The Song of Taliesin

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WENTY RARE CELTIC TALES FROM CAMELOT
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e know of Arthur as the "once and future" legendary king who organized the sixth-century Celts against the invading Anglo-Saxons for some forty years. Less known I is Arthur's poet Taliesin—who, like Merlin, was said to have shamanic powers. While Tahesin's legacy of initiatic wisdom has largely been lost, enough remains to convey the passionate heart of the ancient Celts' spirituality.
John Matthews has spent decades mining original sources—such as the Welsh Mabinogion, the Triads, the Book of Leinster, the Story of Perceval, and Malory's Morte D'Arthur—embellishing fragments with his rich knowledge of Celtic lore to create these little-known stories. Part legend, part fiction, part mythology, they thrill with the power of one of the most compelling mystical/literary traditions the world has ever known.
Matthews has gained the silver tongue and the golden heart and is in danger of becoming the Bard himself. This book is full... Tovább

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II' !' 1.1
WENTY RARE CELTIC TALES FROM CAMELOT
w
e know of Arthur as the "once and future" legendary king who organized the sixth-century Celts against the invading Anglo-Saxons for some forty years. Less known I is Arthur's poet Taliesin—who, like Merlin, was said to have shamanic powers. While Tahesin's legacy of initiatic wisdom has largely been lost, enough remains to convey the passionate heart of the ancient Celts' spirituality.
John Matthews has spent decades mining original sources—such as the Welsh Mabinogion, the Triads, the Book of Leinster, the Story of Perceval, and Malory's Morte D'Arthur—embellishing fragments with his rich knowledge of Celtic lore to create these little-known stories. Part legend, part fiction, part mythology, they thrill with the power of one of the most compelling mystical/literary traditions the world has ever known.
Matthews has gained the silver tongue and the golden heart and is in danger of becoming the Bard himself. This book is full of rich, authmtic, and textured magic. It weaves a spell of images, wonderings, and spiritual insights that offer to lead us on our own journey of transformation.
—Stephen Larsen, author of The Mythic Imagination
This book is a treasure, recapturing what it must have been like to sit at Camelot and listen to King Arthur's bard sing tales of histoiy, romance, and the spirit within us all.
—David Spangler, author of Blessing: The Art and the Practice and Everyday Miracles
I am agog at the journey Matthews takes us on. He goes further and deeper than anyone has ever ventured and reaches a land where imagination seems to conjure up the very truth and substance of our forgotten past and our lost magical selves.
—John Boorman, director of the feature films Excalibur and The Emerald Forest
What a strange, lovely, haunting book.
—Rosemary Sutcliffe, author of Sword at Sunset and The Lantern Bearers
A brilliant new synthesis of an important segment of the Matter of Britain.
—Katherine Kurtz, author of the Adept series
I OHN MATTHEWS, one of the great culture-bearers of our times, has written over forty books on the Arthurian legends, esoteric wisdom, and the Grail. His Quest publication of The Winter Solstice won the Benjamin Franklin Award in 1998. Vissza