Taliésin was a Bard who illustrated Breton poetry; son of Omis, he was considered the Prince of Bards, Prophets and even Druids of the West.
The legend of Taliesin
How would he have been born? It's quite a legend as the story of this birth, here is a brief analysis.
One day when a little dwarf, a Spirit, Gwion, was watching over the mystical vase containing the precious water of Divination, three burning drops of this water fell on the dwarf's hand, so he suddenly brought it to his hand. mouth ; from then on the future and the mysteries of the world were revealed to him. The protective Goddess of this water, very irritated to see this dwarf in possession of the gift of divination, wanted to put him to death, but he fled and, as he possessed the science, he metamorphosed successively into a hare, into a fish and as a bird, while, for her part, the Goddess, to reach him, took the form of a greyhound, an otter and a hawk.
Gwion having had the bad idea of transforming himself into a grain of wheat in order to hide in the middle of a large pile, the Goddess changed into a black hen and with her piercing eye perfectly distinguished, in the middle of the pile of wheat, Grain-Gwion and swallowed it; but as a result she became pregnant and, after nine months, she gave birth to a very beautiful child, it was Taliésin.
Taliésin was a great enemy of the popular poetry that Christianity propagated to discredit the Druidic Bards. Indeed, to establish itself in Gaul, Christianity did not fear also creating false Bards, poets of no value whatsoever. These men without talent, without tradition, without knowledge, aped the real Bards, but they did not have, far from it, their value, they were little more than minstrels, a sort of village figaros.
