Cerridwen, Boann, and Saraswati The scholar Gwilym Morus-Baird has argued ("The Roots of Celtic Myth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhDBCXYUVYU&t=965s) that the goddess Cerridwen could parallel Vedic Saraswati. This is interesting because there is no other goddess in Welsh myth who resembles Saraswati any more than she, so his hypothesis could well be accurate, even if it is impossible to say for certain due to how little material there is on Cerridwen. The specific Irish parallel of the primary river goddess of Vedic myth, Saraswati, is certainly the primary river goddess of Irish myth, Boann/Ethniu, as we have discussed in other articles. So if we look at the parallel myths — Cerridwen guiding Gwion Bach to cook the potion of inspiration in Wales, and, in Ireland, Fionn-Eces guiding Fionn MacCumhaill to cook the Salmon of Knowledge (each with very similar outcomes) — we see that Fionn Eces is sometimes a name of Nuada, as we have also previously noted in our article