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THE COSMOS
TARROZA, Ma. Abigail D.C.
ARCHITECTURE and the COSMOS
Mountains
Totem poles
Lingam
Lotus stalk
Spires, pinnacles
Pacific-Northwest
Native American
totem pole
Nepalese stone
lingam, c. 900-100
A.D., on display at
the Asian Art
Museum, San
Francisco,
California.
Gothic spire of the Ulm
Cathedral
DWELLINGS OF THE
GODS
Shrines
Rubber ball passed back and forth with any part of the
players’ bodies except the hands; the ball was not allowed
to touch the ground
Goal – to pass the ball through a stone hoop
Mayan ball-court in Cancun, Mexico
Mayan ball-court at
Chichen Itza
BODY, PLAN AND
PROPORTION
Sites are named and function like some of the parts of the
human body
Parts of the human body itself as symbols
THE SACRED HOME