Hi! Interesting video as I am researching mandalas as the moment. Just one friendly correction. A.D. does not stand for "after death". It stands for the Latin term Anno Domini; the "year of the Lord". This is important as anything that belongs to the AD era means time as we know it from the birth of Christ onward. His birth, not his death, mark the beginning of the AD era. (Note: In Christianity, Christ is not dead. So, "after death" would be heretical.)
Mandela is Sanskrit for the word circle It is interesting because there really are not perfect circles in nature. They’re always a little bit off. Even with a compass, if you zoom in with a magnifying glass or with a microscope, it would not be perfect I have a video here on the circle as a symbol. We certain dances, even a hug, ceremonies, religions, etc. It was a symbol of creation and the creator. When you think about it, everything is made of atoms. From a chair to a human being. And they are tiny circles. Likewise, blood itself is a circle. Of course they are not “perfect“. The circle represents unity. Perfection. The idea that “the first is the last“ or the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning of a circle is also the endpoint. When you look at the halo, Christians and Catholics will put a circle around the heads of saints. Because they are somehow more deeply connected or balanced with the creator or the spiritual. The Egyptians placed it perpendicular to the ground, whereas the Christians and Catholics would put it parallel to the ground. One of my videos also talks about the seat of life. I seed is something that you planned in which grows. The shape of the seat of life design actually, impractical terms, gives Life to the basic geometric shape that we replicate. A square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, rectangle, kite, and more This particular channel I’m commenting from has math lessons for school. But the other channel Thecirclemadeeverything no math focuses on the circle, symbolism of the circle and spiral, geometry designs and more. I am happy to be starting a club at school where students will be learning Mandalas. And I found your video very helpful and informative. Thank you. When looking at the circle, it was used, until computers, to pretty much designed everything. Ancient cultures used it to symbolize something divine, or the creator. I find it interesting that we use the circle to create things in geometry. And it also symbolized the creator. When you look A different symbols meant “to ward off the evil eye“, they are often circles. In fact many of these talismans probably became what they call “idols“. The Hebrew word for idle actually is translated as “round things” - because there was likely a culture surrounding the idea of the circle is something divine or spiritual. And of course, as with most ideas, we create gold and silver and other symbols which become something we worship. Or, an idol. When you look at the African culture, they will put circles in their nose, in their ears, even stretching them out. They would even put them around their necks and stretch out their necks. They would put circles in their lips - and they would wear them around their neck and on their finger. When you get married, can you put on two circles, rings, and they say “what God puts together, let no man separate” - because the circle was a symbol of this divine promise. So much of our jewelry, even our coins, the dances we made which were circular, even the drums and instruments, they seem to have represented a reminder of something unifying, spiritual, and divine. If any of that makes any sense Creating geometric patterns and Mandalas is very good for you, spiritually and mentally. Sometimes when we have emotional or mental disorder, looking at things with ordering, like being in nature, or even looking at geometric patterns, it could be the first step to adding a little bit of order, indirectly, to our lives. When you look at mosques and even churches, you see a lot of such a Geometry. Perhaps when you are not in the mental state to listen or think about or feel love, having the geometry in your periphery is a way to lift up The order in your mind and heart. I sometimes wonder what it would do to us mentally if we didn’t have circles all around us. From the Cubs we Drinkin, the balls, the tires we roll on, and so much more. Even the “windows to the soul“, the eyes, contain that balanced circle. Something divine. I suppose the world would be a little bit like Minecraft if we didn’t have curves and circles. And I wonder what that would do to us mentally. Because I think without realizing it, seeing all of these balanced forms really does have a positive effect.
The word circle comes from Greek - Kyklos, related to cycle. If we are to listen to the Egyptians or even some other ancient cultures, “God‘s “or beings from another place came down and taught the ability to use a compass, to create circles, along with agriculture, education, language, and more. We think the invention of the wheel was the most important event in human history. But really, it’s the understanding of how to make a circle, the idea of a compass. Because the history of engineering and design come from the understanding of how to make this shape. And the key to replicating geometric shapes comes from the circle.
