Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Mark Knowles]

Koen: I think we also have to be careful making simple numerical comparisons. As examples, your talk about the number 12 in one place and the number 4 in another in your rosettes theory. As with simple mathematical shapes, certain small mathematical numbers can be found is so many different contexts that it is easy to find a parallel. There were 12 disciples and there are 12 months in a year etc. If one finds oneself dealing with less common numbers like 37 or 42 then one might find a parallel, but with numbers like the 6 "domes"/objects in the central rosette as I mentioned before it is hard to determine what the significance of there being 6 of them might be. That is why I don't tend to spend time trying to read much meaning into small numbers; there may be a meaning with them, but it hard to tell.

The problem again with the visual shapes like the "*"s is that they are so simple that they could be anything or nothing and so it is easy to find a false connection.