Khmer Architecture Thailand

• Khmer existence was totally dictated by Hindu beliefs, astrology and subjugation to the Gods and their God Kings. The role of architecture was to demonstrate these beliefs for the believers and enforce by demonstration the system to those subjugated to the system.
• Architecture was based on a system where boundaries, axes, and other architectural parameters have measurement or size based on their physical extent and internal divisions [ that is subdivided parts into logical parts with each measurable against the whole ] but where additionally these structures contained calendar and cosmological concepts.

• The concept of cycles and sub cycles [ astronomy ]and systems and subsystems [ architecture ], the inter-relationships between various cycles [ astronomy ] and various systems [ architecture ], and the arithmetic calculations that result in time related data ,either time eras, time cycles, or dates, were shared in the methodology and practice of Khmer astronomers and architects.
• Whilst the positions of the planets and stars can be determined without using trigonometry in Khmer astronomy, it is clear with some Temples that the angles between towers, the moon and sun, and the observation points in the Temples, that these were carefully calculated and that by the 5th to 6th century the Indian astronomy adopted in Cambodia included that knowledge first recorded by the ancient Greeks and Romans.