Limited Edition

Lleu - Shining One

Original Artwork & Print by Jen Delyth ©1998
Limited Edition Signed & Numbered Print 14" x 18" Matted

Limited Edition 350 (signed and numbered by artist) ARCHIVAL Museum Quality Watercolor 100% Cotton Rag Acid Free Paper with Hand-torn deckle edge Float Matted 14"x 18 "	Lleu - Shining One Sun Giclee Print $95.00

Sun symbols belong to the oldest of all symbols that people have carved on stones, rocks, bones. The Solar wheel as sun symbol was worn as a talisman, and buried with the dead. Celtic coins were struck with sun symbols associated with the Horse, a solar creature in the Bronze Age and the Celtic period. The circle with a center is still used today in astronomical calendars as the sign for the sun. The Celts did not worship the actual physical sun, who was not represented by any one particular god or goddess. they venerated the spirit and power of nature in all things, and many gods and goddesses embodied the divine qualities of the sun - life, light, healing, inspiration, strength, (inner) fire, illumination. some of the main solar divinities are Sulis (from suil, meaning both 'eye' and 'sun'), Lugh - welsh Lleu (Bright One) and Bel (Shining One). The welsh sun god Hu is a bull called 'the mighty hu'. The four great Celtic festivals (Samhain, Imbolc, Bel-tane and Lugh-nasadh) were perhaps markers of the solar year, with fires lit at Beltane (means bright fire) to mark the return of the sun, and encourage the fertile warming force.In this design, the twelve fiery rays of the sun represent the modern zodiac. The double spiral and rhomboid patterns are ancient dynamic sun symbols, representing the seasonal growth and then waning of the sun's power. The chain of joined rhomboids is the symbolic image of the ongoing chain of sun years.