Concept
The Flower of Life
Nineteen overlapping circles on a hexagonal grid, inside one larger circle. A pattern found as decoration across the ancient world and adopted by modern sacred geometry as a blueprint of creation.
Teomancimit, “Göbekli Tepe, Urfa”, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The geometry inside it is real: √2, √3, the vesica piscis, and a 3-4-5 triangle can all be drawn from its circles, which is why Grant can find Khafre’s pyramid in it. Any grid of equal circles contains them. The name and the claim of a universal code are from the late twentieth century. The oldest securely dated examples are Assyrian, from about the ninth century BCE.