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RE: Chinampas - Traditional Farms in the Valley of Mexico
Loved this post! makes me wonder about the ancient connections between agriculture practices. I heard lake Titicaca has boats just like ancient Egypt and this reminded me of perhaps a pre-rice paddy technique that actually seems superior in many ways. Look forward to the next chapters!
Thank you. And for sure, the reed boats on Titicaca could be related to Egyptian papyrus ones, why not? I'm sure you're familiar with Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II, he managed to cross the Atlantic on. OR, it could have been just as plausibly conceived in both places. People tend to be smart that way, to figure the same things out on their own. And both rice paddies are chinampas are watered instantly, with nutrient rich waters, none the less.
It gets into the whole human origins and pre flood speculation about who came before all that and who might've been left, remembering what. But it could be coincidence... though they still don't know how mummies got into Coca so far away. Do the Chinampas float, like properly? or just enough to stay on TOP of water but not like a boat?
I used to think they float, so you could cross the lake on them and a long pole to push you around. But then I learned that they are actual islands. Especially once you plant trees on them, they're not floating anywhere. Thing is, though, the lake is quite shallow, so it wasn't too hard to build up an island from the lake bottom.
Brilliant. Just Brilliant