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        <h1>Talisien</h1>
        The Song of Taliesin is to Welsh culture what the Kalevala is the Finnish culture or 
        what Deuteronomy is to the Judeo-Christian culture: an alphabet which is also a calendar 
        where each line is a step (moon) whose name is that of a tree. Elsie has added a few 
        repetitions so to give this poem an air of sacred jingle.
      
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        <h1>Taliesin</h1>
        Le Chant de Taliesin est à la culture galloise ce que le Kalevala est à la culture 
        finnoise ou ce que le Deutéronome est à la culture judéo-chrétienne : un alphabet 
        qui est aussi un calendrier où chaque vers constitue une étape (lunaison) dont le 
        nom est celui d’un arbre. Elsie a dû faire quelques reprises pour donner à ce poème 
        sacré une allure de ritournelle. 

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        <h1>Taliesin</h1>
        Taliesin era un poeta de leyenda, si no totalmente al menos en parte, de 
        la cultura galés. Su «canto», como el Kalevala de los Fineses o ciertos 
        libros más pragmáticos de la Biblia, transmite informaciones importantes 
        y más que todo la sabiduría ancestral. Cada luna del ano traducida en 
        símbolos oscuros.
      
    
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        <h2>The Calendar</h2>

        

        I am a stag: of seven tines,<br />
        I am a flood: across a plain,<br />
        I am a wind: on a deep lake,<br />
        I am a tear: the Sun lets fall,<br />
        I am a hawk: above the cliff,<br />
        I am a thorn: beneath the nail,<br />
        I am a wonder: among flowers,<br />
        I am a wizard: who but I<br />
        Sets the cool head aflame with smoke?<br />
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        I am a spear: that roars for blood,<br />
        I am a salmon: in a pool,<br />
        I am a lure: from paradise,<br />
        I am a hill: where poets walk,<br />
        I am a boar: ruthless and red,<br />
        I am a breaker: threatening doom,<br />
        I am a tide: that drags to death,<br />
        I am an infant: who but I<br />
        Peeps from the unhewn dolmen arch?<br />
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        I am the womb: of every holt,<br />
        I am the blaze: on every hill,<br />
        I am the queen: of every hive,<br />
        I am the shield: for every head,<br />
        I am the tomb: of every hope.<br />
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