Greetings all. I am a bard - a singer of songs and a memory for myth and legend. Taliesin is my name, and I am also sometimes called a druid by my own folk, the Celtic tribes of Britain. As bard to the 6th Century kings of Britain, I accompanied Arthur on one of his adventures.
Arthur sought out the Cauldron, and with three ships of warriors, we sojourned through the mists to the Otherworld. We passed through the Caers Siddi, Fedwydd, Rigor, Goludd, Manawyddan, and Achren in the face of much toil . . . and only seven of us returned. But we saw the Cauldron and the nine maidens who warm the great vessel with their breath. Such a rich object none have ever seen, with pearls inlaid about the rim! The Cauldron will not suffer a coward nor a wicked man to sustain himself from it. It grants wisdom to those who seek it out.
So now I am eternally more wise than the clerks and scribes of Britain. They conjure up words, but they have not seen. How could they know if they have not seen? Foremost of the bards, I am Taliesin.
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My name is Simon to my lord Christ and others know me as St Peter the rock, the head of Christ's Apostles and the keeper of the "keys of the kingdom of Heaven". Out of fear I denied Christ, but I too was crucified and I chose to be martyred with my head downwards. I was there at the Last Supper when Christ transubstantiated bread and wine and for some, perhaps even for Taliesin, this is the moment in history where the Grail as an actual cup or chalice takes its form. Taliesin states that "The Cauldron will not suffer a coward nor a wicked man to sustain himself from it. It grants wisdom to those who seek it out". I am not a wicked man, but denying Jesus was a cowardice act and according to Taliesin the Cauldron would not allow me its benefits, that may be so, but one look from Jesus and I knew what I had done. The wisdom I gained on the tragic day of Christ's crucifixtion did not come from the grail itself it came from Christ.
I am not sure Taliesin ever saw the Grail as a cauldron, for in stanza 2 of his poem "The Spoils of Annwn" he states "My first song/ Was of the Cauldron itself./ Nine maidens kindled it with their breath -/ Of what nature was it?/Pearls were about its rim,/ Nor would it boil a coward's portion./ Lleminawg thrust his flashing sword/ Deep within it; And before dark gates, a light was lifted". Even as an apostle it seems that Taliesin and especially Lleminawg find out the grail is a woman or the sacred feminine. Lleminawg thrust his sword "Deep within" the Cauldron and "a light was lifted". It sounds to me Lleminawg had a real good time, unlike some apostles I know. Maybe if I had a Cauldron of my own I wouldn't have feared prison nor death alongside Christ.
Kipha signing off, God Bless.
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