Semitic cultures have employed it for millennia to celebrate the Creator in an art form that avoided the use of graven images in their representation of God. During the American Revolution,this tradition was securely instituted in America with the symbols chosen to decorate the colonial script, and later for the Great Seal of the United States. It has been located on all continents in the Old World, and now it is beginning to be recognized in Prehistoric America. Problem is, there is hardly a word about this geometric paradigm in the New World archaeological and anthropological communities. Therefore, this web site is dedicated to introducing the concept, its methodology, and ways that it can provide quantitative information regarding New World built form and iconography.
Universal traditions are important in anthropology.
The recognition of this widespread, multi-cultural tradition is relatively new. Currently, the best place to find associated elements of this geometry would be under the subject heading of symmetry studies. Elsewhere, in the math and science worlds, one finds many references covering this topic. However, they often require a fairly hefty background in math and science just to get through the first chapter. My contribution is the attempt to provide the rules that scientifically ground this tradition in a way that is accessible to social scientists.