Unicorno e Celti

Titolo: Unicorno e Celti Lun Mag 03, 2010 5:41 pm

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Citazione :: UNICORN

purity / strength / supreme magical power / healing

One of the most ancient mythological beasts, the Unicorn is a symbol of innocence, purity, healing, joy and life. Having the form of a horse and endowed with a horn, it is also a symbol of power and virility. Thus the Unicorn is the symbol of the union between masculine vitality and virility and feminine passion and nurturing spirit. The Celts believed the unicorn taught that every action is creation, thus every day should be made to count.

Though the modern popular image of the unicorn is sometimes that of a white horse differing only in the horn, the traditional unicorn has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail, and cloven hooves, which distinguish him from a horse. Marianna Mayer has observed in The Unicorn and the Lake, "The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fears. In even the earliest references he is fierce yet good, selfless yet solitary, but always mysteriously beautiful. He could be captured only by unfair means." In medieval lore, the alicorn, the spiraled horn of the unicorn, is said to be able to heal and neutralize poisons. It also aided in understanding the relationship between physical and spiritual realities. In Celtic lore, the unicorn represented a Horse sporting a horn that resembled a Flaming Spear, which was connected to the month of Tanist because the Celtic "T" was shaped like a barbed spear.