memoryweaver
Approaching Imbolc 2017
The wheel turns and the days are starting to get noticably longer and the first early signs of spring have finally begun to emerge. The 1st of February marks the beginning of spring in the Celtic calendar with the festival of Imbolc, the first of 4 major fire festivals referred to in Irish mythology. I gathered local common club-rushes to weave these equal-armed solar crosses which, in Ireland, are a symbol likely to predate Christianity and are associated with the Goddess Brigid, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology
Approaching Imbolc 2017
The wheel turns and the days are starting to get noticably longer and the first early signs of spring have finally begun to emerge. The 1st of February marks the beginning of spring in the Celtic calendar with the festival of Imbolc, the first of 4 major fire festivals referred to in Irish mythology. I gathered local common club-rushes to weave these equal-armed solar crosses which, in Ireland, are a symbol likely to predate Christianity and are associated with the Goddess Brigid, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology