A "new" knot, or not.

Don’t take this the wrong way…

A lot of what you say is noise that I don’t want to hear. There are some good nuggets in there, but I actually do not have the time or motivation to discover them through all the noise. I’ll accept that it’s my loss, but I’ll live.

Touche’ !

I see it as a seed or maybe 1st continuance of a sequence
that includes the blood knots but also pull-together
end-2-end joint of timber hitches --this knot being simple
enough to fit in either series. (But I do not see half-hitches
which are in a knot that can be seen to precede this one,
in simplicity --aka the grass bend. )

One can see the next in the series either wrapping a turn
more the tail around its own SPart or around both (blood ).

–dl*