[Aztlan] plaster and echoes

[Falken Forshaw]

aztlan monitor: I have not had time to sort out the member/non-member 
issue you reported to me recently.  This point popped up at me just 
now.  Thanks!  Falken Forshaw


  "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,"

Regarding Sam Edgerton's thoughts on Mayan building skills, I would 
like to comment that there very well could have been some shop drawings 
that the Maya used to build from.  Their building design system has 
been shown to be very systematic, geometrically precise (though not 
tested for native accuracy standards: viz my dissertation on the 
Caracol), and containing the very idea of modularity modeled on known 
segmented templates depicted in their art.  One example resides in the 
use of "sky" bands which act as scale model rulers.  The geometric 
grafitto found at on of Chichen Itza's Caracol "observatory" SW inner 
door jamb itself provides proportional (scale drawing) information, 
possibly in a 1:10 ratio (viz Ruppert's Carnegie Institute of 
Washington report #454.)  There is also ongoing research by myself and 
others regarding the intentional proportional accuracy of 
representations of buildings in Mesoamerican codices.  How the spaces 
the Pre-Columbian Maya acted accousticlly is just something we need to 
keep researching, especially in light of the present condition of them 
outlined by Sam.

Sincerely, Falken


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