| Trangmar's starting point was the Greek myth of Ariadne, who sent a ball of thread twisting through pathways to enable Theseus's safe passage from the Minotaur's labyrinth. |
| Fohat is called the 'Thread of primeval Light,' the 'Ball of thread' of Ariadne, indeed, in this labyrinth of chaotic matter. |
| The capricious god changed Ariadne into the Corona Cressa, or Cretan Diadem, already visible in the heavens in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne as an omen at their first meeting. |
| Representing Great Britain was the warship Ariadne, the flagship of the British Atlantic fleet. |
| On 24 August 1985, the container ship Ariadne left the Port of Mogadishu in Somalia and grounded on rocks about 100 metres from the shore. |
| Plunging from his cheetah-drawn chariot, Bacchus looses arrows of longing from his eyes at Ariadne, and transfixes her in mid-flight. |
