¶ Three-way weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross (2)
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"If we jump the Atlantic westward to the Mayan world of Central America… we will find that the foundation lines of their buildings are true horizontal surveyors’ lines of sight. They do not follow the curvature of the Earth, which is so clearly to be seen when sighting with one’s eye the horizontal step lines of the… Parthenon. If we go westward again across the Pacific… we find the foundations of the early temples in Thailand and Cambodia are curved ever so slightly upwards from their midpoints toward their ends. They follow the curvature of a ship’s keel. They are similar to the Japanese shinto torii mounted atop two red columns… They are the keel of a ship mounted as a beam atop the end columns. The latter are the same world’s water people who use the three-way weave basketry.
“When we come to Crete’s old palace at Knossos we find the sign of the king carved into the stone walls of his chambers. The king’s sign is a hexagon consisting of six equilateral triangles surrounding a central point. Whereas in the household area of the palace the distaff symbol is carved into the walls; it is a square-enclosed cross. The water king’s symbol”
