Continuing our discovery and explanation of the Celtic symbols that adorn and feature in popular Irish Celtic Jewelry designs, attention focuses to possibly the most convoluted and complex symbols to decipher – the triskele or triple spiral or triskelion.
Thought to be representative of many meanings, the triskele is thought to represent movement due to the positioning of the three arms or extensions that appear to be moving, in particular energy and the motion of cycles and progress. It is also thought that the three arms or extensions might be depending on era and culture be connotative for life-death-rebirth, spirit-mind-body and past-present-future to name just a few, and as representation of three Celtic worlds; the spiritual world, the present world, the celestial world.
The meaning of the triskele is diverse, varied and has many possibilities and this complex Celtic symbol remains a popular topic of discussion amongst symbolists and historians, as well as one of the more popular and well used symbols in the designs of Celtic jewelry, most notably on Celtic pendants, Celtic earrings and as Irish charm bracelets.
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