"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" --Napoleon

"PHI. The Divine Proportion. One-point-six-one-eight to one."
Ex: Spiraled pinecone petals, leaf arrangement on plant stalks, insect segmentation.

"...the distance from shoulder to fingertips, divided by the distance from elbow to fingertips. Or hip to floor divided by knee to floor."

"Draco--the ruthless seventh-century B.C politician"...Draconian

"The pentacle... is a pre-Christian symbol that relates to Nature worship. The ancients envisioned their world in two halves--masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced, there was chaos."

"...the planet Venus traced a perfect pentacle across the ecliptic sky every eight years. So astonished were the ancients to observe this penomenon, that Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her eight-year cycle to organize their Olympic Games. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympics still followed the half-cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment-it's five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games' spirit of inclusion and harmony."

Egyptian god Amon: god of fertility. Represented as a man with a man's head. His promiscuity and curved horns are related to our modern sexual slang, horny.
The Egyptian goddess of fertility : Isis. Her ancient pictogram was once called L'ISA.

AMON L'ISA... MONA LISA


Longer-stemmed Latin cross: originated by Romans as a torture device. "Cross" and "crucifix" ... from Latin verb cruciare--to torture.

Equal-armed crosses are considered peaceful crosses. Their square configurations make them impractical for use in crucifixion, and their balanced vertical and horizontal elements convey a natural union of male and female. (Flag of Switzerland).

"The Priory of Scion was founded in Jerusalem in 1099 by a French king named Godefroi de Bouillon, immediately after he had conquered the city."

THE DA VINCI CODE - DAN BROWN

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