Tuesday, November 15, 2011

chapter 20 Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas

Interior of a Maori Meeting House this the mens meeting house the house is understood to be the house body of the sky father. the ridgepole is his spine and rafters are his robs His face is carved on the exterior where the elements symbolize his embracing arms. meeting thus take place within god. this will be there protection place and the place of authority for them. Many of the powerful ancestor are carved in the series of reliefs that line the walls. There has been presence felt in the house, yet the woven were carved by women and this house is just a meeting house for men. As for the temple of the feathered serpent this is located in Mexico from the second century C.E. for them this temple is feathered serpent the meaning of it is unclear to us. yet for them the god of windstorm that6 bring rain the representing aggressive from collar of feathers from there they have the god of rain unlike carving the the body parts like the meeting house. They did have a god which they believed in and had different thoughts on what they would do.

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