Ceridwen

Ceridwen (Welsh [ ke'ridwen ], also Carridwen or Kerridwen ) is a figure of medieval legends of Celtic mythology of Wales.

Mythology

It should have been the wife of Tegid Foel River Spirit and Mother of beautiful Creirwy and the abysmally ugly Morfran or Afaggdu. To compensate for his ugliness, she brewed in a cauldron a potion that would make her son the wisest of all beings. By mistake, but drank the little boy or dwarf Gwion Bach, who was guarding the boiler, the first drop, so that the spell affected him instead Afaggdus. Out of anger Ceridwen Gwion tried to kill and so there was a long hunt, during which assumptions the two most diverse animal and plant forms. At the end of Gwion became a cereal grain and Ceridwen to a hen that it aufpickte.

Soon after Gwion was reborn as her son of Ceridwen Taliesin, the greatest poet and bard of the Britons. This story is in the Hanes Taliesin ( "The History of Taliesin " ), a Welsh tale from the 16th century narrated.

Interpretation

It is often assumed that Ceridwen is due to an ancient Celtic deity. Many of them put the Irish Brigid same.

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