This six-level step pyramid is decorated with feathered serpent heads and snake-like creatures. It was built possibly between 100-200 AD - DMC, INAH/M. MARAT
The excavation focused on a 330-foot-long tunnel which runs under the structure. The conduit was discovered in 2003 when heavy rain uncovered a hole a few feet from the temple. - CNMH, INAH
Hundreds of mysterious spheres - DMC, INAH/M. MARAT
To understand where and how the tunnel ended, the archaeologists used a 3-foot-long, remote-controlled robot which was able to explore the last part of the duct. - via discovery.com
The chambers are displayed as they were plotted by the laser scanner. - HÉCTOR MONTAÑO/INAH
Notes on Teotihuacan’s Feathered Serpent (2/2)
Hundreds of mysterious spheres discovered beneath the “Temple of the Feathered Serpent”
Last week, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of “hundreds of spheres” in several rooms beneath the “Temple of the feathered Serpent”. The rooms were explored for the first time via a robotic device. The spheres, 4 to 10 cm in diameter, consisted of a clay core, covered with pyrite, which oxidized for thousands of years, became jarosite. The purpose or the meaning of those spheres remains unknown.[1]
According to a report by NBC’s Today Show, the tunnel concealing the three rooms had been sealed off 1,800 years ago and was rediscovered in 2003 after a heavy rainstorm caused the ground to sink, revealing the hole. [2]
According to Gómez Chávez, the tunnel was sealed twice by the Teotihuacan people. Thick walls, erected to block access, were demolished about 1,800 years ago in order to deposit something very important in the central chamber at the end of the tunnel.
“Maybe in this place,” Gómez Chávez said, “we will find the remains of those who ruled Teotihuacan.” [3]
The myth
While scientists continue to explore, it may be useful to remind that it’s impossible to understand an ancient civilisation by the terms of our modern world. We may have robots and scanners, but are unable to understand what a “power object” is or that burial might not refer exclusively to dead people.
An ancient civilisation has to be understood by its own terms, regardless of how incredible they may seem to our modern ears.
According to Carlos Castaneda, ancient Toltecs had the ability to transfer their feelings (their “power”) into objects, such as stone rings or similar. Those “power objects”, if retrieved later by some other person, could act as “feeling projectors” to the individual who retrieved them, enabling him to sense their owners’ sentiments at the moment of the initial “recording”.
Furthermore, it was told by the same author, that shamans of ancient mesoamerican civilisations used to bury themselves for a limited period of time or permanently, to revive their bodies by Earth’s energy or to acquire longevity.
These sound of course like fairy tales, but do we have a better explanation of what really was happening there?
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The Fire from Within
This is a must for whoever wants to explore the myth-side of the story. For the science-side, see here.
