Chichén Itzá
The Ancients
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The Maya Pyramid and the Feathered Serpent
The feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is on this pyramid but pyramids are symbolically mountains and what we see is an association with something that the Aztec called Coatepec which means literally translates as serpent mountain. It may be that these serpent mountains were part of what you had to do to establish your political authority. We also know that the feathered serpent was associatedyou know a deity that merchants worshipped so there may have been an important aspect of that in there too. I lined up with the order of the gods and it says the pyramid got this massive great staircase going up. What about right at the top what's at the top of this iconic piece of Maya architecture
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