Kalasasaya

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Temple of Kalasasaya (kala = stone; saya or sayasta = stopped) or Temple of Stopped Stones, is in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, in the changes of stations and [were verified with exactitude solar year of 365 days. In both equinoxes (autumn: March 21 and spring: September 21) the Sun was born by the center of the fore door of entrance, to which it is acceded by a magnificent perron. In the winter solstice (June 21) the Sun was born in murario angle N.E the solstice of summer (December 21) was marked by the birth of the Sun in murario angle S.E. This wall is known like “balconera wall” or “chunchukala”. The "temple of Stopped Stones" covers approximately 2 hectares and its structure is based on cut, ready columns of arenaceous and sillares between these, excels gargoyles or goteros of water-drainage for pluvial waters. In the interior the rest can be seen of which they would have been small semi-underground rooms ready so that 7 were to each side of the patio. In the enclosure a wall with sillares of arenaceous that manages to close the sectors this, North and South exists, leaving to both flanks a species of vestibule, that separates the central or “ceremonial” enclosure. In this second wall towards the North side two blocks are observed in which, in its superior third, an orifice that it imitates, on scale practiced, human an auditory apparatus, and by means of which noises or conversations can be listened that take place in remote sites. These “amplifiers of sounds” allow us to deduce that in the pre-Columbian world the acoustics was known and applied. In Kalasasaya three important sculptures exist: wake 8 (Ponce), the monolith the Friar and Door of the Sun. In the monolith Ponce fine iconográficos engravings like winged men, fish, heads of puma are appraised or of camelidae s, cóndor is, eagle s, stepped symbols; in the purest art tiwanakota. The wake “the Friar” is not adorned, is a piece worked in arenaceous grained, showing an enigmatic personage who takes to a walking stick and keru in the hands; it carries a ventral strip where some tracks in relief of crabs are appraised.