Cerridwen: Myth & Morality

Is Cerridwen a witch, a mother goddess, or something else? Buy me a cuppa on Ko-fi! Support me on Patreon: Blog, events, online classes: 0:00 Intro 1:50 The story 7:12 What are the questions? 7:42 Historical reality 9:35 Taliesin and the Welsh bards 13:20 Ways of looking at the myth 14:44 Cerridwen, awen, and the Welsh bards 16:12 The bard-patron relationship 18:37 The “poison“ contents of the cauldron 20:25 Gwion as apprentice 22:11 Cerridwen the mother 23:28 Reading myth objectively 23:50 Cerridwen the mother of awen 26:05 Is Cerridwen a goddess? 27:33 Cerridwen as a witch 29:10 Cerridwen in ’goddess religion’ 29:55 Cerridwen’s function 30:43 Good gods doing bad things