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Cerridwen is the British Goddess of Inspiration. It is she who prepares a cauldron of knowledge, culled from the ingredients of every element and every season, to compensate her ugly son Afagddu by giving him great knowledge in the place of his ugliness. She sets the boy Gwion to tend the cauldron but he receives the knowledge intended for Afagddu by sucking up the liquid that splashes onto his hand. Gwion escapes from Cerridwen's rage by turning into a hare, a fish, a bird and a grain of wheat, but Cerridwen follows as a greyhound, an otter, a hawk and a red hen who swallows the grain, conceiving Gwion as her child. She gives birth to him and places him in a leather bag, giving him to the waters on May-Eve. He is found by Elphin and raised as Taliesin.

Cerridwen along with Arianrhod, appears frequently in the poems of Taliesin as the Mistress of Awen (Inspiration) and of druidic initiation.

Llyn Tegid, at Bala, is the largest natural lake in Wales. It is the home of Cerridwen, the initiator of the Welsh poet Taliesin

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