Is this the Holy Grail? Celtic Cauldrons of Rebirth, Healing & Knowledge in Folklore & Mythology.
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The Holy Grail and the Fountain of Youth are well known images in appearing often in popular culture and are often associated in Christian context with the blood of Christ in Arthurian legend.
However healing bowls, wells and vessels, resurrecting cauldrons and draughts of knowledge and inspiration appear often in European Mythology, particularly among the Celtic peoples.
In this video - a longer version of a previously released video about the Welsh Cauldron of Ceridwen from the Mabinogion - I will explore some of these healing and knowledge imparting grails.
Other similar vessels include the Well of Mimir and Urd from Norse Mythology that Odin drinks from to gain knowledge. In one instance he dies and is reborn.
The Celtic Gundestrupp bowl found in Denmark potentially depicts dead warriors being reborn.
The Irish God the Dagda has a Bowl of Plenty and a resurrecting Club.
And the Iron Age British Dobunni tribe are sometimes called the 'people of the Cauldron'
Storytelling is quite a rare art these days and you are pretty talented. Thank you so much for sharing. So glad I found your channel!
Appreciate Kate these words, thank you. Important for me too to keep the oral tradition alive. Even if it is on the internet 😀
You are such an enjoyable storyteller. I especially liked that the final character of Taliesin of the Shining Brow is a predecessor of your own gift, which you are sharing with us.
Thank you 🙏 Yes he’s kind of the original Bard in the Welsh tradition. Glad you enjoyed the story ☺️ 🧙♂️
so lovely to have a true brit (instead of an american) tell a story about our Celtic past. Also loved the bit of history at the beginning. Keep telling those stories, they mustnt be lost!!!
Thank you Susan, I love delving into our Celtic history and giving these stories a better hearing. Technically I live on the wrong side of the River Severn to tell a Welsh tale like a native, but hey, same island in the Atlantic 😅🌳🙏🧚🏻♂️
I love how the ancient stories always include animals. The people were quite impressed with the animals in the world lol.
Yup 😅
This reminds me of the mead of poetry story. Well told my friend!!🍄🍄🍄
There are some clear parallels aren’t there? Either these stories cross fertilised at some point in the distant past before diverging into different mythologies, or perhaps they both sprang from the same wellspring of inspiration in the collective human subconscious 🧙♂️🤷♂️🍄
Loved this. Honoring your sharing of knowledge ⭐ hope to meet you some time on the path, are you doing any talks?
Hey, thanks for stopping by ☺️🙏 I’m doing some Celtic stories in Britain and Ireland in the bus this summer. Most of them have a nautical theme. I’ll put some info up here at some point 🍀 🌊
Same thing happenned to a young lad, who was roasting a Salmon of Knowledge for the Bard, Finn Eces. Some Salmon juice lept out of the fire scalding young Denme's thumb, which he stuck in his mouth, and suddenly he knew *All Things. *
His name was changed to Fionn MacCumhaill.
The moral is:
Either watch your own important potions yourself,
Or provide proper protective personal equipment to your employees.
Slainte'☘
😂🙏
Another great presentation. For what it's worth, I was taught a folk legend that the Gundestrop Cauldron was used for ritual execution by drowning in an alcoholic liquid. It's a magnificent piece and anyone who finds themselves in Copenhagen, should go to see it
I’ve seen it many times in Copenhagen when I used to live there and I do wonder how it got there. I’ve also heard the ritual drowning thing. Possibly roman propaganda? Perhaps not. Sacrificed with mead 🤔 reminds me of the scalding liquid apple bobbing the druids apparently did which led to our Halloween traditions. Again, I do t think there’s a historic source for that but maybe a folk memory
This was so so good! 🤩
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Thanks for sharing this with us ❤
My pleasure 😊
how beautiful!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! Cheers!
great storytelling, reminds me of the alchemical process, consciousness being fundamental not consequential
That’s an excellent point. Parallels in alchemy, now you mention it I’m reminded of cauldron / cup metaphors in the Vedanta re individual atman and universal Brahman. Amazing how all these things tend to interlink. Thanks for stopping by 🙏👍
You are a born actor. How come you didn't pursue acting?
Btw the boy ended in the basket flowing down until he was found by royalty just like Moses.
How do you know I didn’t 🤫
Yes, well spotted - it’s quite a common mythic pattern. You get it in Indo European myths like Celtic and Hindu (the Mabinogion and the Mahabharata) as well as in Semitic myths, Akkadian and Abrahamic too - like Moses that you mention. Lots of babies in baskets floating down rivers. Oooh. The symbology. 😅 I always wonder, did the stories borrow from each other or did they independently arise 🤔 thanks for watching 👍
You do lay down a good yarn. I'd enjoy hearing you do the Canterbury tales, have you?
That’s a lovely thing to hear, cheers. Hmmm. Canterbury tales. That’s a good shout. I’ll have a think. Always happy to take requests! Thanks for the suggestion. 👍