#ceridwen

[skyotters]

Bear Hug :3 (a wholesome little doodle of Halsin and my druid)

#halsin #halsin silverbough #halsin x tav #tav bg3 #ceridwen #sketch #bg3 fanart #bg3 #artists on tumblr

[birdsofrhiannon]

Cerridwen by Elena Albanese

#ceridwen #welsh mythology #celtic mythology #celtic #mythology #mabinogion

[sugaryewscythe]

♡✨ my altar for the celtic goddess cerridwen ✨♡

#one of my favorite altars ever #i love cerridwen #mine #delphisorceress #witchblr #witches of tumblr #earth witch #witch aesthetic #cerridwen #ceridwen #welsh witch #celtic witch #celtic #welsh #celtic witchcraft #snake magic #witchcraft #altars #witch altar

[ask-rune-priest-ulfric]

@ask-ephraelrhiannon and I have decided in light of recent custodes lore developments. Ephrael and Ulfric shall now be a poly relationship with a women custodes. Don't have a name yet. Just know that she is from the Aquilian Shield and is butch(Depsite having very long hair). She is also gonna be tan and have red hair. That is all for now.

#ulfric #ulfric seiderfang #warhammer 40k #wh40k #ephrael rihannon #ooc post #ceridwen #space wolves #warhammer40k #adeptus custodes #female custodes

[hecatesdelights]

Ceridwen

#ceridwen #cerridwen #celtic legend #mythologyart #celticpaganism #celtic goddess

[thankyoudemons]

I 🖤 you, Ceridwen. ☘️

#ceridwen #love #offering #public proclamation #enchantress #witch #Celtic #st paddys day

[globetrotterer]

Guys

#riice #ceridwen #art #kinda ref sheets kinda not

[chimeowrical]

Who was that unicorn oc you had forever ago? Maybe do something with them? Uhhh a sketch of them dancing?

A wee dancing Ceridwen!!!

#my art #ceridwen #tiefling #this ask made me realize how my unicorn ocs I’ve had ahsndgejhfjr #Ceridwen is ONE of SEVERAL

[mask131]

Green spring: Ceridwen

CERIDWEN

Category: Welsh legends

Ceridwen (or Cerridwen depending on how you write it), is one of the famous female figures of Welsh legends, and that despite her appearing in only one story, told times and times again… The story of Taliesin.

Ceridwen was a powerful sorceress who lived in the north of Wales, in the region of Penllyn, near the Bala Lake. She was the wife of Tegi Foel (Tacitus the Bald), and together they had two children. One a daughter called Creirwy, who was renowned for her great beauty. The other was a son, called Morfran (“sea crow”) and who was extremely hideous, the complete opposite of his sister. (In alternate versions of the story, Morfran isn’t actually the “ugly child” of Ceridwen – it is rather a second son, called Afagddu, “utter darkness”, but he seems to have been a late invention).

All in all, Ceridwen had a dreadfully ugly son, and the enchantress did not stand for this. She couldn’t make him beautiful with her powers… but she could give him a great advantage that would compensate his repulsive appearance. So, she went onto a big magical project to give her son an immense wisdom, so that his spirit would shine where his body could not. In order to do so, she took a great cauldron and brewed in it a magical potion that would give her son not only great wisdom, but also the “awen”, the inspiration of the poets and the bards, a form of eloquence and creativity that also allowed one to have some fortune-telling and soothsaying gifts. The potion had to be kept boiling for one year and one day in order to work, and to keep the fire lit and the liquid boiling, Ceridwen hired two men. One was a blind man called Morda, whose task was to feed the cauldron’s fire ; the other was a young boy named Gwion Bach (of his full name, Gwion Bach ap Gwreang), whose role was to stir the mixture without stopping. Once the potion was done, Ceridwen’s son was only to drink the first three drops of it – those were the ones filled with knowledge and talent. The rest of the potion would turn to poison once the first drops were consumed. The two employees of Ceridwen worked hard for one year and one day – but on the last day, three drops jumped out of the boiling cauldron and landed on Gwion’s thumb. The boy, burned by the hot liquid, put the thumb to his mouth – and unwittingly absorbed the potion, with all the wisdom an all the “awen” into it. Gwion, now extremely intelligent and knowledgeable, understood what he had done, and understood how angry Ceridwen would be with him – angry enough to kill him. So he decided to flee, far, far away…

And he was right to do so, because upon Ceridwen learning of the incident, she set chase to the boy – tracking him down with all her magical powers. Fortunately for Gwion, the potion also contained magical talent and knowledge, and so he could use magic to flee. To avoid Ceridwen’s fury, Gwion turned himself into a hare – but Ceridwen saw through the trick, and turned into a greyhound. Gwion in turn jumped in a river and became a fish, and Ceridwen upon seeing this turned into an otter. Gwion then fled through the sky, as a small bird – she became an hawk. Gwion’s last and final transformation was into a single grain of corn, hiding among many others in a farm or a field. But Ceridwen would not give up – she became a hen and devoured all the grains of corn, Gwion included, finally putting an end to the boy’s life.

However, she hadn’t planned something… the potion had turned Gwion powerful and magical. He was not fully killed upon being eaten by the sorceress – but rather, he reformed himself, was recreated inside of her… and Ceridwen found herself pregnant with Gwion’s reincarnation. Learning that, she decided to kill the child as soon as he was born – but after her delivery, Ceridwen was touched by the immense beauty of the babe… The baby was so beautiful she could not resolve herself to kill him herself, and rather placed him into a leather bag, sew the bag, and threw it into the sea. But the child did not die – the bag actually floated, and landed on another shore of Wales, somewhere near Aberdyfi, where the boy was rescued and adopted by a prince, Elffin ap Gwyddno. And the prince named the lost child “Taliesin”, who would become one of the most powerful and legendary bards of Welsh legends.

This is the medieval tale of Ceridwen, told times and times again. But most people agree that this tale is probably not the original one… You see, Welsh culture was, like all of the Celtic cultures of the British Isles, heavily Christianized by the Middle-Ages, and the problem is that most Celtic legends were recorded in those Christian times. So… the pagan stories tend to be refitted for a Christian lore. It happened for example with the Irish Celtic gods, who were turned into mere human sorcerers in medieval texts. And it is thought to have happened with Ceridwen – who probably was a goddess in early versions of the story, rather than an enchantress. Now, the theory as to what was Ceridwen’s original divine nature are numerous. The first theory to arise claimed that Ceridwen was a goddess of poetry, since her and her cauldron were heavily used as metaphors when it came to poetic inspiration and the poetic art. Another theory claims she was a goddess of the dawn – though with not much evidence.

Most famously, Robert Graves (yep, him again), in his invention of the “Threefold Goddess” archetype, used Ceridwen as a manifestation of this entity – claiming that Ceridwen as a manifestation of the destructive side of the Triple Goddess. This interpretation of the character became VERY famous in the neo-pagan world, due to Graves’ heavy influence other those movements – she was particularly reused by the neo-druids and by Wicca. They reinvented Ceridwen as one of the many identities and manifestations of the “Great Goddess” – she became seen as a deity of change, rebirth and transformations, keeper of the cauldron of knowledge and inspiration, as the Welsh goddess of death and fertility, and/or as the queen of all Welsh witches, and source of all magic. Some even go further and place her in a newly invented tetrad alongside other figures of Welsh and Celtic myth: in it, Ceridwen is the “guardian of the West”, queen of water and autumn, whose animal is the snake, alongside Lug (guardian of the East), Nuada (guardian of the South) and character named Fal (guardian of the North). [Don’t know who he is, couldn’t find him, maybe he was completely invented]

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If you haven’t heard of him, Taliesin is one of the great heroes of Welsh legends, and while Ceridwen pretty much disappears once he is born, he had a long and very eventful life. He was a famous poet and bard, so famous he was often called “Ben Beirdd”, “chief of bards”. It is unclear if Taliesin actually existed as a historical character or not (he is very similar in this aspect to another figure of the Welsh legends, king Arthur), but we recorded numerous legends about him, turning him into a poet-sorcerer (because bards were thought to have innate magical powers in Celtic lore, and the limit between poems and spells was very blurry).

Raised by the prince, as I said before, Taliesin, “the radiant brow”, at the age of thirteen prophesized the future death of king Maelgwn Gwynedd (the uncle of his adoptive father, and his political rival). He became one of the “five most renowned British poets”, alongside Talhaearn Tad Awen, Cian Gwenith Gwawd, Blwchfardd, and Aneirin. He had a son, named Afaon, who was a great warrior According to some he was one of the faithful companions of Bran the Blessed, the giant-king of Britain, and for others he even was the bard of the court of King Arthur.

#green spring #ceridwen #welsh mythology #welsh legends

[cjsees]

pfsh okay who cares about sunny anyway do you have any other tf2 OCs possibly a demoman

LMAOOOO yes nico I do in fact have one other tf2 oc

this young lady is Ceridwen Demophon Hughes, aka "Demo", my blu demoman oc! she specializes specifically in smoke bombs, and her skillset is tailored around debuffs and making life difficult for opponents as much as it does around plain old explosions. she's a self-proclaimed "hippie" in that she is VERY adamant she HATES violence and she does NOT want to kill anybody, but in reality what this means is more often than not that she wants to see how close she can bring someone to the very brink of death yet leave them alive. she considers herself an Artist and she considers this practice an Art and she loveeeesssss all of her canvases :]]]]

If Sunny is my more serious tf2 oc (à la heavy from the comics, usually serious with occasional levity), demo is my more comedic one (more like scout, mostly humorous with some serious moments). she typically comes off as absentminded and her moral system is a mystery to everyone including herself, but she's quite the genius when it comes to chemical compounds and she's not half bad a companion!

fun facts:

she is 6' 6"

grew up on a farm in the middle of rural wales with about 5 million siblings (exaggeration) and sends individual gifts to every single one of them every holiday

she collects things but not, like, things you buy, just things she picks up off the ground. she has like 80 sticks in a box

she crochets things for people if she likes them! she will hand you a perfectly made full crocheted sweater that looks like it took a whole year to make and clasps your hands and tells you gently that the greatest thing you could ever do with it is wear it into battle and get it blown up

has absolutely terrible impulse control combined with quite a lot of curiosity. she will absolutely stick her hands into a patch of poison ivy to pick a cool berry she's never seen before, only to find out the berry is also poisonous and she has to send herself to the er

#I love her SO dearly she isn't as well-developed as sunny which is a PITY #but she's still sooooo special to me #huge win for women and women likers everywhere tbh. what a lady #tf2 #wf2 #ceridwen #I have to tag her like that because if I just tagged her as 'demo' I'd have an aneurysm #even tho that is literally her name #anyway yippeeeeeee

[thewitchyattorney]

The Story of Ceridwen

The name Ceridwen comes from the Welsh – cerdd – meaning poetry or song and – wen, (a contraction of gwen) – meaning white, fair or holy. Ceridwen, according to Welsh legends and folklore, was a white witch or goddess, and is considered to be the goddess of poetry, inspiration and of the cauldron of transfiguration.

Ceridwen was mother of and employer to the famous 6th century Welsh bard Taliesin. She was married to the giant Tegid Foel and lived on the shores of Bala Lake with their two children, the very beautiful daughter Crearwy and their extremely ugly and stupid son, Morfran. No magic of Ceridwen had yet been able to cure Morfran but she kept on trying and one day, she was making up once again, in her cauldron, a potion to make him both handsome and wise. Tegid Foel and Ceridwen had a servant boy, Gwion Bach, who was given the job of stirring the brew for a year and a day. According to the legend, only the first three drops of the brew were effective; the rest was poisonous. Gwion Bach started getting bored and a bit slapdash and the three first crucial drops fell onto him. He put his hand to his mouth to stop the burning and instantly he became clever, good-looking and capable of changing his shape.

He ran away, terrified of Ceridwen’s temper, and turned himself into a rabbit; but Ceridwen followed and transformed herself into a dog. So the boy changed himself into a fish and jumped into the river, swiftly followed by the otter formerly known as, Ceridwen. Gwion changed from fish to bird and Ceridwen turned her ottery self into a hawk and continued the chase. Finally, the bird became a grain of corn; the hawk became a hen – and swallowed him up.

When Ceridwen returned to her normal witchy self she discovered that she was pregnant and she knew that the baby was Gwion. She planned to kill him as soon as he was born, but the baby was far too beautiful so she just put him into a large leather bag and threw him into the sea. The bag was found in the nets of the fishers of the annual salmon catch on the Dovey River, which was presented to a thus far extremely unlucky prince, Prince Elffin. On opening the bag, Elffin discovered the baby boy – Gwion, who had been reborn as Taliesin. This foundling was something of a child prodigy, because no sooner had poor Elffin placed the baby in front of him on his saddle than Taliesin, (which means ‘how radiant his brow is’), started first speaking, then reciting, poetry and then making predictions about how Elffin would now defeat all his enemies. How could he do otherwise now he had Taliesin’s help?

Elffin’s luck changed from that moment and Taliesin, through his poems and his prophecy, became the most famous bard in Britain, inspiring the Celtic warriors against their Saxon invaders.

#cerridwen #ceridwen #magick #grimoire #maiden mother crone #witchcore #witchcraft #goddess #welsh witch #transformation

[skyotters]

Two Druids, just chillin' and whittlin' 🦆

#halsin #halsin silverbough #halsin x tav #ceridwen #tav bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 #sketch #artists on tumblr

[birdsofrhiannon]

Ceridwen by Anette Pirso

#ceridwen #welsh mythology #celtic mythology #celtic #mythology #Anette Pirso

[sugaryewscythe]

goddess cerridwen altar details 🌱🐈‍⬛🌾♡

#one of my favorite goddesses and altars #it's so beautiful #mine #delphisorceress #witchblr #witches of tumblr #earth witch #witch aesthetic #cerridwen #ceridwen #goddess cerridwen #welsh witch #celtic witch #celtic #altars #witch altar #witchcraft

[dropout-wizards]

Some incorrect quotes before session this sunday :)

#incorrect quotes #dnd incorrect quotes #Rye Draken #Mako Tungsten #Dominica #Thalaston Alcrow #Ceridwen #Thymeros #DW Calamity

[prcyconfess]

@eunjik @makalovs @cvaughan @hzngria @alejandrv @xavcaguilar​

#eunji #coreia #maksim #rússia #ceridwen #país de gales #matyas #hungria #alejandra #guatemala #xavier #espanha