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lebbeus woods and Piranesi
abracadabra 2005.04.17 17:50
The Sacred Cenote
Buildings are not the only interesting features of Chichén Itzá. Highly important in this Mayan society was the Sacred Cenote, that gave the city its name. Heading north from El Castillo, it's only a short and easy walk to the cenote, which is a 60 meter/190-foot wide, almost perfectly round pit. Human skeletons of men, women and children, possibly sacrificed to appease the rain god Chac, have been found. Many, however, may have just fallen in and drowned. Apart from that, a large number of artifacts have been found, such as idols, jewelry and jade. Some object are from other parts of Mexico, leading archaeologists to believe that pilgrimages were made to the Sacred Cenote long after Chichén Itzá was abandoned. To get there you’ll actually walk on an ancient Sacbé, which means White Road. The Mayans built roads through the jungle, connecting the big cities. These roads were built in perfectly straight lines, some short and some as long as 100 km. They were wide and built up on platforms for a majestic travel experience. These roads are another proof of the advancement of Mayan engineering, as they hardly had any elevation points where to get their bearings, yet the roads are flawlessly straight. There is another cenote, Xtoloc, which is situated between the northern and southern part of the city. This cenote supplied drinking water for the city
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
Rita Novel 2005.04.17 18:23
[I already told you, you better stop feeding me like this!]
'Altars' and icons found in the park (that once was a Lenni-Lenapi camp site)
hocus pocus
speaking of the devil... [a reenactment]
1999.12.21 08:54
John wrote and wondered:
I'll look into the fried dates Brian discovered. However soothseer s-lauf probably has a more devilish numerical explanation.
Creepy picture of mephistophelean Donald Trump with Muschamp's (swan?) song to himself today in the NY Times. Warhol seduced Muschamp into coming to NYC from Penn. Did you know that Steve? Do you care? Now that the world as we wished it was is near the end of time.
Steve responds:
Since I live in a [Philadelphia] zip code that the THE NY TIMES won't home deliver to (even though they occassionally call me and ask for my subscription), whatever Muschamp writes (so far) is of little consequence to me. Moreover, its many, many years since I've been spoon fed.
If I read any newspaper, it's really only occassionally THE OLNEY TIMES, and, to my surprise, my local neighborhood weekly newspaper sometimes actually delivers 'news' that even Muschamp can't beat in terms of "beyond architecture". Here's a front page item from last Thursday's OLNEY TIMES:
'Altars' and icons found in the park
During another in a series of regular clean-ups at Tacony Creek Park, volunteers from the Friends of Tacony Creek Park [of which lauf-s is a high standing member; they wanted me to be their president, but my sporadic (literally schizophrenic) schedule made me decline] discovered what could be described as a makeshift "altar" adorned with icons and small statutes, where a worship service may have taken place. These items were found at several locations inside the park, they said.
Now, I have to confess that I had nothing to do with these 'reenactionary' worship sites, and thus be aware that metabolic does not automatically mean diabolic (but I may find room for becoming diametabolic, and I might even design an altar to that effect -- ha!).
be it ever so humble... (you can guess the rest)
lauf-s
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