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Ceridwen by Christopher Williams, (1910). Ceridwen or Cerridwen (pronounced [kɛrˈɪdwɛn] ⓘ Ke-RID-wen) was an enchantress in Welsh medieval legend.She was the mother of a hideous son, Mordfran, and a beautiful daughter, Creirwy.
Ceridwen becomes pregnant, and when she gives birth she throws the child into the ocean in a leather bag. The bag is found by Elffin , son of Gwyddno Garanhir , who sees the boy's beautiful white brow and exclaims " dyma dal iesin " ("this is a radiant brow") Taliesin, thus named, begins to recite beautiful poetry.
In the post-apocalyptic videogame Fallout 4, there is a dieselpunk airship named The Prydwen, and when the player asks about the name, they are told that the name was taken from "a work of historical fictional [...] about a man destined to become a king, and his journey to liberate his people from tyranny and oppression.".
The Crone Cerridwen or Kerridwen, Ceridwen, Caridwen, (sometimes spelled with two r's), the Mother Goddess of corn, inspiration and keeper of the Cauldron of Knowledge; she is the symbol of the Witch and her name translates as "the Cauldron of Wisdom."
Ceridwen by Christopher Williams (1910). The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn] ⓘ) is a collection of the earliest Welsh prose stories, compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions.
Creirwy (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkrəirʊɨ]) is a figure in the Mabinogion and the Hanes Taliesin (the story of Taliesin's life), daughter of the enchantress Ceridwen and Tegid Foel ("Tacitus the Bald"). The Welsh Triads name her one of the three most beautiful maids of the Isle of Britain. [1]
The character appears in the Tale of Taliesin, where he is depicted as the son of Ceridwen and Tegid Foel, and is given an extremely beautiful sister named Creirwy.In later versions of this tale his characteristic ugliness is transferred to a brother, Afagddu (Middle Welsh: Avagddu; from y fagddu, "utter darkness"), though Ifor Williams suggested this name arose as a nickname for the famously ...
Ceridwen or Cerridwen is a legendary Celtic female figure. The name may also refer to: Ceridwen Dovey (born 1980), South African-Australian social anthropologist and author; Ceridwen Fraser (born 1979), Australian bio-geographer; Ceridwen Peris, pseudonym of Alice Gray Jones (1852–1943), Welsh writer and editor