Often Continental representations in sculpture and bas-relief of goddesses are in triads, which were for a time considered to be representations of different figures than those that appeared individually. Mother Goddess Minerva, Apollo and Mercury by Girodet (1814)Īccording to some authors, the triune mother-goddess in pre-Christian Celtic society, to was equal in stature to that of Mercury, which is what Caesar called Lugos or Lugh, the most important of all the continental Celtic deities. It can be understood as a key to the integrity and interdependence of all existence. The symbol of the triad or trinity has existed over immeasurable time and throughout the world. It appears on the coat of arms of the city of Samarkand, on Ethiopian and Coptic antiquities, on the rocks of Mongolia, on Tibetan rings, on Buddhist banners, on the breast ornaments of all the Himalayan countries, and on the pottery of the Neolithic age. It can be seen in the works of ancient Spanish painters and of Titian, and on the ancient ikon of St. It can be discovered on the images of Gessar Khan and Rigden Djapo on the “Tamga” of Timurlane and on the coat of arms of the Popes. It appears as a symbol in several philosophical systems. It can be seen on the blades of the famous Caucasian swords called “Gurda” and on the swords of Japanese nobility. It appears in the Three Treasures of Tibet on the breast of the Christ in Memling’s famous painting on the Madonna of Strasbourg on the shields of the Crusaders and coat of arms of the Templars. The oldest of Indian symbols, Chintamani, the sign of happiness, is composed of this symbol and it can be found in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. It can be interpreted in many different senses: spirit/mind/body in a circle of synthesis past/present/future enclosed in the ring of eternity art/science/religion bound in a circle of culture. It was popularized early in this century by the Russian-born artist, philosopher and scientist Nicholas Roerich. ![]() The symbol is of universal significance – it is found throughout history and all over the world. It is a symbol of the unity of body, mind and spirit. These properties and attributes are manifested in its threefold nature, which of itself is the inevitable expression of a principle, an archetypal fact, that solidifies in a series, as a representation of ideas and energies that materialize in magical, mysterious fashion while obeying precise, universal laws, which the numerical codes and their geometrical correspondences symbolize. This threeness or triad, has always been considered sacred–like oneness, duality, and all numbers–by virtue of its very properties and particular attributes. This is not the case with the early American cultures, which knew no alphabet, but we wish to call attention to this correspondence because not only the alphabetical code, but the numerical one, as well, describe all reality: that is, everything that is numerable or namable–in the sense of “ciphers,” harmonious measures, “proportions”–in sum, the totality of the cosmos, of the knowable. There is also, for traditional civilizations, a direct relationship between numbers and letters of the alphabet, to the point where, with many alphabets, numbers were represented by letters, and had no special signs of their own. From the union of oneness and duality (which is its reflection), that is, from triad, proceed all of the other numbers, and from this primordial triangle all figures derive. In the first three numbers, all of the others are synthesized. The power of three is universal and is the tripartide nature of the world as heaven, earth, and waters. ![]() It is The Triad, being the number of the whole as it contains the beginning, a middle and an end. Three is the first number to which the meaning “all” was given. Tetragrammaton by Francisco Goya: “The Name of God”, YHWH in triangle, detail from fresco Adoration of the Name of God, 1772
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