¶ Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross (1)
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Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross:
"If we take the demographic center of population of humanity which is situated somewhere between Iran and Kashmir, and lay out a clock-shaped, circular, azimuthal map of the world with that Iran-Kasmir locus as its center, the north pole at twelve o’clock and the south pole at six o’clock, we will discover that starting with Japan at three o’clock there is a coastal and island-studded maritime world including all the South Sea islands, and the coastal people of China and Indochina all the way south to and including Burma, within whose fanlike sweep we find all the bamboo basketry to be woven in a triangle-and-hexagon grid of three-way weaving, whereas all the rest of the world is found to be doing its weaving in a two-way crisscross grid.
“…In all the great temples and other edifices of Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Rome… the foundation lines inadvertently follow the curvature of the planet Earth. This is because… they thought of the world as a flat surface. They therefore assumed that all perpendiculars to the earth are parallel to one another and therefore assumed that the lines of their hanging plumb bobs were parallel to one another.”
