Wish you Light prt2

Wish you Light prt2

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Wish you Light

Wish you Light

A fine and warm Christmas!

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Tercui 2015 prt58 Montanyana

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Last year we visited the little, monumental village Montanyana (look here). It’s located on two mountainsides; this year we did the other side. It’s quite a climb over the restored, old roads. On top are the romantic church: ‘Iglesia de Santa María de Baldós’; and a small cemetery. Unfortunately we missed the ‘Green Rabbits’.

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Mexico from Slides prt28: Tulum

Tulum and the Ocean

(5 Shots) Tulum was a kind of a bonus. We’d seen a lot; and Tulum could not catch up with that. Most interesting was that it was built upon a rocky coast. next to the enormous Ocean.

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Mexico from Slides prt27: Coba

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(5 Shots) We were in Coba only for a short time. What I liked a lot was, that the decay of the pyramides was quite near the point of transforming into something called a hill.

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Mexico from Slides prt26: Chichen Itza prt4

A feathered Serpent again

(7 Shots) Seven B&W’s from Chichen Itza.

Holy Jaguar

Goal or Basket

Sculpted and Non-Sculpted Faces

Upper Temple of the Jaguar Entrance

Entrance Security Gard

The Sun in the Sun

Mexico from Slides prt25: Chichen Itza prt3

Through the Muzzle

(15 Shots) On the right side of the first shot are the upper and lower Temple of the Jaguar; which had to do with battle and war; probably to ask some gods for victory. Behind the Jaguar-temples is a huge ballgame-court. It’s almost 150m. long; 30m. wide and the walls are 8m. high.

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On, and inside the Temples of the Jaguar were reliefs.

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El Caracol

“El Caracol or, The Snail is a round building on a large square platform. It gets its name from the stone spiral staircase inside. The structure, with its unusual placement on the platform and its round shape (the others are rectangular, in keeping with Maya practice), is theorized to have been a proto-observatory with doors and windows aligned to astronomical events, specifically around the path of Venus as it traverses the heavens.”(Wiki)

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El Caracol, detail

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Backdoor

Temple-conversation

La Iglesia (small temple)

Mexico from Slides | Solo prt28: Jigsaw Puzzle from the Past

Jigsaw Puzzle from the Past

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Mexico from Slides | Solo prt26: Kukulkan frontal

Kukulkan frontal

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Mexico from Slides prt24: Chichen Itza prt2

1000 Columns of The Temple of a Thousand Warriors

(10 Shots) The Temple of the Warriors consists of a large stepped pyramid fronted and flanked by many rows of carved columns depicting the thousand warriors.

Between the Warriors

On top of the Stairs

On top of the pyramid of the Temple of the Warriors is the temple. In front of the entrance is a typical sculpture of a lying figure with it’s head turned 90 degrees, called: Chacmool. It is a kind of offering table and the offers were placed in a bowl on it’s belly. On both sides of the entrance were large heads of the Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl; the Feathered Serpent; kind of God of wind, corn, wisdom and life. On the walls of the temple were also reliefs of Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl, with a human head in it’s mouth.

The Entrance of the Temple

Chacmool

Quetzalcoatls near the Entrance

In the Mouth of Quetzalcoatl

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Offering Corn to the Jaguar God

After the Rain