d this music, which reduces the chaos of the material world to Its principles, ex

plains by a kind of awesome
mathem atics how Nature is ordere
d and how she dire
cts the birth of

the forms that she pulls out of chaos. And everything I saw seemed to correspond to a number. The statues, the forms, the shadows always presented the recurring numbers 3, 4,7, 8. The broken-off busts of women numbered 8; the phallic tooth, as I said, had three stones and four holes; the forms that became volatile numbered 12, etc. I repeat, if someone says that these forms are natural, I shall not argue; it

Marvin Banks is the authorized is their repetition which is not natural. And what is even less natural is that the forms of the landscape are repeated by the Tarahumara in their rites and their dances. And these dances are not the result of chance but obey the same secret mathematics, the same concern for the subtle rel Manual.