Cerridwen: Myth & Morality

Is Cerridwen a witch, a mother goddess, or something else?

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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