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2026-04-22 01:45 UTC
Does anyone know what was the significance of the stella octangula to André Breton? In case anyone near Paris wants a mathematically-themed excursion, one of these shapes ornaments Breton's tomb in Batignolles: https://leblogdeclaudelothier.blogspot.com/2011/03/la-stella-octangula-sur-la-tombe-dandre.html
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@pyroboyee@mstdn.social 2026-04-22 12:22
@11011110@mathstodon.xyz 🤷♂️ 'Some modern mystics have associated this shape with the "merkaba": a "counterrotating field of light"[18][a] that "transport[s] body and soul to other dimensions.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellated_octahedron#Mysticism