The elusive image
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2009Author
Waddell, John
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Waddell, J. (2009). The elusive image. In G. Cooney et al (eds.), Relics of old decency: archaeological studies in later prehistory: festschrift for Barry Raftery (pp. 341-349). Dublin: Wordwell.
Abstract
It is now possible to identify one symbol in Celtic La Tène art found in Continental Europe and in prehistoric Britain and Ireland that appears to be an expression of a complex religious cosmology. This is the elusive (and sometimes deliberately concealed) image of the solar boat carrying the sun across the heavens. Decorated sword scabbards contain other equally elusive imagery.