Re: Witch Stands up for Her Rights 
TopazOwl

Thu Oct 22 09:10:55 1998
Infiniti wrote,*p*: Salmon of Wisdom, huh?  Interesting view point, I take it *br*: this is not a standard Celtic/Druid thing, just a TopazOwl *br*: one?  If it is a Celtic one, I missed something somewhere, *br*: I'm sure.*p*     You sure did miss something somewhere, although in my tiredness I wrote "Salmon of Wisdom" instead of the more standard "Salmon of Knowledge." It is a salmon that Fionn burns his thumb on and so gains his ability to "see," it is the salmon in the Well of Segais or Connla's Well, source of inspiration and knowledge (if one ate the salmon or the nuts they obtained the gifts of the seer and poet) that eat the hazelnuts of knowledge that fall into the well, it is a salmon that Fintan spends one of his transitions as, it is the Well of Knowledge containing five salmon with its five streams representing the five senses that Cormac sees when he visits the Land of Promise, and it is the salmon that is the oldest animal in Celtic tradition, according to the Welsh tale "How Culhwch Won Olwen." Even the babe Taliesin is found in a salmon weir, if I recall correctly.*p*Leigh
Re: Witch Stands up for Her Rights 
Infiniti
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Thu Oct 22 01:11:01 1998