Mi visita a Chichen-Itza My visit to Chichen-Itza
1.- The Castle
2.- Tzompantli
3.- Jaguar inside the Castle
4.- Observatory
5.- Observatory layout
6.- Annex Nursery temple
7.- Masks in the Nursery complex
8.- Cenote
9.- Ball court (the biggest in Mesooamerica.
10.- Ball court ring
11.- engravings in the walls of the ball court.
12.- Aerial biew
13.- Map
14.- Tikal
16.- Lagash (Sumer)
17.- Orion constellation.
La Arquitectura Maya con sus piràmides escalonadas nos recuerdan a las piràmides o zigurats de la Antigua Sumeria. En Lagash se han encontrado restos que permiten reconstruir la piràmide principal que es muy semejante a la de Tikal en Guatemala.
En este artìculo comentaremos algunas caracterìsticas de Chichen-Itza
Step pyramids in Maya Architecture remind us old Sumerian Ziggurats. Ruins have been found in Lagash City in ancient Sumer which may look like the main pyramid in Tikal Guatemala.
We comment some features about Chichen-Itza in this article.
It was on May 1976 when I went on vacation to Chichen-Itza. It was very hot there; well the place is located in the tropical zone (Tropic of Cancer) The temperature was around 35ºC. Now I am in Mexico City and there have been several days with temperatures over 34ºC uuuufffffffff, and It comes across my mind those nice days I spent in Yucatán Peninsula.
Thirteen years before that voyage, while I was studying Cosmography in La Escuela Nacional Preparatoria No. 1 (currently San Idelfonso museum) in Justo Sierra No. 16, downtown Mexico City, our teacher whose first name was Salvador, took us to the roof of the school at night, to taught us the name of the stars. I remember Castor and Pollok, Orion and of course Lesser bear Constellations, There was no pollution and we all were able to observe very clearly what was going on above us in the sky.
Out of the blue we saw to the West a light that was moving very rapidly, maybe 30 degrees above the horizon. The teacher told us that it might be a satellite. We were flabbergasted and commented afterwards that issue with excitement in the school corridors.
I am writing about this because what I saw there surely the Ancient Mayas observed as well for many centuries.
The knowledge of the Celeste sphere guided the Mayas to predict events in the future even thousand years after their epoch. Do not panic, they did not predict the end of the world by 2012. Stars observation served them as a pattern to build their cities and buildings and also to plan agriculture.
The circular edifice we call observatory was built specially to study the stars, and it had a dome on top of it, which was unique in Mesoamèrica.
They were very religious people. The cenotes which provided them with water were contented with young women and boys as sacrifice. The pyramids were used as burial sites to their kings and on top of them there were temples to pray to their gods.
2.- Tzompantli
3.- Jaguar inside the Castle
4.- Observatory
5.- Observatory layout
6.- Annex Nursery temple
7.- Masks in the Nursery complex
8.- Cenote
9.- Ball court (the biggest in Mesooamerica.
10.- Ball court ring
11.- engravings in the walls of the ball court.
12.- Aerial biew
13.- Map
14.- Tikal
16.- Lagash (Sumer)
17.- Orion constellation.
La Arquitectura Maya con sus piràmides escalonadas nos recuerdan a las piràmides o zigurats de la Antigua Sumeria. En Lagash se han encontrado restos que permiten reconstruir la piràmide principal que es muy semejante a la de Tikal en Guatemala.
En este artìculo comentaremos algunas caracterìsticas de Chichen-Itza
Step pyramids in Maya Architecture remind us old Sumerian Ziggurats. Ruins have been found in Lagash City in ancient Sumer which may look like the main pyramid in Tikal Guatemala.
We comment some features about Chichen-Itza in this article.
It was on May 1976 when I went on vacation to Chichen-Itza. It was very hot there; well the place is located in the tropical zone (Tropic of Cancer) The temperature was around 35ºC. Now I am in Mexico City and there have been several days with temperatures over 34ºC uuuufffffffff, and It comes across my mind those nice days I spent in Yucatán Peninsula.
Thirteen years before that voyage, while I was studying Cosmography in La Escuela Nacional Preparatoria No. 1 (currently San Idelfonso museum) in Justo Sierra No. 16, downtown Mexico City, our teacher whose first name was Salvador, took us to the roof of the school at night, to taught us the name of the stars. I remember Castor and Pollok, Orion and of course Lesser bear Constellations, There was no pollution and we all were able to observe very clearly what was going on above us in the sky.
Out of the blue we saw to the West a light that was moving very rapidly, maybe 30 degrees above the horizon. The teacher told us that it might be a satellite. We were flabbergasted and commented afterwards that issue with excitement in the school corridors.
I am writing about this because what I saw there surely the Ancient Mayas observed as well for many centuries.
The knowledge of the Celeste sphere guided the Mayas to predict events in the future even thousand years after their epoch. Do not panic, they did not predict the end of the world by 2012. Stars observation served them as a pattern to build their cities and buildings and also to plan agriculture.
The circular edifice we call observatory was built specially to study the stars, and it had a dome on top of it, which was unique in Mesoamèrica.
They were very religious people. The cenotes which provided them with water were contented with young women and boys as sacrifice. The pyramids were used as burial sites to their kings and on top of them there were temples to pray to their gods.
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