Sterling Silver 3 Raven Celtic Knotwork Magick Pendant Start Price USD 80.00 Current Price USD 80.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 95.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 03, 2008 End Time Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'Sterling Silver 3 Raven Celtic Knotwork Magick Pendant' Description Beautifully detailed 925 Sterling Silver Zoomorphic 3 Raven Celtic Knotwork - Pendant/Amulet.Heavy Double Bale built onto back of pendant.3 Zoomorphic Raven Celtic knot Design representing the Triple Goddess.Measures 2.5" in Width.Silver weight:  28 GramsDesigned by Artist, Maxine Miller. Among the Irish Celts, Raven was associated with the Triple Goddess, the Morrigan, who took the shape of Raven over battlefields as Chooser of the Slain. She was a protector of warriors, such as Chuhulian and Fionn MacCual.   Raven is also the totem of the pan-Celtic Sorceress/Goddess Morgan le Fay, who was also called the Queen of Faeries.  In some tales, she is Queen of the Dubh Sidhe, or Dark Faeries, who were a race of tricksters who often took the form of ravens.  Irish and Scots Bean Sidhes (Banshees) could take the shape of ravens as they cried above a roof, an omen of death in the household below.  Tha gliocas an ceann an fhitich   or  Fice ceann na fhitich  are Scots Gaelic proverbs meaning "There is wisdom in a raven's head."     "To have a raven's knowledge" is an Irish proverb meaning to have a seer's supernatural powers.  Raven is considered one of the oldest and wisest of animals.  Also a bird of wisdom and prophecy, Raven was the totem of the Welsh God, Bran the Blessed, the giant protector of the Britain, the Isle of the Mighty.  After the battle with Ireland, Bran was decapitated, and his head became an oracle.  Eventually Bran asked to have his head  buried in what is now Tower Hill in London to protect Britain from invasion.  Bran's Ravens are kept there to this day, as protection against invasion.  During World War II, Tower Hill was bombed, and the ravens were lost.  Winston Churchill, knowing full well the ancient legends, ordered the immediate replacement of ravens, and they were brought to Tower Hill from Celtic lands - the Welsh hills and Scottish Highlands. Raven was the favorite bird of the solar deity, Lugh (Irish/Scots), or Lludd (Welsh) the Celtic God of Arts and Crafts. Lugh was said to have two ravens to attend on all the His needs (similar to Odin and his ravens). Many Celtic tribes and clans descend from animals.  An ancient clan called the Brannovices, the Raven Folk, once existed in Britain.  To this day, the Glengarry MacDonalds of Scotland have a raven on their heraldic arms, and their war cry is Creagan-an Fhithich - Raven's Rock, a landmark on their ancestral lands. The Scottish Goddess of winter, The Cailleach, sometimes appears as a raven.  A touch from her brings death. Giving a child his first drink from the skull of a raven will give the child powers of prophecy and wisdom in the Hebrides. Scottish Highlanders associate ravens with the second sight.   In Cornwall, as in England, King Arthur is said to live on in the form of a raven, and it is unlucky to shoot one.  "Have not your worships read the annals and histories of England, in which are recorded the famous deeds of King Arthur, whom we in our popular Castilian invariably call King Artus, with regard to whom it is an ancient tradition, and commonly received all over that kingdom of Great Britain, that this king did not die, but was changed by magic art into a raven, and that in process of time he is to return to reign and recover his kingdom and scepter; for which reason it cannot be proved that from that time to this any Englishman ever killed a raven?"- Don Quixote by Cervantes  The Welsh Owein had a magical army of ravens.  In Welsh folklore, the raven is also an omen of death.  If the raven makes a choking sound, it is a portent of the death rattle.  A crying raven on a church steeple will "overlook" the next house where death will occur.  A raven could smell death and would hover over the area where the next victim dwelt, including animals.  Ravens were heard to "laugh" when someone was about to die.  Welsh witches, and the Devil, would transform themselves into ravens. Place a Bid!