The Goddess Cerridwyn by Wendy Yukihiro

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

Cerridwyn is the Welsh Nature Goddess, She tends the caldron of wisdom, knowledge and divine inspiration. It was told she lived on a Island on the middle of lake Tegid, as does Our Mother Earth exit as an island in the sky. Cerridwyn bore two children, a daughter of the light and a son of the shadow. Her daughter was thought to be beautiful and gave her much peasure. Her son was ugly, the shadow/unknow we all fear.

For the love of her son Cerridwyn set about to brew a magick brew poion of six herbs that would share the secrets of light/knowing. For a year an a day she brewed the magick in the caldron. A blind man tended the fire and a male unknown male child would stirr the grate holy grail. This could represent the old ways fading away as wisdom for the spiritual awakening of the youth. The first three drops of the potions would impart knowledge of white light and the remaining ingredints would be poison.

Now Cerridwyn did not have to leave such magick in the hands of a child and a blind man. As the caldron is the symbol of rebirth, transformation and inspiration, they [the boy and blind man] were drown to the womb of the mother they long to be the mother in spirt. Cerridwyn's caldron symboizes the merging together the shadow/unknowing and the screct of immortality that lies in seeing death as an integral part of the cycle of life, wher every death brings rebirth and every ending an new beginnging.

On the final day the boy she had help do the strirring, was stirring the brew, a little to hard. It splashed onto his hand, a few drops of the brew, of hot liquid on his hand. When he put his hand into his mouth, he was instantly impart all the wisdom meant for the son/ shadow. With his new enchanted for sighsight, he fled in fear, the the rest of the potion would be poison. and useless for Cerridwyn'l son.

The great puruit/tranformation began. For every form of prey the boy took Cerridwyn assumed the form of a predator.

As they ran together, Cerridwyn forced him through shapeshiting into different creatures of the earth, to experience the beauty and wisdom of the light and creation of the Mother. The chase can also be seen as representative of the many changes our soul must make into differnt forms, and over different lifetimes, before we can discover the very reason of our existence, In the end she devoured him and returned it to the mother earth.

Cerridwyn in all her wisdom knew the boy was one with her son [all male blood flows as one, all female blood flows as one] and set out to teach his wisdom as the three drops of Cerridwyn brew are enryption of primal creative power. The boy appeared to be a random recipient of the caldrons bounty, yet when he was reborn he Became Taliesin/Merlin. A Welsh poet and story teller that passes down the records/wisdom.

Nine months later Cerridwyn gives birth to the boy in a new form. A beautiful child of light and wisdom . Through cerridewn's caldron/gift he was initiated into the mysteries of the Goddess and reborn to share/ teach the wisdow. The 1st son, still is one with boy / his new brother [all male blood flow as one] but angry at the turn of events remand Still of the godess and a constant reminder of our hidden selves.

The Aspect of the Godess Cerridwyn reminds us, that we are all of the Goddess , As a women we are born of her blood, beautiful in her image and blessed with all the magick and wisdom of her Caldron. It is only when we turn away from her, do our shadows grow and become empowered.