Whether this is really what the Aztecs meant, or if it's a masterful piece of intellectualization, either way it is inspirational. At its best, the book is a source of very useful information. For those seeking evidence of divine order in nature, the book is a treasure. It's a successful marriage between scientific, anthropological, and spiritual factoids. The Aztec calendar uses spirals as design motifs, and Mini fills the pages with every possible transmutation of the spiral that fits into the calendar's geometric design.
Spirals are symbols for a holistic, balanced view of reality.
Mini points out that masculine nature, out of balance, tends to become too linear and depleting. Feminine nature tends to become circular and repetitive. The spiral, however, is a circular line that never ends. Mini shows the presence of the spiral in the Aztec calendar to be the central symbol for linking our spiritual awareness with physical reality. The coiled snake, the nautilus, bones, umbilical cords, pine cones, the golden rectangle, the ratio of phi, pentagrams, and Greek, Gothic and Native American spiral motifs.