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@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-14 19:01:01

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago

Tree of life: one of the oldest and most universal symbols of mankind. It supports the sky, and provides a path from earth to heaven. In different cultures it is called by names such as haoma, asherak, yggdrasil, irminsu or asvattha. Thus, one often sees it in prayer rugs, as a reminder of the passage from this existence into a higher life.
Diamond or Lozenge: It has been conjectured that this omnipresent motif in Anatolian kilims is a male triangle attached to a female triangle, and thus signifies creation. There are doubtless many interpretations. A diamond surrounded by hooks is called in Turkish kirkbudatz, 'forty branches'. Among some semi-nomadic pastoral (terekme) tribes of Azerbaijan, a favourite symbol is a large diamond, signifying woman. Smaller diamonds within the large one signify a pregnant woman or her progeny. A …
Celestial creature: Recognizable because flames appear from flanks or shoulders.
Arabesque or Tendril: The basic unit of the arabesque, a favourite Islamic decorative theme, may be described as a split leaf seen in profile, called islimi in Persian. Derived from a Sassanian motif, it developed under the Abbasids in the ninth and tenth centuries, and matured under the Seljuks in the twelfth and thirteenth. It became central in Turkish and Persian carpet design only after the fifteenth century. In its fascinating fully developed form one sees interlaced lattice systems of sp…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2026-05-27 11:22:10

Form WTAF-8647. 😁
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#protest #resistance

Form WTAF-8647 — We The Aggrieved Filing
330 million Americans have grievances. It's time to file them.

@Don_kun@nerdculture.de
2026-05-24 17:07:29

In 2 Wochen sind Parlamentswahlen in #Armenien und es scheint - wie beim letzten Mal - wieder unübersichtlich zu werden.
Premierminister Paschinjan will seine Mehrheit für eine weitere Amtszeit verteidigen und die Arbeit seit der Revolution 2018 fortführen. Er verspricht weitere Reformen, außenpolitischen Ausgleich mit den alten Feinden Türkei und Aserbaidschan und dabei weitere vorsichtige…

2026 Armenian parliamentary elections - OC Media

@arXiv_physicscompph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-07-02 08:48:23

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.comp-ph. arxiv.org/list/physics.comp-ph
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- A High-Order Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Boltzmann Equati...
Atakan Aygun, Onur Ata, Tim Warburton, Ali Karakus
arxiv.org/abs/2607.00199 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfl
- A Multi-Resolution Finite-Volume Inspired Deep Learning Framework for Spatiotemporal Dynamics Pre...
Xin-Yang Liu, Xiantao Fan, Jian-Xun Wang
arxiv.org/abs/2607.00460 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCE_bot/
- When is vaccine prioritization worth optimizing?
Mi Feng, Zhaohua Lin, Changsong Zhou, Liang Tian
arxiv.org/abs/2607.00484 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsbi
- A Nonstandard Finite Difference Scheme for a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation with p-Laplacian-Type D...
Achraf Zinihi, Matthias Ehrhardt, Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi
arxiv.org/abs/2607.00489 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bo
- The BiP-PRISM algorithm for fast and scalable core-loss STEM-EELS simulations
Philipp Pelz
arxiv.org/abs/2607.00756 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmt
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