Taliesin2

The note of the real Taliesin is pagan, that after-centuries were so desperate to make a Christian:
I have been in many a shape Before I attained a congenial form I have been a word in a book I have been a drop in the air. I have born a banner Before Alexander I was in Canaan Before Absolom was slain I was on the high cross Of the merciful Son of God. My original country Is the region of the summer stars: I am a marvel Whose origin is not known Nine months was I then In the womb of Ceridwen I was Gwion the Little; Now I am Taliesin. Not of father and mother My creator created me, But of nine-formed faculties Of the fruit of fruits Of the god of the Beginning Of primroses and hill blooms Of the blossoms of nettles Of the ninth wave's water. I was enchanted by Math Before I became immortal: (Then) I was enchanted by Gwydion The Initiator of the Britons, Of Eurwys, of Euron, Of Euron, of Modron, Of five battalions of Adepts Teachers, the Children of Math.
Math fab Mathonwy was a famous enchanter; in the madinogi he is the teacher of Gwydion. Men are "enchanted by Math before" they "become immortal," then by Gwydion the Initiator.
A great deal of what is too obscure to be intelligible, breaking now and again into bursts of great poetry, wherein deep esoteric meanings are apparent: such are the 77 poems of Taliesin.