h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Being a Druid, which is loosely based on the Celtic Druids (much is lost in time), I've studied this stuff. Its quite funny being dismissed as a hippie though (see previous thread).

We still use and develop new knots as part of our sacred art.

YAY!!!

I missed the previous thread, so can see no reason for being dismissed as a hippie. I suspect it describes me as well as anyone else, if only for my study of celtic art and mythology over the last 25 years.
The introduction to celtic knots this thread refers to is drivel, though.
There are an infinite number of knots, not 42. I have a collection of over 27,000. The number of possibilities is, however, calculated on base 3 (so a 2x1 knot has 9 possibilities, 2x2 has 81, 4x4 has 3 to the power 16, etc.
The heart-shaped 'love knot' is nowhere to be seen in traditional celtic art. The celts did not use the pentangle for knotwork, sticking to 2- 3- and 4-fold geometry. How this fits in with the idea of the continuous line I fail to see, as interlocked hearts would all have to be separate lines. The majority of traditional celtic knotwork is made of multiple lines.
The raven knot is also new - shame there are no examples on the page as it is not described.
The tree of life appeared in late Christian documents only, and the roots were never shown, they always grow out of pots - linking them to the much earlier Babylonian style.
The one major use of knotwork by the Celts was as a form of meditation, both in the drawing and the contemplation. If there was any connection between knotwork and druidry (there is no historical evidence) then I suspect that this is where it lies. Geometry was seen as the manifestation of the divine on Earth - how God/the gods planned and made the universe.

So a Good Introduction, not really, more of a misleading distraction.

42 is a number sacred to readers of the Hitchhiker series.

The Guide was begun with the intent of writing with humor...

ha ha ha.

I don't really care about this entry. I did at the time of writing it, but I have more important things to worry about-- like going to college. Should please you, because that means I am learning how to write properly. Shame on someone making an effort on a guide entry that obviously was never finished. Was a start, at least.... even misleading distractions are SOMETHING.