[Aztlan] Maya Standard Unit of Measure

[D. M. Urquidi]

Folks:

This is a guy who lived with the Maya and built houses with them.
They used ropes or "strings." The paper is very good and very informative.

Anderson, Thor (1975) Kruston: A Study of House and Home in a Maya Village. Thesis, Harvard University.

Dea

D. M. Urquidi  P. O. Box 49485  Austin, Texas 78765  http://www.mayalords.org    http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ancientamericas/


--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Blaze Tzitzimime <ocelotonatiuh at msn.com> wrote:

> From: Blaze Tzitzimime <ocelotonatiuh at msn.com>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Maya Standard Unit of Measure
> To: "Aztlan List" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 5:12 PM
> 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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