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I’ve been looking up Celtic tattoo designs and i keep seeing Ying/Yang symbols meshed in with Celtic knot work. I’m wondering if the ying yang has any meaning in Celtic history?
Originally posted 2010-08-04 05:50:06.
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I’ve been looking up Celtic tattoo designs and i keep seeing Ying/Yang symbols meshed in with Celtic knot work. I’m wondering if the ying yang has any meaning in Celtic history?
Originally posted 2010-08-04 05:50:06.
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Nope. Yin Yang is strictly a far east thing. It’s probably a coincidence; I think a similar pattern is popular in Celtic knotwork, but the two aren’t related.
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ying yang played for the celtics 2 seasons lost my shirt on them..
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There is no true ying/yang symbology in Celtic knot work. I’m not exactly sure what you are looking at. ‘Modern’ celtic knotwork may have combined the two symbols, but they have no relation to each other. Ancient Celtic knotwork and other designs may have had a similar design, and certainly the Celtic culture understood the idea of opposites, but it never had the meaning that the ying and yang symbols do in Eastern cultures. I would say coincidence is at work here. Also, it has been said that very ancient pre-Celtic culture may have migrated from India and certainly some Hindu/Sanskrit words and symbols still exist even today.
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