Can't help but feel we overcomplicate things, us human beings. But every so often the mist clears and things are far more simpler in reality. The same goes for spiritual matters.
As one of the Cymru who gets pulled and drawn into such matters, sometimes willingly and at other times as the result of a slap, I recently decided to try, once again, to have a crack at the 'Preddieu Annwfn' ( 'Arthur's raid on the Otherworld) as it is one of the most fundamentally important texts that has been left to us with regard to pagan beliefs in Briton ( by 'pagan' in this context I mean pre-christian as opposed to 'country dweller'). Translations vary and there are a number of different opinions on specific unknown words. The truth is no-one can be definitive,but here lies the problem. People try to be!
So I thought I'd have a shot at it as there is a 'quickening' in the spiritual air and we need to get a move on! The views I express here are my own but they are a result of many years of 'seeking.' I could write pages to clarify my viewpoint but I don't feel the need to. Her goes...
In simplicity, Taliesin (who is the author of the poem) seems to me to be describing the age old battle between Summer and Winter but also the battle between night and day. More importantly this is also a battle between the Moon and the Sun and ,hence, the female and the male as well as the Underworld and This world.
Moon worship pre-dates sun worship and the menstruation of women played a big part in this ( read Stan Gooch's ' Secrets of the ancient religion'). But through the ages we have now been left with the dominance of a patriarchal 'one god' Sun worship. The bottom line being that we have, to a large extent, religious intolerence as opposed to spiritual tolerence.
Taliesin saw this coming! He ridicules the 'monks and priests' for their lack of universal knowledge as his home is the 'Summer Stars'. He is telling us that he is a 'Stellar Being' and looks down on both Sun and Moon. Both are necessary for the Earth to function as it does. This is not a competion! We both have a male/female side (just look at the Ying Yang symbol and REALLY work with it!) and the cycle cannot be broken.
The author of the poem (if he is Taliesin) is lamenting the onslaught of the 'New Religion' as he, a prophet and seer, foresees the problems that will result.
There is a lesson to be learned. One must journey through the Underworld as it holds important knowledge for all of us. Don't go there if you are not willing to bring something of value back! It is a testing place as it should be. It is only with this seed of knowlege that one can ripen in the sun. Then one can aspire to the 'Stella World' where our 'True Will' is forged.
Seek and find, then rise above, for we are 'Stardust.'
B.C.
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