{"id":6076,"date":"2010-10-09T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2018-11-28T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:44:01","slug":"more-about-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/more-about-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"More&#8230; about knots."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6077\" title=\"Knots\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">(from <em>Climbing<\/em> magazine)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><strong>Knots: they attach us to ropes, connect slings to trees, substitute for dropped gear, secure tents, create belay anchors. Like <em>the Force<\/em>, knots surround us, protect us, and bind our galaxy together. Even a sport climber whose shoes close with Velcro knows a few knots. But here are a few things you might not know.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>1)<\/b> The word \u201cknot\u201d is related to knob, knoll, and knuckle, but not to knowledge. It is <i>knoten<\/i> in German, <i>knot<\/i> in Dutch, <i>knut<\/i> in Swedish, <i>nudo<\/i> in Spanish, and <i>noeud<\/i> in French.<\/p>\n<p><b>2)<\/b> The Inca\u2019s only \u201cwritten\u201d language was a system of knots tied into necklace-like \u201cdocuments\u201d called <i>quipus<\/i>, or \u201ctalking knots.\u201d Some scholars think <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quipu\">quipus<\/a> recorded only numbers, but others believe that they also told stories and encoded historical events. A select class of Incas apparently interpreted the knots, and the code has never been definitively deciphered. Knots were also used for record keeping in ancient China, and the <i>Chinese Book of Changes<\/i>, almost 2,500 years old, associates knots with contract and agreement.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(I\u2019ve long been a knot-enthusiast. Three years ago, I designed, illustrated, and published a booklet entitled <\/em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1291\" target=\"_blank\">Top Climbing Knots<\/a><em> for the Alpine Club of Canada\u2014copies are still available through the <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accmanitoba.ca\/product\/top-climbing-knots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba Section of the ACC<\/a>).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from Climbing magazine) Knots: they attach us to ropes, connect slings to trees, substitute for dropped gear, secure tents, create belay anchors. Like the Force, knots surround us, protect us, and bind our galaxy together. Even a sport climber whose shoes close with Velcro knows a few knots. But here are a few things you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,9,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17219,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/17219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}