Ceridwen

Ceridwen (a.k.a. White sorcerres)

Ceridwen is the creator goddess of inspiration, knowledge and science. She's the one who gave intelligence to all living things and created other ways than magic to accomplish great feats. Of all the ancient creator gods she is perhaps the most human in how she sees the world and how she expresses emotion.

"So she resolved, according to the arts of the books of the Fferyllt, to boil a cauldron of Inspiration and Science for her son, that his reception might be honourable because of his knowledge of the mysteries of the future state of the world."
-The Mabinogi, trans.Lady Charlotte Guest

Divine Domains

Ceridwen is the goddess of science, inspiration, knowledge and poetry. She can grant others the same power in which case it is called Awen.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

A three-legged cauldron.

Holidays

Once a year, around the middle of summer, there are many countries who hold a large festival to honour the goddess of knowledge, Ceridwen. These festivals generally include large exhibitions of new inventions, seminars on newly developed or newly discovered subjects in science and many more.

Physical Description

Specialized Equipment

The goddess possesses a cauldron in which she brews powerful potions of all kinds to help people. Though these potions are useful, the gifts come with risks. Depending on what she brewed, only three drops in the cauldron can be used and a single drop of the rest will cause instant death.
She has a magical throne as well although it is unknown what its purpose is.

Social

Family Ties

Ceridwen had two children with Tacitus the Bald, a powerful leader and great magician. They had a beautiful daughter named Creirwy and a hideously deformed son named Morfran Afaggdu whose skin was burned and mind warped. Ceridwen was very worried for this son and in the process of trying to give him Awen to ensure his future accidentally became the mother of a second son who was named Taliesin, a powerful bard and druid.

The original article by Gregory Wright I used as the main source Here.

Divine Classification

Creator god

Religions

• Kiyi

Gender

female