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[W] In the “Dream of Rhonabwy” it is mentioned that Owain had been given 300 ravens by Cenferchyn and that whenever he went forth with this army he was victorious.
[W] Wife of Tegid Foel and mother of Afagddu, who is so ugly that she resorts to magic in order to make him wise above all others. She sets Gwion Bach and Morda to tend the magic cauldron while she prepares the potion, but drops fall onto Gwion Bach’s finger, which he sucks. Thus he attains wisdom and not Afagddu. In fury, Ceridwen pursues him, and while he is hiding in the form of a grain of wheat, she overtakes and eats him. She then gives birth to the poet and druid Taliesin, who is Gwion Bach reincarnated. She hides him in a leather bag and casts him in a river. She has another son, Morfan, who is so ugly no man would fight with him at the battle of Camlann because they thought he was a devil. Her daughter is Creirwy (dear one).
“The Horned One,” found in Gaul and Britain. He is sometimes equated with the Dis Pater and therefore the Dagda in Irish myth. Representations of him show a characteristic Buddha posture, although he is also shown with a club. He is also represented as “lord of animals,” especially of the bull and stag. The hill figure at Cerne Abbas, in southwest England, which is also a near replica of a carving found at Corbridge, Northumberland, is thought to represent Cernunnos. It is 55 meters high and 51 meters wide.
[I] Granddaughter of Noah and daughter of Bith. Bith was denied a place in the Ark and so Cesair advised him to build an idol. The idol advised them to build a ship as Noah had done and take refuge in it. After seven years they came to Ireland, where Cesair became the wife of Fintan. She perished with most of her followers, but Fintan escaped the Deluge by changing into a salmon.
[W] The concept of infinity, the outer of three concentric circles representing the totality of being in Welsh cosmogony.
While chariots were popular in the Celtic world, and Julius Caesar was greatly worried by British war chariots during his campaign, they only feature prominently in the Red Branch Cycle of Irish mythology. In the Fenian Cycle there is scarcely any reference to them. The chariot usually contained a warrior and a charioteer—demonstrated
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