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Ceridwen

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Ceridwen (Ce-rid-wen) was an enchantress in Welsh medieval legend. [1]

32 relations: Aberdyfi, Awen, Bala Lake, Black Book of Carmarthen, Book of Taliesin, Celtic deities, Creirwy, Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, Dwynwen, Elffin ap Gwyddno, Fionn mac Cumhaill, George Oliver (freemason), Goddess, Ifor Williams, Iolo Morganwg, John Rhys, Lady Charlotte Guest, Language change, Mabinogion, Max Müller, Modern Paganism, Morfran, Robert Graves, Salmon of Knowledge, Taliesin, Tegid Foel, Thomas Love Peacock, Triple Goddess (Neopaganism), Wales, Welsh mythology, Wicca, Word stem.

Aberdyfi

Aberdyfi (Mouth of the River Dyfi), or Aberdovey (the Anglicised spelling) is a village and community on the north side of the estuary of the River Dyfi in Gwynedd, on the west coast of Wales.

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Awen

Awen is a Welsh, Cornish and Breton word for "(poetic) inspiration".

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Bala Lake

Llyn Tegid (Llyn Tegid), known in English as Bala Lake, is a lake in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Black Book of Carmarthen

The Black Book of Carmarthen (known in Welsh as "Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin") is thought to be the earliest surviving manuscript written solely in Welsh.

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Book of Taliesin

The Book of Taliesin (Llyfr Taliesin) is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though many of the fifty-six poems it preserves are taken to originate in the 10th century or before.

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Celtic deities

The gods and goddesses of the pre-Christian Celtic peoples are known from a variety of sources, including ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects and place or personal names.

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Creirwy

Creirwy 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").

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Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr

Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr ("Cynddelw the Great Poet"; Kyndelw Brydyt or Cyndelw Brydyd Maur; 1155–1200), was the court poet of Madog ap Maredudd, Owain Gwynedd (Owen the Great), and Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, and one of the most prominent Welsh poets of the 12th century.

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Dwynwen

Saint Dwynwen (5th century), sometimes known as Dwyn or Donwen, is the Welsh patron saint of lovers.

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Elffin ap Gwyddno

In Welsh mythology, Elffin ap Gwyddno (Welsh, also Elphin) was a son of Gwyddno Garanhir, 'Lord of Ceredigion'.

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Fionn mac Cumhaill

Fionn mac Cumhaill (Old and Find or Finn mac Cumail or Umaill, sometimes transcribed in English as MacCool or MacCoul) was a mythical hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, occurring also in the mythologies of Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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George Oliver (freemason)

George Oliver D.D. (1782–1867) was an English cleric, schoolmaster, topographer and writer on freemasonry.

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Goddess

A goddess is a female deity.

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Ifor Williams

Sir Ifor Williams, FBA (16 April 1881 – 4 November 1965) was a Welsh scholar who laid the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry.

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Iolo Morganwg

Edward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg (10 March 1747 – 18 December 1826), was an influential Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, and literary forger.

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John Rhys

Sir John Rhys, (also spelled Rhŷs; 21 June 1840 – 17 December 1915) was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, Celticist and the first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University.

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Lady Charlotte Guest

Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of The Mabinogion which is the earliest prose literature of Britain.

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Language change

Language change is variation over time in a language's phonological, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and other features.

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Mabinogion

The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain.

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Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), generally known as Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life.

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Modern Paganism

Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

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Morfran

Morfran (Middle Welsh: Moruran "cormorant"; literally "sea crow", from môr, "sea", and brân, "crow", from Common Brittonic *mori-brannos, as in French cormoran is a figure in Welsh mythology. Usually portrayed as a warrior under King Arthur, he is noted for the darkness of his skin and his hideousness. He appears in the narratives about the bard Taliesin and in the Welsh Triads, where he is often contrasted with the angelically handsome Sanddef.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Salmon of Knowledge

The Salmon of Knowledge (bradán feasa) is a creature figuring in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Taliesin

Taliesin (6th century AD) was an early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.

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Tegid Foel

Tegid Foel is the husband of Ceridwen in Welsh mythology.

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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.

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Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)

The Triple Goddess has been adopted by many neopagans as one of their primary deities.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.

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Wicca

Wicca, also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement.

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Word stem

In linguistics, a stem is a part of a word.

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Caridwen, Carridwen, Carrowyn, Cerridu, Cerridwen, Cerridwyn, Keridwen, Kerridwen, Pridwen.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceridwen

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