A little bit of Welsh mythology:


Q. Whence didst thou proceed?
A. I came from the Great World, having my beginning in Annwn.
Q. And where art thou now? and how camest thou to what thou art?
A. I am in the Little World, whither I came 
having traversed the circle of Abred, and now I am a 
Man, at its termination and extreme limits.
Q. What wert thou before thou didst become a 
man, in the circle of Abred?
A. I was in Annwn the least possible that was 
capable of life and the nearest possible to absolute 
death; and I came in every form and through every 
form capable of a body and life to the state of man
along the circle of Abred, where my condition was 
severe and grievous during the age of ages, ever since 
I was parted in Annwn from the dead, by the gift of 
God, and His great generosity, and His unlimited and
endless love.
Q. Through how many different forms didst thou 
come, and what happened unto thee?
A. Through every form capable of life, in water in
earth, in air.  And there happened unto me every 
severity, every hardship, every evil, and every
suffering, and but little was the goodness or Gwynfyd
before I became a man.... Gwynfyd cannot be 
obtained without seeing and knowing everything, but
it is not possible to see or to know everything without
suffering everything.... And there can be no full 
and perfect love that does not produce those things
which are necessary to lead to the knowledge that
causes Gwynfyd.