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c. 500 BCE
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Monte Albán · c. 500 BCE
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Monte Albán

Thread 001 · Monte Albán
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future: live sky art
audio
future: site photography / INAH-cleared imagery
amber flag goes here if hook is unverified
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Live Sky Art
Currently a static canvas gradient. Future: time-of-day lighting tied to the era selected, parallax cloud layer, and possibly a subtle particle effect matching the region (dust for Mesoamerica, mist for Northern Europe, etc).
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Audio Toggle
Not yet placed. Needs a small glass icon near the thread ID — tap to hear Molly's recorded narration of the hook instead of reading it.
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Site Imagery
Reserved space for a real photograph or illustration of Monte Albán. Rights-cleared via INAH or Wikimedia Commons public domain sources before production. Currently empty — atmosphere is carrying this alone.
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Verification Flag Slot
Reserved for the amber dashed panel used elsewhere in the prototype. Appears only when a hook or claim is Unverified or In Progress per the Research Questions Log. This hook (MA-001) is currently Verified, so no flag shows — this is just marking where the logic would slot in.
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Additional Bubbles
Playbook allows more than 3 discovery bubbles per thread when the knowledge base supports it. Layout will need a "show more" affordance or horizontal scroll once threads regularly carry 4–6 bubbles.
The Living Calendar ↑ rise up
History repeats — on purpose.
Every festival has a feast behind it. Tap the food to taste the history.
JUNE 23
Midsummer
Eve
enter today →
Wander the wheel of the year
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Happening around the world this week
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JUN
Midsummer Eve
Bonfires that predate Christianity by a thousand years — still burning tonight in Scandinavia.
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the feast
Pickled herring & new potatoes
taste →
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JUN
Inti Raymi
Cusco still performs the Inca's festival of the sun — never stopped, just went underground for 400 years.
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the feast
Ritual foods of Inti Raymi
taste →
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NOV
Día de los Muertos
The origin story of TimeWeaver itself — ancestor veneration meeting Catholic All Saints' Day in Oaxaca.
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the feast
3 dishes connected →
taste →
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JUN
Summer Solstice — Stonehenge
Already passed this year — but the same sunrise has been watched here for 5,000 years.
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the feast
not yet researched
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Concept only. Every festival card pulls its "feast" chip from the Food Connection field already in the Content Calendar doc — the data link already exists, this just surfaces it visually. Empty feast slots (like Stonehenge here) show honestly rather than guessing, the same way unverified hooks get flagged elsewhere. Tapping a feast chip opens that dish's recipe thread directly — the two doorways converge on the same content.
the feast
What's on the table?
Recipes & Foodways ↑ rise up
Every dish is a time machine.
Taste your way into history. Choose an ingredient, a dish, or an era — the table sets itself.
Enter through an ingredient
🌽Maize
🍫Cacao
🌶️Chile
🪲Cochineal
🌵Agave
Enter through a dish
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Mole Negro
Twenty ingredients, centuries of trade, one Oaxacan table.
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Pan de Muerto
Bread shaped like bones, baked to welcome the dead home.
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Tejate
A Zapotec drink older than the city it's still served in.
Concept only — no recipe content built yet. Production version would pull from verified culinary-history claims, the same way Place threads do.
Thread Not Yet Built ↑ rise up
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This prototype only has a full researched thread built for Monte Albán. In production, this entry point would open its own thread the same way — built from verified sources, not generated on the spot.