Old-world weather tech

SUMMARYOld-world weather tech (Nov 6, 2026; user drop). Added 21 weather rows to oldtech (now 80). AYITI, Record: "hurricane" comes from the Taíno hurakán; Huracán is the K'iche' Maya storm and creator god (Popol Vuh). The Taíno storm cemí Guabancex has spiral arms that Fernando Ortiz (1947) said curl like a hurricane seen from above. Pattern/Open: how the makers knew a shape only seen from the sky. AMERICAS, Record: Tlaloc's half of the Templo Mayor and the Mount Tlaloc shrine (about 4,100 m, aligned to sunrise); the Maya Cha-Cha-Chaac rite (still practiced); Hopi Snake Dance; Zuni rain priests; Hatfield in San Diego (1915–16); cloud seeding (1946); Stormfury (1962–83). Disputed: Nazca lines as water rites. AFRICA, Record: the Rain Queens (Modjadji); the rain-control hills near Mapungubwe (c. 1000–1300); rain chiefs of South Sudan (Simonse); Nilometers for forecasting the flood. ASIA, Record: Varahamihira's monsoon forecasting (6th c.) and the Arthashastra's rain gauge (c. 300 BCE); Korea's cheugugi network (1441), the oldest standardized rain gauges; Qin Jiushao's gauge math (1247). PACIFIC, Record: Aboriginal seasonal calendars (Bureau of Meteorology) and cultural burning. EUROPE, Record: Tower of the Winds (c. 50 BCE); Aristotle and Theophrastus; Rome's rain stone; weather bells; hail cannons (efficacy Disputed). Agobard of Lyon (c. 815) on "tempestarii" and ships from "Magonia" sailing the clouds (text Record, ships CODE). Pattern: across the world, rain-making was a governing office (queens, chiefs, priests) and forecasting was instrument-based. Rule 14: Europe called the first "superstition" and kept the second as "science."