Post originally by Tim Gray at 2005-03-28 12:32:21
Converted from Phorums BB System

Similarities, yes. But Taliesin's Welsh. And he had indeed been these things, in an attempt to escape a lady who wanted to eat him. (It didn't succeed, but everything worked out in the end.)

Ha, plug opportunity: go to my site at www.silverbranch.co.uk and on the Albion page you can find most of Amergin's version.

You can also find similar stuff in the Hindu Upanishads. Standard mystical fare really.