I took the photo sometime ago. The Risen Christ is clearly visible with the braiding. The braiding is symbolic of the forces of earth that bind man to the cosmos that signifiy his death. Mankind is in ancient Celtic mythology tangled in sins and in bonds. The mythology is of Indo Germanic origin. In India the god Varuna was worshipped and known as the Master of the Bonds.
The Risen Christ breaks the bands of death and releases mankind into Eternal Life. The figure of the Risen Christ is surrounded by the sun. It proclaims the new cult of the Logos that had come down to the earth and symbolized this with the sun centre of the earthly cross.The horizontal is added which represented the earth to the vertical descent of the Logos. The sun symbol symbolizes the Logos or Word, the Risen Christ who is the light and life of mankind. The Prologue of St John's Gospel expresses this central truth of Christianity. In the beginning was the Logos, the Word...( John 1-14) And the Word was made flesh and tabernacled among us.
