The Irish poem The Cauldron of Poesy describes three metaphysical cauldrons that exist within people, which when balanced, unlock poetic inspiration; the cauldrons of warming, motion and wisdom. Perhaps these are the three elements of awen that the Book of Taliesin speaks of.

“Ban pan doeth peir
ogyrwen awen teir.”
“The three elements of inspiration that came, splendid, out of the cauldron.”
~Book of Taliesin

Similarly, the Völuspá describes the Gods bestowing sense (óðr), heat and motion, and a goodly hue, upon Ask and Embla.

“Soul they had not, sense they had not,
Heat nor motion, nor goodly hue;
Soul gave Othin, sense gave Hönir,
Heat gave Lothur and goodly hue.”
~Völuspá 18, Bellows
“Önd þau ne áttu, óð þau ne höfðu,
lá né læti né litu góða;
önd gaf Óðinn, óð gaf Hœnir,
lá gaf Lóðurr ok litu góða.”

Many Celtic hanging bowls are decorated with triskelions; a symbol of divine inspiration, even awen itself.
Its Germanic counterpart, the horn triskelion, represents the three vessels of the mead of poetry, consisting of Óðrerir, whose name means stirrer of óðr, ecstatic inspiration, with Boðn and Són meaning vessel and conciliation.

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