Illustration in 3-D of the actual domains and connections of the world wide web by George Laughead |
"The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology,
or a mode of governance. It is an agreement. "
John Gage, Director of Science, Sun Microsystems, Inc.**
If you look at the image above (colors represent different domains and "threads" of the internet).....it could look like a web, or the nervous system of some kind of complex organism.
In most Hopi stories about the ending of the 3rd age, it is Grandmother Spider Woman, the Creatrix Weaver, who leads the people from chaos into the new world, the 4th World. There are some legends that when the time has come, Spider Woman will return to show her children the way again. Like the Mayan prophecies, the Hopi calendar is also ended, signalling the end of this age and the advent of a new era and the beginning of the "Fifth World".
I have often wondered if the World Wide Web just might be Her latest appearance.
In most Hopi stories about the ending of the 3rd age, it is Grandmother Spider Woman, the Creatrix Weaver, who leads the people from chaos into the new world, the 4th World. There are some legends that when the time has come, Spider Woman will return to show her children the way again. Like the Mayan prophecies, the Hopi calendar is also ended, signalling the end of this age and the advent of a new era and the beginning of the "Fifth World".
I have often wondered if the World Wide Web just might be Her latest appearance.
**PS - did you notice the Pentangle in the image above? Can't help but comment....