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Jiang says the temple structure had cosmological significance: its relation to the sun and calendar was less about practical timekeeping than connecting with an outer world.
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Outer World
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"...not to tell time. Their intention was to connect with the outer world, right? Does that make sense to you guys? So, they were..."
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"They knew a lot about the way the stars worked, okay? So, basically for them, this is science, okay? Today we say this is..."
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"...you can see, the inner world, it's full of light. The outer world, it is pretty dark. And this door is a portal, okay?..."
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"...they would use this skull as maybe a portal into the outer world, into the spirit world in order to draw inspiration, to draw..."
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