TRISKELL
Also called triscele or triskellion (from the Greek three legs)
it is the most known Celtic symbol. It contains power in itself
of the number Three. If, starting from the center of the symbol, the three spirals that the
they form envelop themselves from right to left, representing the
swirling of the energies from the inside out, the manifestation; self
instead they develop from left to right symbolizing descending into
infernal worlds. It has different meanings and represents:
The Threefold Manifestation of the One God: Strength, Wisdom and Love and therefore
the three classes of Celtic society that embodied these energies, Warriors,
Druids and Producers.
The Three Circles of manifestation or existence: Ceugant, the World
the Absolute; Gwynwydd, the Spiritual World of the Beyond and Abred, the Human World o
of the test.
Within Abred the symbol of the three aspects of the material world: Earth
(wild boar), Water (Salmon), Sky (Dragon) that with their movement yes
they all gather in the fourth element, the Fire, symbolized by the circle that
contains the triskele.
The Past, the Present and the Future gathered in reality at the center in one
Great and Eternal Cycle called Continuous Infinite Present, in which everything exists
at the same time. It is thus possible to understand how, during the party of
Samhain the Celts could meet their dead ancestors,
but also their unborn descendants.
The three solar phases in manifestation: dawn, noon, sunset
In man his triple manifestation as a body,
emotions / feelings / thoughts and spirit, but also Action, Sentiment, the
Thought and the three ages: infancy, maturity, old age.
The Goddess in her triple aspect of
Old-Virgin-Mother / Daughter-Mother-Sister.
The symbol of the female trinity of the Morrigan-Macha-Boadb battle and of
the male one Ogma-Lugh-Dagda
The sign on which Patrick will explain the concept of the Christian Trinity
(actually an idea of Celtic Christianity) to the Irish, but transforming
the triskele in a clover.
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