WHY IS WEARING CELTIC JEWELRY SO POPULAR?
Celtic jewelry is amazingly popular. Attempting to answer why Celtic jewelry is so popular will be difficult and probably impossible to answer the question completely. Who can say what makes people tick? But we can supply some good general ideas as what makes Celtic knot jewelry so popular.
The first reason why sterling silver Celtic jewelry is so popular is because the Celtic knot style is highly geometric. Think about it. People wear heart necklaces, circle necklaces, square pendant necklaces etc. Silver Celtic jewelry is very geometric and that appeals to many people.
Then you add some symbolism to the geometric shapes and you have even more interest in Celtic jewelry. There is a type of Celtic knot jewelry that is called the Celtic trinity knot style of Celtic jewelry. The Trinity knot jewelry is a Celtic knot in the shape of three corners, usually rounded. Each corner represents a member of the Holy Trinity. Silver Celtic Trinity knot jewelry is as much Christian jewelry as Celtic.
Celtic knot jewelry has many styles and types of Celtic knots ranging from authentic Celtic shapes found in the study of ancient Celts.
The following Celtic knot pendant is a great Celtic style but it is not authentic. The interweaving, geometric styles of the Celtic knot allow silversmiths the option of creating anything with the basic Celtic knot or weave and call it Celtic.
That may seem like a unethical thing to do but in reality it is not a big deal except for the purists who really study the Celtic culture. Because the Celts didn't have a written language very few authentic Celtic knots are understood as to their meaning. Researchers have found that certain Celtic symbols have had one meaning in one time period and a few hundred years later the meaning is altogether different.
Due to lack of accurate definitions of Celtic symbols what does it hurt to have some very attractive sterling silver Celtic jewelry pieces be made up by jewelry artisans.
There is a style of sterling silver Celtic jewelry that perhaps may be the most popular of all Celtic jewelry and that is Celtic cross jewelry. In the Celtic cross jewelry subcategory, there are Celtic cross charms, Celtic cross pendants, Celtic cross necklaces and more. Celtic cross jewelry is simply Celtic jewelry where the focal point is a cross with a ring or circle around the intersection. Almost always there is more Celtic symbolism included in the design including Irish Celtic jewelry symbols. For example check out the picture below.
Consider this legand about Celtic Crosses
Legend has it that Saint Patrick introduced the symbol of the crosses to the pagan Celts. They meet with some resistance and eventually a compromise was reached where the Celts added a Celtic Knot to the center of the traditional crosses. This lead to the creation of Celtic Crosses and the Celtic Cross necklace has become extremely popular as a non denominational symbol of Christian faith. The Christians definitely helped the symbol of the Celtic Cross become mainstream. The "Celtic cross" was used as a grave marker before St. Patrick and the other Christians came to Ireland. So this "legand" must be taken as just that, a legand.
The Irish Celtic jewelry means two things: It is a combination of Irish and Celtic symbols creating a piece of jewelry, it is also a term applied to any type of Irish jewelry or Celtic jewelry.
What do the two pictures above and below have in common? The both have distinct Celtic elements in them and they both have disctince Irish Jewelry elements in them. These are a good example of the first definition of Irish Celtic Jewelry.
The Celtic Knot is also know as the endless knot or eternity knot, due to the fact that the majority of Celtic knot designs have no beginning and no end. Some refer to it as the eternity or infinity symbol. Further these Celtic "endless" knots remind us of the endless nature of our spirit. It also calls to mind the cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Our spirits have no beginning and no end and life is just a portion of the life cycle.
So these Celtic knot silver jewelry pieces are popular for a bunch or reasons but this Celtic knot jewelry blog gives us some ideas as to the popularity of the amazing genre of sterling silver Celtic jewelry.
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