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Limited Edition 20" x 24"

TRISKELION - Triple Goddess
Original Artwork & Print by Jen Delyth ©1992

CUSTOM X-large Print Limited Edition of 250 (signed & numbered by artist) Matted 20"x 24" Heavy Watercolor 100% Rag Acid Free Paper with Hand-torn deckle edge Also available in stock 16" x20" Print	Triskelion - the Triple Goddess Triskelion Giclee Print $175.00   Also available in stock 16" x20" Print

The Triskelion is the triple-triangle form of fate (or the fates). Three rings were supposed to invoke the three fates in several ancient traditions. The number three is particularly sacred to the celts - the used a triple cycle for the seasons, and for many magical patterns. Celtic goddesses frequently appear in triple form - from ancient times, the great earth mother was a trinity, representing her three aspects, maiden, mother and crone. The triskele is a three-legged pattern with a variety of manifestations in romano-British art. Its most notable appearance is on a series of disc brooches dated around the second to fourth centuries. There are many examples of triskele patterns on Pictish stones and in the celtic manuscripts - the noble spirals of Aberlemno, Shandwick, Nigg the Tara brooch and the Ardagh chalice, and later the incredible manuscripts - including the books of Durrow and Kells. The triskele pattern is often used as a magical charm- probably to avert evil. Spirals are among the most sacred signs of Neolithic Europe, symbolizing the womb, death and re-birth, they appear on megalithic monuments, entrances to caves - sacred places of worship, all over the continent and the British isles, such as Newgrange in Ireland, and Gavrinis in Brittany. The spiral was a particular symbol of the Goddess faith. Spirals also symbolized the coiled serpent or dragon, both regarded as sacred in the old religion, representing the natural energies of the earth and sky.