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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

AI's Got a Thing for These

Also here, but particularly here.

10 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Triple linking is a thing of beauty.; 10/25/2006 1:59 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I don't know what a Celtic or Viking super model looked like, exactly, but I do know that this tri-ring business can be found in the mythology of both (maybe you guys already know this crap, but I'll continue anyways).

The Celts had a lot of circular rings, I'm told to symbolize the unity and natural order of their environment -- one ring flows into another, and so on. This is supposedly the source of the loops in a lot of Christian Irish icons.

Vikingarna often used a trinity of triangles, and if I remember right, it also expressed a sort of eternal recurrance that was symbolic of Valhalla (but not of ragnarok, or Gotterdammerung).; 10/25/2006 2:21 PM
Mr roT said...: Mft, there are lots of examples of these in stone if you scroll down on the page this post's title links to. example.; 10/25/2006 3:58 PM
Tecumseh said...: One of the best renditions of the Borromean rings I've seen is a kind of African sculpture, carved out of wood. Here is an example.; 10/25/2006 7:03 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: JJ, right. Thanks for the direct link. I didn't bother cruising through all of them initially.

AI, the last time I saw African woodwork like that was at a furniture import store in St. Croix, USVI. The publisher of the newspaper I worked for "asked" me to go and do a story on these locals. All of the woodwork was beautifully crafted from equally beautiful hardwoods, but I couldn't help thinking of ancient trees being felled, corrupt warlords ruling their regions with a smile, and rich women buying African blood diamonds (or having their husbands buy them) the world over. It's a rough continent that exports some beautiful stuff.; 10/25/2006 9:03 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: I KNEW you would all eventually let slip that you are the Lords of the Rings; 10/25/2006 9:10 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Yeah, this all smacks of Tolkien pretty good, eh? Check out a couple of his literary essays if you ever get a chance: "Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics" (1936), and Tree and Leaf; 10/26/2006 1:17 AM
Mr roT said...: Gr Tolkien.; 10/26/2006 1:43 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: What does "Gr" mean JJ?; 10/26/2006 9:26 AM
Mr roT said...: growl; 10/26/2006 5:05 PM