symbolism

Wikipedia has a very similar photo in Westminster Abbey dated "c. 1875 - c. 1885". There's no label on the sword and shield ...
Spot the Differences!

The Stone of Scone has had more than its share of ups and downs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
"Since March 2024, it has been on permanent public display in Perth"

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leonard Bentley who says the Magic Lantern slide is late 1880s -

We had its Irish equivalent, an Lia Fáil, here before, also by Mason below.

I see the Scottish rock is also called An Lia Fàil in Scots Gaelic!

beachcomber australia Because that comment came from you, for one milli-zillisecond I thought, what's it doing in Western Australia?! :D

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ha ha! I am moithered that the Stone of Scone doesn't rhyme !

Cockatoos are an important animal in the Australian Indigenous people’s mythology, acknowledged for their important part in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth of plants in the landscape. For the Indigenous people and more broadly, Cockatoos represent illumination – the sentinel guard and guide through darkness; they speak of commitment to partnerships and to the importance of the safety of one’s group; and they represent comedic relief with the spark that mischief and curiosity bring to life! Source: worldbirds.com/cockatoo-symbolism/

The 'nose bone ceremony' marks an Aboriginal boy's transition to manhood. The ritual begins with the painting of sacred symbols on the body, followed by piercing the septum. The nose is pierced with the bone of an animal or bird associated with a tribe's Dreaming and the ancestral creator of their sacred site. These nose bones were originally worn by both men and woman, today they are usually only worn by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. Source: www.aboriginalartuk.com/post/sacred-places-marrapinti#:~:....

Pearl shells were in use from at least 1818. In 1818 Freycinet records the following in Shark Bay, Western Australia. “An old man painted with stripes of various colors and distinguished from the rest by a shell hanging from his girdle”. They are an original and unique form of Aboriginal Art. Source: www.aboriginal-bark-paintings.com/aboriginal-pearl-shell/

Cross of Clogher - Irish - The Metropolitan Museum of Art share.google/Nc9BBF3a1c7AbqWDI

Safe in the County Museum Monaghan ?

From "Irishmusic1981" on Instagram ...
"Cross of Clogher (12th- 14th centuries)
The Cross was uncovered in a thatched roof of a church at Slavin, County Fermanagh. It was later donated to Saint Macartan's Seminary, Monaghan.
The Cross of Clogher is one of the most famous pieces of Medieval Irish Art.
The oak cross is fully encased in bronze. Each bronze
panel is riveted on the wood and richly decorated with
Christian iconography. The topmost panel depicts a
crucifixion scene in high relief with angels on either side.
The reverse is decorated in a repeated geometric design.
Video taken by me at the County Museum in Monaghan."
www.instagram.com/reel/DMSJfu-M3wD/

Wondering if this is the church where the cross was found in the thatch?
Via Monkiiiey Henry Clark

Account of the discovery in the Frontier Sentinel - Saturday 22 May 1943:

The Clogher Cross was found by the late Rev. E. J. Quigley, P.P., Newbliss, in 1898, when he was a curate in Devenish, Garrison. A dying man named Campbell handed him the cross. which had hung for 50 years or more in the old thatched chapel at Slavin on the lough side. It is a medieval treasure and is now in the Museum attached to the Seminary in Monaghan. It might be called the Devenish Cross.

On the occasion of a shrine being provided for the cross, the Frontier Sentinel of Saturday 1 January 1949 gave Fr. Quigley's account of comforting the dying man Campbell and how he got hold of the cross:

" I called back a few times and comforted him (Mr. Campbell). He got somewhat better . , and was grateful. ' They tell me,' he said, ' you are interested in old noggins, horn spoons and pewter plates. I have none of these things, but step up on that chair, and in the bed tester (a canopy) over the bed you'll find a weighty cross.'

"I did as he told and, covered with dust and grime. there was the now famous Cross. 'Tie it on your bciycle and bring It home with you.'

"'This old Cross,' he said, 'was hanging long ago in the old thatched roof Church at Slavin, on the shores of Lough Erne. It is very old, and the people loved it. Some way or other it got into our family to keep it safe. It is here for fifty years. There it is, take it. I know you will look after it.'

"I took it, cleaned it as best I could . . . "