Showing posts with label rathcroghan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rathcroghan. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2009

More of the chair...

The two side panels of the Cruachan chair (or throne) are carved with bulls. this is left panel (from the point of view of someone seated in the chair).

-GRG

(Photo: G. R. Grove)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The chair...

A wonderful object we saw in Ireland at the Cruachan Ai Center. We also met the carver a few days earlier. The chair is made of three kinds of bog wood, the darkest being oak. It looks to me like a seat appropriate for Arawn himself - or his Irish equivalent.

-GRG