Re: Weighty Factors and Irish Celltic Cosmology
TopazOwl

Fri Aug 11 17:07:47 2000
Searles wrote,*br*: Black and white can have double meanings.  Black can mean *br*: sinister and evil or it can mean strong and powerful.  White *br*: can mean pure and prosperous or it can mean empty and *br*: shallow.  *p*     But black can also symbolize the Void, the absence of color, hence the absence of light, and therefore the absence of life. It can symbolize the hidden, the underground, underworld, the darkness out of which the beginning came to be. It is the absence of color we see when we close our eyes, when we then begin to see the color of another place. It is the absence of light, as when the sky is dark without the sun or moon at night and the only light we see are starpoints which are not powerful enough to reflect from out atmosphere. On a brightly moonlit night, in contrast, the sky is not really black, but dark blue.*p*: More often the "brightness" of a color *br*: shows it to be associated with the realm of sky (birds *br*: generally being brighter that are high flyers, though some *br*: birds are darkly colored or also aquatic).*p*      Agreed. But then what of the white swan? In Celtic mythology, the swan is a symbol of deity (or later, Faerie). Angus, the Children of Lir...and also aquatic...ancestral gods, I have to assume, being both the color of the sky (white) and the realm of the sea (aquatic). That is my thought, and perhaps that is why the lighter aquatic birds are so sacred?*p*: When deriving *br*: such associations we get deep into the psyche of a culture *br*: and must tread lightly so that we may observe heavily.:-)*p*     We can observe what we ourselves feel about such colors, friend, and be close to the truth of our ancestors. :-)*p*Leigh
Weighty Factors and Irish Celltic Cosmology
Searles
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Fri Aug 11 16:33:17 2000