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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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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"...not to tell time. Their intention was to connect with the outer world, right? Does that make sense to you guys? So, they were..."
"They knew a lot about the way the stars worked, okay? So, basically for them, this is science, okay? Today we say this is..."
"...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?..."
"...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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