The Celtic Knot Explained 

i want several hours of celtic knot content

How do you not have more subscribers? This whole channel has great production quality and I love the little info-humor-info sandwiches :D

Thank you SO much for this. Super educational and had a good laugh too. Thanks!

Keep it up dude I dig the channel

Mate, your editing and comedic timing is getting way better! Not to brag, but I have seeen way too many English Beer Bellies than is necessary for any human. I think being nicked by us Christians was a better fate. At least we equated them to the Trinity or some metaphysical concept other than "It looks nice innit? I is lookin well 'ard."

have you tried looking at these 'knots' (e.g. Celtic or Nordic knots). The eye tries to track the paths over and under. Trying to imagine the knot clearly within yourself has some interesting effects. The inner mind tries to track along the paths. An especially interesting firmness comes - trying to 'knot', center, point and condense the energies of the head. Like an exercise.

Good video, this guys voice is not annoying which is good too

Wow the Celtic Knot is much younger than I thought it was. I always assumed it was a part of Celtic culture since before the Romans but color me a fool

@Anathena Productions "Captured by Christianity" and the other attributes you made between Celtic art & Irish Christianity is a complete misrepresentation. As we all know, the evangelization of Ireland properly took off during and after the mission of Saint Patrick. The 'adoption' of Celtic art into Christianty wasn't substigation at all, it became adopted because the people who converted were already using the Celtic art style, which is what they then used in the artstyle of the religion they joined. This can be seen across many cultures across the world. In Japan with the Shimabara, in Etheopia with the Etheopian Orthodox Church, with the Copts in the Coptic Orthodox Church, in China, the list goes on endlessly.

Would you ever be interested in making a series about all the different patterns?

My 4th grade students are going to crack up watching this! Thank you, its a great explainer for our art project.😄

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So is it a good thing or a bad thing?

2:53 you say that like as if that's not exactly what we want

"I'll take the knot" Oh you've been watching some specialist videos.

Celtic Knotwork, likley came to the British Isles through the spread of Christianity. It likely came with the monastic orders that haled from North Africa, to Ireland, where it spread through the parts of Britain and Europe that were influenced by Irish Celtic Christianity. The Alexandrian/Desert Fathers knotwork style, while not as complex and well developed as its Celtic descendants, is none the less, the closest in style and complexity to the Celtic style. Interlacing knotwork patterns are ancient and exist all over the globe but are usually much simpler than the Celtic version. While zoomorphic images and spiral patterns are elements that feature in Celtic knotwork styles that are genuinely pre-Roman, the characteristic knotwork elements came much later. There is no evidence of its existence in Pagan British culture prior to Irish missionaries. There is a recent trend by the Neopagan movement to co-opted this style as their own and have tried to claim it as some kind of pre-christian pagan folk art. Numerous, vaguely plausible, pagan interpretations as to the meaning of the knotwork patterns, have been grafted on to the designs to give them some kind of 'deeper meaning', none of which have ever been written down in history or recognised by historians. If you go down to the markets today you can find this style adorning everything from plaster skulls to hash pipes, posters with wizards to joss stick holders and crystal ball plinths. Overly romanticised Celtic woo woo, stuck onto some tacky cheap tat, dosent make the pagan origin theory true, Im afraid, this whole Idea only started around the early Nineties.

I have one tattooed on my right arm

Pretty 😊

1:54 Many knots here are anglo Saxon . Not celtic . This Germanic knotwork did not exist in britain before the germanic invasions of Britain. The Victorians are the ones who popularised "celtic knotwork" term. The saxons were influenced by the Roman knotwork which is not related to celtic knotwork as it uses a floral form different to the later Celt knotwork influenced by the Germanics. The Earliest Evidence archeologically of this Knotwork in Britain is Anglo Saxon not Celtic.

Salin Style 1 is the Earliest form of this Knotwork to exist . it is from 400 AD and is Saxon not Celtic. When Saxons were pagans. Saxons influenced the celts to using their knotwork patterns in Britain

Using Irish Insular manuscripts and calling them British ..... are the brits ever not at it?

I have very thick long blode hair, and one time when I took a bunch of mushrooms when Ilooked in the mirror my hair turned into celtic knots, it was cool to look at

Most of these are Anglo Saxon art.

That hairy beer belly is just awful...

This didn't explain much at all....