Photo. The death gate (the street of dead) -
Teotihuacan outside Mexico City.
Pyramid wonders in
Mexico and Guatemala: - Are there any unexplored treasures buried under the pyramids?
- Wonders
of the worlds, but would all the Indians ritual secrets ever be revealed?
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Is it truth that if the Spanish conquerors did not intrude their site, they
would extinction themselves due to human sacrifice?
- Why did the Indians
vanish from these sites?
- Where can you experience ancient Indian cities as
the first explorers in the past experienced them?
From time to time you
can have an experience that change your life forever. For they who visit
pyramids in the jungle for the first time, it can be quite an apocalypse. This
was just what happened to me.
Early one morning in August 1994 I sat on
a top of an Maya pyramid deep in the Jungle in Guatemala. Huge pyramids and lush
rainforest surrounded me. There was a sound of silence and I felt an atmosphere
that I never had before. I was paralysed by the beautiful sunrise that lightened
up the wonders around me.
For a while I forgot all about the modern
world, and my thoughts led me back to an great ancient time. Questions were
asked, and fantasies stroke my head. It took a time before I returned. The wind
rustled in the trees, and I heard strange sounds. Then the morning was broken.
As far I could see;
people who built these fantastic constructions
represent the lost civilisation.
I was incredible
impressed. These are wonders comparable to those of ancient Egypt. It shows also
that people on different places have different qualities. All people on the
earth are important and are useful in their contribution. Some the pyramids you
can find deep in the rainforest, and other just outside the central city.
For anyone visiting Mexico and Guatemala with an interest in the ancient
Maya, the Aztec outside Mexico and Mayan Pyramids in Tikal are musts. The
geometric, huge and high buildings astonished me, and at the same time I saw a
lot of decorations and sculptures which exceeded my wildest imaginations, for
example large carved heads of the feathered serpents. Even more: the incredible
exact calendars from this ancient time convinced me that there have lived an
very scientific advanced people at these places.
Will more
treasures be found?
Both in Teotihuacan and Tikal there were
rumours and investigation about secret underground constructions, chambers and
tunnels. I still wonder about that there could be more treasures there if I
looked the right places? When the Indians left the area, the most have foreseen
that other people would discover these pyramids.
I believe that they
brought with them some of the valuables, but probably the most valuable
treasures were hidden where they didn't expect anyone to search for them.
Perhaps they planned to return one day to pick up their secret treasures.
Bloody rituals for pleasing Gods Indians in Mexico
and Guatemala are famous for they rituals. All they did was for their Gods. One
of the most remarkable relics of an ancient world civilisation in the world are
the pyramids in Teotihuacan located 45 km outside Mexico City, assumed to date
from around 300 BC. The builders of this site remain a mystery. Where they came
from and where they went, no one knows. But one thing is well known: the Indians
bloody ceremonies. After the pyramids become abandoned, the Aztec Indians took
over.
The Indians carried their victims up this street for
sacrificing. On the way from the Pyramid of Sun to the Moon Pyramids we passed
small grassy mounds, which are unexcavated temples. The Pyramid of the Moon was
very steep, but a huge staircase made it easier for to ascend to the top. The
view from the summit gave us a good impression of the whole site. The Pyramid of
Sun at the other end of the street is huger (64 metres high and 213 metres
square at the base), so we later enjoyed the outlook here.
Photo. Altar on the top. Here we prepared
the sacrifice.
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Photo. Altar on the top. Sacrificing of a
person on The Pyramid of the Moon - Teotihuacan (Mexico).
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This ritual
was an important part of the Aztec Indians culture intended to please their
gods. Sacrificing got in the end of the big empire out of control. The numbers
of victims increased dramatically before the Spanish arrived. It has been said
that if the Spanish conquerors didn't arrive the Indians would have extinguished
themselves in blood intoxicates.
This article continue in part 2.
Read more of the story and watch the photos.
Stein
Morten Lund, 30 October 2001
Additional
information
Formal country name: Estados Unidos Méxicanos.
Area: 1.95 million sq km.
Population: 100.35 million.
Capital City:
Mexico City (22 million inhabitants).
People: Approximately 60% mestizo
(mixed European and Amerindian descent) and 30% Amerindian (indígena - including
Nahua, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Totonacs, and Tarascos or Purépecha) Language:
Spanish; Castilian Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant Government:
federal republic
According to Lonely Planet guide, Mexico City is
the world's third-largest metropolis (only Tokyo and New York city are bigger).
Mexico's best and worst ingredients are all here: music and noise, brown
air and green parks, colonial palaces and skyscrapers, world-renowned museums
and ever-spreading slums. The city's historic centre is the Plaza de la
Constitución, or Zócalo.
The plaza was paved in the 1520s by Hernán
Cortés, using stones from the temples and palaces of the Aztec city of
Tenochtitlán he'd destroyed, and on which Mexico City was built.
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