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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Coba prt1
(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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War
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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
“Say Cheese”
(Tomorrow we go to Spain for 2 weeks; no WiFi… Have a fine holiday and thanks for following; see you!)
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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.
Ballgame-court
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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)
Jigsaw Puzzle from the Past
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Staring for more than a Thousand Years
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Kukulkan frontal
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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
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