The Story of the Celtic Cross (symbolism and meaning)

The Celtic Cross has been a symbol of both culture and faith for more than 1,500 years and probably far longer than that.
The true origins of the Celtic Cross are unknown but there are many theories.
In this video we examine the origins of the cross and chart its story from pre-Christian times to the modern day.
It may have begun as a pagan symbol but it was championed by Christianity in the form of the High Crosses around Ireland and in illuminated manuscripts.
The majority of people who use the Celtic cross symbol now are Christian but many people also wear Celtic cross pendants as a symbol of their Irish (or Scottish or Welsh) heritage.
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[@TheLenaweeTrekker]

Thank You, for the video. I have wonder of the celtic cross origins.

[@mondayschild3493]

The circle around the cross is most likely a ceremonial girdle/robe-cord like the Egyptian ankh if you look at the window of the Monastery of San Antón Castrojeriz, Spain it's made up of lots of hermits girdles with Tau crosses in the centre of them with the ends of the girdles hanging down to make a pattern. Jan van Eyck painting "man with pinks" is wearing the the St Anthony of Egypt order around his neck, like the ankh. Stonehenge looks like it is made up of lots of tau crosses in a circle. The order of the Garter is a circular girdle belt with St Georges cross in the centre also

[@lindameggers1999]

Thank you! Great video!

[@eoghainoneill7195]

Today media Australia have been calling it racist etc.Prison guards are actually told to look out for tattoos of this cross in connection to radicals/terror groups etc.Ourworld is going crazy.

[@Snipit1990]

Wee shame that, the yanks fucked the 4 leaf clover for the Irish coz racist prison gangs get them. Now a Celtic cross is racist in Australia.... Man I am going there next year, as a Scotsman I had no idea I have the pendant on my chain, better tuck that I am bald too so wouldn't be a good look lmfao.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Very good ...I used to wear one ...quite a long time...cherished it 💚

[@debanjansaha5072]

What?

[@OSTARAEB4]

It is what you identify it to be. I’ve heard each quadrant represents Ireland’s Four Provinces or Four Green Fields. I’ve also heard it represents the Circle of Life entwined with Christ as the continuity of life with no beginning and no end representing eternity. I have three of them two of which were very expensive. One is the cross of Clonmacnoise Monastery. The other is also heavy and unique with etched symbols of Irish history into the cross. I am of Irish ancestry on both sides and Catholic and Protestant. For me, I started wearing one with connection to Irish paganism and identifying with my ancestry. I’m not religious but I feel it gives me protection in that I am of God and protects over me. It represents my respect for Ireland 🇮🇪 and her ancient past and her tragic history of conquest and independence and what my ancestors endured with having their religion, native language and existence nearly wiped out through colonialism. My Celtic Crosses connect me even though Irish people don’t consider her Diaspora children Irish. It also represents our Voyage to 🇺🇸. That’s just this reporter’s opinion.

[@anniew4105]

I will never deny our gaelic diaspora, nor will any real Irishman or woman. I think youre referring to reddit Irish. Paper Irish. Sure half of them are brown. Pay them no heed.

[@karlbyrne6021]

Lovely story. All children of Erin are to be treasured no matter how far they roam. Peace and love from Dublin Ireland.

[@jolynnrobinson2119]

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[@claudettepreisinger]

Thank you for all the info.....

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

No worries!

[@TWayneD1020]

Thank you !!

[@ventingpeeps4152]

Hello

[@noyes8836]

thank you for the video! can you tell me the name of the background music you are using? it´s really beautiful

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

It's called the Wind that Shakes the Barley, performed by Nick Kehoe, www.youtube.com/@NickKehoeSongs Slainte, Ireland Calling

[@vesnastihovic7014]

Nice...

[@Camelotsmoon]

It represents the energy body. It's a 2d representation. If you look down from the top of the head you'd see the 4 major points going from front back, left right, then the 4 minor points is the ring.. the bottom part of the cross just represents it going all the way down. The Celtic cross variant is probably the most accurate cross. Jesus was depicted having a golden aura around his head, and his head was exactly in the middle of the cross during crucifixion. It's not exclusive to just Jesus, but the clues are there, they're just buried in dogma. The star of David is also a neat one, it's a 2d version of the merkaba (vehicle of light). It's why Jews put the symbol on people's graves, to remind the dead of their light vehicles; more than likely how the Jewish people came to earth as well in... But that I don't know for sure; other people's could've come by that as well, probably most of us.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

Those swirly triskelions you show from Newgrange were there as much as 2,000 years before there were Celts or Druids anywhere including Ireland. They are Neolithic and pre-Bell Beaker.

[@Croucher72649]

Would it be bad to get a tattoo of a Celtic cross? I wanna get it but don’t know if I should

[@uyoebyik]

@@dm607 what exactly is a celtic elder?

[@Snipit1990]

@@dm607 As a actual Scottish person from Scotland from Celtic stock I can assure you, you don't need to have any roots or family to be a fan of the symbol and get the tattoo. We don't ask uld cunts permission before getting a tattoo either. It's 2023 nothing wrong with being interested my other cultures or relating to something.

[@Snipit1990]

@@dm607 Actually I do have high regard for my bloodline and my Family sunshine! See the line where I said " It's 2023 nothing wrong with being interested in other cultures or relating to something" yes that was clearly said with respectful intent. Next time don't just assume, use your brain and think a little before you say something. Have a nice life.

[@elizabethdunne6144]

The holes are for air in the wet lands.

[@RainforestBelle]

The Celtic Cross looks like an Ancient Egyptian ankh.

[@blurtbum]

That's exactly what it is

[@blurtbum]

Rainforest Belle crosses are all over the planet and been around thousands of years before Christ

[@seanconroy7222]

No it doesn't.

[@mickaelprevost273]

This is much older than Christianity.

[@joanholland3438]

Thank you for this video! I didn’t know that the Celtic cross meant Christian ❤️

[@homemurso1484]

It doesn't.

[@camulodunon]

@@homemurso1484 in most known examples it does.

[@homemurso1484]

@@camulodunon In most modern examples, yes, it does, but historically the crucifix has nothing to do with the crucifixion. The earliest Christian symbol for the crucifixion is the "Chi Rho", not the crucifix. The crucifix was adopted by the Church much later in history. The crucifix was and still is a pagan symbol, specially found in germanic and nordic cultures, as well as in Celtic pagon symbolism(Celtic Cross). Most religious history and "facts" had been molded to a narrow biased narrative, built and rewritten by the surviving faiths of the old and ancient world. The mainstream narrative is mostly based on a middle ages conscripted melting pot of half truths and political/religious interests. If one accepts every single part of that old script without questioning any of it and without seeking and go through the path less traveled, one's own, then one will most likely live in a lie for his entire life. Good luck and always be curious. Stay safe.

[@camulodunon]

@@homemurso1484 WDYM by modern examples? All of the medieval high crosses are Christian symbols. Also can you show me an example of a Germanic pagan crucifix. You don't seem to be on to much.

[@ynglingen-qd1iw]

@@camulodunon You're right that the crosses in medieval time that was raised during that time period was raised by christians, but i think what he's trying to say is that the sun cross, the circle with the cross inside, and crucifixes pre-dates christianity. search for "maypoles". That's pagan.

[@andrewmiller6754]

So this is a cross that represents paganism/Christianity?

[@NoName-yw1pt]

Yes

[@moonlighth4515]

The marriage of both

[@themaskedman221]

Christianity was largely a Western European phenomenon, adopted by European pagans. It's impossible to talk about the one and not the other.

[@dm607]

To me it represents earth, wind, flame, water and the circle of life. Pagan!

[@slimdankbeams8165]

No it's Christian

[@stephen285]

- it represents the four seasons a.k.a the sun (the circle)- the winter and summer solstice bottom and top, the spring easter and fall harvest equinox's right and left - AS PAGAN AS IT GETS - long before christianity came along they were keenly aware of the change in attitude ( max. height) the sun reached in the sky each day- like when the sun stopped getting lower and started getting higher in the sky each day(dec 25), and then when it started dropping again (june 21) - this symbol predates christianity - it was co-opted like just about everything else, do you have any idea how many supposed saviors born of a virgin on dec 25 there are in man's history? and of course each culture says our savior is the real messiah - google for yourself - horus, dionysus, mithra, hercules, hermes, krishna...................jesus

[@ricoparadiso]

This zeitgeist conspiracy nonsense of connecting supposed similarities of multiple religious figures has been long debunked, do your due diligence to research that the majority of those listed are apart of mystery religions that have no legitimate writings to actually back the connections you are even trying to make. Also, towards the December 25th point, search “Sextus Julias Africanus” It was from his dating(which predates the pagan roman feasts) that we get that date. There are also multiple other Christian theologians like Hippolytes that back up this date as Christ’s birth.

[@johnr.b.murray3417]

Thanks for the information. All grist for the mill.

[@josephraskal3013]

Karna vis vashaati

[@ynglingen-qd1iw]

It's the circle of life and the cross in the circle is you, surrounded by everything else. That's my beliefs, since there are no evidence on what the sun wheel / sun cross really means. There's a lot of them in scandinavia, both as jewelry and on old carvings in stone, as well as in tools, they are said to be dated to the bronze age.

[@stephen285]

@@ynglingen-qd1iw nope, equinox's and solstice's known and used by all the ancients - watching constellations snd the suns path in the sky (long before Christianity ) - your beliefs make for a nice greeting card

[@themanicmechanics496]

Keltoi is the Greek word for barbarian. What we are calling druids have nothing to do with the ancient burial stone from Newgrange depicted here, it is many centuries older than the earliest documentation of druid activity. The spiral/circle motif is common in every ancient culture. The term Celt is a modern invention, the actual people of many different ethncities living on the now British Isles. The people who actually build the great stone monuments have been shown by DNA evidence from contemporaneous living sites to have been from the Mediterranean. The circle behind the cross is such a common image that it's absurd to connect it to any particular group. What's significant about the carved stone crosses is that they were apparently ancient markers, denoting sites of victories centuries before, that were then carved into crosses. The cross on the sun is just derived from Constantine's vision in 317CE of the chi rho iota emblazoned over the image of Helios, with a voice saying "by this sign you will conquer." So, you have the cross and the sun in Christianity with nothing to do with the so-called Celts. And it is an ancient Bablyonian image of the Zodiac, the four quarters over the sun. I love the ancient cultures of the Isles, but people really have to let go of the idea that there were ancient "Celts"...the Greeks just used that word to insult anyone they wanted to kill and steal land from.

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

Thank you Karl. That is very helpful.

[@j_d_kerr]

Keltoi ís not barbarian, that word is literally barbaros. Keltoi is what they called the Gauls, and the Gauls were related in language and culture to the people of he Isles, therefore it was used to identify all of them.

[@blurtbum]

Karl Brake : your right about the celts but that style of cross is a depiction of nothing more than a very important navigating tool , the patterns surrounding most of the crosses represent "ropes" it is an ancient "sea people" symbol possibly going back to Atlantis times , take a look at the Antikythera machine for further understanding , Crichton Miller is a full bottle on the subject .. .. Seferia Psalms 23.4 .. earth axis tilt 23.4 degrees

[@anniew4105]

Not really. Many different ethnicities is one of these weird little wiggles that weirdos use to excuse the planting of our anciently revered lands with brown burdens from the global south to serve global capital.

[@anniew4105]

Keltoi means knot you fool

[@thanhmansour3490]

That wheel looks like the Catherine wheel. I guess the irish believe in the wheel of fortune. One day your e down but next day you can be up.

[@nasalimbu3078]

Celts ko cross inside cross 3 circle (⭕⭕⭕)

[@jakepapadopoulos8654]

Well it’s just another conspiracy theory I guess.

[@cristiannistor2543]

The cross and the sun - Jesus Christ is the Sun of Righteousness

[@juspete5527]

No its a navigational measuring device a guy took out 2 patents on it. Look up ancient gods and many have the same story as jesus down to the birthdate. Jesus is a combination of tales changing and lost in translation . Its all about astrology

[@troyhayder6986]

It has two beams and four end points and one circle... Magic number 42 Circle represents the recurring six 42=6*6+6 4*2=8 4/2=2 4+2=6 4-2=2 8+2+6+2=18 18=6+6+6 4=3+1 1/3=0.333 0.333 Cross 2=??? Circle=Pi for Six Pi=3.14 14/3=4.666 etc... 3*14=42

[@Corchini]

You could stretch these mind games into almost anything.. Christ is risen, the cross is the sign of His beautiful act of humility to reconcile man to God. Its a wonderful symbol of our Lord.

[@troyhayder6986]

@@Corchini knowers are gay...

[@troyhayder6986]

@@Corchini the bible is written on holey sheets... The holey sheets of dawg... Halla at yaweh dawg...

[@troyhayder6986]

@@Corchini Allah yaweh jesus budda doggy....

[@troyhayder6986]

@@Corchini he is the light of the world.. But he can't escape a blacks hole.....