This is the Ace of Spades from our Bicycle Celtic Mythology playing card deck.The suit of spades is based on the Sword of Nuadha, sometimes conflated with the Chaidheamh Soluis (Sword of Light). In at least one source it is also referred to as a 'candle' or fire-brand. This sword was brought from the Otherwordly city of Finnias where the poet-sage Uiscias presided. Like Lugh's spear, it was unstoppable in battle and is probably connected somehow with Caledfwlch, the legionary Welsh sword that would eventually become Excalibur, the gift of the Lady of the Lake. Since the name Uiscias seems to be related to 'uisce' (water) there could be a dim parallel with that more familiar sword. There is also a vast array of mythological associations with water as paralleling mantic knowledge, brewed in otherworldly cauldrons and flowing in streams through tradition-bearers.
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