red-mouth bird, and as she croaked nine men fell prey to madness. The poem of “Cath Finntragha” also tells of the defeat of a king suffering from this illness. The place of his curse later became a place of pilgrimage for all the lunatics in hope of healing.

The link between the war-goddess and the “lunacy-madness” are found back within folklore, in which fairies, in the shape of birds, regularly attack children and inflict them nervous illnesses. These fairies could also appear as “sickness-demons”. Their appearance was sometimes tied to key dates within the Celtic calendar, such as Halloween, which corresponded to the Irish and pre-Christian celebration of Samain. Folktales also keep this particularly by placing the ritualistic appearances of witches and of fate-fairies during the Twelve Days, between Christmas and the Epiphany – another period similar to the Celtic Halloween. Morgane seems to belong to this category of “seasonal visitors”.

II) The Queen of Avalon

In Arthurian literature, Morgane rules over the island of Avalon, a name which means the Island of Apples (the apple is called “aval” in Briton, “afal” in Welsh and “Apfel” in German). Just like the golden apples of the Garden of the Hesperids, in Celtic beliefs this fruit symbolizes immortality and belongs to the Otherworld, a land of eternal youth. It is also associated with revelations, magic and science – all the attributes that Morgane has. Her kingdom of Avalon is one of the possible localizations of the Celtic paradise – it is the place that the Irish called “sid”, the “sedos” (seat) of the gods, their dwelling, but at the same time a place of peace beyond the sea. Avalon is also called the Fortunate Isle (L’Île Fortunée) because of the miraculous prosperity of its soil where everything grows at an abnormal rate. As such, agriculture does not exist there since nature produces by itself everything, without the intervention of mankind.

It is within this island that the fairy leads those she protects, especially her half-brother Arthur after the twilight of the Arthurian world. Morgane acts as such as the mediator between the world of the living and the fabulous Celtic Otherworld. Like all the fairies, she never stops going back and forth between the two worlds. Morgane is the ideal ferrywoman. The same way the Morrigan fed on corpses or the Valkyries favored warriors dead in battle, Morgane also welcomes the soul of the dead that she keeps by her side for all of eternity. Some texts gave her a home called “Montgibel”, which is confused with the Italian Etna. The Otherworld over which she rules doesn’t seem, as such, to be fully maritime.

The ”Life of Merlin” of the Welsh clerk Geoffroy of Monmouth teaches us that Morgan has eight sisters: Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Thiten, Tytonoe, and Thiton. Nine sisters in total which can be divided in three groups of three, connected by one shared first letter (M, G, T). In Adam de la Halle’s “Jeu de la feuillée”, she appears with two female companions (Arsile and Maglore), forming a female trinity. As such, she rebuilds the primitive triad of the sovereign-goddesses, these mother-goddesses that the inscriptions of Antiquity called the “Matres” or “Matronae”. In this triad, Morgane is the most prominent member. She is the effective ruler of Avalon, since it was said that she taught the art of divination to her sisters, an art she herself learned from Merlin of which she was the pupil. She knows the secret of medicinal herbs, and the art of healing, she knows how to shape-shift and how to fly in the air. Her healing abilities give her in some Arthurian works a benevolent function, for example within the various romans of Chrétien de Troyes. She usually appears right on time to heal a wounded knight: she is the one that gave a balm to Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, to heal his madness. In these works, Morgane does not embody a force of destruction, but on the contrary she protects the happy endings and good fortunes of the Round Table. She is the providential fée that saves the souls born in high society and raised in the “courtois” worship of the lady. However, her powers of healing can reverse into a nefarious power when the fée has her ego wounded.

III/ The fatal temptress

In the prose Arthurian romans of the 13th century, Morgane can be summarized by one place. After being neglected by her lover Guyomar, she creates “le Val sans retour”, the Vale of No-Return, a place which will define her as a “femme fatale”. This place transports without the “littérature courtoise” the idea of the Celtic Otherworld. Also called “Le Val des faux amants” (The Vale of False Lovers), “le Val sans retour” is a cursed place where the fée traps all those that were unfaithful to her, by using various illusions and spells. As such, she manifests both her insatiable cruelty and her extreme jealousy. Lancelot will become the prime victim of Morgane because, due to his love for Queen Guinevere, he will refuse her seduction. The feelings of Morgane towards Lancelot rely on the ambivalence of love and hate: since she cannot obtain the love of the knight by natural means, she will use all of her enchantments and magical brews to submit Lancelot’s will. In vain. Lancelot will escape from the influence of this wicked witch. In “La Mort le roi Artu”, still for revenge, Morgan will participate in her own way to the decline to the Arthurian world: she will reveal to her brother, king Arthur, the adulterous love of Guinevre and Lancelot. She will bring to him the irrefutable proof of this affair by showing her what Lancelot painted when he had been imprisoned by her. The terrible war that marks the end of the Arthurian world will be concluded by the battle between Arthur and Mordred, the incestuous son of Arthur and Morgan. As such, Morgan appears as the instigator of the disaster that will ruin the Arthurian world. She manipulates the various actors of the tragedy and pushes them towards a deadly end. It should be noted that any sexual or romantic relationship between Arthur and Morgane are absent from the French romans – they are especially present within the British compilation of Malory, La Mort d’Arthur.

Behind the possessive woman described by the Arthurian texts, hides a more complex figure, a leftover of the ancient Celtic goddess of destinies. Cruel and manipulative, Morgan is fuses with the fear-inducing figure of the witch. Despite being an enemy of men, she keeps seeking their love. All of her personal tragedy comes from the fact that she fails to be loved. Always heart-sick, she takes revenge for her romantic failure with an incredible savagery. Her brutality manifest itself through the ugliness that some text will end up giving her – the ultimate rejection by this Christian world of this “devilish and lustful temptress”. “La Suite du Roman de Merlin” will try to give its own explanation for this transformation of Morgane, from good to wicked fairy: “She was a beautiful maiden until the time she learned charms and enchantments ; but because the devil took part in these charms and because she was tormented by both lust and the devil, she completely lost her beauty and became so ugly that no one accepted to ever call her beautiful, unless they had been bewitched”. In this new roman, she is responsible for a series of murders and suicides – and as the rival of Guinevere, she tries to cause King Arthur’s doom by favorizing her own lover, Accalon. Another fée, Viviane, will oppose herself to her schemes.

The demonization of the goddess is however not complete. Morgan appears in several “chansons de gestes” of the beginning of the 13th century, and even within the Orlando Furioso of the Arisote, in the sixth canto, in which she is the sister of the sorceress Alcina. She is presented as the disciple of Merlin. Seer and wizardess, she owns (within Avalon or the land of Faerie) a land of pleasure, a little paradise in which mankind can escape its condition. At the same time the Arthurian texts discredit her, she joins a strange historico-pagan syncretism, by being presented as the wife of Julius Caesar, and as the mother of Aubéron, the little king of Féerie.

After the Middle-Ages, the fée Morgane only mostly appears within the Breton folklore (the French-Britton folklore, of the French region of Bretagne). There, old mythical themes which inspired medieval literature are maintained alive, and keep existing well after the Middles-Ages. Morgane is given several lairs, on earth or under the sea. In the Côtes-d’Armor, there is a Terte de la fée Morgan, while a hill near Ploujean is called “Tertre Morgan”. There is an entire branch of popular literature in Bretagne (such as Charles Le Bras’ 1850 “Morgân”) where the fée represents the last survivor of a legendary land and the reminder of a forgotten past. She expresses the nostalgia of a lost dream, of a fallen Golden Age. True Romantic allegory of the lands and seas of Bretagne, she most notably embodies the feeling of a Bretagne land that was in search of its own soul.

However, it is her role of “cursed lover” that stays the most dominant within the Breton folklore. The vicomte de La Villemarqué, great collector of folktales and popular legends, noted in his “Barzaz Breiz” (1839) that the “morgan”, a type of water spirits, took at the bottom of the sea or of ponds, in palaces of gold and crystal, young people that played too close to their “haunted waters”. The goal of these fairies was to kidnap them to regenerate their cursed species. This ties the link between these “morganes” (also called “mary morgand”) and the Antique “fairy of fate”. Similar names, a same love of water, and the presence of the “land below the waves”, of a malevolent seduction – these are the permanent traits of Morgane, who keeps confusing and uniting the romantic instinct for love, and the desire for death. More modern adaptations of the legend (such as Marion Zimmer Bradley’s novels) weave an entire feminist fantasy around the figure of this fairy, supposed to embody the Celtic matriarchy.

#arthuriana #arthurian myth #arthurian legend #morgane #morgan #morgan le fey #fée #french folklore #folklore of bretagne #celtic mythology #irish mythology

[kitsuneharmony]

Inspiration struck me and I scrambled to make this ASAP.

Here's a blank version

#fate grand order #fate series #artoria pendragon #okita souji #mash kyrielight #jeanne d'arc #kiyohime #morgan le fey #florence nightingale #nagao kagetora #jalter #saber alter #ushiwakamaru #tamamo no mae #okada izou #mordred #astolfo

[agrownupgeekgirl]

Chess Set

I also designed a chess set on HeroForge.. it is Arthurian, with the idea that Arthur was a post Roman Briton King so I went with an Anglo-Saxon feel to the clothing and armor, and leaning into Christianity. While the opposing side is led by Morgan le Fey and is far more "Fantasy Pict" inspired and worshiping the Old Gods.

The whole set is just a fantasy chess set and not meant to be historically accurate, just historically inspired.

The White pieces

King Arthur

Queen Gwenivere

Knights - Galahad and Lancelot

Merlin and The Lady of the Lake(Bishops)

Rook

Pawn

The Black Pieces

Queen Morgan le Fey

King Lot

Knights Accolon and Mordred

Old God Priests(Bishops)

Rook

Pawn

#Arthurian #King Arthur #Knights of the Round Table #Morgan le Fey #Lancelot #Galahad #Mordred #HeroForge #Chess

[loll3]

✷ the Medieval Witch themed illustration is finally done! 🖤 I'm going to release these illustrations as art prints/stickers very soon! 🌜🦷🗝️✨

• Medieval Witch ~ ©Lolle (2024) || made with @procreateapp | Apple pen on iPad pro 🌿

#medioevo fantastico #medieval #witch #morgan le fey #medieval witch #illustration #digital illustration #procrete #apple pen #iPad pro #iPad art #lOll3 #lOll3ART

[voidsentprinces]

Morgan le Fey: Ah, Habetrot, my traveling companion and dearest knight. I know you are from proper history and not the faerie I once knew but still those halcyon--I am sorry, what do you have? Habetrot: A gunyan! Morgan le Fey: CHALDEA, WHAT THE SHIT!? NO!

#fgo #morgan le fey #habetrot

[madcat-world]

Priestesses of Avalon (1 of 8) - Ashley Hankins

#Priestesses of Avalon #Ashley Hankins #Priestess #Morgan le Fey #celtic #fairy tales #fighters #myths #fantasy art #digital art

[greenpanda-basicfakewitch]

Mythical Lore | Morgan Le Fey

Morgan le Fey  [Source]

The Tale of Morgen Le Fey, the roots of Morgan Le Feys history are a cloudy mixture of Celtic mythology and legend,  She first appears in writing in the twelfth century but was likely based on much older figures from Celtic folklore and mythology.

Few witches in literacy history have been as influential - or as maligned - as Morgan le fey. She is seen as either the Healer/Ruler of the Mystical Island of Avalon.

OR the Arch Villainess of Arthurian legend, for more than nine hundred years Morgan popular perceptions of Witchcraft. 

Morgan Le Fey has been linked to some deities, such as Morrígan the ‘phantom Queen’ of Irish Myth associated with battle and prophecy.

 The Mari-morgans of Breton folklore who, Siren-like, lure sailors to their doom. 

The most direct influence is Modron, Etymologically linked to Dea Matrona, the divine mother goddess of ancient Gual. Modron was a divine figure in Welsh mythology connected to the court of King Arthur.

In these celtic stories, we can see glimmers of who Morgan Le Fay would become; an otherworldly figure, a voice of death and prophecy, a divine figure of creation and creativity.

Morgan Le Fey; In one account of many, Morgan of Vita is a renowned healer and scholar, one of nine ethereal sisters living on a mystical island of Avalon. The best of the nine, Morgan was known for her beauty, skill in mathematics and ability to shapeshift. 

  “...That art is known for her beauty. She he can change shape and cut the air on new wings in the manner of Dedalus. When she wishes she is in Brist, Carnot or Papie when she wishes, as she glides out of the air into your lands.” 

 Her magic is depicted as art comparable to the creative force of Dedalus, the great inventor of Greek Mythology.

 What makes her essential is not only the fine art of magic but of healing, Morgan's knowledge and power are the only thing that can restore a mortally wounded Arthur to health, and her skills the best hope for the future of Britain.

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 Then begins a literacy descent from being a ruler of her own right to becoming the villain. [Image Source] As literary pieces paint her with suspicion of her magic.

Morgan studies healing, astronomy and magical arts then uses it to further her own terrible hatreds and jealousies. She grows entangled in an elaborate love triangle with Queen Guinivere and her adulterous lover lancelot. By trying to expose the affair 

“Chastity-revealing horn.” 

 She goes as far as to create an otherworldly Shadow realm, ominously called the Valley of No Returns, that she traps Lancelot in three times. 

 Thus the transformation still associated with healing and Avalon, literature increasingly links her beauty and power with dangerous instability.

 In vita she was described for her inner creativity goodness, transforms into a sign of sexuality run amok, authors depict her as licentious and prone to jealousies. Her power that was once the only hope for Arthur and the future of Britain, becomes a force of corruption and darkness.

 She is shown as a central threat to Camelot and the world as she tried to kill Arthur and his knights through demonic Monster servants, deadly seductions and elaborate plots involving green knights.

 She is also always entrusted with Arthur once he is mortally wounded and she takes him away by Boat to Avalon.

Morgan Le Fey is connected to the Fea in that she is someone who is able to understand that type of world and can be one with that type of magic, especially through celtic origins of fea. 

And that is how they see her as one not unlike the fea, both kind and cruel how their morality and tokens change on a whim. How they can be both neutral or give help for a price. Or plain mischievous for no reason other than they want to. Uncontrollable and hard to understand and something they cant contain. Morgan Le Feys image has changed due to misogyny warping her image into a figure of evil, jealousy and cruelty and fickle in her actions when she decides to save Arthur or in this case save a man.

#LORE #Mythical Lore #Morgan Le Fey #Morgan #Le #Fey #witch community #wiccan #witch #pagan #wicca #witchblr #witchtok #witchcraft #Baby witch #baby

[nasuversekinkmeme]

oberon gifts morgan a gift of just bugs. Now he’s being chased by the faerie knights and now gudako must at least stop them from murdering oberon for his antics

Uh oh sisters!

#anonymous #prompt #fgo #oberon #morgan le fey

[versegm]

Screaming crying eating my fingers. Morgan is intimately aware of the cruelty that awaits the child of prophecy should she choose to take that mantle. She's giving Castoria an out. We don't have to fight. We don't have to fight. If you want to leave I will let you if you want to live I will let you. And when Castoria doesn't back away Morgan makes sure to tell her that Castoria is justified in killing her, that any blood shed while fighting her would not be Castoria's sin. We stand on opposite side of this war we chose to protect different things but ultimately we are the same and as such I cannot hate you.

#fate #fate grand order #fgo #lostbelt 6 #morgan le fey #morgan (fgo)

[oneshoulderangel]

Okay, last redo so I can actually get back to making progress with my actual projects.

Here is Morgan le Fey! Again! The metal disk behind her is supposed to be a reference to her being one of 9 Fey sisters originally. I imagine she found the old ruins of a Temple and made it her home and her throne a little couch that I covered in blue fabric cause I couldn’t be bothered to draw more furniture. Her dress is very historically inaccurate, but making her looks pretty was my goal…so we’ll just say it’s magic and call it a day.

#shoulderangelcomics #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #arthurian mythology #arthuriana #morgan le fey

[culturefrancaise]

Je vous annonce que je suis en train de regarder une série de 2011, qui a été annulée après une saison de 10 épisodes, juste parce que je trouve qu'Eva Green fait une parfaite Morgane.

#bon et parce que je la trouve belle #morgan le fey #eva green #camelot #wlw