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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
And yet, it seems to have a symbolic presence, for example in this picture of thoth balancing interlinked pyramids on his palm, which admittedly is more like a Star of David than an octahedron and comes from a modern woo site not from an ancient source. |
Interlinked tetrahedra, not pyramids. Geometrically it's a stellated octahedron.
For some reason the pretty visual aspects of the geometry of polyhedra is attractive to new-age woos.
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