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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
...method of comparing, I mean, there are many aspects of this whole question of, of what similarities are significant. One group of things that I have been very much interested in, is the lotus motif in my area. And here, the, there are remarkable similarities to the lotus motif in Hindu Buddhist Asia. And uh, you may have had a few examples of the depiction of the lotus flower in Middle America that wouldn't mean anything, but there is a whole series of specific ways in which the lotus flower is treated in the two regions that tend to increase the, their probable importance is an indication of contact.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
The, the manner in which the various elements of the lotus plant are depicted: the use of the lotus plant as borders to relief carvings, the use of the lotus motif in certain ways on lintels in both Cambodia and in the Maya area. And here we have a fairly close, here we have a fairly close occurrence in time I mean, we have no chronological difficulty here.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
So is the motif the context in which the motif is found?

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
The context is similar, the motif is, the motifs are similar in a number of different ways. And chronologically...

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