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Figure 21. Layout of ancient cities located in a circle:
1) copy of an aerial photograph of Trypillian settlement named Petren’ (Moldova);
2) scheme layout of Arkaim city (Southern Urals, Russia).
Rigden: Quite right. But let’s go back to the ancient symbol of the human being — an
equilateral cross with a circle in the middle. The cross lines conventionally represent the
four human Aspects: the lateral Aspects (the horizontal lines coming from the centre),
the Rear aspect (the vertical line going down from the centre) and the Front aspect
(the vertical line going up from the centre). Like I’ve already said, in associative
comparisons the characteristics of these Aspects were allotted to certain forces in the
space, such as the four elements, the four seasonal winds or the four cardinal points. At
that, the three forces were usually interrelated with each other or had negative
characteristics of the rear and lateral Aspects, whereas the forth one was the principal,
very special by its features and possessed positive characteristics of the Front aspect. All
these forces were also marked with a cross — the sacral symbol of the human being as a
creature in the structure of which the spirit and the mater were combined. The cross
vertical line was associated with the solstice, the movement towards the spiritual world,
with the human aspiration for the Spiritual nature supremacy. Therefore, in religious
traditions of ancient peoples of the world, a solar disc was often depicted on heads of
holy gods to symbolize the Spiritual nature supremacy and the Knowledge introduced
from the Spiritual world. The horizontal line indicating the lateral Aspects was
allegorically called the equinoctial axis and associated with the Sun movement (when
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