The Teotihuacan Pyramids , located just outside of Mexico City, Mexico, is the largest pyramidal structures built during in the pre-Columbian Americas and have been considered worthy of being inhabited by Gods and by tourists alike. Teotihuacan pyramids, a monumental city, is a thousands of years old civilization and city with wide avenues projecting up to the cardinal points of the universe, a city patterned with dwelling places and with streets that have bore witness to vast activities of people and goods coming and going in this mythical city of the lofty realm of Gods. Many Mexico City area hotels offer tours to this site, visit this page to find out more. Visitors to the pyramids will find mural paintings of mythical figures and Gods, nocturnal beings, jaguars and liquid skies.
The archaeological remnants of the city itself, plus the vestiges of fine pottery from the people of Teotihuacan’s, which are on exhibit around the world, express the past generations of peoples who inhabited this ancient city. The central ceremonial area is laid out in symbolic axes: the Pyramid of the Moon and to its side, the immense, rising stone mass of the Pyramid of the Sun; two structures that represent the duality between the creation of nature and the people who built these limestone, volcanic rock walls. At the other axes, the north-south axis – the Avenue of the Dead is where the buildings, plazas, palaces, alters and the wings of the butterfly extends to either side.
The Pyramids were abandoned, which still perplex archaeologist even today as to why, but hundreds of years later, other people named the site ‘The City of Gods’, with good reason, it was steeped in deep religious convictions centered around cycles in nature that gave directions for sowing, reaping, draughts, rainfall and a cosmology with strict phenomenological relationships expressing astronomical and calendrical aspects that was reflected in the very construction of the city. So much so, the very patterns of life, the unprecedented levels of perfection, the cycles of production, urban designs, ceremonial objects, vases and the social structure of the Teotihuacan’s are currently reflected in today’s agricultural systems and the new movement for a better urban renewal paradigm.
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