tying in knots (and rock art)

This snipped from an email by Karl Kempton, seems important.

>> knot amulets — magic spells chanted through them
>> while being tied.
>>
>> amulets as vizpo root — patterned words or symbols arranged
>> as the spells. of course chants and spells predated all this.
>> somewherealong the timeline chants were turned into
>> patterned text or symbols to represent repetition.
>>
>> simple. so this ties in rock art as well as solstice, lunar
>> and stellar megalithic and earlier such sites.