Hexagon

Hellenic religion

• Hexagon appears in Hellenic religion.

  Heath’s Euclid IV.15 constructs the regular hexagon in a circle, with side equal to the radius. A named hexagon in that handbook, not hexagram as Yijing figure and not a honeycomb ornament dump alone.

  from Euclid; Thomas L. Heath (translation) · Elements, c. 300 BCE; Heath English 1908

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• Hexagon is associated with Double.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the nimbus is presented in the form of a lozenge, or double lozenge, or a hexagon — hexagon and double-lozenge are paired nimbus shapes.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Hexagon is associated with Prism.

  In Ure’s Dictionary, emerald occurs in prisms with a regular hexagonal base — the hexagon is that prism base form.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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• Hexagon is associated with Pyramid.

  In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, a process gives the form of a hexagonal truncated pyramid — the hexagon shapes that pyramid.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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