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Admire several Celtic artifacts today.
1 Cross Monument at Awenny, Tipperary, Ireland
Circa 850 AD
Stone
Height: 370 cm
The concept of a four-part space around a central point is vertically transformed into the unique shape of the Irish cross, a circle superimposed on two right-angle axes. Here we find the same idea clearly defined by the arrangement of hemispherical bosses, in an interlaced background, decorating the center and arms, as well as the trim pieces that cover the lower part: swastikas rotating around the central coat of arms, 9 3×3 concentric quadrilaterals crossed by vertical axes. The base ornament is the only ornament we see of a person, a palm tree, and an animal that hints at the memory of the tree of life, and the animals may include a pair of felines and horses. In selecting these images, we recognized the connection of the three life forms, which is very important in the images of the pagan Celts.
2 Muiredach Cross Monument at Monasterboice, Louth, Ireland
The park was about 920 years old
Height: 550 cm
It was also the Celtic design of the cross, but now its center is Christ, thus replacing the God of the World Tree as the source of life and cosmic order. Biblical scenes replace the symbolic patterns of traditional images and enliven the ornaments. However, the appearance of a symmetrical feline pair may be a distant echo of the roles of the Tree of Life and the Tree of The World as the link between heaven, our world, and the underworld; it is also a balance point in the dynamic chain that may symbolize the endless struggle of a pair of animals.
3 A page of "Chi-Rho" in the illuminated manuscript of the Book of Kells
About 700-900 years
Painted manuscripts on parchment
size. 33 x 25 cm
Trinity College Library, Dublin
As an inevitable consequence of the Christian faith, the written word was exalted as a means of conveying and preserving religious ideas. However, the traditional imagery did not disappear in Ireland; in the service of the new faith, it was maintained for a long time with extraordinary vitality. In this surprising manuscript, ancient symbols invade the monogram pattern of Christ: the trident and other motifs, as well as the three-layered structure; the S-shaped pattern divides a circle into two nest-like leaves; and the humanoid figures that emerge from interlaced plants and animals. There are even hints of masks (above "Chi" and next to "Rho"), and themes that subdivide the space into four parts around a common center (above "Chi" and between "Chi" and "Rho").
4 The colored carpet pages of the Gospel known as the Book of Douro
About 680-700 years
Rich painted manuscripts on parchment
Dimensions: 24.5 x 14.5 cm
The six coats of arms in the central space of this page are one of the four coats of arms that introduce the Gospels, showing a series of rotating themes that apparently come from the experience of pre-Christian British art. Here we see not only three triangles centered on three swirling leaves, but also shield motifs, the tips of which curl into spirals, fan-shaped triangles, concave triangles carved into a circle, with compasses drawing the outlines of the three leaves – an arrangement the same arrangement seen on fibula coral caboches including the British Isles in the 4th or early second centuries BC (p. 180).
There are even echoes of continental compositions drawn with compasses in the second half of the fifth century BC, such as Somme-Bionne's skeletonized magic vessel (p. 53). In addition, we can also find traces of a mask invented from the deformation of the palm tree in the fourth century BC in the pattern of three leaves of unequal length on a curved stem, which is located at the junction of the elements that connect the medals. These similarities are too numerous and too relevant; the whole work is too consistent to be simply interpreted as mere convergence of forms. The author must have been well aware of the symbolic value of the signs he used, this time to celebrate the glory of another religion.
The green mountains do not change, and the green water flows for a long time, and retreats under the sun.
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