Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman

Taliesin The Last Celtic Shaman Acknowledgements Ceridwin's Boast Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition Introduction Part One 1. The Story of Taliesin: Gwion's Transformation 2. Shamanism and the Celts: The Fellowship of the Wise 3. The Cauldron-Born: Ceridwen and the Goddesses of Inspiration 4. The Life of Song: Taliesin and the Poetic Mysteries 5. The Bardic Schools:L Teaching the Knowledge of Things 6. The Art of Transformation: Hiding the Familiar 7. The Art of Prophecy: Remembering the Future 8. The Language of Trees: Ogam and the Cad Goddeu 9. The Region of the Summer Stars: Cosmologies and Cosmogonies Part Two The Poems of Taliesin Pen Beirdd Select Bibliography Index