Alisa Lozhkina
Metaverse Solids
Vector Drawing
2022
Metaverse is a radical new form of virtual interaction for humanity. It is a young world that is being born before our eyes. Where does the new universe begin? Does the beginning have a form?

Chaos. In the cultures of many peoples, there is an intuition that chaos lies at the deepest level of everything. It is an inarticulate emptiness that is suddenly filled with the desire to Be. This emptiness cannot be described in any accessible language. The abyss is saved from loneliness by what creates and breathes, breathes, and creates.

The abyss is saved from loneliness by what creates and breathes, breathes, and creates
The world familiar to us does not appear immediately. Between the indistinct sighs of chaos and the voluminous universe, where stars light up and die, where you can dress beautifully, fall in love, or talk with friends about the meaning of life, there is some intermediate reality of pure forms and energies.

Since time immemorial, humanity has been fascinated by regular polyhedra and the ornaments associated with them. Even in the Neolithic period, people carved them on stone and decorated divination accessories with them. They intuitively felt that regular polyhedra were somehow connected with the future. Surprisingly, in our world rich in forms, there are only five perfectly regular polyhedra. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in his treatise Timaeus that each of these polyhedra corresponds to one of the elements. Today, all regular polyhedra are called Platonic solids.

Five polyhedral bodies. Five elements. Fire, earth, air, water. What else? Where is the fifth element that transforms the basic energies, turning the banal enumeration of the forces of nature into true alchemy? Some scientists of antiquity believed that it was ether. However, in our version of the metamyth for the emerging metaworld, everything is a little different. Each Platonic body and its corresponding element in our world has become a precious stone. The fifth element and the most precious of these stones is love. It is one of the elements, it is the basis of the metauniverse.

Strengthening the impact of the four basic elements, love involves them in a crazy dance of energies. In this dance, all five precious stones-elements are connected and a miracle happens. Mystics and alchemists once called the figure that appears when all five Platonic solids come together Metatron. They considered this form sacred and believed that it had great power.


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