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Tags: handmade clay pagan altar, handmade clay sun altar, wall clay shelf, wiccan sun altar, wall clay sun incense burner, celtic clay wall altar sun face
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HANDMADE CLAY ALTAR/INCENSE BURNER/CRYSTAL SHELF | | SOLAS
A little piece of Irish mythology, and Ireland, for your home ♥
Pictured: Warm terracotta
These statement pieces be used as spiritual altars, shelves for your crystals/other important items, a key holder, a display for dried flowers, a candle/tea light holder, or as an incense burner with two holes on either side for stick-incense, and a section in the middle to hold your dried sage/palo santo/herbs/incense of your choice, and to catch the ashes.
They’re durable, handmade from terracotta coloured polymer clay, easy to clean (simply wipe down with a bit of water, or a damp cloth) and can easily be hung on your wall through the hole at the top! The detail of the sun shines with a UV resin.
Each one of these polymer clay altar / incense burners is bespoke, unique, one-of-a-kind & handmade by me in Ireland. 🍀
If you would like me to customise these in some other special way for you, please leave me a message in the personalisation section when ordering! 🙂
Would warm up any home, and make an unforgettable, meaningful and super unique gift! ❤️ And a connection to your spiritual roots.
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BESPOKE & HANDMADE
Each purchase supports me as an independent artist, and a tiny one-man (and one-dog) business.
Each piece of art is unique, and handpainted, and handmade by me with love, and personalised to each order so that it’s special and bespoke to you.
I would be very happy to include a handwritten note for your package on request – simply include it in your order notes, or the personalisation section below!
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KIND TO THE PLANET & ECO-FRIENDLY
On a very personal level, protecting this beautiful planet in whatever way I can is deeply important to me.
All orders are wrapped and sent in fully recyclable packaging, elegant, and perfect for gifting!
They also come in compostable mailers to protect the box from the weather in transit, and to have an extra little gift for your plants too! 😉
Make sure you always recycle your bubble-wrap on delicate items too!
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ABOUT THIS PIECE | CELTIC MYTHOLOGY OF THE SUN
The Celts were one of those cultures that recognised the importance of the Sun. They had many deities represented by, or connected with the sun, the giver of life, and many celebrations surrounding solar events and significant times of the Sun’s cycles.
Many Irish Gods and Deities have connections with the sun, such as Lugh, whose name means “shining one” or “flashing light”. His name is the origin of the Pagan festival “Lughnasadh” (which is also the Irish name for August),
Áine (the winter sun, and sister of Grian (“The Sun”) who represents the summer sun) is the goddess of wealth, with power over crops, fertility and animals. She is sometimes represented by a red horse,
Étaín, who was originally a Sun goddess before becoming a moon goddess, is the heroine of well known story in Celtic mythology, Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing of Étaín), where, through being faithful to love and to her true self, she was reborn and became immortal again. Elements sacred to Étaín are the sun, dawn, the sea, rain, water, butterflies, apple blossoms, and swans. She is the goddess of healing, rebirth and the transmigration of souls.
And perhaps the most deeply beloved by Irish people, and one of the most famous of all Irish gods, Bríd, or Brigit,
Goddess of poetry, divination, knowledge, creativity, and blacksmithing. She is the “Triple Goddess” who has dominion over the early spring equinox, light and fire. She was born at sunrise, with rays of sunlight radiating from her head, fitting her role as a goddess of fire and light. Bríd was also known by various names, but all the different divinities were three-aspected goddesses: “Fire of Inspiration”, “Fire of the Hearth” and “Fire of the Forge”. She was also called a goddess of poets and woman of wisdom or sage, who is also famous for her protection and care.
She is the daughter of the Irish god Dagda, who is a leader of the gods and Fae people called the Tuatha dè Danann – which means “People of the Goddess Danu.” Not only is she a Goddess of battle, fire, and death, but also healing, fertility, love, sacred wells, and water.
The ancient Irish people loved her so much, that the Christian missionaries that came to Ireland could not turn them away from her, or other Irish pagan Gods, so they included her in the Catholic Christian religion as an official Saint instead, to try and win over and convert the Irish Pagan Celtics to Catholicism.
Newgrange is an ancient 5,200 year old stone temple and passage tomb in the east of Ireland, built by the ancient Celts, and is a place of astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance to the Irish people. The passage and it’s three chambers are aligned specifically so that the chambers are illuminated, and fill with light, on the morning of the Winter Solstice each year.
The festival of Bealtaine (meaning “bright fire”) marks the start of summer, about halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. It is celebrated in Ireland with bonfires, which represent purification and rejuvenation, and as a ritual to encourage the healthy growth of crops over that summer, and the protection of their cattle and livestock.
The Bealtaine festival is said to have been related with Belenus, called the “Fair Shining One” (or “The Shining God”), who was one of the most ancient and most widely worshiped Celtic deities.
This design was inspired by a mix of wall-alters, and those wee holy water holders, that used to be in every Irish house next to the door to bless yourself going in and out, reinterpreted through the lense of my own spiritual and personal beliefs, and referencing the sun traditionally depicted with a face in many medieval artworks,
and the Sun card in the Tarot – which represents prosperity, happiness, positivity and an abundance of blessings coming to your life
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SOCIAL
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Thank you!
Go raibh míle math agat!
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I would love to connect with you | It’s slightly surreal but also very fulfilling to see my artwork out in the wild and being enjoyed by people around the world –
if you buy one of my pieces, I would love to see it! Send me a picture over on my instagram – @elliottlusk.art!
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