[Aztlan] Raindrop effect at all Mesoamerican pyramids?

[Jorge Pérez de Lara]

More importantly, but how can we ever be sure if we are dealing with  
the (literally) built-in soundtrack of a "plumed serpent" and not that  
of a "scaly quetzal"?


My (roughly) half-nickel.

Jorge



On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Dave Pentecost wrote:

> 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