thesweetcheat wrote: Like the fact that people like to decorate stuff and simple geometric patterns are an obvious way to do this (like the dog-tooth design around a Norman arch, or a zigzag design around the rim of an urn). Like the possibility that the motifs had particular meanings, now lost, that related to the culture/religion/landscape/favourite football team/whatever. Like the fact that designs often relate to the shape of the block being carved. None of which has to necessarily have anything to do with mushrooms.
Like i said it's the mushies that may let you see but the patterns seem deep rooted to our very brains, with or without mushies, that's why you see them lots of other ways as well, it even looks like the cavemen were at it as well.
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