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Claddagh Door Knocker
The story of the Claddagh goes back to the 1600’s when the first ring was made in Claddagh on the edge of Galway City. By tradition it is taken to signify the wish that love and friendship should reign supreme. Two hands cradling a crowned heart: The Heart for Love, the Hands for Friendship, the Crown for Loyalty.
This door knocker has a celtic knot backer. The Celts had a refined and passionate sense of the divine. The celtic imagination articulates an inner friendship that embraces nature, divinity, the underworld, and the humane world as one. The Celts never separated the visible from the invisible, time from eternity, or the humane from the divine. "All is not as it appears," was a central theme in Celtic philosophy and myth. They believed that we are more than we will ever know. The celtic knots are interlacing, interconnected, continuous lines with no beginning or end. They symbolize the timeless dimension of eternity and eternal life, spiritual growth and never ending love. Each twist, twist, turn, and swirl has its magical and mystical, silly and sincere qualities.
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