Tom
This two-faced debate has nothing to do with "vindication." It’s about the unbiased analysis of the data, which you admittedly haven’t pursued. And you call this science?
The clear mind and eye can only come to one conclusion, and that is that the Cydonia Face is asymmetrical by its very design and its two-faced form has been consistently supported by the entire data set.
The 1998 image confirmed the Humanoid side, while the 2001 image confirmed the Feline said. If you want to continually rationalize the felines features as just the result of meteor strikes and structural collapse then you aren’t being rational.
Throughout this thread, I appreciate your halfhearted scholarly effort to debunk the growing data that supports my view of a two-faced model and your effort to recruit my support, however I’m not ready to jump the bifurcated ship quite yet. And as far as I can tell it is you who has been tightening up your hatches and wearing a life vest from time to time.
The truth is you and the entire academic world scuffs at the thought of a two-faced model, because that - as you say – “vindicates” Richard’s 20-year assertion that the Face is a two-faced sphinx-like edifice. Your loathing of Richard has skewed your logic. The realization that the Face could be a two-faced structure would just push you over board, leaving you floundering in the deep cold water with the sharks of academia all over you. You would be finished. You would never sell another book.
Sitting on your western ideal of art history, the Cydonia Face has to be symmetrical. You’ve built your whole career on this narrow view. And if the data conflicts with that view you will come up with numerous convoluted theories that diverts our attention from the facts and buttress your preconceived reality of what you would like the face to look like, and not what it is.
Many here on this board have allowed this bias to limit and shape the artistic vision of an alien aesthetic to such an extent that they parrot your views. This narrow scope limits their projection of any sculpted portrait to a symmetrical human visage, which totally ignores the rich genre of composite motifs found throughout the New World, such as two-faced masks.
Not only have I made a significant case for the Cydonia Face being bifurcated - I’ve matched its composite facial features and iconography to a terrestrial art form found throughout Mesoamerica. I have identified over 13 points of conformation within the design of the face with Mesoamerican motifs. Structural faulting and meteor damage doesn’t create common iconography in the correct shape and orientation or follow any cultural norms.
You might want to step back and do a little soul searching and take a second look at the face and follow the data.
Remember, anytime your ready - I could send a little raft of reeds out and pull you out of the cold , cold water.
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