For many, including Pythagoras, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, Monad was a symbol for God or the first being or the totality of all beings.
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago. The sculpture is shaped like an ellipse, and its legume-like appearance has caused it to be nicknamed “The Bean”. It is made of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates, and stands at 33 feet high, 66 feet long, and 42 feet wide, weighing 110 tons. From a distance it could be mistaken for a huge drop of mercury, while up close its highly reflective surface captures and transforms the skyline, the downtown cityscape and even the passers-by into a wonderfully warped new vista. The artist, Anish Kapoor, has referred to the sculpture as “a gate to Chicago, a poetic idea about the city it reflects.” The 12-foot underbelly is called the "omphalos" or navel and multiplies reflections in a vortex.
Insertion pour la fresque murale de la "maison pour tous "de Montpellier. Pâtes de verre, émaux de Briare, miroirs, agates sciées, millefioris, billes de verre, grès cérame.
The Japanese name for a circle, which is used to mean "correct"; the opposite of batsu. The end-of-sentence fullstop '。' is also called maru.
Maru is a popular name for Japanese pets, mainly cats. This is because Maru is slang for "demon" or "spirit".
Maru Personified form of some celestial phenomenon, generally described as a glow in the heavens. This personification is an *important atua.
Hakudo Maru, the spirit in Japanese mythology who taught humans how to make ships.
Hakudo Maru is the name of a celestial being in Japanesemythology who is said to have come to Earth 5000 years ago and taught humans how to build ships.
The Japanese still attach the suffix -maru to ship names to gain the protection of, and show gratitude to, Hakudo Maru.
The Flower of Life (FOL) is a geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles, that are arranged so that they form a flower-like pattern with a sixfold symmetry like a hexagon.
Leonardo da Vinci has studied the Flower of Life's form and its mathematical properties. He has drawn the Flower of Life itself, as well as components therein, such as the Seed of Life. He has drawn geometric figures representing shapes such as the platonic solids, a sphere, a torus, etc., and has also used the golden ratio of phi in his artwork; all of which may be derived from the Flower of Life design.
Monad being the source or the One meaning without division.
Monism is often erroneously seen in relation to pantheism, panentheism, and an immanent God. However, the concepts of absolutism, the monad, and the "Universal substrate" are closely related.
