what is the meaning of the celtic triquetra?
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The Triquetra is a symbol used to describe the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
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Well in Celtic tradition weren't they...\n\nScotland\nWales\nCornwall\nIsle of Man\nSpain\nBrittany\nIreland
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It's a type of weaving, South American in origin, has a spiritual/religious meaning. Simplest form is the child's project with craft sticks and yarn, but they can be much more eleborate than that.
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Wow, I really wondered about it too, so a couple of years ago, I did some research on it, and I came up with three answers that were repeated over and over. I guess to know for sure which one is right, or if any of them are right, you would have to know the person who is placing the stone, and ask them. Below are the three things I found out:\n\n1. In Judaism, placing stones was traditionally a way to help keep the spirit of the dead in the grave. This appears to have been an Eastern European superstition that spread to the Jewish people who lived in that area of the world. It was thought that the spirits of even very good people stuck around to see their bodies buried, and might stay near the grave for a day or two. The stone was a symbolic lid, meant to keep the spirit in, and evil out, so that the spirit was not taken over by an evil force. The great majority of Jewish people in the US are of Eastern European origin, having emigrated here either before or after WWII,  so that tradition is very strong in American Jewish culture. \n\n2. The stone sometimes symbolizes a cairn. Cairns are little, man-made piles of rocks used to mark the site where someone is buried. Cairns were traditional in Scotland and parts of Northern England. Placing one rock represents a cairn, or someone might build a small cairn as a memorial to the dead, such as on the side of the road where a person had been killed in an accident. Cairns were also used to mark a place that had significance, such as a path or a historical site. If I remember correctly, some other cultures marked burial sites with piles of stones, but I am afraid I only remember the Scottish and English for sure, as that is where the word "cairn" comes from.\n\n3. In most cultures, it is considered respectful to bring something to the grave of a deceased person to bear witness to the fact that you were there and that you acknowledge their death and still remember them. For example, in the US, the most common thing that people bring to graves is flowers, even if the person buried there has been gone for a long time. However, any object will do. Sometimes, that object happens to be a stone. The object itself is not considered as important as the act of actually placing it.\n\nIt took me a long time to find out the little bit I told you about above. I see it all the time, but it was hard to find any concrete reasons why people carry on this tradition. I hope my information answers at least part of your question.
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A statue of the Hindu Goddess Kali. She, for me, represents the feminine aspect of the Divine. Two pieces of art work with eagles. Eagle is one of my more important Totem animals. A turtle shell. Turtle represents the sort of Native American medicine I work with. A stone with a natural hole in it. Like the statue, this represents the feminine aspect of the Universe, and that's important to me. And a pentacle. Which represents, for me, certain aspects of European metaphysics that are important to me because of the Universal truth I found there. ~ Peace & Blessings ~ BTW ... I'm not religious. ;-)
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celts just did a report on it lol
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an old Celtic game\ndetails here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling
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"Gunth"\nthis is from old ENGLISH.\nit means "Brown"(colour)
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Carmot\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nThe "element" Carmot was a sort of element no longer believed to exist according to modern scientific knowledge. In history, carmot was the element most alchemists believed to be the key component in the creation of the much sought-after Philosopher's Stone. It was also thought to have had a dark red tone.\n\nFor any other answers, I suggest you check here:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Carmot
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I am from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,where there are many different cultures so i have many. but 'trinis' use alot of 'bush' medicine such as 'fever grass','chandiler'and a mixture of honey,lime and onion followed by a good beach bath
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Probably Scottish, but there could also be a French or Dutch connection.  Check out these websites.  I hope this helps.
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The Birth of the Bird? -\nBefore the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and they would therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won the major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!\nPLUCK YEW!" Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows for the longbow), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter.\nIt is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".
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Red .\n As the blood of the victims of the Crusades and the Inquisition and the Conquista .
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You'll find Celtic most common, I think.  I personally am drawn to the Greek pantheon.\n\nBut no, there isn't really a rule against which pantheons you choose to relate to.  It is, however, often said that you shouldn't *mix* pantheons (i.e. honoring or calling Bast and Hecate to the same circle, or working with Thor and Lugh at the same time), but that's more because of the energies that each of the Deities bring with them, IMHO.
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THE Irish, according to the saying of a wise man of the race, are the last of the 305 great Celtic nations of antiquity spoken of by Josephus, the Jewish historian; and they alone preserve inviolate the ancient venerable language, minstrelsy, and Bardic traditions, with the strange and mystic secrets of herbs, through whose potent powers they can cure disease, cause love or hatred, discover the hidden mysteries of life and death, and dominate over the fairy wiles or the malific demons.\nThe ancient people used to divine future events, victory in wars, safety in a dangerous voyage, triumph of a projected undertaking, success in love, recovery from sickness, or the approach of death; all through the skilful use of herbs, the knowledge of which had come down to them through the earliest traditions of the human race. One of these herbs, called the Fairy-plant, was celebrated for its potent power pf divination; but only the adepts knew the mystic manner of its preparation for use.\nThere was another herb of which a drink was made, called the Bardic potion, for the Bards alone had the secret of the herb, and of the proper mode of treatment by which its mystic power could be revealed. This potion they gave their infant children at their birth, for it had the singular property of endowing the recipient with a fairy sweetness of voice of the most rapturous and thrilling charm. And instances are recorded of men amongst the Celtic Bards, who, having drunk of this potion in early life, were ever after endowed with the sweet voice, like fairy music, that swayed the hearts of the hearers as they chose to love or war, joy or sadness, as if by magic influence, or lulled them into the sweet calm of sleep. Such, according to the Bardic legends, was the extraordinary power of voice possessed by the great Court Minstrel of Fionn Ma-Coul, who resided with the great chief at his palace of Almhuin, and always sat next him at the royal table.\nThe virtue of herbs is great, but they must be gathered at night, and laid in the hand of a dead man to hold. There are herbs that produce love, and herbs that produce sterility; but only the fairy doctor knows the secrets of their power, and he will reveal the knowledge to no man unless to an adept. The wise women learn the mystic powers from the fairies, but how they pay for the knowledge none dare to tell.\nThe fairy doctors are often seized with trembling while uttering a charm, and look round with a scared glance of terror, as if some awful presence were beside them. But the people have, the most perfect faith in the herb-men and wise women, and the faith may often work the cure.\nThere are seven herbs of great value and power; they are ground ivy, vervain, eyebright, groundsel, foxglove, the bark of the elder-tree, and the young shoots of the hawthorn.\nNine balls of these mixed together may be taken, and afterwards a potion made of bog-water and salt, boiled in a vessel, with a piece of money and an elf-stone. The elf-stone is generally found near a rath; it has great virtues, but being once lifted up by the spade it must never again touch the earth, or all its virtue is gone. (This elf-stone is in reality only an ancient stone arrowhead.)
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Shepherd's hook - Paraoh's crook?\n\nThe symbol of the crook is a very ancient one from the stone age (see the works of Professor Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch) and did not originate as a tool to catch sheep. This came later. It was a holy symbol, which like the wheel, was not to be abused for daily life tasks. \n\nAs crook, it was one of the holy insignia of the Pharaoh.\n\nIn Egyptian Hieroglyphic alphabet the crook became the letter S, which was drawn like the stone age symbol, as a staff with a rounded upper part, which reached down about half the length of the staff. In a formula of three hieroglyphs it means "health." Many words starting with this S, give hints at the origin of this crook.\n\nHieroglyphic sa means to go up, and also, to go down! With a different spelling, sa can also mean back, and from there, to flee (turning one's back); sa is magical strength of the god; sa-t is wisdom; sa also means to burn, and sai is a kind of crown. \n\nHealth, to go up and down, the back, magical strength, divine, wisdom, to burn and a kind of crown? What could be the origin of this mysterious crook?\n\nIn Psalms 23:1, 2, 4 we read,\n"The Lord is my shepherd; \nI shall not want. ...\nHe restoreth my soul: \nhe leadeth me \nin the path of righteousness \nfor his name's sake.\nYes, though I walk through the shadow of death, \nI will fear no evil; \nfor thou art with me, \nthy rod and thy staff \nthey comfort me."\n\nThe old Germanic magic formula or blessing was indicated by SS, meaning sund and seelig (healthy and happy), see Herman Wirth.\n\nThe crook was a sacred symbol all around the world. It signified authority, guidance, mercy, faith and jurisdiction. Christ was called the good Shepherd (J.C. Cooper,  An Illustrated Encyclopaedia [sic] of Traditional Symbols).\n\nThe origin of the crook is revealed in Der Sonnenweg (The Way of the Sun) from original research by Dr. Bara Loveland-Fischer. It says there, indicating that the crook is nowadays used as cane:\n\n"Today the cane serves as a tool for hiking or assisting with infirmities. We have to ask why the disabled with cane not simply revive the origin and herewith heal themselves, instead of hanging on to the cane.\n\nThe origin of the cane is found in man! The cane signifies the way of Kundalini life energy, up the spine and into or around the head.\n\nKundalini, the healing life energy, rises from the end of the spine into the head, where its way sharply bends from the pineal gland to the pituitary gland (cane with angled handle).\n\nThe way of Kundalini leads around the head to cover the root of the nose, when seen from the outside of the head (cane with rounded handle, crook, Pharaoh's insignia, which shows the pattern of disks and vertebrae). The cane with angled handle gives us a more exact picture of the way of Kundalini than the one with rounded handle.\n\nThe effect in meditation when using the crook is more gentle, especially for beginners.\n\nMeditation Associations, Cane\nWarmth, healing, oneness, peace happiness, well-being, justice, knowledge, enlightenment, health, spiritual journey."\n\nThe way of Kundalini life energy is the origin of the crook, later used by the bishops as staff although they forgot its origin long ago and do not realize  that it is in the Bible!\n\nKundalini's way is straight up the spine (in the back), and down the front of the body. It can create heat or even burn if misused, brings about healing and gives heallth. It opens all the Chakras (energy fields) along its way, reaching the Crown Chakra n top of the head. It gives magical strength and is our divine and god-given energy, mentioned in the Bible!\n\nWe have to admit that we are the spiritually impoverished whereas the stone age people we think of as being primitive, had spirutal knowledge.\n\nYet, we have all the tools needed: the spine, the Chakras, the pineal and the pituitary, in order to raise Kundalini in us! We only have to reme
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trírín éireannach-Irish triplets\nbanphrionsaí éireannacha-Irish princesses