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Posted: 26 Mar 2022

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this photo by Dinesh

Oblique, low altitude aerial photograph of the central civic-ceremonial precinct at Tiwanaku, looking east. The Akpana pyramid is the large mound on the right side of the photograph, with the Kalasasya and the Semi-subterranean Temple immediately to the left.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku


www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki79R_Cw1-w&t=737s

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 Dinesh
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The architectural form of Tiwanaku, together with its public ensemble of monumental stone sculptures, intensified the mythic aura of the city, embuing it with a quality of the supernatural: a sacred space beyond the structure of the profane world in which it was embedded. The ceremonial core of Tiwanaku was surrounded by an immense artificial moat that restricted easily easy access to it centrally located buildings. The intend behind this reshaping of the high status urban landscape through construction of a physical barrier of sater was not to provide the Tiwanaku elite with a defensive structure against marauding barbarians of the potentially hostile lower classes of the city of Posnasky believed. . . . Page 90

The Tiwanaku
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