Ceridwen oil Stregha and his Germanic counterpart

and his Germanic counterpart

But it was too late

this is a time of movement…all the dead who passed earlier in the year now have their last feast with their surviving family and loved ones before passing into the realm of the Dead

In Greece and Phoenicia her name was Ashtart

While his modern interpretation seems to have crystallized in Midsummer Night’s Dream as the sidekick of Faery King Oberon

Ceridwen oil Stregha and his Germanic counterpartCeridwen is a Celtic goddess of the cauldron and shape shifting. In Welsh tradition she is mother of the famous bard, Taliesin. He originally was known as Gwion, and when he spilled drops from Ceridwen's cauldron onto his fingers, he became all knowing. Ceridwen was angered by this theft, and she chased him, both of them transforming into many different hunter hunted forms until Ceridwen finally captured, ate, and re birthed Gwion into his poet form,