Where is the temple of quetzalcoatl located

Excavation has shown that the Guatemala Street temple was bordered by a long outer wall, which the modern street directly above it follows exactly.

This is no coincidence, but rather evidence that the Spaniards stuck closely to the original Aztec urban grid when they built their own city on the ruins of Tenochtitlan.

Modern avenues also run along the same lines as causeways that once connected the ancient island city to the mainland. Scurvy in Columbus' first colony, the Near Eastern lizard diet, a medieval Christian tattoo in Sudan, and how nice weather helped Genghis Khan. Subscribe to the Digital Edition!

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Destinations in Mexico. W Tepantitla Headdress Identical symbolism can be found in the headdresses worn by the priests of the Teotihuacan precinct of Tepantitla. The priests are depicted sowing seeds or giving offerings to the earth see fig. Their headdresses combine an elongated curling snout with the eye of an owl and the feathers of the quetzal.

The curling snout is identical to that found on the Aztec Calendar Stone — which, considering the mural of Tepantitla was created before AD and the calendar stone was produced in AD, is quite exceptional. Also, the imagery on the Calendar Stone reflects the legend of Cipatli being ripped in two, so perhaps the Fire-Serpent and Cipatli are two aspects of the same being. Either way, both characters appear to represent a fundamental element of the ritual calendar and possibly even the creation of time and the cosmos.

W1-GR: The serpentine Great Rift descends to earth A tunnel beneath the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl also contains strong references to the cosmos, with hundreds of clay spheres covered in golden pyrite littering the floor and metallic dust rubbed on the walls. The combined effect resembles a passage-way through space when illuminated by torchlight.

Discoveries are still being made by archaeologists with the assistance of a small robot named Tlaloc II , but thus far there is no evidence that either the tunnel or the three caves located at its end were used or designed for elite burials as had once been thought.

Instead, it appears the tunnel and cave network was a shrine to the cosmos and the gods of creation. Caves themselves are though to have been the place where gods were born, and it is possible that the Teotihuacan elite used the caves beneath the Temple of Quetzalcoatl to give birth, with the newborn baby being carried through the starry tunnel and out into the world, as though they were being born from a cosmic womb or descending from the heavens.

In Mayan mythology, the crocodile was associated with the Great Rift, a darkened patch within the Milky Way. This strange darkened, serpent-like, passage was also considered the womb or vagina of the galaxy, from which planets, stars, the cosmos and time itself were born see fig.

It is very possible that the crocodilian form on the Temple of the Feathered was also associated with this facet of the night-sky and therefore represents the birth of the cosmos, and the beginning of time.

With four stepped, talud-tablero levels, it is also possible that the Temple of the Feathered Serpent was also designed to commemorate the four preceding suns, with a temple on top dedicated to the Fifth Sun. Taking the exposed face as an approximate, it is thought that the combined four faces would have totalled Feathered-Serpent heads, thus equalling one for each day of the ritual calendar.

It is then thought that the small gap between the teeth at the front would have been used to leave offerings or place a day marker, leaving a visible indication to the population of what day it was.

Burials found within the foundations of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent also suggest a strong link with the ritual calendar.

Thus far, more then sacrificial victims have been found, with their hands bound behind their backs and their bodies strategically placed. Archaeologists are convinced that once excavation is complete, this body count will equal and therefore each represent one day of the Sacred Calendar.

W North flank of the Citadel Around the perimeter of the Ciudadela complex in which the Temple of the Feathered Serpent sits, there are 11 other much smaller pyramidal structures constructed on a raised base, with four on each side and three to the rear four of these are visible in fig.

Add the Adosado platform and the Temple of the Feathered-Serpent to these smaller pyramids and you have 13 — one for each day of a Trecena. This final piece of evidence appears to conclusively demonstrate that the Pyramid of the Feathered-Serpent was dedicated to the Ritual Calendar and the festivities that took place. The Ciudela enclosure is the largest defined space at Teotihuacan and measures a massive m 2.

It would have been able to accommodate the entire population, which numbered in excess of , people.