Moon Island Titicaca Bolivia
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Moon Island in Titicaca Lake Bolivia was a Tiahuanaco civilization temple meant to be a moon observation center, tracking its cycles and movements during the month and year laps as well during long periods of time since they new that the moon was a very important weather indicator in relation to time when to plant and harvest and other needs to their crops and rise animals, in special Llamas and Vicuņas that need special dates to cut their wool.
Probable form the relation of astronomy to agriculture, thy reason that all the things that were related to sciences and the knowledge to master them belonged to a sacred science that they related to their god, at that time probably it was the most important subject in science. The knowledge that they received from god gave them the ability of planning and planning is the principal characteristics that makes as differ from animals, a gift of the supreme being; since the moon was a mean how god transmitted them the agricultural timing, they worshiped the moon in this observatory center and offered sacrifices and gifts to please gods and incline their feelings to be benevolent toward them.
There is no doubt that in Moon Island they also mastered the use of stone masonry nevertheless there can also be appreciated the use of mud and sun dried mud bricks or adobes in the principal worshiping building, it surprises because is not usual to find in the Andean region at this time a worshiping building made of so much adobe masonry; it seems that mud was also associated in ancient Bolivia in relation to moon worship as it was in Egypt as they related mud to the Egyptian god Osiris god of regeneration. Egyptian used to made a mold of mud and placed seeds in its interior ready to germinate the day they reserved for Osiris worship in December, with germination they related the rebirth of the diseased in a new world of afterlife.
Egyptian used to made a mold of mud and placed seeds in its interior ready to germinate the day they reserved for Osiris worship in December, with germination they related the rebirth of the diseased in a new world of afterlife.
In this worshiping and astronomical observation center are a great number of small shrines, it is thinkable that they belong to the different full moons apparitions during the year as each moon is a indicator of spring, summer and the rest of the yearly seasons also the most important indicator of when to plant and when to harvest, it was the main indicator or all the agricultural phases for such reason each of this shrines were made to symbolize, celebrate and place to bring the different offering concerning the event, also is probably it was the indicator of this event by means of some moon light reflection or star appearance though its door or small windows.
Titicaca Lake is a special place rich in Andean Mythology and has a high visual contrast compared to the 12.000 feet mountain terrain where it is located.
When the people around the lake observed the early clouds formation over the lake, imagined that the clouds where formed from the foams of the lake; since clouds means rain, the water that sustained their crops animals and all the living things, probably such reasoning made the lake the source of life as well the mythological creation center from where sprang the god's bearers of knowledge that created everything's of Tiahuanaco, and Inca civilizations.
Probable form the relation of astronomy to agriculture, thy reason that all the things that were related to sciences and the knowledge to master them belonged to a sacred science that they related to their god, at that time probably it was the most important subject in science. The knowledge that they received from god gave them the ability of planning and planning is the principal characteristics that makes as differ from animals, a gift of the supreme being; since the moon was a mean how god transmitted them the agricultural timing, they worshiped the moon in this observatory center and offered sacrifices and gifts to please gods and incline their feelings to be benevolent toward them.
There is no doubt that in Moon Island they also mastered the use of stone masonry nevertheless there can also be appreciated the use of mud and sun dried mud bricks or adobes in the principal worshiping building, it surprises because is not usual to find in the Andean region at this time a worshiping building made of so much adobe masonry; it seems that mud was also associated in ancient Bolivia in relation to moon worship as it was in Egypt as they related mud to the Egyptian god Osiris god of regeneration. Egyptian used to made a mold of mud and placed seeds in its interior ready to germinate the day they reserved for Osiris worship in December, with germination they related the rebirth of the diseased in a new world of afterlife.
Egyptian used to made a mold of mud and placed seeds in its interior ready to germinate the day they reserved for Osiris worship in December, with germination they related the rebirth of the diseased in a new world of afterlife.
In this worshiping and astronomical observation center are a great number of small shrines, it is thinkable that they belong to the different full moons apparitions during the year as each moon is a indicator of spring, summer and the rest of the yearly seasons also the most important indicator of when to plant and when to harvest, it was the main indicator or all the agricultural phases for such reason each of this shrines were made to symbolize, celebrate and place to bring the different offering concerning the event, also is probably it was the indicator of this event by means of some moon light reflection or star appearance though its door or small windows.
Titicaca Lake is a special place rich in Andean Mythology and has a high visual contrast compared to the 12.000 feet mountain terrain where it is located.
When the people around the lake observed the early clouds formation over the lake, imagined that the clouds where formed from the foams of the lake; since clouds means rain, the water that sustained their crops animals and all the living things, probably such reasoning made the lake the source of life as well the mythological creation center from where sprang the god's bearers of knowledge that created everything's of Tiahuanaco, and Inca civilizations.
