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Two loops that look alike from a distance. The ouroboros feeds on its own body. The torus takes in, turns over and gives back. WA\ is built to be the second.
The model
The ouroboros
Ouroboros is Greek for devouring its tail. One of the earliest known appears in Egypt, on a gilded shrine from the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE. By the 3rd century CE an alchemical text from Alexandria, the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, drew it as a sign of eternity.
Here it stands for something narrower: growth that feeds on what it stands on, until there is nothing left to eat.
The torus
A torus is the shape of a ring doughnut: a circle swept around an axis. Blow a smoke ring and you make one that travels. Air turns through the middle and back around the outside, and the turning carries the ring forward.
Here it stands for a loop that takes in, turns over and gives back, so what flows through it keeps flowing.
| Question | Ouroboros | Torus |
|---|---|---|
| What it feeds on | Its own body | What flows through it |
| How it grows | By taking | By giving back |
| What each turn leaves | Less | Enough for the next turn |
| How it ends | When nothing is left to eat | It does not have to |
On Maui
Water is the oldest loop there is. The sun lifts it from the sea, the mountains catch it as rain, and the streams carry it back down.
For more than 150 years, plantation ditches took the water of Nā Wai ʻEhā, the Four Great Waters of Maui: Waiheʻe, Waiehu, ʻĪao and Waikapū. In 2004 the community petitioned to bring the water home. In 2014 all four streams flowed again.
Take the water out of the loop and a stream runs dry. Give it back and it runs again.
WA\ through this model
Follow anything through WA\ and it goes around the same way: in, through, out and back.
Every platform you have used keeps a page of your life. Metamorphosis, the bridge inside WA\, brings those pages home through each platform's official export. What comes home to you flows clear, and every line says where it came from.
Your cube. Six outer faces, what a life runs on, each serving one of six inner faces, what a life is for.
What you give flows on. LUX, a light that shines. A Drop that ripples. A Seed that grows.
Then round again.
One thing to do
Pick one subscription that only takes. Before you cancel it, download your data through the service's official export, and open the file to check it. Then cancel, and put what it cost toward something that grows.
Export, verify, then leave. It is the order the whole bridge runs in.
The first 108
Free to start. Pay as you grow. Earn as you learn. The first 108 cross with Self waived, one circle at a time, from Maui.