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Human figure of the Baltic Sea

Human form of the Baltic Sea in Europe is one of the the most prominent and influential in contemporary human culture. This form is so clear and distinct that there is no need to describe it using all the artistic tools. Enough is to look at the map at a first glance, to notice a human figure kneeling and praying carrying her hands over Europe.

Map of the Baltic Sea - a human figure whose head is in the north,
legs in the south and head facing East

The map of the Baltic Sea had considerable influence on the development of culture in North and Central Europe. This is because this culture, as described in the book  'Decline of the West' by Oswald Spengler  is characterized by the transition from admiration to Jesus which came from early Mediterranean Christianity and drew its inspiration from the Holy Land, to the worship of Mother of Jesus, Mary.

The human figure of the Baltic Sea has no clear sexual characteristics, but it is seen first of all as a woman. The main reason for this is that the character looks like wearing a long dress. Beyond that it is a body of water and the element of water is associated with the world of emotions and therefore with the female sex.

The human figure of the Baltic Sea is a figure kneeling and carrying up her hands. Search for the term 'prayer position' in Google images bring up this position many times more than any other position.

Pose of man kneeling in prayer and carries his hands to heaven is common to all religions everywhere: in Judaism it is Abraham kneeling in supplication before Gd. In Christianity it is the priest or believer kneeling before the altar. In Islam the prayer is kneeling regularly on his knees, and in Buddhism the believer kneels in prayer and humility in front of a Buddha statue.

Human figure of the Baltic Sea kneeling in prayer

It is difficult to know when the first accurate map of the Baltic Sea was drawn. There exist many beautiful maps from the 17th century, when the science of Cartography was perfected. But apparently the shape of the image was known to the sea shores residents for many generations ago. This is because there is a constant dialogue between man and environment, as a dynamic process and idea in action.

In European - Christian culture the kneeling position was described in numerous works of art. Medieval Europe had many monasteries, where the monks were on their knees praying for many hours. The secular feudal culture required the subject to kneel in front of the ruler, often while he was leaning on his sword. In many works of art from this period this is the main theme. There is no doubt that the map of the human figure of the Baltic Sea was of major inspiration.

The attempt to strengthen in pencil on a map the human figure lines of the Baltic Sea encounter difficulties. There is not, up to date, original artist illustration of the character.

The first reason for this is the clarity of the shape, which does not require any emphasize and is taken for granted. It is a form engraved and stated in the subconscious mind.

The second reason is the proliferation of characteristic information coming from the Baltic Sea, which is very rich in bays and shores. All its coastal lines immediately recall the complex contours of a person, but even the most complex human contours are not so many and vital.

A third reason is that the image of the Baltic Sea is an elongated figure. It is in contrast to the rounded femininity and for this reason it is noble and incredibly complex. Suffice is to mention the works of the painter Modigliani and sculptor Giacometti to understand the unique qualities of this form, which the human mind is embodied in it. This particular expression through art had its detailed research in Gaston Bachelard's book 'Air and Dreams'.

So even today there is no artistic drawing of a human figure on the map. In this post there is no such painting, only a montage of a human figure in suitable position on the cartography map.

In the same manner done here with wooden doll figure, montages can be done with many photographs of people kneeling and asking in a similar position: monks, knights, loners, lovers, grateful and the like.

The Human figure of the Baltic Sea affects all Europe, especially in these days of crystallization of the continent into one state, in an age when humanity is unbridled and space occupation is in top priority.

The human figure of the Baltic Sea had also indirectly influenced the Cartographic worldview of many other countries, including the land of Israel and the State of Israel.

Map of the human figure of the Baltic Sea is the most dominant of all anthropomorphic map of Europe, but there are other anthropomorphic maps of the whole continent or parts of it. They deserve each a separate article and mentioned briefly here.

First we should mention the entire European continent map of a woman which her head is Spain and the Russian steppes are the robe. This map was a flashing insight of the artist, who attempted to give appropriately a human figure to the continent, in a period when Spain was the dominant empire in Europe and worldwide. This was done in artistic constraint, since it is difficult, for example, to see the Italian peninsula s an arm. Italian peninsula is so known as a boot shape, that it is nicknamed 'the boot land'.

There are maps of Europe during war periods in which each state is drawn as a different character.  This was typical to the political and journalistic world of the 19th century.

There is a concept drawing of a dragon shaped as Europe, which was executed by the author of this article. The Baltic Sea figure is riding on the dragon turning back, in a pose which may be used as an allegory for the difficulties encountered in the EU.

Another anthropomorphic map of Europe by the writer of this article is a most comprehensive map of Europe and Mediterranean inspired by a human face in the form of a pumpkin.

Another original map by the author is that of the Balkan in the form of shepherd boy.

All of these maps create dialogue with the human figure of the Baltic Sea in different ways. The Baltic figure sometimes seems dominant and sometimes not against them.


See also: Human Face and Dragon shapes of Europe

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It seems H.G Wells the author was a prophetic. He did predict a war would erupt in 1940, just a few months after world war two actually started in 1939.

Golden Triangle - Initial connection between the Golden Ratio and the Holy Land

The Human form of the Holy Land is personification which nature has created.

It invites to try and connect it with the precise scientific measurements of the Golden Ratio.

The form is without limbs, and the sizes and distances of its organs are different than in the human body, to one degree or another.

Therefore any attempt to apply the conventional divisions in the human body according to the Golden Ratio is impossible.


One possible way to try and bridge, however, between the natural human appearance and the scientific instrument is to use the Golden Triangle.

This classic expression of the Golden Ratio is known generally as a prism used for observing reality.

Golden Triangle appears in many known works of art.

The Golden Triangle is created via two lines that the ratio between them is the Golden Ratio.

It is an equilateral triangle with interesting features.

This triangle top angle is 36 degrees. The base angles are 72 degrees each.

Five combined Golden Triangles form the Golden Star, which symbolizes good fortune in many cultures.

The inverted triangle shape of Sinai peninsula - torso of human form of the Holy Land, invites the testing of correlation between this region and the Golden Triangle.

The top of the inverted triangle of Sinai Peninsula is facing exactly to the south.

The Continuation of the right side of this triangle is a straight line up to the Arava Valley and the Dead Sea.

The Angle formed between this line and the North-South line which touch the southern top of Sinai Peninsula is a 18-degree angle, the half top angle of the Golden Triangle.

The Golden Ratio

Leonardo's Human Golden Ratio

Fibonacci, the greatest Mathematician of the Middle-Ages, was a genius who reached the summits of thought and dream. He described a Mathematical series: the Golden Ratio, known also as the Divine Proportion.

In this series any number is the sum of the two previous numbers. It goes on: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610, 987, 1597, and so on.

The ratio 1.618… is a constant between each two following numbers.
It is always an irrational number without an end.

This series has fantastic qualities, mathematical and accordingly geometrical.

The occupation with the Golden Ratio is so exiting, the formed harmonies so wonderful, that it can create a full world perception.


The Golden Ratio is credited as having great influence on the development of human history and knowledge.

The architects of the pyramids in Egypt proportioned it with a Golden Ratio between the mast and the side lengths.

In the Parthenon in Athens the front is a Golden Rectangle, one of the best manifestations of the Golden Ratio.

The holiest shrine of the Roman Empire, The Pantheon, was also designed according to the Golden Ratio.

Renaissance men like Leonardo de Vinci and Michelangelo used it in their famous works of art.

Composers like Mozart, and modern artists like the architect Le-Corbusier, created their works of art using the Golden Ratio.


The importance of the Golden Ratio in Nature is even bigger.

This ratio appears in countless natural phenomena, which are amazingly different in their outlook appearance.

Few examples are:
The D.N.A shape, the numbers of leafs in plants, the sub divisions of mountains ranges and rivers, the distances between the solar system planets.


The human body organs are proportioned according to the Golden Ratio.

It appears in many of the facial, body and limbs proportions.

This was one of the foundations of Classic Hellenistic sculpture.

Le-Corbusier designed the 'Modular', a drawing of a man with Golden Ratio proportions as a base for his Architectonic plans.

The Holy Land and world culture

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The people of Israel had re-established their state in Land of Israel after two thousand years of exile and the Holocaust. One of the lessons of the Holocaust is that a strong Israel is a moral obligation of the free world.
But the Promised Land borders are not defined precisely in the Bible. The Bible says that God, the people of Israel, and Land of Israel, are a consolidated entity. This definition has already decided the fate of the Jewish people. But unlike the people's clear concrete rules, the boundaries were vague and undefined.

Research has determined that there are different border settings of Greater Israel. These territorial definitions were created at different times by different people, and caused absolute misunderstanding. There are also those who claim that the country's borders expand and contract as needed.

Lack of clear map has always been an obstacle for the Zionist idea. Jerusalem became abstract term, one that reflects value and is intangible, in the eyes of the Jews themselves in the Diaspora, from the destruction of the first temple and later.

In modern times, the lack of a map defining the boundaries of Greater Israel influenced crucial political decisions. For example, Sinai Peninsula was given to Egypt casually, because it was not considered by the government of Menachem Begin as part of Greater Israel.

The Catholic Church announced a few years ago, based on an Israeli scholar's research, that Mount Sinai is in the Negev plateau.


In contrast to its mental cancellation as a tangible object, the Land of Israel has always evoked the deepest feelings in all Western and Monotheistic cultures. Longings to Israel, the Holy land, find their expression as a strong physical and emotional experience in prayers, hymns, and works of religious art throughout history.

Gospel songs expressing longing to the Holy Land are major assets of Western Culture. They are earthy level of religious poetry. In them, religious and folk poetry is combined in an inseparable connection.


An American Gospel song:

I'm a Pilgrim

I am a pilgrim and a stranger,
Travelling through this wearisome land,
got a home in that yonder city, oh Lord,
and it's not, not made by hands.

I got a mother, sister and a brother,
who have gone to that sweet land.
I am determined to go and see them
oh Lord,
all over on that distant shore.

As I go down to that river of Jordan,
just to bathe my weary soul.
If I could touch but the hem of his garment,
oh Lord, well, I believe it would make me whole.


A philosophy that deals with human beings must adjust to the images of poems and continue their flow. Philosophy must learn poems honestly, because poetry is the peak of contemplation and expression, the climax of thought and dream.

The connection in this poem between the physical Jordan River and the abstract celestial city is too clear and strong then required for a simple metaphor.
It arouses questions regarding the intimacy between religious and material experiences.

The consistant relationship between the personal religious experience and the physical Holy Land calls for examining its sources.

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