Palenque if situated in a grid system, the focus and emphasis will be reflecting towards the Temple of Inscriptions and the palace. Therefore, this two structures represent the center of Palenque. In other words they are the main focus in comparison to the rest of the surrounding structures.
This is useful today because the grid system is still used in constructions more over archeologists use it to locate themselves in the site of ruins like Palenque. Their area of study is within a grid system, or zone of investigation. In the past Mayas used to create architectural structures with the aid of grid systems.
In order to create a relation between these two structures a path or itinerary will be created. This intervention will be Pakal´s path from the Palace to the Temple it is a sort of connection or bridge between them. He can appear and re-appear, there is a main public space where he can address to his people and few private spaces with certain moments created in honor of previous rulers. This small spaces are consider to be thoughtful meditation areas.
Next came the Cartesian Coordinate Rectilinear Grid System (1637) which went on to establish the foundational platform of all modern math and science. Thanks to Rene Descartes (the man infamous for his quote "I think therefore I am,") the ceiling of perception validated only the reality of the 3 dimensions of physical space. The coordinates of X,Y, and Z rendered the fourth dimension obsolete from our worldview.
ReplyDeleteAt that moment, time became reduced from its qualitative essence to that of a quantity. The mind who adopted the lens of the linear grid also adopted the limited perception of time as a 3rd dimensional linear progression of pure duration.
Our societal paradigms have continued to operate with these limitations in place. Thus if something can not be seen, touched, or proven with measurements, it does not, in effect, exist.
Through the Cartesian lens, Nature has become reduced to pure quantifiable resources - no longer a living qualitative aspect of ourselves, but now something outside of ourselves which we observe, analyze and ultimately come to replicate, manipulate, dominate, toxify, and even destroy or extinguish. As Rene Descartes stated plainly,"I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life...and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature."
It seems the modern world wants nothing more than to improve upon Nature, or at least extract her wisdoms and magical properties in order to make a buck by fulfilling increasing consumer demand.
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