Posted on 11/17/2016 11:37:21 AM PST by sparklite2
(Newser) – When Hernan Cortez and his Spanish army marched into Cholula in present-day Mexico nearly 500 years ago, they were greeted by a peaceful people prone to building pyramids instead of stockpiles of weapons. Those people and their pyramids fell, and fast, with 10% of the local population murdered in a day as their pyramids were torched into oblivion.
But as legend has it, one mud-brick pyramid was hidden, perhaps accidentally by vegetation, and was for centuries mistaken for a mountain, until locals began to construct an insane asylum in 1910. That's when they discovered the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world.
Tlachihualtepetl, or the Great Pyramid of Cholula, stands more than 200 feet tall and nearly 1,500 feet wide, dwarfing the Great Pyramid of Giza in volume, reports the BBC.
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Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!
“they were greeted by a peaceful people prone to building pyramids instead of stockpiles of weapons”
Go look up “Aztec” and then get back to me.
They had a lot of hearts.
Oh please. Slapping churches on top of native religious sites, like this pyramid, was an old cultural domination tactic before the Spaniards left Europe.
God’ll get for that!
The Spanish arriving in Aztec areas was analogous to the Allied armies liberating death camps in Nazi Germany. Thank God that barbaric culture was eradicated
Absolutely. They had a lot of help from the local subjugated peoples, too.
They may well have murdered more people in cold blood than Hitler could have imagined.
“Slapping churches on top of native religious sites, like this pyramid, was an old cultural domination tactic before the Spaniards left Europe.”
That was an old tactic before Jesus died for our sins.
Here’s one that seems to be okay
http://www.newser.com/story/229631/worlds-largest-pyramid-hidden-in-a-mountain-in-mexico.html
Just looks like an unrecognized server certificate, most likely just a rookie sysadmin config error. I don't see any indication of actual malware-type badness.
Twenty years ago we went through that pyramid which remains under dirt. Apparently, the indians covered it to look like a big hill to protect it from the Spanish. It stands out because it is on a plain. There is an old Spanish church on top of it. The church isn’t used anymore, but you enter the tunnels of the pyramid through it. The tunnels wind through the 6 levels of pyramid (apparently six pyramids were built one on top of the other as they grew it. There are many colorful jaquar motifs and so forth on the walls. You come out the bottom in some other archeological stuff. Pretty cool.
Yeah, never mind the human sacrifices and mountains of skulls.
My post was in reference to the Aztecs. read it again.
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