Planets' dance forms mandalic patterns

Buddhist mandala made of sand

Check out these beautiful patterns plotted by a charting software depicting the relative movement of planets of our solar system. They are mostly concentric shapes and natural ratios like the Fibonacci numbers determine their characteristics. Similar shapes can be found in the ornaments of different religions around the world. The most famous examples are Buddhist and Hindu mandalas that aim to represent the unity of the cosmos. Christianity and Islam too have their own concentric shapes in churches and mosques serving the purpose of fascinating the faithful and lifting the religious experience of churchgoers.

How come that the movement patterns of celestial bodies resemble so much the intuitive artwork of religious people of ancient times? Is it possible that our brains are in a way programmed to get spiritually excited by the orderly shapes of our Universe? If the aim of eastern mandalas is to represent the cosmos, they are actually not far from reality given that the universe can be partly described as the eternal dance of objects exposed to the force of gravity.

Rose window at Notre Dame, Paris

Mosaic at the top of the Gravemosc, Qait bay