Celtic Myth 2: the Birth of Taliesin, or Gwion Defeats Ceredwen and Afaggdu
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Date: 2020-10-11

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Celtic Myth 2: the Birth of Taliesin, or Gwion Defeats Ceredwen and Afaggdu

Taliesin was to become the greatest of all Welsh bards. In his famous work The Boast of Taliesin, the poet laid claim to omniscience. This Legend, which has echoes of the Irish tale of Finn and the Salmon of Knowledge, describes how he came by his great wisdom.

To judge from the story, which Taliesin supposedly wrote when he was only 13 years old, the poet's career began in the most promising manner.  Afaggdu, translated as “Utter Darkness”, was indisputably the ugliest man in the world and all the magic powers of his mother, the witch Ceredwen, could not change that fact. However, Ceredwen decided that if Afaggdu was going to be ugly, he could at least be clever, and so she prepared a potion for him that would reveal all the mysteries of the universe.
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