Area XI of Twelve · The Artificial Time Warp Wheel
The one circle the Wheel draws as a direct likeness, not a landscape type.
In 1858, a fourteen-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported a series of apparitions at a grotto on the banks of the Gave de Pau, at the foot of the Pyrenees. The spring that rose there has drawn millions of pilgrims in the century and a half since, and the basilica built above the grotto now stands among the most-visited Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world.
This is the one circle in the Wheel that removes any doubt about its own numbering: a robed figure at a grotto beside a waterfall, cathedral spires rising behind — a direct depiction of Lourdes, not a general landscape standing in for it. It confirms the sequence runs clockwise from the top, circle 1, around to circle 11, immediately to Giza’s left.
This Area is one of the Twelve registered in Planetary Time Warp Architecture, Book I, Part Seven. See The Artificial Time Warp Wheel for the full identification table.
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