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Grodna

Grodna can refer to

  • Hrodna, a city in Belarus
  • Grodna (Blake) the mythological character from the writings of William Blake
  • Grodna, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Grodna (Blake)

In the mythological writings of William Blake, Grodna is the third son of Urizen.

In Chapter VIII of The Book of Urizen his birth is described:

Grodna rent the deep earth, howling Amaz'd; his heavens immense cracks Like the ground parched with heat,[...]

This shows his identification with the classical element Earth, in the alignment of Urizen's four sons.