Keywords: Principia Discordia page00043 mandala (Brunnian link).svg A rendering of the mandala design or knot-theoretic link found on page 00043 of Principia Discordia This is made of five interlaced irregular nonagons fitted within an overall pentagon No two nonagons are directly interlinked but any three adjacent nonagons for example yellow green and blue are in a Borromean rings configuration For a presumably topologically-equivalent structure which may be easier to understand visually see Image Five-interlaced-pentagons svg For other examples of linked structures which contain multiple Borromean rings configurations see Image Borromean-cross png and Image Borromean-chainmail-tile svg The text on page 00043 of Principia Discordia reads MANDALA No two elements interlock but all five do interlock This version of the design was taken from a character outline in the PostScript Type 1 Fnord Hodge-Podge Discordian fonts version 2 by toa267 declared by him to be Public Domain with illustrative coloring for clarity applied by User AnonMoos Additionally the original material in the Principia Discordia was also declared to be Kopylefted or public domain -- All rites reversed etc 2009 SVG AnonMoos SVG Decorative knots Discordianism Borromean rings Color permutation of order 5 Blue green purple red yellow 5-fold rotational symmetry Knots and links on transparent background 5 component links Outline knots and links |