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One way of indicating architectural
structures' function as facilities for collocation of
humans and allodynes has been to incorporate monumental
images of the germane allodynes into their plans. The
entire tradition of ancient Greek sculpture arose from
and served chiefly that very purpose, which has found
expression no less notably elsewhere too.
The picture on the left shows a modern reconstruction of the Phidian Chryselephantine Athena, which was anciently the central statue in the interior of the Athenian Parthenon. The allodynamism of this otherwise anthropomorphic figure was signalled in part by its superhuman size. |
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In this portico of the great Wat Po temple in Bangkok, each gilded image of a Buddha varies in detail from all the others, symbolizing subtle individual differences in their achievement of an allodynamic state of being. The variation extends even to the dissimilar draping of the saffron robes in which the statues have been carefully clothed by the temple's attendants. Such manifold striving as this to render acute visual representation of allodynamic qualities underlies what is often only casually observed by nescient visitors as the "beauty" of such architectural embellishments. |
| A Tibetan Buddhist lamasery temple, whose several rooves at successive levels symbolize the several levels of Heaven. |
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Examples of Architecture for Access to Allodynes . . . |