Geography/Culture: Welsh Celtic. Its possible She came to Britain between 2500-2000 B.C.
Linguistic Note: Irish, Welsh: cerdd, 'gain', 'the inspired arts, especially poetry', (cerddeu: 'poems'); related to Greek cerdos and cerdeia, from which derives the Latin cerdo, 'craftsman'. In Spanish cerdo means 'pig'. Greek cedro, usually translated 'the artful one', means 'weasel', a favourite disguise of Thessalian witches. Plus wen, 'white'.
This name has also been translated as caer, 'fortress', and cerru, 'cauldron' {with wen presumably understood as, 'wisdom'}.
Description: Goddess of the moon, grain, intelligence, knowledge, foresight, poetry and letters; White Lady of death; She to Whom skulls are mast; Shapeshifting Presider over the year and its seasons.
She has an ennead aspect as a Muse of inspiration in the form of the Nine Women Who warm Her cauldron with Their breaths.
To Whom Sacred: grain; bee; cat (as corn-spirit); wolf (as corn-spirit); sow; cauldron of inspiration and knowledge; leather-bag (into which She put Gwion before throwing him into the sea); the colour white.
Seasonal Shapes: black screaming hag; greyhound; otter; hawk; red-crested black-hen (red and black colours signify Her aspect as Death-goddess in this shape).
Iconography: as Black-hag She is described as big-mouthed, swarthy, swift, sooty, lame, with a cast in Her left eye.
Festival: Two days before May Day (when She threw the new-born Gwion into the sea).
Male Associates: son Gwion, whom She conceived by eating him in the form of a grain of wheat and bore nine months later as the miraculous child Taliesin. Son, Afagddu by consort Tegid Voel. Son, Merddin.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant: Caridwen.
• Her name may be cognate with Cerdo, Wily-One, Who is linked with Car, Queen-Bee.
• Variant: Cerridwen.
• Mother of Creirwy, ----, by Tegid Voel.
• Compare with Choere, Sow, a title of Greek Marpessa, Snatcher.
• Title Gwenddydd-Wen-Adlam-Cerddeu, White-Lady-of-Day-Refuge-of-Poems.
• In Her Sow aspect Ceridwen, Inspirational-Whiteness, is called: Hen-Wen, Old-White-One.
• Also called Old-Sow-of-Maenawr-Penardd.
• Mother of Olwen, She-of-the-White-Track, qv.
• Perhaps, in Her Old-Sow-of-Maenawr-Penardd aspect, related to Penardun, ----, Who is linked with Branwen, White-Bosomed-One.
• Perhaps to be identified with Sulis, She-Who-Brings-Forth, at Bath.

Geography/Culture: Welsh.
Description: The most beautiful girl in the world.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Ceridwen, Inspirational-Whiteness, above.