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Flower of Life
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The Christ Redeemer and the Flower of
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Christ Redeemer (1931)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This statue of Jesus stands some 38
meters tall, atop the Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de
Janeiro. Designed by Brazilian Heitor da Silva Costa and
created by French sculptor Paul Landowski, it is one of the
world’s best-known monuments. The statue took five years to
construct and was inaugurated on October 12, 1931. It has
become a symbol of the city and of the warmth of the
Brazilian people, who receive visitors with open arms
The Flower of Life 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.
The center of each circle is on the circumference of six
surrounding circles of the same diameter.
The Flower of Life symbol is over six thousand years old.
Throughout human history, philosophers, artists, and
architects around the world have known this symbol for its
perfect form, proportion, and harmony.
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