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Quetzalcoatl
19 Jul 2019 14:28One day we visited the temple of Quetzalcoatl, pronounced KETZulKWAT, the feathered serpent / flying dragon who created the latest version of the world (that would be Sun #4 or Sun #5, depending on who is counting). I see it referred to online as the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
An iPhone panorama, so you can see how the heads line the stairs and also each side --
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This temple is the shortest of the ones we visited. I really liked the serpent heads -- some feathered, some not. As you can read online, there was a major discovery of a tunnel underneath the pyramid, leading to 75,000+ artifacts being recovered, mostly completely intact!
There is also a similar tunnel underneath the Pyramid of the Sun, but that tunnel had been sacked previously.
The tunnel was not a crypt or burial scene -- there were bodies buried around Quetzalcoat, but not many, and none of the tombs are intended for burials (as they seemed to be in Egypt). Instead, it seems the tunnel was intended to represent the underworld.
The guide indicated that there are buildings in the site of Teotihaucan which match the planets in our solar system, as if the site is a small scale representation of the solar system. These include buildings at various points all the way out to Pluto plus one additional planet. I am skeptical of that and will need to do further reading -- I worry that people put a solar system map onto a map of the site, and just happened to find buildings that represent each planet.
An iPhone panorama, so you can see how the heads line the stairs and also each side --
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This temple is the shortest of the ones we visited. I really liked the serpent heads -- some feathered, some not. As you can read online, there was a major discovery of a tunnel underneath the pyramid, leading to 75,000+ artifacts being recovered, mostly completely intact!
There is also a similar tunnel underneath the Pyramid of the Sun, but that tunnel had been sacked previously.
The tunnel was not a crypt or burial scene -- there were bodies buried around Quetzalcoat, but not many, and none of the tombs are intended for burials (as they seemed to be in Egypt). Instead, it seems the tunnel was intended to represent the underworld.
The guide indicated that there are buildings in the site of Teotihaucan which match the planets in our solar system, as if the site is a small scale representation of the solar system. These include buildings at various points all the way out to Pluto plus one additional planet. I am skeptical of that and will need to do further reading -- I worry that people put a solar system map onto a map of the site, and just happened to find buildings that represent each planet.