The triangle is one of the most elementary symbolic figures due to its geometric aspect: it’s basically the simplest way of linking three points in space with straight lines.
Yet not all triangles have the same meaning. In excavations made near to Lepenski Vir in the Danube, there was found many blocs of stones shaped like triangles and inscriptions in bones also with triangular shapes. These vestiges date from the Stone Age and are mainly composed of inverted triangles which most probably refer to the feminine sex.
In more recent times, including in Alchemic texts, the inverted triangle would symbolize water (reproducing in a geometric fashion the shape of a drop) whilst the triangle with its point up would refer to the masculine element of fire.
In the system drawn from Pythagoras (Born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC), the delta letter symbolized the cosmic birth, whilst for Hindus the same letter would represent the goddess Durga – source of life and incarnation of femininity.
In the Christian era, the triangle was increasingly used as a symbol of the Trinity and later on, during the Baroque period, God’s eye was incrusted at its center. Such a vision can also be found in the Zohar: “God’s eyes and foreheads form in the sky a triangle and they reflect mutually in water in the shape of a triangle.”
Now you take the floor: what do you associate with the triangle?
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Triangles? What a challenging one, particularly when coming to relationships. I think the triangle is best considered but never tempered with in intimate relationships because, firstly, it nullifies the foundation on which the bond was formed and creates loop-holes through which toxins can permeate an otherwise functional relationship. Secondly, a triangle robs the relationship of its prosperity because it leads you to believe that the “other” part is better positioned, whereas it’s an illusion of the same seen from a different angle. In conclusion, I believe that a triangle is better as a device to strengthen civil works and such, but never as potent in relationships; for it is that which causes rifts, mistrust, heartache and complete mayhem in relationships. And claiming that you can love two people at the same time with the same intensity,is but a fickle cry for escapism. It is greed personified; having your bread buttered on both sides. A trait quite evident in men, because they are all just bloody pricks!
I always think “strength” when i hear triangle.
I know it’s used a lot in construction of bridges, and race cars and trusses just for this reason.
I never really thought of it in relation to relationships until I read:
‘the triangle is the only shape that cannot be deformed without changing the length of one of its sides’
I don’t know where I’ve read this, but it’s stuck with me.
Perhaps where relationships are concerned, the strength comes from the stability of having a ‘backup’ a person there to fulfill the parts the other doesn’t fulfill. Maybe by having three no one person is truly deformed in the relationship. It’s all too easy to lose parts of yourself when you are with another. It’s easy to become something not innately you when trying to fill up someone’s space. Perhaps by balancing between people it is easier to give fully and yet remain intact because you are reminded who you are by seeing yourself reflected in two other people. Perhaps it’s easier to narrow down what you want and need, or even who you truly are.
I’ll compare it to taking temperature readings, or blood pressure readings: taken once it’s a good idea of the number you are looking for but taking it 3 times and finding the average is a more accurate representation of the true number you are looking for.
So perhaps, love triangles may be the average. Maybe it is closer to the what that person is searching for. Maybe that average allows a person to find the things they cannot live without.
Maybe by being in a triangle people can find what will make them strong, without ‘deforming’ the other sides of the triangle.
Maybe.
The Triangle: I had a problem that concerned two men, i had strong feelings for both of them. They both knew and were aware of each other, knowing I was in love with both of them. My husband fufilled my physical needs the other man in my life provided for me mentally. Both parties made up my world and my mind and heart both in confusion wondering which one I was going to choose. Neither one I wanted to lose. The man i wanted to choose, had showered me with a life that I wasn’t use to. The other one, had mentally abused me. The situation had got me under pressure, I knew when this was over one of them would suffer. After six years and a long road ahead of me, I chose to stay with my husband and work it through. My other love will have a place in my heart, the time we spent together will never be forgotten. I realize that the other one was a substitute of what my husband use to be, and when he seen the influence of what the other man had over me, my husband apologized, and now I am at peace.
“Le lamentele della mia anima erano indirizzate tutte a Simone. Si pavoneggiava per la casa come un gran’ re, senza mai ricordarsi di chiedermi almeno se avevo bisogno di aiuto. Se “I TRE ANGELI MESSAGGERI” venivano a casa nostra, era per merito di tutti due, o no?!? Non mi sembrò giusto che dovessi servirli solo io, ecco. La storia di Abramo e Sara non andò così. SARA PREPARAVA da mangiare, ma era Abramo a SERVIRE.” [Gina Re; FU ALLORA CHE CAPII]
“Non era gelosia la mia (anche se potrebbe sembrare), era un dolore molto più profondo, il dolore dell’abbandono e del tradimento della mia interiorità, che si rispecchiava in quello strano triangolo sentimentale; il tradimento del mio Giuda personale, che aveva messo sulla croce Cristo per la misera somma di trenta sicli…per una misera vita, trascorsa a raccogliere le briciole dei sentimenti di mio marito e la sua compassione…” [Gina Re; FU ALLORA CHE CAPII]
Deposit pythoragas knowledge, I think often of the the acient thought like the Faraos, the sun, the moon and the earth.
Somehow the swine and the bird flu is making this world horrible, with 10.000 infected and 80 people dead. I have an ide of an project to write a song book about life, how to live, almost like an bible, but more like advice and promote the book with singing my poems with my tenor voice and get ut into radios, so people that cant read can hear messages how to behave thru the flu period. I realy need a great sponsor.
Peace and love is in my heart, just want to help our earth people. Crystal childs have great talents and a soft heart.
Hi! Hi! the drawing was funny!
“Om with the Master”
O triângulo tem outra representação também: é um indicador de direção e de elementos da alquimia (o fogo com o vértice pra cima, a água com o vértice voltado pra baixo, o ar com o vértice pra cima dividido por uma barra horizontal e a terra com o vértice pra baixo dividido por uma barra horizontal).
Beijos!
Fica com Deus e na paz!
Hi Alexandra, :-)
it was drawing by Davi Viegas, posted 24.04.2009 on Flickr
“Paulo Coelho has NOT exceeded the prova!”
REjected! ;-) lol :-DDD
“The triangle of Pithagora”!It was fascinating me as a child,in school,specialy because it was so light with HIS RULE to resolve all the tasks (homedutys) in mathematik even,I did´t realy liked MATHE.!It was like I was SWIMING!!!I mean the LIGHT FEELING in the WATER!
Dear Savita,you are a wonderful SOURCE again of INSPIRATION!
The beautyful TRIANGLE “PUBIS” of a man and a woman!
What a wonderful GEOMETRIA we ARE!!!
LIKE WE SPOKE yesterday night BEAUTYFUL ROSA,al PLAZA OBRADOIRO!
IL MACRO E MICROCOSMOS!
CHE BELLEZA!!! I hope you camed good home!
VENUS and APOLLO, they both were trying to hide THE TRIANGLE with their Hands or a Leaf,as SACREDS TRESURES.But WHY?
The tangible GATES through the invisible Chanel of the BODY up to HEART,third EYE and FONTANELLA,and the perfect circle build betwin the two TRIANGLES in cooperation,which let the ENERGY of LOVE to circulate in NET(ROUND) betwin HEAVEN(HEART) AND ERTH(BODY-TRIANGLES)
Like that …two oposite triangles are coming inside a ENERGY CIRCLE and become ONE.ONE with the UNIVERS!
Like in HEAVEN so on ERTH!
It meens for me…SEX it can not be ONLY SEX!!!
It is THE NATURAL RIGHT for whole HUMANBEEING(MICROCOSMOS) to became ONE with the STARS,UNIVERS(MACROCOSMOS).
SACRED GEOMETRIA or MANDALAS for everyone.
Love
Mirela(the woman in elevator)
My guruji taught us about establishing a golden triangle when receiving healing whivh comprised of myself, my guruji and the Almighty
If we did not have triangles, pyramids would not have been possible.
Can you imagine so many important monuments would have never existed!
Thanks Gina Re. Who did the drawing? lol
You know dear Savita, I read a book by Mika Waltari, and in it the beginning was like that, a man was telling that the numbers of rocks gathered on the road of his life was towards the end. I liked the metaphor, the rocks were different in shape or colour as the years or events passed. me words to poor to describe. It was in “The Etrusc”, an interesting novel.Much love, Alexandra
Hello Savita. Here you are again, we all missed you much.
hihihi :-D :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviviegas/3472744084/
Triangle. The heart is a triangle, though plump, curvilinear, a triangle still. The female pubic region is a triangle outlined by a tangle of thick hair. A triangle pointing down. The male, in reverse, a triangle pointing up. The petals of some flowers, the leaves of certain species of trees – triangular in form, though fleeting, temporal. If you look at a map, where a river meets the sea, you will almost always discover a triangle, whether broad or narrow, deeply etched in the earth’s surface, of teasingly subtle. Delta. The place where the waters of the earth re-enter their home in the infinite. Delta. The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In iconography, we see triangles, commonly – symbol of the Holy Trinity, pointing always upward, toward the Father. In art, such as that of DaVinci, we see another kind of triangle hidden beneath the surface of the brush-strokes, discreetly disguised, until our eyes are opened to it – that same triangle, pointing toward the Divine, but with man and woman forming the base, their two bodies, the walls of a unified Temple.
As a sort of hobby, I collect rocks, but not in the usual way. I know very little about their composition, about the properties that form them. I collect them and organize them, instead, according to several categories of my own devising. First, there are the rocks that I select because I am fascinated by what the water has done to them, how, over time, the current in a riverbed or drops falling from above have created pits and crevices, or polished the surface smooth as silk. These are the rocks shaped by water. Then there are the rocks that have been crushed or shattered, split in two by some object heavier or more dense than they are. I select these rocks for what is revealed by the violence of collision: often times, the inside of the rock is of a wholly different material, a completely different color and texture from the exterior. These rocks I select for the inner secrets they have revealed against their will. Then there are the rocks with holes in them – not just pits or indentions, but holes that go all the way through from one side to the other. These too, I suppose, are formed by water, but I put them in a different category because they are very special. Rocks like this, one could wear as a sort of talisman. Or, if one so wished, one could place them on a string together and hang them in the air, perhaps from the branch of a tree or in a doorframe – a sort of magical emblem. These sorts of rocks are also windows. If you hold them up to your eye, you can peer through these holes, and even if the holes are tiny, there is much that they might reveal. So, these are the rocks or reverence and magic and revelation.. Then there are the heart shaped rocks, and you would be surprised to learn just how many of these there are. They are everywhere, in fact. Large and small, flat or three-dimensional. Dark hearts and light hearts, smooth polished hearts and hearts that are porous and rough. Some are perfect, as though shaped by the hands of a highly skilled sculptor, others are sadly mis-shapen, almost tragic in form, as though they have suffered greatly. Some are plump, like ripe pieces of fruit; others are skinny or shrunken or withered, as though malnourished by the earth that formed them. So, those are the rocks that imitate and reveal the human heart in all its myriad forms. Then, lastly, there are the rocks that are triangles. Again, like the hearts, these are surprisingly plentiful and not at all difficult to find. Like the rest, they come in numerous textures and sizes, forms and colors. Some are more rounded, others sharply angular. Some are thin and lie flat, while others are more like pyramids that easily stand up. I don’t know what it is about this group of rocks that fascinates me so much. I can’t quite describe the feeling they give me, or the allure that incites me to pick them up. There is just something very primal, very essential about that shape. Finding one of these rocks, for me, is almost like finding at atom or some other basic molecular structure from which the universe itself was initially formed. In that sense, it is like the invisible made visible in this solid form – the Infinite rendered finite and tangible. That, for me, is the essence of the triangle.
One other thing I might mention about the triangle – the masculine and the feminine forms. The male pointing up, the female down. The strength of the masculine triangle lies in the solidity of its form – the fact that it sits upon a broad base, which lends it stability and renders it secure. This is the stability of knowledge and reason, the solidity of the material world. The feminine triangle is reversed – precariously, almost magically, it balances impossibly upon that single thin point. The strength of the feminine triangle then is its poise, its grace, its amazing balance and ability to defy the laws of gravity. This is the precarious balancing act of the spirit as it takes human form, the amazing ability of the intuition to defy all the laws of time and space. Together, these two forms, these two opposite triangles, create the perfect shape – one that is, at once, solid, stable, secure, and yet able to break free of the ties that bind us to the material world. These two triangles, when united, are body and spirit as one. Here at the center-point of these two conjoined triangles lies the meeting point between the material and the spiritual realms. The solidity of reason coupled with the flight of the intuition.
The father son and ,Holy spirit forms the triangle
but for me
I use to have 2 best friends once and people use to call us triplet,now
I have papa,JC and me ,the new best friends hehe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
Pythagoras. The greek mathematician, philosopher and musician. A beautiful man and beautiful soul.
LOVE,
Thelma.
- Leonardo da Vinci’s work based on geometry
- Blaise Pascal’s triangle (1623-1662)
- Le Triangle – where I can get my insurance -
- Les Trois Graces
- Les Pyramides
- 1,2,3
- D. Brown’s Da Vinci’s code – Je ne l’ai pas encore decrypte -
- Dancing
Meire – I like what you said “An ideal geometric shape to represent a human being. The basis meaning the place of origine”
Pra mim remete a ponto de equilíbrio. Captação de energia. Talvez por isso tenha sido tão utilizado em culturas tão distintas. Acredito que a mensagem seja a mesma para muitos casos. Ponto de equilibrio, captação de energia, ou ambos.
grand trine: an arrangement of three planets in which each planet is in trine with the other two, forming an equilateral triangle.
if we see triangle of different shapes, I can say a with or wizards hat has the shape that reminds a triangle.
Triangle is perfection.
It’s a shape we can’t destroy or modify.
for this reason it was used also in ancient briges and buildings.
For this reason is supposed to be eternal.
Eternity = God.
love
Chris
Ghadeer: an interesting thought/idea.
Thanking you ;o)
Nowadays I just associate the Illuminati with the triangle.
The eye being the “all seeing eye” of big brother.
1.The Fates – Greek & Roman Mythology. The three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of humans: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Each person’s destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates.
2.Three Graces – Greek & Roman Mythology. The three goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility: Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Thalia.
3. The Triple Goddess: maiden – mother – crone (archetype).
Paulo,no meu ponto de vista,o triângulo é a figura geométrica ideal para representar o ser humano. A base significa o lugar de origem ao qual todos nós pertencemos,energia original.Os vértices internos, às atuações das três energias que nos regem,original ou racional(a da origem), elétrica (a do bem aparente) e magnética (a do mal).Independente de religiões…
1 + 1 = 3
I associate the triangle with The Holy Trinity, but also with what Drunvalo Melchizedek says about the Mer-Ka-Bah. Two intwined triangles that are around every human and all things which can be activated through a meditation to travel to other dimensions.
I also associate the triangle with the All Seeing Almighty, as in the triangle with the eyes as mentioned in the Zohar.
For me, the triangle is a very spiritual symbol.
Remember the God, remember the Goddess.
Triangle-common shape,geometry,stability,3-points,pyramid
Yes, Durga, terrible or good…I heard about that goddess,and is intriguing me. The thing come in my mind is the Bermude Triangle, always such a mysterious place. Who knows whats there, maybe a gate between time and space. Trinity, sure. The roof of a house, linked to the symbol axis mundi.
Acho que o triângulo invertido é a posição correta, por ser a forma feminina, a grande taça que é completada pelo triângulo “normal” representando o masculino. Na fundição entre os dois gera a estrela, a luz, a fonte da vida. Um dos desenhos do Universo.
Beijos,
Mari Raphael.
Querido Mestre,
Triangulo: Base, equilibrio, a piramide da Igreja com o olho, o triangulo da psy nas relações (o perseguido, o perseguidor e a vitima), Louvre.
MARG,
Ca
The Triangle for me is 3 Personages in relationship.Always.How it works?I read the word “The Triangle” as: ira let them go..”The result is: I am on my own and they..they’ve gone.
Renato Zero!
italian version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwpjBxDzqr0
spanish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-SqJPET_nw
english
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZfkq9_MLBg
:)))
Am I in the right triangle?:)^^ OO!
A love triangle. Two females wanting the same man, or two men wanting the same female.
It reminds me of something which is not present in the natural world.
I think marriage is like a triangle, with God at the top, and the two base points being the husband and wife. The closer each of them get to God, the closer they find they are to each other =) I’ve always believed that relationships are best enhanced spiritually.
Interesting to see different triangle perceptions!
“Ta pyramide n’a point de sens si elle ne s’acheve en Dieu. Car celui la se repand sur les hommes apres les avoir transfigures.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A triangle can be a symbol of masculine while the circle is the feminine.
The triangle has been since early civilizations, the symbol of the trilogy or the triad that makes all existence possible. It has been interpreted as:
* The father, the mother and the son
* The Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
* The male, the female and the creative power
* The sky, the earth and the living creatures
* The union of two that creates the third
* The perfect union when two become one
* The prayer elevated from all Earth to the one God
* The power of the One to become All
* Each moment of Life where you can take two decisions or ways
From Google!!
As a child I was fascinated with geometry.
The triangle brings to my mind Ibsen’s .. sinful ‘triangle’!!
LOVE,
Thelma.
IL TRIANGOLO NOOO!!! :-D :-P ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9txW-5H5M
The famous bermuda triangle of course,pyramids,the number three and the triangle in a relationship
Mysteries
To me, the triangle will always remind me of soft, tingling sounds from music classes back in my primary years. The Triangle – ’twas the easiest, simplest instrument to learn, and yet, it is the triangle’s sound that lingers the longest.
The feminine sex, a Jewish symbol (star – two triangles), and a very pretty route for mountain hikers in Trollheimen, Norway. And the pyramides.
Ei Paulo! Sou yogue e como tal aprendi que o triângulo é a representação do plexo solar, nosso chacra que fica na altura do nosso estômago. O ápice é o poder, a base a sabedoria e o amor. Com esses três elementos podemos adquirir a paz tão desejada. É o chacra das emoções, do eu sou e sua cor é amarelo.
Beijos!
Fica com Deus e na paz!
” Psyche is put to sleep by an Aphrodite’s magic perfume only the love of which can cancel the effect. Éros takes out her beloved of this magic sleep by a kiss and the work represents them as the girl returns to the life ” http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych%C3%A9_ranim%C3%A9e_par_le_baiser_de_l%27Amour
My soul, woken by the breath of the LOVE on my soul: God’s LOVE, breathed in my spirit, as a source of running water, woke me.
Since the veil, in front of my eyes, is torn.
The veil, in front of my ears, flew away.
The flown away veil and in front of me the revelation in the soul, the God’s immense LOVE the knowledge through time, the peace wraps my soul.
Thus the kiss of the divine love wakes the soul (psyche)
(And it is great, and it is beautiful!!)
AMEN
Spirit / water / blood: by the spirit, the water and the blood is given a new glance which allows to see with the soul, everywhere and far off
fascinating!
triangles are incredible in that all three angles add to give 180 degrees… Pythagoras theorem.
i would also add the bermuda triangle… ;o)
and the two triangles of the star, as in the Star of David.
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