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The Celtic Knot Explained 

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The Celtic Knot is a common symbol in the Celtic, Gaelic, and strangely Christian worlds. This week we discuss what it means, its origins, and what some particularly common knots mean, Enjoy!
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@JingleJoe
@JingleJoe 6 месяцев назад
i want several hours of celtic knot content
@fionac.562
@fionac.562 Год назад
How do you not have more subscribers? This whole channel has great production quality and I love the little info-humor-info sandwiches :D
@coppermoth6069
@coppermoth6069 Год назад
Would you ever be interested in making a series about all the different patterns?
@NeoNovastar
@NeoNovastar 2 года назад
Thank you SO much for this. Super educational and had a good laugh too. Thanks!
@CaskTheology
@CaskTheology 3 года назад
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."
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 3 года назад
I wouldn’t call that a brag! That and tribal tattoos, definitely start trying to have a fight after one to many at the pub “I’ll spark ya mate” And thank you man it’s getting there just comes with the experience, and learning from people I enjoy watching myself! Which reminds me I got a few people I need to catch up on!
@kanrup5199
@kanrup5199 Год назад
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.
@MythologywithMike
@MythologywithMike 3 года назад
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
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 3 года назад
As did I before I started my research I thought it was pre-roman too
@MichaelRogerStDenis
@MichaelRogerStDenis 3 года назад
Celtic knots are fairly young, yes, but Celtic spiral designs are found throughout Gaul going back 2000BC.
@Rhyfelwr_Cymreig
@Rhyfelwr_Cymreig 4 месяца назад
They're not young, some can date back to the stone age such as the Solomons knot for example.
@oliverfritsch8323
@oliverfritsch8323 3 года назад
Keep it up dude I dig the channel
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 3 года назад
Thank you mate! Look forward to seeing you around some more
@johnedwards4012
@johnedwards4012 Год назад
Good video, this guys voice is not annoying which is good too
@super.somarion
@super.somarion 3 месяца назад
So is it a good thing or a bad thing?
@peggyg9488
@peggyg9488 Год назад
My 4th grade students are going to crack up watching this! Thank you, its a great explainer for our art project.😄
@christskingdomiscoming5964
@christskingdomiscoming5964 9 месяцев назад
I would do some research before teaching kids anything that comes from some guy on You Tube.
@Irish0wl
@Irish0wl 2 года назад
@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.
@tomplantagenet
@tomplantagenet Год назад
Exactly. It was almost as if he were purposely trying to put Christianity in a bad light. Like it was an outside raiding army
@christskingdomiscoming5964
@christskingdomiscoming5964 9 месяцев назад
No it's the other way round. The Knotwork style came to Ireland with Christianity. There is no evidence of its existence in the British Isles before this time period. There are truly ancient examples of spirals and animal designs that exist from far earlier, but not the characteristic interlacing Knotwork patterns. There are examples of the style in Christian monastic communities in North Africa, from a slightly earlier time period where the Knotwork style is beginning to approach the level of sophistication found in later Celtic style Knotwork. The 'Desert Fathers' of North Africa were the originators of the Christian monastic system and the decorative style was likely exported along with their brand of Christianity where it was later expanded upon by Irish and Scottish monks into the highly sophisticated form found in the likes of the Book Of Kells.
@bosnakedisniksic
@bosnakedisniksic 3 года назад
2:53 you say that like as if that's not exactly what we want
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 3 года назад
1000 sub special?
@gargoyle666
@gargoyle666 3 года назад
"I'll take the knot" Oh you've been watching some specialist videos.
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 3 года назад
I don’t follow 😂
@gargoyle666
@gargoyle666 3 года назад
@@AthenaProductions1997 mmHMMMMM...
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 3 года назад
Genuinely don’t 😅 link me I wanna see
@BlindfoldedSight
@BlindfoldedSight 2 года назад
💪
@christskingdomiscoming5964
@christskingdomiscoming5964 9 месяцев назад
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.
@Wes.Crump00
@Wes.Crump00 Год назад
I have one tattooed on my right arm
@romainvicta3076
@romainvicta3076 Год назад
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.
@christskingdomiscoming5964
@christskingdomiscoming5964 9 месяцев назад
Which knots are Anglo Saxon exactly? The style is nothing like the simple Knotwork patterns found in Continental Europe of the time. There are few examples of the sophisticated Knotwork designs found in Anglo-Saxon England, all the rest are from Ireland and Scotland. All the English examples coincide with the Kingdom of Northumberland and none out with. This is relevant because the Northumbrians accepted Christianity through Irish missionaries from Scotland and Ireland, making them the first English kingdom to become Christian. The style of Christianity they adopted was the Irish Celtic style with its sophisticated interlacing Knotwork patterns, this is why we see the Lindisfarne Gospels and stones of the region decorated in this way. It also explains why we don't see these styles south of the Humber. It's impossible to make a case for Anglo Saxon origins, when the vast bulk of examples come from Ireland and Scotland and predate the few Northumbrian examples. The continental Germanic people had a Knotwork style that was very simple and relied on a different method of construction.
@444Dragoncheese
@444Dragoncheese 2 месяца назад
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
@romainvicta3076
@romainvicta3076 Год назад
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
@christskingdomiscoming5964
@christskingdomiscoming5964 9 месяцев назад
There are Knotwork styles from all over the world that are far older than that, from Ancient Egypt to the Aztecs to the ancient Chinese. None of these styles are the same as the Celtic variant both in their level of complexity or in their methods of construction. The closest is the style that came out of North African Christian communities, where some of the construction methods seem to be the same. It likely spread to Ireland via the spread of Monastic Christianity that came out of North Africa reaching Ireland. Continental European Knotwork of the period tends to be very simple and does not utilise the same construction methods as the Irish/Alexandrian versions.
@sdamlaify
@sdamlaify 2 года назад
Pretty 😊
@crimthann-fathach
@crimthann-fathach Месяц назад
Using Irish Insular manuscripts and calling them British ..... are the brits ever not at it?
@hetrodoxly1203
@hetrodoxly1203 10 месяцев назад
Most of these are Anglo Saxon art.
@christskingdomiscoming5964
@christskingdomiscoming5964 9 месяцев назад
Nope!
@FireRose.77
@FireRose.77 2 года назад
That hairy beer belly is just awful...
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 2 года назад
That’s just how things are on this beautiful isle… it’s awful innit
@FireRose.77
@FireRose.77 2 года назад
@@AthenaProductions1997 gotta give it to you... your sense of humor is something else!
@AthenaProductions1997
@AthenaProductions1997 2 года назад
@@FireRose.77 I hope that something else is good! 😆
@chrissolgot1604
@chrissolgot1604 5 месяцев назад
This didn't explain much at all....
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