[ransomnote]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 04/01/2024 Vol.490, Q Day 2347, ransomnote wrote:

EXERPTING POST 4/8/2024:

From searching Google Earth for USGS HQ at 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA 20192

Most likely the building design was derived from a 'compase rose' symbol for cardinal directons.

But anymore, I wonder what(else) the compass rose was based on. I wonder what any symbol I find in government buildings and documentation was based on (i.e., the creepy serpent imagery of the CDC).

 

 By chance, it does look like the 'compass rose' has some features in common with the Masonic symbol:

 

[21twelve]

A quick search brought up the following. You may be correct that those fancy compass roses relate to the Freemasons.

https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/surveying/

The National Heritage Museum’s new exhibition, “The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry, and the Architecture of Washington, D.C.,” ....

The painting shown here depicts a meeting between President George Washington (1732-1799) and surveyors Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) and Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806). Congress designated the location of the new capital on January 24, 1791. Ellicott and Banneker surveyed the ten-mile-square tract of land and produced a base map of the area. In the painting, a brazier warms the early spring day in the tent filled with surveying instruments and Masonic artifacts. The terrestrial and celestial globes symbolize the universality of Freemasonry.

[Bigg Red]

:: By chance, it does look like the ‘compass rose’ has some features in common with the Masonic symbol:

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Perhaps the Masonic symbol was fashioned to resemble the compass rose....