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The dream secret of Celtic inspiration
By
Robert Moss
Awen – inspiration – was, as Caitlin Matthews reminds us, “the supreme preoccupation of Celtic poets, especially among those who had inherited the ancient prophetic and visionary arts of the ovate or faith – probably the earliest form of Celtic shaman.” [1] The word awen derives from the Indo-European root -uel, meaning ‘to blow’, and is kissing cousin with the Welsh, awel meaning “breeze”. In…
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