[Jewelry making - Article 00117] - [Orchid] [Tidbits] Gundestrup Cauldron

[Benjamin Mark]

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    A richly decorated silver vessel dating back to the 2nd or 1st
    century B.C. found--quaintly enough--somewhere near Gundestrup,
    Denmark. Laden with decorations of Celtic deities and rituals... this
    little babe is thought to have been used for sacrificial purposes.
    But not to worry dear souls. This is not my intent... today. 

    Rather... I have an image lifted from the Gundestrup Cauldron
    depicting a man on a dolphin. Is it gold... is it silver... is it
    bronze... I doth not know. Is it a brooch... is it a pendant ... is
    it a plaque... I doth not know that either. At this point... there
    may be thems amongst you who might think I doth not know much. To you
    I respond... I doth not know much much more than I doth know... and I
    suspect the same holds true for most. But enough of this dothing for
    nothing. 

    Did you know that in Irish myth the fish imbued with great wisdom was
    the salmon. Not only that... but the first to taste this fish's flesh
    would inherit all this wisdom... a fact which has surely been
    instrumental in the headlong rush many make to their fisheries in
    order to buy the fresh catch of the day and take it home and cook it
    and say... go... go... eat... it will make you wise. 

    Alas... for naught my friends. For the first salmon was
    caught by a bard named Finnegas who gave it to his apprentice named
    Fionn Mac Cumhaill to cook. But when Fionn touched the fish's
    flesh... he acquired magical powers. And this is all I know about
    that. 

    However... Celts of them thar days believed the sea separated our
    world from that of the fish... and the dolphin became the symbol of
    connection between our two realms. And it is here ... in this
    interrelated tale of salmon and dolphin... that I bring forth and
    image of a dolphin to relate the tale of the salmon. 

    For it is the dolphin--denoting the power of the sea--that permits
    our view into that wet world... giving us insight to the gifts of
    wisdom bestowed upon man by eating salmon. Eat your heart out
    Charlie. You ain't as important as you thought you were. 

    So... as the great Paul Harvey used to say... now you know the rest
    of the story. 

    For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
    direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will
    scroll down the left side menu till you get to; the area that says
    Current Tidbits... and then click on it in order to view an image of
    this man on a dolphin... riding the oceans high ... uniting the land
    people with the sea people 

And there ya have it.
That's it for this week folks.
Catch you all next week.
Benjamin Mark
http://www.tyler-adam.com
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