Ancient Maya Temples Were Giant Loudspeakers?

National Geographic News ^ | December 16, 2010 | Ker Than

[SunkenCiv]

Maya temple ruins in the Northern Group complex at Palenque, Mexico. [Photograph by Panoramic Images/National Geographic]

[SunkenCiv]

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[gigster]

Jensen Tri-axel ping.

[razorback-bert]

I haven't decided which Mayan ruin I will visit when I visit Belize in February. It seems, they are finding them faster than I can visit.

[Leo Carpathian]

is especially good at projecting the human voice as well as sounds like those that would have been made by musical instruments found at the site...

geeeeze, some ignorant acoustic archeological "engineers"

like... what other sounds, or what different frequencies would there be? Suppressing low frequency Oooobama fart?

[Cvengr]

That's not a horn,...these are horns:

[Cvengr]

South African Horn:

[Grizzled Bear]

But can you turn it up to “eleven?”

[AGreatPer]

The ball field at Chichenitza, about an hour from Cancun, is acoustically outstanding. One person on one end can talk to a person at the other end in normal tone and hear them perfectly.

http://chichenitza-tour.com/

[Cvengr]

French Horns: The room in the back is a Bass horn able to go to 18.5 Hz flat response to 108dB.

[seowulf]

Probably used it to project the screams of their human sacrifices as they cut their beating hearts out of their chests, so everybody could enjoy.

[razorback-bert]

Been there three times, once to see the serpent come down.
Need a fourth trip to see the Nunnery.

[Adder]

Horsecrap.

[Grizzled Bear]

You say that like multiculturalism is a bad thing.

[Flag_This]

"Probably used it to project the screams of their human sacrifices as they cut their beating hearts out of their chests, so everybody could enjoy."

That was an Aztec thing, wasn't it? I know the Maya had all kinds of blood sacrifices (shoving a stingray barb through your genitalia is sure to generate some acoustics, btw), but did they do the chest cutting routine too?

[katana]

Can you hear me now??

[seowulf]

From the recesses of my memory I recall that the bloody human sacrifices were part of the ritual throughout central America where wars between cities were religious experiences and the captives were taken to the winning city and ritually sacrificed.

I think the beating heart removal was common as well as beheadings followed by use of a severed head as a ball in something like a game of soccer.

Of course the losers were also sacrificed.

A good time had by all.

It is thought that the constant wars were a big contributing factor to the end of the civilization. You can only sacrifice so many peasants before there is nobody left to grow the corn.

[JoeProBono]

[Flag_This]

"I think the beating heart removal was common as well as beheadings followed by use of a severed head as a ball in something like a game of soccer."

I guess I'm suffering from severe brain lock. I knew they killed boat-loads of people, I know about the skull racks and chacmools and stuff. It was the technique they used that had me confused, but you're right - they were chest cutters, too.

[decimon]

They’ve described rock concerts.