[Aztlan] Raindrop effect at all Mesoamerican pyramids?

[Dave Pentecost]

Really, I would prefer a 2012 thread to this one at this point. But here goes:

The possibility that all stepped pyramids in a certain condition (no
remaining stucco, no seasonal thatch or other buildings, no crowds of
market vendors) exhibit similar acoustic properties should surprise no
one and proves nothing about "technology" or design.

If archaeologists 1000 years from now noted echoes in our abandoned
cities, would they be right to conclude that they were built to bounce
our voices back to us in order to mitigate an essential modernist
loneliness? To imitate the Voice of God which (unlike any reference to
singing mountains or talking mountains in Maya accounts) *is*
referenced in our mythic literature?

And there has been plenty of research on building design and
construction in relation to solar events and as articulation of
mathematical proportions - all of which have more objective evidence
than this. The idea that building technology has been (suspiciously)
overlooked is nonsense.

I am also a musician, but the world is full of acoustic phenomena,
most of it not by human design. Thankfully.

Dave



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Wayne Van Kirk <wvk at swbell.net> wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> "A great deal of my doubt comes from the claps, axe chopping, etc., that
> I heard at my family home as a child.  All activites and building
> placements were random, with no acoustical consideration whatsoever,
> and what I heard was wonderful, completely by accident."
>
> Interesting echos are one thing, but isn't it another when a combination of two echos,  from the same building, from a single hand clap, sonically mimic the
>
> Maya Plumbed Serpent deity?
>
> WVK
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