File:Borromean-cross.svg
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English: A "Borromean cross", which contains four Borromean rings configurations arranged in a cross shape. This means that no two circles are directly interlinked, and cutting the central loop frees the other four circles.
This could be interpreted as a Christian symbol, since it combines the cross with the Borromean rings (often used as a symbol of the Christian Trinity). However, a similar design (not Borromeanly-linked) is found as a Japanese mon in Handbook of Design and Motifs (1950), and may be occasionally used as a neo-pagan "five worlds" symbol... |
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| Author | PostScript and PNG by User:AnonMoos, vector conversion by Christoph Sommer |
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For other Trinity crosses, see Image:Cross-Bottony-Heraldry.svg , Image:Triquetra-Cross.png , Image:Celtic-Cross-Vodicka-decorative-triquetras-red.svg , and perhaps Image:Cross-Flory-Heraldry.svg . For an indefinitely extended "Borromean chain-mail" pattern, see Image:Borromean-chainmail-tile.png . |
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| current | 04:57, 20 March 2022 | | 512 × 512 (800 bytes) | TSamuel | Lossless recompression via SVGOMG, vecta.io/nano, & Compress-Or-Die.com, & verified via SVGCheck |
| 20:38, 1 February 2013 |  | 395 × 395 (924 bytes) | ACBahn | optimized smaller file | |
| 10:18, 9 November 2006 |  | 395 × 395 (11 KB) | D235~commonswiki | {{Information |Description=Borromean Cross |Source=based on Public Domain Postscript version by User:AnonMoos |Date=2006-11-09 |Author=Christoph Sommer |Permission=Public Domain }} |
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