Missing Illustration - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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Query: 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
Missing Illustration
Quoted text:
In The Pivot of the Four Quarters (1971: p. 411) Paul Wheatley described how Chinese capital cities used a “cosmo-magical” geometry to symbolize their moral and administrative rectitude. Each of their four walls contained three gates—making 12 in all—aligned to the four cardinal directions and hence to the celestial microcosm (Illustration 9.2).
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As per the Illustration list, this was presumably supposed to be:
“Aerial photo of the citadel of Gur, near Firuzabad, Iran, dating from Achaemenid times: a cosmic city and fortified residence of the Sasanian dynasty, with concentric circular ramparts and four gates in the cardinal directions at the ends of a cross pattern of avenues. (H.P. l’Orange,[1] Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship, 1953:_.) [page number(s) unknown]).”
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- ↑ H.P. l’Orange, Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship (Oslo: 1953).
