Open To Interpretation
Totora-reed Stone
Pumapunka
On the left tiny fragment of a large Totora-reed stone at Pumapunku
The roofs of the entrance to Pumapunku were most likely out of Totora-reed stones. At the west entrance of Pumapunku Totora-reed stones were found.[38] Early visitors who saw standing architecture at Tiwanaku reported about stones which resemble "straw":
[…] [T]he roof of the hall, on the outside, looks like straw, although it is of stone. Because the Indians cover their houses with straw, and for this [room] to look like the others [houses], they dressed the stone and incised it so that it would appear like a cover of straw.[39]
Large Totora-reed stones can be found in the museum at Tiwanaku.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pumapunku
Notes: I was browsing the big polygon stones, "fallen polygon stone Peru"...thought on youtube vlog is the big ones might be fake, like a facade plastered over a wall made of small stones...so I wanted to see a stones back, and maybe inside...a search ongoing...and, and the search turned up that Tortora-reed stone!...a find...is it the motif on the Toltec warriors, and the Chac-mols headdresses?....a far far reach is the Sea People's headdresses?...I dunno...for tomorrowmorrow, or sometime soon...Happy Thanksgiving!
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