Tula (Toltec Capital) colonnaded hall and temple platform

Tula (Toltec Capital) colonnaded hall and temple platform

Tula (Toltec Capital) colonnaded hall and temple platform architecture showing
“Atlantean” pillar statues atop platform.
“Atlantean” pillar statues atop main platform, Tula.
“Atlantean” pillar statue atop platform, Tula.
Tula (Toltec Capital) decorative frieze along inner wall of courtyard. Note step
fret (bottom) and snake (serpent) (middle) motifs.
Tula (Toltec Capital) courtyard/plaza view, after reconstruction.
Early florescence (Puuc culture) Maya 3-story palace at Sayil, Yucatan.
Early florescence (Puuc culture) Maya pillar and frieze on palace structure
Uxmal, Yucatan.
Early florescence (Puuc culture) Maya mosaic (multi stone, puzzle-piece like)
Façade, Nunnery Quadrangle, Uxmal, Yucatan.
Early florescence (Puuc culture) Maya corbelled-arch entrance gate (to plaza)
At Labna, Yucatan.
Early florescence (Puuc culture) Maya mosaic (multi stone, puzzle-piece like)
Façade, Nunnery Quadrangle, Uxmal, Yucatan. Above and behind can be
seen the main temple pyramid
Early florescence (Puuc culture) Maya main temple pyramid,
Uxmal, Yucatan. Note the rounded corners and projecting “stair block” on
Upper platform.
Late florescence (Puuc culture) map of Chichen Itza. Note location of
cenote, observatory, temple of the warriors (Tula style) and main temple pyramid
Late florescence (Puuc culture) temple of the warriors (Tula style) at Chichen Itza.
Note reclining chacmool figure at top of steps; colonnaded architecture at base and
summit of temple.
Reclining chacmool figure with dish (for heart extraction, most likely) atop the
temple of the warriors at Chichen Itza. Chacmools of this sort are also found at Tula.
Late florescence (Puuc culture) temple of the warriors (Tula style) at Chichen Itza
as seen from far side (looking toward temple platform). Note colonnaded hall
architecture on platform, which surrounds and extends out from the temple.
Late florescence (Puuc culture) “Nunnery” at Chichen Itza. Note supernatural
creatures projecting from (mosaic piece-work masonry) the wall face
Late florescence (Puuc culture) “Caracol” observatory at Chichen Itza. This was
Used to map heavenly bodies, particularly Venus. It may have been the place from
which the star chart table calculations in the Dresden codex were determined.
Close up view of the Caracol at Chichen Itza. Note multiple windows (sight-lines)
in upper story
Late florescence (Puuc culture) featheredSerpent column, Temple of the Warriors
Summit, Chichen Itza. This imagery, and
images of Toltec warriors on the columns
as well, can be linked to imagery at Tula in
The Mexican highlands.
Late florescence (Puuc culture) temple of the warriors (Tula style) at Chichen Itza.
Note feathered-serpent figure projecting from top of stair side and standing
figure with heart receptacle/bowl.
The main Late florescence (Puuc culture) temple (“Castillo”) at Chichen Itza.
The cenote of sacrifice at Chichen Itza, Late florescence (Puuc culture). Many
offerings (including gold objects and people/skeletons were dredged from this
location 100 yrs ago.
Map of Mayapan, Yucatan. Late Postclassic period. Note defensive wall and
Incredible density of residential structures within it.
Main temple (of Kukulkan [feathered-serpent]) in the center part of Mayapan,
Yucatan. This is a shoddy imitation of the earlier Castillo temple structure at
Chichen Itza
Mayapan mural (paint on stucco) showing warrior scene. War was a constant at
This time and figures in the downfall of the site.