City In Mexico » tenochititan http://www.cityinmexico.com Organize your paradise vacation in Mexico! Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:51:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Great Temple aka Templo Mayor http://www.cityinmexico.com/the-great-temple-aka-templo-mayor.html http://www.cityinmexico.com/the-great-temple-aka-templo-mayor.html#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:38:12 +0000 admin http://www.cityinmexico.com/?p=11 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Not far from the National Palace, the main temple of the Aztecs is situated known as Templo Mayor. In the previous century, electric company workers came across a large round stone depicting the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauqui and that is how the excavation of the great temple began. All the items found on the site; interesting scale model of the city in the ancient times, ruins from the sidewalk, together with the stone sculpture of the moon goddess are displayed in the Templo Mayor. This temple is only a part of a larger sacred center of the famous city of Tenochititan that contained up to 78 buildings. This specific temple is believed to be dedicated to Tlaloc, the rain god, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of war. Like all the important buildings in the Mexico City, the Templo Mayor also went through several phases of construction and every phase made the building bigger. It is a large stone pyramid with the familiar wide staircases and temples seen throughout Mexico. Two snake heads guard the foot of the main staircase and appear elsewhere in the temple. Templo Mayor was a symbolic recreation of Coatepec, “the Hill of the Serpent,” a mythical sacred place. The Aztecs referred to Templo Mayor as Coatepec. By paying the admission fee you will have the opportunity to see all the artifacts found on the site and study it by yourselves.

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