Cerridwen/Caridwen/Ceridwen
Wales. Moon Goddess; Great Mother; grain goddess; goddess of Nature. The white corpse-eating sow representing the Moon. Wife of the Giant Tegid and mother of a beautiful girl Creirwy and an ugly boy Avagdu. Welsh bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen). The Bard Taliesin, was said to be born of Cerridwen and to have tasted a potent brew from her magick cauldren of insperation. This potion know as 'greal' (from witch the word Grail probly came), was made from six plants for inspiration and knowlege. Gwion Bach (later called Taliesin) accidentally drank the remaiing three drops of liquid. Her symbol was the white sow. Death, fertillity, regeneration, inspiration, magick, astrology, herbs, science, poetry, spells, knowledge.
See Gwion in myths section.
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