[Aztlan] Maya Standard Unit of Measure

Blaze Tzitzimime ocelotonatiuh at msn.com
Thu Sep 4 17:12:50 CDT 2008


In a National Geographic video about Maya architecture, one of the archeologist mentioned the hypothesis that the Maya designed and measured their structures based on geometric proportions found in nature. They did not use a standard unit of measurement per say, but by using ropes cut or marked so that their structures had the same geometric proportions that can be found in something as small as a flower, or even the human body, or possibly even the distances between heavenly bodies as viewed from earth, they measured out distance accordingly. This made sense to me because the cultures of Mesoamerica were always trying to emulate creation or the environment in which they lived.


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