Friday, April 18, 2014

Cerridwen

  I have alot of people ask me what Cerridwen means, and truthfully I knew the story, but I had no short version, , , so here ya go, , 
short version,     Cerridwen
Cerridwen ("White Sow" or "White Crafty One") is a Welsh Goddess of magic and transformation, Who keeps the cauldron of inspiration. Her son Afagddu was so horribly ugly She set to making a brew of wisdom for him, to give him a quality that could perhaps overcome his ugliness. Every day for a year and a day She added herbs at the precise astrological times, but on the day it was ready the three magical drops fell instead on the servant boy, Gwion Bach, who was set to watch the fire. Instantly becoming a great magician, the boy fled from Her wrath, and as She pursued him they each changed shape--a hound following a rabbit, an otter chasing a salmon, a hawk flying after a sparrow--until finally the boy changed to a kernel of wheat, settling into a pile of grain on a threshing-floor. Cerridwen, becoming a black hen, found him out and swallowed him down.
Nine months later she gave birth to Taliesin, who would be the greatest of all bards.
Cerridwen signifies inspiration from an unexpected corner. Plans may go awry; projects may change. Do not be too quick to hold a project to its course ~  instead let it take its shape as it will.

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