Mabuz
deity Arthurian legend single tradition · 2
Mabuz is the son of the unnamed aquatic fairy queen, who is the prototype for the Lady of the Lake. He was swapped with Lancelot as a changeling.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 CE
- Attested period
- 500 – 1500
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in Ulrich's Lanzelet.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Saraïde, Modron, Mabon son of Mellt, Matrona, Lady of the Lake
- manifests as
- Maponos, Mabonagrain, Mabon
- manifested by
- Mabon, Mabonagrain
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Ulrich uses the changeling part of the fairy abduction lore for the background of Lancelot as having been swapped with her son Mabuz. However, the figure of Lancelot's supernatural foster mother has no offspring of her own in any of the later texts.”
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“Scholars Proinsias Mac Cana and Roger Sherman Loomis suggested that Maponos survived in Arthurian mythology as Mabon, Mabuz and Mabonagrain.”
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