Posted on 12/02/2016 12:41:07 PM PST by MtnClimber
The temple, 36 feet across, falls within what is believed to be the perimeter of a large ceremonial site in the Tlatelolco neighborhood.
Archaeologists excavating the site of a demolished supermarket in Mexico City have unearthed a circular temple built more than 650 years ago for an Aztec deity.
The platform, about 36 feet in diameter and four feet tall, was part of the sacred area of the city-state Tlatelolco and was likely dedicated to the god of wind Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl. It now stands just yards away from the site of the Tlatelolco 1968 massacre, where Mexican soldiers killed protesting students.
The 10-foot deep excavation began two years ago when an old supermarket at the site was demolished. The work first revealed the upper part of the structure, along with pottery shards and 20 burials,
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The area around Mexico City has some interesting excavations.
I blame the burrito.
Well, you would figure that, with all of the beans that are eaten down there, temples for the Wind God should be plentiful ...
Under the bean isle?
I guess the earth god won.
Granted, but it’s still one of the most gawd-awful places on this Earth that I have ever been.
And that INCLUDES Army Training in the swamps of Louisiana! ;)
One of the greatest events in human history was the destruction of the Aztec culture.
Unless you are a leftist idiot like Neil Young (whose music I love).
For the better.
Exactly so.
Mexico City is built on Tenochtitlan.
Stuff like this is interesting as can be. The Aztec culture, Inca, Mayan, the Pueblo people, Native American cultures...I’ve seen a number of the rock drawings out west, petroglyphs, incredibly interesting stuff.
I wish we had been able to go to the cliff dwellings, but we didn’t go to that area. (Pueblo? I think...)
Cahokia Illinois has the largest Native American city found so far, with some of the largest mounds in the country. Poverty Point in north Louisiana was the location of a yearly swap meet for at least 6000 years. Several smaller mounds there too.
Always interesting stuff. I’d love to be able to see some of the artifacts found up close. What those people were able to do using only what they could find is amazing. Rocks, wood, clay and fire and they managed to make interesting jewelry, bows and arrows, impressive buildings, clay pots and jars of a variety of styles, often with intricate decorations, paint fashioned from clay and various plant pigments...
Scoff if you want to but ask yourself this. Could you, right now, survive without any modern conveniences at all? Nothing but what you can find on and growing in the ground? Could you even build a fire?
No matches, no electric drill, no propane or natural gas oven, no store to go buy a blanket, no knife or gun, you wake up and all you have is what you see growing...could you live more than 3 weeks?
Further proof that Mexico blows.
Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Cheech Marin...and vampires...
LOL! Took me a second to figure that out. Nice.
36 feet in diameter by 4 foot high... seems more like a wrestling podium...hmm.... looks like Lich Libre may have ancient origins. Certainly goes a long way to explaining the masks.
Here's the modern version.
Climate engineers are concerned about angering the wind gods. Apparently the new temple design reduces winds due to drag on the blades caused by a generator.
LOL!
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