[Aztlan] Plaster & Echoes

[donald raab]

I'm new to the site.  I do want to offer my observations.  I havew been to Seibal,Tollum,Tikal,Caracal,Chichen Itza, and Cahal Pech.  At EACH place the echo acoustics effect was present.  An unscientific thought would suggest strongly that if this effect is seen in multiple places then it was deliberate,planned, and repeatable.  In addition I was able to video the snake effect on the El Castillo.  It was not the summer sosltice but where I was standing the camera and lighting captured the effect anyway.  Normally this effect only occurs on the Solstice.  It should be noted that this works all the time every time.  No one is movig stones to make it work year after year.  Compare that to the year 2000 panic with hi tech computers.  Maybe we have to move on from assuming all these peoples could do was dancing and sacrifices.  It is pretty obvious they were world class acoustic and hydraulic engineers.  Maybe other things as well.
 
Don Raab

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Paul Troemner <troemner at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Paul Troemner <troemner at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Plaster & Echoes
To: Aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 1:45 PM

Sam,

Lack of existing evidence is not fact.  Many of the ancient American structures
appear to have used consistent units of measurement and appeared to have
specific shape requirements (square, rectangle, circle, etc.).  The structures
were built with, if not drawings on paper, metal, or stone, some very extensive
forethought.  I would think with the difficulty in producing paper, metal, or
stone scale drawings (and I seem to recall there is at least one example of a
set of ancient stone to-scale drawings at a site somewhere near the
Mediterranean Ocean), the ancient architects and engineers must have relied far
more heavily upon their memory than we do.

I do believe there is a strong possibility the Quetzal-chirping design was
intended, and not an accident.  I think that some of the ancient architects and
engineers had a better right-brain left-brain balance of abilities than we do
now, and the creative relationships between time and space were more obvious to
them when such balance is present.

Anyway, that's my two centavos.

Paul Troemner

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Sam Edgerton <Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu> wrote:

> From: Sam Edgerton <Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Plaster & Echoes
> To: 
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:02 PM
> Listeros: As a frequent critic of David Lubman's and
> Wayne van Kirk's 
> acoustical theories because, given the fact that the
> ancient builders did 
> not employ measured drawings to scale by which to
> anticipate such sacred 
> bird-call echoes a priori...


      
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