Lauburu

A typical lauburu. Each arm can be drawn with three sweeps of a compass
Left and right facing lauburu
Curved lauburu.

The lauburu (from Basque lau, "four" + buru, "head") is an ancient hooked cross with four comma-shaped heads and the most widely known traditional symbol of the Basque Country and the Basque people.[1] In the past, it has also been associated with the Galicians, Illyrians and Asturians. [citation needed]

A variant of lauburu consisting of geometrically curved lines can be constructed with a compass and straightedge, beginning with the formation of a square template; each head can be drawn from a neighboring vertex of this template with two compass settings, with one radius half the length of the other.

  1. ^ Barrentsoro, Karlox Iturria (1 July 1989). "Lauburua, bizi-indarraren gurpila" [Lauburua, the wheel of life force]. zientzia.eus (in Basque). Retrieved 18 March 2022.

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