Yet understanding the knot patterns and the reason why they make such ideal marriage rings can be illusive. Though the earliest written accounts of the Celts were from Roman outlines, some knot work motifs found in Eastern Europe could be as old as twenty thousand years. We think we know the Celts, like Local folks of North America, viewed the earth itself as well as all aspects of life and death as divine. The natural world was considered holy, and each stream, mountain and tree had its own spirit of place. Early Celtic leaders even ridiculed human-like pictures of Olympian gods or the wild animals of their vale and forests.

Knot work, which has become linked with today’s concept of “Celtic” was definitely a kind of holy, creative expression. Some of the most noted designs were preserved in highly embellished, illuminated manuscripts,eg the Book of Kells which somehow survived the Viking invasions.

In Western culture, there’s a long and venerable custom of artists that have been galvanized by knot work motifs.

And there has usually been a grouping of metal and visible artists that have kept the Celtic fires burning by trying the knot work patterns in jewellery and different kinds of inventive expression.

For some folk, the choice to have a Celtic marriage ring is an expression of their would like to connect extraordinarily into their own ancestry. Others simply require the one piece of jewellery that they wear each day to have a gorgeous design with importance.

Whether one has Celtic heritage or not, a Celtic motif marriage ring is appropriate as it has universal, symbolic meaning.

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