The Garden of Cyrus

"What is more beautiful than a quincunx A quincunx is a geometric pattern consisting of five points, with four at the corners and one in the center, like the five dots on a die., which is straight from whichever direction you look at it?" original Latin: "Quid Quincunce speciosius, qui, in quamcunq; partem spectaveris, rectus est?" — Quintilian

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The story that Vulcan the Roman god of fire and metalworking gave arrows to Apollo and Diana on the fourth day after their births, according to pagan theology original: "Gentile Theology", may be understood as a clear insight original: "no blind apprehension" into the creation of the sun and moon on the fourth day. This occurred when they were first aligned original: "conjoined" in the same degree of the Zodiac. As for the concepts of "seeds" original: "seminality" and the Saturnine relationships discussed by magnetic philosophers, although they provide some light on how the world was created, they are not without their own clouds and mysteries.

But the quincunx arrangement original: "Quincuncial Ordination" and the network-like structure of the world was a matter of a different nature. Although we do not find its name in the first chapter of the world referring to the Book of Genesis, we certainly find its form in the first garden. That Cyrus the Elder the founder of the Persian Empire, who was raised in Assyria, was a great admirer of gardens is well known. However, it was Cyrus the Younger a Persian prince of the late 5th century BC who truly brought the art of gardening and the use of the quincunx to its peak.

Xenophon in the Oeconomicus original: "Xenophon in Oeconomico"

According to Xenophon a Greek historian and soldier, when Lysander a Spartan general visited Cyrus at Sardis, he was amazed not only by the beauty of the trees and the fragrance of the blossoms but also by the precise, regular order of the planting—the straight rows and the perfect angles of the quincunx.