Yggdrasill pendant – Tree of Life – Tree of life in silver-plated bronze

Description

Yggdrasill pendant – Tree of Life – Tree of Life in material Bronze and Stainless steel.

Double color silver and gold.

Measurements: 37 x 27 mm

The veneration that the Celts paid to trees, whether they grew solitary or in groups, is evidenced with great evidence by the quantity of shrines dedicated to them – and this is why Catholics burned thousands of oaks because they were intended as a place of perdition, since at the foot , the pagans, carried out their rites, and in order to take them to church, they would also burn the children …. long live Christian love – and from their association with the megaliths erected in the center of many places of worship.

The tree was probably an emblem of the union between the earthly and the supreme world, reflected in its roots sunk in the ground and in its branches soaring towards the sky.
The relationship between the tree and the hunt is beautifully illustrated in a scene from Gundestrup’s Cauldron, a silver foil vessel found in a bog in Jutland and adorned with the engraving of a procession of men carrying the sacred tree. of Cernunnos, the deer god.