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Welsh Poem Bowl: Cypress Wood. "Deep Memory"
Size: 9" x 6" x 3" (23cm x 15cm x 7.5cm)
A large, solid, hand-carved bowl of aromatic cypress wood.
The subject matter of this bowl is 'awen' - inspiration and deep memory.
The continuation of remembering in the creations of the hand and mind and culture.
Taliesin is the quintessential bardic poet of the British (Welsh) Tradition.
Probably alive during the 5th c. AD, he became the role-model and inspiration of many later bards and poets. His works are all in Early Medieval Welsh, and have a characteristic simplicity that hides a profound complexity of imagery and meaning.
Around the sides are texts from the works of Taliesin in Medieval Welsh:
YN AIL AWEN
DDOFN O DDWFN GOFIAN
which can be translated as:
"It is a reflection of the deep awen of memory."
YN ANNWFN, YN NWFN, YN NYFNDER
translated as:
" In Annwfn, in the deep, in the depth"
Annwfn is a complex of ideas in Celtic thought. It represents The Otherworld of spiritual beings, as well as a parallel reflection of this world with which it interacts. In Taliesin's poetry Annwfn is the source of awen, a sort of cauldron of all things in existence and in imagination from which poetic clarity and inspiration arise in the bard's mind.
The decoration on the sides and inner bowl brings to mind the emergence of creation and inspiration and how they are linked together in one complex flow of consciousness.
This unique bardic bowl has a lot more going on beneath the surface
Designed by Simon Hughes Lilly
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