Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan
The Ancients
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The Urban Structure of Teo Tua Kann
A lot of that comes from the Pyramid of the Sun which is in the middle one. It's further up the avenue that dead. And so therefore you kind of insted it there. I mean if you have that underground layer there with the ancestors and you have those tall pyramids too reaching up to the sky and in the central area. What does this therefore tell us about the layout how the city was organized? The Pyramid of the Feathert Serpent is very much associated with political authority and power. The Pyramid ofTheSun is probably much more of a structure. You wanted to fit in with that structure that the gods set up in the rhythm of the universe.
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