ANTH 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Somapura Mahavihara, Zotero, Geomancy
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Positioned at the centre of an immense courtyard surrounded by numerous cells. The temple mountain layout found in the constructions builtding in cambodia as well in. Geomancy (zotero) and astronomy play an important role with selection and consecration of site. Bas reliefs are on south side of angkor wat. Multiple stages: purification of the ground, establishment of main axis (cardinal, placemnt of holy deposits, construction (artificial hill and masonry veneer, installing and invoking the god in the central shrine. Terrace of the leper king - they have solid turtles and the turtle symbolize the universe based on. They have little jewels are encapsulated in the embryo and placed in the turtle. Next to the royal palace: bronze workshop- there was turtle there to sanctify the bronze. Creates the massive scale of khmer sst and laterite architecture. Crampons: the ties that bind - they put iron or bronze clamps in the masory to stop it from falling over.
