{"id":3032,"date":"2026-06-11T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:18:59","slug":"ancient-angkor-wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Angkor Wat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/AWat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/AngWat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Built with local laterite blocks and sand.<br \/>\nCovered with sandstone blocks.<br \/>\nThe carvings give the incredible beauty.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2022-pics\/angkor-wat-carvings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The ancient metropolis of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angkor_Wat\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Angkor Wat<\/span><\/a> had a very advanced hydraulic, water, and energy storage &amp; distribution system,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\">like the ancient Egyptians did with their pyramids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L6MaIbaSF0Q\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">After the transformation from a Hindu (Vishnu) center of worship to Buddhism in the late 12th century, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/history-magazine\/article\/angkor-wat-the-worlds-biggest-religious-complex-served-two-faiths\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Angkor Wat<\/span><\/a> continues to be a Buddhist center. At 400+ acres, it is the largest religious structure in the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/AngkorWat-squares.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"233\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/AW=squares.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"233\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Square inside a square inside a square: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">projection of a <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=801\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">4D Cube<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Some of these temples rival Solomon or Michelangelo, have micro-carvings, and might take an honorable place besides our most beautiful buildings. It is grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome, but presents a sad contrast to barbarism the nation was plunged into a few decades ago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Steps-Angkor-Wat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vQjvo_bav2A&amp;ab_channel=TRACKS-TravelDocumentaries\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Angkor Wat<\/span><\/a> suggests that it was a celestial resemblance of the Hindu-universe, including the cosmic sea.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/perfect%20alignment%20N-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This is observed in the temple&#8217;s perfect E-W orientation, and lines of sight from temple terraces that show specific towers to be at the precise location of the solstice sunrise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/AngkorWat-12th-century.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"189\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">12th century Angkor Wat metropolis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5JCsv0-s6J0&amp;ab_channel=AfricanHistoryFountain\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">about 1 million people.<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nLIDAR tests showed the world&#8217;s largest settlement till 1850.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/African-Champ-civilisation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"121\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Angkor Wat temple&#8217;s main tower aligns with the sunrise at the spring equinox: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/sunrise%20at%20equinox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The temple represents Mount Meru, the home of the gods according to Hindu mythology: the central <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quincunx\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">quincunx<\/span><\/a> of towers symbolize the 5 peaks of the mountain, and the walls and moat symbolize the surrounding mountain ranges and ocean.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2022-pics\/bayon-temple-angkor-thom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayon\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Bayon Temple<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/African-faces.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/karnataka100temples.com\/introductory-essay-0\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Architecturally<\/span><\/a>, the elements characteristic of the style include the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogive\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">ogival<\/span><\/a>, indented towers shaped like lotus buds; galleries to broaden passageways; and the cruciform terraces which appear along the main axis of the temple.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Angkor_Wat_Temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papal_tiara\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Innocent-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/phi-ogive.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">Is the temple complex a multi-<\/span><span style=\"6px;\">Dimensional projection of \u03c6-harmonic constellations or an occult representation of the disharmonic <\/span><a style=\"6px;\" href=\"?p=1098\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Draco constellation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"6px;\">?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/phi-oval.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/MW-galaxy%20over%20AW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=3040\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built with local laterite blocks and sand. Covered with sandstone blocks. The carvings give the incredible beauty. The ancient metropolis of Angkor Wat had a very advanced hydraulic, water, and energy storage &amp; distribution system,\u00a0like the ancient Egyptians did with their pyramids. After the transformation from a Hindu (Vishnu) center of worship to Buddhism in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}