As you will see soon enough, the old Celts were in love with 3 things: harps, poems, and cauldrons. There are many cauldrons in the Irish and Gaelic mythologies. Here we have Daghda’s cauldron, able to feed an entire army. There we have the cauldron of Matholwch, mentioned in the Mabinogi as an awesome instrument to own: it can bring back to life the soldiers fallen in battle (even if they lose the gift of speech in the process, but then again you have to give some to get some). And of course we have the holy cauldron of Awen - Cerridwen’s luminous source of divine inspiration and magic.
Does it sound to you like all this collection of magical cauldrons could have been the origin of a certain holy recipient that has stirred the imagination of knights and adventurers for centuries? Come on, you know what I’m talking about. That very own holy recipient found its eternal rest hiding under the sacred hill of Avalon, in the current-day Glastonbury. Extra Awen blessings to whoever finds it in the beautiful garden of Chalice Well!
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