The inventor of pointed things then wounds the sharpener, thus introducing evil and death into the world. Woot's mother also aids in the creation of culture by giving to human beings the art of mat weaving. Crossing and interlace thus become the primary elements in mat-weaving and other cultural arts. Kuba designs display complex patterns using L, V, Y, and X forms to symbolize the symbiotic interaction of nature and culture. Crossing patterns define human identity, and almost infinite variations on these patterns in Kuba design testify to the richness of human difference.
Cultural knowledge is understood to be a form of knotting, of crossing and return, as well.
Some Kuba textiles have groups of such imbol and woot figures variously linked and interlocked as if they were constructing a complete mega-pattern summing up the entire array of possible crossing or interlace patterns. This creates effects of flickering and movement and infinite levels, of worlds created within worlds within other worlds. It also suggests how interlaced all individual patterns are within the larger cultural patterns that inform them and create the individual spaces within which they can exist.