If you opened this, congratulations! You have found a short paper about the architecture and history of the famous Chichen-Itza!

I found all of this out on our trip to Cancun, Mexico.
Chichen-Itza is on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
This whole pyramid is a huge solar calendar. There are 91 steps on each side...plus one that goes all the way around the bottom...what does that add up to? 365, for 365 days of the solar year The Mayans knew way more about the Universe, thousands of years ago, then we might even know now.

Inside of this pyramid there is a lunar calendar. It is a mini pyramid, because the lunar year is smaller. The owners of the archaeological site closed off access to go up the steps of the pyramid, when it became apparent that people might actually ruin the site.

Chichen-Itza is actually the name for ritual grounds. Have you ever watched "El Dorado"? Remember the game they played with the ball through the hoops? Well this was behind me when I took the picture. Also, from the movie again, there was the huge water well into which the Aztecs threw offerings of precious jewels, metals, and the remains of human sacrifices.

If you stand in front of one of the sides of the pyramid and clap loudly, you could hear an echo inside the top of the temple, which sounds like a bird call. A hawk, in fact. This was purposefully built into the temple because the Mayans believed on your way to Sheba, you have to be reincarnated into a hawk, serpent, and jaguar.

Having such a superior knowledge of ours, and many other solar systems, they built another interesting thing into the pyramid. On the Spring and Fall equinoxes, at about 5-7pm, you will see a snake going down the full length of the steps. I hope you can see the snake heads at the bottom. The sun casts shadow triangles on the railing.

So now there is a hawk call, and a snake in the pyramid's architecture. Where is the Jaguar? Inside the actual temple, of course. Our guide told us about a red sacrificial table in the form of a jaguar, standing in the temple.

The Mayans were so involved in mathematics, that we based our calculators on their system of counting by twenty instead of ten. We call it the binary system. An extensive insight into mathematics, astrology, and the sciences, gave the Mayan architects the knowledge to build such a work of art.

Please leave a comment, commemorating this awesome feat of engineering by the Mayan Civilization, on my deviation. I hope you like it.

Rustic B.

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