Friday, December 9, 2011

Moray - identified as a Buddhist 'Tricakra ' not only is the fascinating archeological site.....


Moray is a site located near Cusco, Peru at 3500 meters above sea level (11,500 feet). At first glance it seems to be a kind of an amphitheater, formed of 24 circular platforms, and it is an amphiteatr which has the name of 'tricakra' in Sanskrit, the ancient language of India. The site contains unusual pre-Inca ruins, mostly consisting of several enormous terraced circular depressions, the largest of which is about 30 m (98 ft.) deep; their depth and orientation with respect to wind and sun creates a temperature difference of as much as 15 °C (27 °F) between the top and bottom level.

Tricakra refers to the “three cricles” containing the twenty-four rows of seats designed to be used by twenty-four “sacred girls” (ḍākinīs), according to the 9th-centruy Vajraḍākatantra; list of names of such Ḍākinīs and of their internal seats is given as well as their husbands' names who are called by the text heroes (vīra). Such twenty-four rows of seats form three circles (tricakra) i.e.:— ‘the cicle of mind’ (cittacakra), ‘the circle of word’ (vākcakra), ‘the circle of body’ (kāyacakra). The symbol which represents tricakra is called triskelion and it comes from the art represented by the LlolLeo or Aconcagua cultures from the Central Chile. A triskelion is an element of the banner of the Isle of Man,which was known to Romans; an interesting story is connected to it because speaking of the island, Julius Caesar in his Commentaries says:" In the mid sea between Britannia and Hibernia is an island called Mona." According to the wisdomlib.com 'mona' (nt.) means wisdom; self-possession; silence in the Pali language. Moray was thought to be an Incan agricultural 'research center' where experiments of crops at different heights were carried out, and thus creating different types of microclimates, and possibly it was used as such during last 500 + years. It may have served as a model for the calculation of the agricultural production This large temperature difference was possibly used to study the effects of different climatic conditions on crops; it also has a sophisticated irrigation system.

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