TREE RING: TREE OF LIFE-STERLING

Our Magical Tree grows in the center of Annwn, (Annwfn, or Annwfyn was the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn, it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease was absent and food was ever-abundant) and is the first Tree of Creation.

This tree is alive with Song, Dance, and Merry Making.

On its limbs the birds of Rhiannon sing so beautifully that "whoever hears them remains in a timeless state".

From this first "Great Tree," the Mother Goddess, Dana brought to Tara {Ireland} a branch with three fruits: nuts, apples, and acorns. From this branch all trees of the earth took root.

As a symbol of this belief the Bards of ancient Ireland wore a "musical silver branch" as an insignia. Each silver branch was said to be a casting of the original branch of Dana. Even the Kings bowed before the Bards who wore the silver branch of the Great Tree, alive and singing in the center of Annwn, the Realm of the Fairies.

3/8" at the widest part. A Chris Bennett design actualized by Pepi Cpyr 2004.