Celtic Tree of Life
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Original Artwork & Text by Welsh artist Jen Delyth ©1990 - 2010
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Y Goeden Bywyd - Tree of Life
Original Artwork & Print by Jen Delyth ©1991/2000

Limited Edition 250 (signed and numbered by artist) Matted 16"x 20" Heavy Watercolor 100% Rag Acid Free Paper with Hand-torn deckle edge	Tree of Life - Y Goeden Bywyd Tree Giclee Print $250.00 This popular edition is running short. Price will rise as edition becomes more rare/valuable.

Britain was once covered in extensive oak forest, and tree worship is a major feature within Celtic religion. Druids had their teaching centers in the midst of Oak groves, and the words for wood and wisdom are similar (Welsh gwydd and gwyddon). The Celtic Druids, priestesses and healer-women encoded their deep knowledge of trees and herbs into an ancient cryptic Tree alphabet - an Ogham ciper - Beth Luis-Nuin. The 'Tree of Life' is an esoteric philosophy common to many cultures & mythologies. The ancients envisioned the entire cosmos in the form of a tree whose roots grow deep in the ground, branches reaching high into the heavens. Also known as the World Tree, the primal Mother Tree was regarded as all-nourishing, all-giving, involved in the creation of the universe and the origin of the first man and woman.The Celts envisioned the sacred tree with a spring at its root, like the rose-apple tree of Jambu Island, the Fairy Tree of Celtic tradition, or the Goddess's life-giving apple trees in Avalon.In the border motif (from the Book of Kells - a medieval manuscript) the pot represents this Source, or Earth Womb, also symbolized as the Grail, or Cauldron of Regeneration in Celtic mythology.The interlacing branches symbolize the Celtic belief in the Continuity of Life.