Posted on 11/22/2022 10:25:43 PM PST by Cronos
...The unnamed woman could be seen near the top of El Castillo – or Pyramid of Kukulcán – in the Mexican state of Yucatán dancing while an enraged group of people shouted abuse at her from down below.
Ascending the 82-ft pyramid at the Chichen Itza archaeological site – formerly one of the most important centres of the Mayan civilisation – has been prohibited since 2008.
...The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) issued a statement a few hours after the video was released on social media, noting that the monument had not been damaged.
Fines for climbing the temple can range from $2569 to $5138, depending on the damage caused to the structure.
Article 47 of the Federal law on Archaeological, Artistic and Historic Monuments states that a punishment of one to ten years in prison can be handed out if a person is found liable.
...The video gathered mixed responses on social media.
'Good, I'm glad this was the outcome cause people really are disrespectful,' one person said.
'Few things more embarrassing than entitled tourists,' said another.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They look like stairs to me.
No pictures of any “KEEP OF THE PYRAMIDS” sign anyplace?
Maybe park authorities can cut her heart out as a appeasing sacrifice to the Aztec gods?
did she unfurl an LGPTQ/LOMNOP/ TRANSGEDER/ 4TH 5 TH 6 TH 7TH flag?
I made that exact climb that this woman did, many years ago,
and then we got to go down into the interior on a very narrow staircase. Not only was it legal then, but it was a guided tour.
When I was in the USN back in the Seventies, I went to Alexandria in Egypt, and we took a tour to the Pyramids.
Back then, you could climb on the pyramids, and I climbed up a ways.
I completely lost my nerve. I recall the blocks at the bottom were really big, and got smaller as you went, and became increasingly more crumbly feeling, and when I looked down, I realized that if you slipped, you weren’t going to stop falling until you reached the bottom, and it was way higher than I thought.
Honestly, I didn’t give a second thought to it, and as a young stupid guy, I didn’t think about it in terms of desecrating a timeless antiquity. I do recall seeing a few people going up, and thinking “Cool-they let you climb on it!” not “Good gosh-they let people climb on it? It’s the pyramids! How can they let people do that?”
Sounds as if there is lots of pagan people with a thin Christian veneer in Mexico.
Christian on the outside, pagan blood thirsty on the inside.
Nothing has changed since the days of the Emperor Maximilian when Empress Carlotta said Mexico was still a pagan country.
When I visited the same site about 30 years ago, climbing up was encouraged and celebrated.
People are becoming such sensitive pansies...
“Now they are drifting into that whole “sacred” thing.”
Just like every haunted house is built on an Indian burial site.
Was a time they allowed climbing, even had a chain in case you slipped. Wouldn't be surprised if the priests danced up there. Different times.
“Ascending the 82-ft pyramid at the Chichen Itza archaeological site – formerly one of the most important centres of the Mayan civilisation – has been prohibited since 2008.”
I climbed that, back in the 80’s. It was filthy and full of trash and graffiti. The whole ‘park’ was that way, too.
I’m glad to see someone taking measures to clean that place up.
“A Mexican? WTH is a Mexican doing in Mexico?”
LOL!
Before cell phones so I didn't even get a picture of the leopard alter at the top.
I cannot blame that woman.
“A Mexican? WTH is a Mexican doing in Mexico?”
...........
“Usually leaving.”
That one made me LOL.
The unearthing and restoration of that location continues and it's remarkable how they have been able to reclaim and reassemble it from the jungle growth that was taking over that area for the past thousand years or so.
I’m not sure about the climbing up as it could damage historical sites.
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