WVK Wrote:
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Katherine Reece Wrote:
> > But Bernard said the feathered serpent (in
> the > > same post you say you're quoting from) was
> > imported from elsewhere to Chichen Itza so
> they > > didn't have that belief when the pyramids at
> > Chichen Itza was built. At least that's my
> > understanding of Bernard's post.
>
So..... my interpretation of the following is that those (Zuyuá) who introduced
the feathered serpent (bird, serpent, human) were responsible for
the architecture:
"Even more than Tula, Chichén Itzá is the purest
earthly expression of Zuyuá architecture"
Which include:
"El Castillo... The Ball court.... and The Temple of the
Warriors sits on an exceptional platform with
hypostyle corridors."
All three of these structures feature "feathered rattlesnake piers"
Is this not direct cultural association for the rattlesnake sound?
WVK
>
> " p. 274 Zuyuá’s ideology can be seen
> archaeologically in Yucatán. It can be discerned
> in the arrangement of their buildings and their
> iconography, which responded to very specific
> ideas about the cosmos, ritual rules, and
> political organization. Above all, however, the
> architecture and iconography imitated elements
> found in the Tula of Central Mexico, which itself
> was the most prestigious terrestrial copy of the
> mythical Zuyuá.
>
> The Zuyuá used architectural space in a very
> characteristic way. The small, dark rooms, where
> the rulers of the Classic contacted the gods, in
> an almost familiar way, and the relatively small
> throne rooms, were replaced by larger halls with
> flat roofs supported by columns, where a larger
> number of people participated in political
> decisions and in the religious ceremonies of the
> warrior orders. Simultaneously, the images of the
> feathered serpent, a mythical being part human,
> bird, and reptile, chac mools, and atlantes, who
> supported the heavens or the surface of the earth
> above their heads, proliferated. Military power,
> converted into a sacred symbol, duplicated
> adornments, weapons and insignias originating in
> the West, rows of skulls, standard bearers and
> images of eagles and jaguars devourers of human
> hearts.
>
> Even more than Tula, Chichén Itzá is the
> purest earthly expression of Zuyuá architecture,
> and it is an expression that harmoniously combines
> foreign and native styles. Its heart is the grand
> temple, which Landa identified as Kukulkan’s,
> where Puuc stylistic elements combine with Zuyuá
> effigies. Called El Castillo today, it is a
> pyramid with serpentine balustrade stairways on
> all four sides. The Ball court is the biggest and
> most impressive in Mesoamerica. The Temple of the
> Warriors sits on an exceptional platform with
> hypostyle corridors. In short, the city is a
> fitting earthly residence for the God, Kukulkan."
>
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