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Lleu - Bright One T-shirt #1
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 buries 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 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’), L 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 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 thomboid 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 sun years.
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Short
Sleeve $29.95
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Long Sleeve $40.00
