An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics

Best part of travelling is learning different ways that various people do similar things.

Not only does Vanuatu have a history of continuous plot sand art it also has a practice of water music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRIUbB8Cie4

https://youtu.be/pEgJhfWKq4A?t=37

Regarding kava, as mentioned in the first few paragraphs, I enjoyed it greatly the few times I tried it but had horrible skin reactions as well as strange arthritic-like symptoms. I think it can be an effective mechanism to replace alcohol addiction given there was no hangover, but as a Scandinavian maybe my naturally dry skin cannot handle it.

Regarding math, you can represent math in any symbols. Math is pure logic. No matter how esoteric your branch of mathematics it can be reduced all the way to basic axioms. Many ancient societies had understood enough mathematics in order to construct monuments aligned with the heavens, and reasoned about math in unique visualizations.

The A in STEAM! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEAM_fields

I read a very interesting text that made the assertion that graph theory is one of the few domains of mathematics that cannot be reduced to set theory. The argument has something to do with pictorial representations of unlabeled graphs. I'm not sure I grasp the argument fully, but it is interesting.

It's not considered rigorously provable math any more than Vedic "geometry recipes" are, so it doesn't topple any assumptions.

And "decolonizing" education doesn't change that.