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Post by Luke on Jul 9, 2011 7:56:59 GMT -6
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 15, 2011 8:36:54 GMT -6
Sorry I missed this the other day. Well you know me. I think it's an example of overactive imagination. Or actually, UNDER active imagination. If you look closely, you can tell that the figure is carved in such beautiful detail, but the so-called "spaceship" is just sketched in. That indicates to me the artist wasn't trying to draw a "spaceship" at all.
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Post by Luke on Jul 20, 2011 8:25:29 GMT -6
I see what you mean. The ship doesn't even have a continuous hull.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 22, 2011 7:28:57 GMT -6
Not even close! And if that's supposed to be a rocket plume coming out the bottom, he's sitting right on TOP of the engine. Does that make any sense?
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Post by Luke on Jul 23, 2011 8:08:54 GMT -6
I see what you mean there too. But it does look uncannily like a guy riding some kind of machine doesn't it?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 25, 2011 7:22:47 GMT -6
That's only because of our culture bias. Try to ignore the human figure. The rest of it doesn't look like a machine at all. Look at it longwise, and it's probably an altar of some kind, with a cornstalk in the background.
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Post by Luke on Jul 27, 2011 7:35:13 GMT -6
A cornstalk? Idon't see it, but when I cover up the "astronaut" all i see is random decorations. So I suppose you have a point there.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 29, 2011 7:13:00 GMT -6
Corn was very important to the Aztecs and the Maya. You see that same motif on a lot of their markers, complete with the quetzal bird perched on top of it. As for the human figure, he could be doing a ritual dance for all we know.
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Post by Luke on Aug 3, 2011 7:30:04 GMT -6
That's a BIRD? Oh yeah I see the tail feathers now...
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Post by stephenson on Aug 3, 2011 12:04:27 GMT -6
i cover up the figure in the centre ad i see a strange fork like thing with 2 prongs and then in the middle is the creature i cant think of any other way to describe it and ive been looking at if you over half an hour at every angle possible on a computer screen =/
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 4, 2011 8:11:40 GMT -6
Right. I think it's meant to represent a cornstalk. The bird is perched on top, facing left and leaning forward (because there wasn't room for it standing upright). You can see the beak and a little wattle-like thing hanging down.
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Post by stephenson on Aug 4, 2011 13:52:17 GMT -6
ohhh ok to me it looked like an alien spaceship when it was horizontal with a strange engine formation and when it was vertical looked like a spacestation with a face but at the time i did have star trek on my mind aswell as other sci-fi series
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Post by Luke on Aug 6, 2011 8:02:45 GMT -6
This might be a better picture. www.earthmatrix.com/serie26/pakal.htmYes one of my fav TOS epis is Who Mourns for Adonais where the greek god Apollo turns otu tobe a space traveller. But there was an ancient aliens show on the HIST channel the other night and they were claiming that all the mythic creatures (like centaurs and harpies) were aliens! That's a bit too much!
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Post by stephenson on Aug 7, 2011 12:01:03 GMT -6
ohhh ok is that the one where the giant hand in space grabs hold of the ship and they almost tear apart the enterprise trying to break free?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 8, 2011 7:41:29 GMT -6
The giant hand? Oh, yes! "Your fathers knew me, and your fathers' fathers. I am APOLLO!"
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