PRODUCT DETAILS
- Mission Style Oak Finish Wood Frame
- 6″ x 6″ Ceramic Kiln Fired Tile
- Frame: 10.25″ x 10.25″ – Outside Dimensions.
- Frame Border: 1 1/8″ – Total Depth: 7/8″ – Lip Depth: 1/4″
- For inside use only – no direct sunlight.
- Limited Production – Made in Artist’s Studio
- Original Celtic Art by Jen Delyth ©
- We need approximately one week to make these:)
- Also available in Iron Frame, Wood frame, or Keep-sake Tile Box
ABOUT THIS DESIGN
Ban-Draoithe – Wise Women – The Celtic Priests or Druids were healers, poets, astronomers, magicians, and astrologers who oversaw the rituals and laws of the tribes. Although most of their names remain forgotten, Irish mythology tells of the Ban-draoithe, Ban-draoid, or the Bandruí, the female Druids of the Celts.Tlachgta is a great ban-draoithe who came to Ireland with the Firbolgs, long before the Tuatha De Dannan and Milesians. Ancient goddess of the sun and of lightning, her name means “earth spear” (in Old Irish, tlacht gae). Tlachgta is full of light and energy and known for her wisdom and magical secrets. She traveled with her father, the chief Irish Druid Mog Roith, and discovered the sacred stones of Forcarthu and the pillar of Cnamchaill that is said “to kill all who touch it, blind those that gaze upon it, and deafen those that hear it” (in the form of lightning). Tlachgta also created a great rolling flying wheel – the sun…
All artwork and text ©Jen Delyth 2016
The Horse was loved and worshipped by the Celtic people. Horses decorate bronze, gold and silver objects as creatures of grace, intelligence and beauty. Horses also serve as solar symbols, embodying the sun’s divine qualities of strength and fertility – and golden Celtic Coins were often minted with images of the Horse, and solar symbols such as the wheel..
