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Teotihuacán: View looking up slope of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent

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posted on 2017-07-07, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
Further down the Avenue of the Dead is the area known as the Citadel (Ciudadela), containing the ruined Temple of the Feathered Serpent. The sculptures are the feathered serpent and Tlaloc or a “war serpent.”
Pre-Columbian site in the Mexican Central Highlands. It was the region’s pre-eminent city during the Late Pre-Classic and Classic periods (c. 250 BC-c. AD 900). Little is known about their ethnic origins, but, with a population estimated at up to 200,000, in the 6th century AD Teotihuacán was the largest and most populous city in the Pre-Columbian Americas and sixth most populous in the world. The religion of Teotihuacan was similar to those of other Mesoamerican cultures. Many of the same gods were worshiped, including the Feathered Serpent (the Aztecs’ Quetzalcoatl) and Rain God (the Aztecs’ Tlaloc.). The dominant civic architecture is the pyramid. The fall of Teotihuacán occurred in the 8th century, when the centre of the city was extensively destroyed and, according to ethnohistorical sources, its population dispersed. Some seven centuries later the site was known to the Aztecs only as a place of religious pilgrimage and myth.

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1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-07-07

Spatial Coverage

+19.6925-98.8438 Teotihuacán, México, Mexico: ca. 50 km north-east of Mexico City Teotihuacán

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Mesoamerican', 'Classic (Mesoamerican period)']

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