The Kremlin had invested $22bn in preparing for that 2012 event - far more than most countries spend to hold the Olympic Games - mainly to re-invigorate the sagging infrastructure of Vladivostok, a city of 600,000 seven time-zones ahead of Moscow, and to turn the city's once almost inaccessible Russky Island into a world-class conference venue.
The Golden Spiral is derived from the âgolden rectangleâ, which is a unique rectangle having the golden ratio. The mystical Golden Spiral and Golden Ratio are to be found throughout Nature. In fact, they are present everywhere in the universe. From the curve of the human ear, to the human bone structure, to the growth pattern of leaves and flowers, to the spirals of a nautilus seashell or to the spirals of galaxies.
And it is in Nature that we find the spiral in so many forms, from tiny fern fronds to the swirling shape of the galaxy itself (though with the naked eye this could not have actually be visible). The Celtic spiral symbolises perpetual movement, either (or both) outward or inward, unfolding or receding, growing or dying. The Celtic spirituality was not separated from their bond with the earth and earthly things, as today in the west we are taught it should be.