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Author: Joules Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9785557597104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting more than 50 Celtic symbols, this magical volume illuminates Celtic wisdom, bringing the essence of Celtic beliefs into everyday living. Illustrated with beautiful artefacts and enchanting artworks by Emma Garner.
Author: Sabine Heinz
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1402746245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it about the arts of the ancient Celts that make them so fascinating for todays fashions and jewellery, graphic design and even architecture? Its as though their ancient magical powers still cast a spell over us. Its easy to see why, when you become familiar with the stories and the representations of the 50 most important symbol groupings. Illustrated texts reveal dozens of cultic figures featured in ancient Celtic rituals, including wild animals and birds, reptiles and fish, trees and flowers, numbers, spirals, crosses, circles and many other designs. Each spread depicts the qualities and values they symbolise, with examples of characters and stories from ancient myths that can be incorporated into modern-day designs.
Author: Derek Bryce
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 1995-11-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1609256549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to the basic symbolism of the Celtic Cross, featuring rare illustrations. Did you know that the basic symbolism of the cross is that of the world axis, or the link between Heaven and Earth? Or that the main feature of the ornamented Celtic Cross, the wheel cross, is not derived from the crucifixion, but from a more ancient symbol the Chi-Rho monogram, which is the name of Christ in the Greek alphabet? In Symbolism of the Celtic Cross, Derek Bryce traces the pagan-Christian link of the essential symbolism of the axis mundi from standing stones and market crosses (at crossroads and not always “crosses” in form) to the inscribed slabs and freestanding crosses of the Celtic-Christian era. He includes rare illustrations of ornamental Celtic Crosses from such places as Brittany, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cumbria, Ireland, and Cornwall. Bryce explores esoteric aspects of the symbolism, alchemy, and the wisdom of Hermes.
Author: Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780719025792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil L. Thomas
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780853428565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe riddle of the inscriptions at Newgrange, Knowth and other equally ancient Irish sites in the Boyne valley has been partly deciphered at last.
Author: Miranda Green
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-10-03
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1134893930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical new interpretation of Celts and their way of life
Author: John Michell
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780500016077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe powers of ancient rulers emanated from the ritual center of the tribal territory. This center was also regarded as the birthplace of the tribe and belonged to the people as a whole. Installed upon this sacred rock (the omphalos or "navel of the world"), at the polar axis around which all revolved, the king could survey his realm, ordered from the center according to the divisions of the cosmos itself, reflecting the harmony and balance of paradise. Akhenaten's city in Egypt, Megalopolis of Ancient Greece, the world-centers of Roman Gaul and Celtic Cornwall, all provide clues to lead John Michell to the geographical and sacred criteria for locating a center. From studies of symbolic geography, particularly that of Celtic and Norse territories, he has discovered the leading principle for the siting of the "Thing" places, the main centers of religious and state ritual in Shetland, Orkney, the Faroe Islands and the Isle of Man. He considers the possible locations of the most hallowed centers of ancient Druidry and of the High Kings of Ireland. Finally, the esoteric foundation plan for these ancient societies is disclosed: the sacred geometry, the symbolic numbers. Symbols of the center are among the most persistent elements of myth and belief between cultures widely separated in time and space. Now John Michell traces their genesis, and suggests that their reflection of the ideal Platonic order of the universe can be relevant to the modern world.
Author: Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780297833659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe art of the pagan early Christian Celts (500BC -AD800) was central to their identity. Its significance was all-pervasive, trancending mere ornamentation with a system of symbols that made clear statements about status, power, and gender, about war and the supernatural. In the absence of contemporary written records, this thought-provoking study adopts other means to crack the code of Celtic art. Locating it clearly in its archaeological context, Miranda Green works towards an understanding of its place within Celtic society. The code may be too complex to crack in its entirety, but this book enhances as none has done before our understanding of the art, and of the world which it reflects.
Author: Aurélie Sanchis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781541035591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gorgeous colouring book featuring over 50 pages of texts, original black line illustrations and Celtic knot ornaments designed for adults and children alike and inspired by Irish Celtic mythology. This Celtic Colouring book with a difference will carry you back to ancient times and help you discover - or rediscover- some of the most famous protagonists, may they be gods, heroes or creatures of Irish mythology. In the first 2 parts of the book, "Gods & Heroes" and "Fairy Creatures", a full page of intricate unique black line illustration will mesmerize you while the facing, richly ornamented explanation page will get you a little bit more familiar with the story behind the character. In the third part of the book, "Animal Symbolism", you will find one page per animal to both colour in complex knotwork animal designs and read about their symbolism. In the last part of the book you will find a test page to try your pens or pencils safely. Note: Createspace paper (the printing paper chosen by Amazon) is rather thin. If paper thickness is important to you, please contact me directly for an artist edition or a digital printable edition of this book. If you go for the cheaper Amazon version, I recommend using colour pencils rather than markers. Use the blank test page at the end of the book for you to try your pencils safely. Join the group : Sign up for the Facebook group "Celtic Coloring Club - Fans of Aurelie S" and share your colorful pages with other fans! Enjoy your Celtic colouring adventure!
Author: Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0786487038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. Topics include the presence of the Celtic Otherworld and its inhabitants, cosmology and sacred cycles, wisdom texts, mythological symbolism, folklore and legends, and an appreciation of the natural world. Evidence is drawn from the archaeology of sacred sites, ethnographic accounts of the ancient Celts and their beliefs, medieval manuscripts, poetic and visionary literature, and early modern accounts of folk healers and seers. New translations of poems, prayers, inscriptions and songs from the early period (Gaulish, Old Irish and Middle Welsh) as well as the folklore tradition (Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx) complement the text. Information of this kind has never before been collected as a compendium of the indigenous wisdom of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose traditions have endured in various forms for almost three thousand years.
