This is posted in the waiting room of an Irish hospital. Interesting glimpse into their culture.
The full text of the poster
This symbol has been developed by the Hospice Friendly Hospitals Programme to respectfully identify the End of Life.
This symbol is inspired by ancient Irish history; it is not associated with any one religion or denomination.
The white spiral represents the interconnected cycle of life, birth, life and death.
The white outer circle represents continuity, infinity and completion.
Purple has been chosen as the background colour as it is associated with nobility, solemnity and spirituality.
In this hospital the symbol may be displayed on a ward to add respect and solemnity during end of life or following the death of one of our patients.
Thank you for the informative response. It seems that in this context, "pagan" is less of a religion name and more of a category of otherwise unrelated religions characterized by a mystical connection to nature.
No problem! I think you're missing that we are saying "Celtic Paganism" and not just pagan.
No I'm not missing that, I'm arguing that it's the equivalent to saying "American Monotheism" when you mean "Christian". It strikes me as strange that there's no, like, actual Celtic word for their belief system/way of life that we could use instead of [Region][Category]
"Celtic Paganism" would be more akin to "Catholicism". It's a sect or branch of Paganism.
Like how Catholicism is a branch of Christianity
To be fair, Catholicism is a famously singular religion.
Not really. You have Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox...
Only if you ignore the Saints lol. Which funnily enough are usually based on deities from other religions.
There are many religions that are polytheistic, not just paganism.