(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.
Art
Mexico from Slides prt27: Coba
Mexico from Slides | Solo prt30: War
Mexico from Slides prt26: Chichen Itza prt4
Mexico from Slides | Solo prt29: “Say Cheese”
Mexico from Slides prt25: Chichen Itza prt3
(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.
On, and inside the Temples of the Jaguar were reliefs.
“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)
Mexico from Slides | Solo prt28: Jigsaw Puzzle from the Past
Mexico from Slides | Solo prt27: Staring for more than a Thousand Years
Mexico from Slides | Solo prt26: Kukulkan frontal
Mexico from Slides prt24: Chichen Itza prt2
(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.
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.