Showing posts with label Golden Dome Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golden Dome Culture. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Dantooine: Stone Heads

4640 3640, elevation 9. This site is most unexpected and perhaps yield clues as to the origin of the Dantari statues. It is highly recommended that further exploration of the site be undertaken.

The site consists of six Dantari statues, positioned in two rows of three facing each other. At the end of the passage composed by the statues, an arch from the Golden Dome Culture and at the other end, a Nabooian statue head, similar to the ones incorrectly attributed to the Gungan. Janta scouts remain in the vicinity of the site.
Unless extraordinary circumstances, it is likely that the arch and the Nabooian statue come from the same builders, thus pointing to a link between Naboo and the Golden Dome Culture. In addition, the Nabooian statue, with its decoration may represent an exogenous element to the decoration of the Dantari Statues. As it was noted earlier, the Dantari Statues wear jewelry, something completely absent from the Dantari culture. While the Nabooian statue wears a different type of jewelry (tiara, forehead dot, three-piece earing) it is, until now, the only other element having some.

If we are to recall the sites that encompass both Dantari and Golden Dome Culture, especially those using complex architectural intertwining (zigurats or hidden valley), this site strongly suggest that a Naboo population occupied Dantooine at some point in the past and left elements that have, over time, translated in Dantari culture, as exemplified by the large amount of statues used solely in relation with more traditional Dantari elements (markers notably).

Dantooine: Stone Block

2106 2837, elevation 21. This odd structure of unknown function is a cubic block of 15x15x15 with four golden domes on top of it. The structure overlooks a body of water and a Dantari marker is nearby, seemingly warding off the access to the structure.

The structure material is sandstone, and the structure shape suggest that it was built by the sandstone linear culture. However, there presence of the four golden domes, similar in shape, size and texture to those left by the Golden Dome Culture are intriguing. The combination of those two elements suggest that one culture borrowed from the other one.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dantooine: Ruins (III)

-1482 2710, elevation 11. Ruins from the "Golden Dome Culture". This appears to have been a single room building with an arched entrance. The entrance is oriented full North (0°). The building size is 19x12.

Four pillars are positioned in two rows of two in front of the building.