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MORIANA
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When you have forded the river, when you have crossed the mountain pass, you suddently find before
you the city of Moriana, its alabaster gates transparent in the sunlight, its coral columns supporting
pediments encrusted with serpentine, its villas all of glass like aquariums where the shadows of
dancing girls with silvery scales swim beneath the medusa-shaped chandeliers. If this is not your first
journey, you already know that cities like this have an obverse: you have only to walk a semi-circle and
you will come into view of Moriana's hidden face, an expanse of rusting sheet metal, sackcloths,
planks bristling with spikes, pipes black with soot, piles of tins, behind walls with fading signs,
frames of staved-in straw chairs, ropes good only for hanging oneself from a rotten beam.
From one part to the other, the city seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repretory of
images: but instead it has no thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper,
with a figure on either side, which can neither be seperated nor look at each other
 Greek Columns
The columns in Greek architecture helps to learn which period it was built in.
Greeks inhabitants were first known to have inhabited Peloponnese in 900 B.C.E
the earliest structures dating 17th century. The romans had had taken influence
from the architecture and adding many of the elements into the buildings.
The most well-known of the Greek structure is the temple, the temples were
created to worship the divine and the gods. They were build basic materials wood
and mud bricks, which were known not to last very long. During the 8 century the
materials began to change, moving more towards stone.
During the Archaic period the people of the Doric order of architecture became
established. Leading to creation of many temples and monuments during the 5th
and 6th century. The Greek cities invested great amount of resources into the
temple building. The Greeks and Athens competed with each other, not just in
economic or strategic terms. But also in the architecture one the examples is
during the 5th B.C.E the Athens had built an Acropolis. They were confident that
what they build to honour the gods, would surpass anything that the rival state
could offer.

The final design is a mix of Doric and Ionic style

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 Greek Key
The architecture also featured Greek keys a pattern, which
were used to decorate the murals of temples. It is also known
as the Greek fret, the meander was the most important symbol
in ancient Greece. The symbol meant infinity of the eternal
flow of things like a river. Many objects were decorate with it
symbolizing its connection to with the Cretan labyrinth, the key
could create the labyrinth.
The meander also symbolized the bonds of friendship, love and
devotion. And thus it was given as marriage gift. It was
interpreted as four cardinal points or four seasons, waves etc.
Mostly with round versions of the design, that sometimes
include snakes.
The design is based on the Greek story of Minotaur that was
prisoned in the labyrinth.
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