symbols

...a visual tool which speaks directly to the subconscious and deep wisdom of our inner self. It can bypass conditioned or limited rationale in a way that words...cannot. (Sherwood, 2011)

Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland

Dating from 3300-2900BC, Newgrange represents Celtic prehistoric funerary practices, as well as technology. But it is the use of symbols at the site that is most interesting:

spirals and geometric design

The spiral 'warps our perceptions of 'reality'. The spiral seen in two dimensional art has the effect of drawing us in, hence it is a symbol of the journey of the Spirit, leading into the womb/cave/void/centre, which is both the beginning and the end. The spiral has no straight lines, and so is also representative of the cycles of nature, the sense of creating and life moving along a time/space curve, returning again and again to a point that is the same, and yet is not, because each thing is different each time that it completes a cycle." (Sherwood, 2011)

the triple spiral