Templo Mayor stands for great temple. Its an Aztec pyramid that was found in mexico city. It was built in honor of the war and water god. The pyramid started being built during 1325 AD and was gradually added on to. Templo mayor was the center of religous life. It was located in the city of Tenochtitlan before it became mexico city.
The Pyramid has a wide stair case like most pyramids do. There are 2 temples at the top that were dedicated to the god of war, and god of water/rain. To please the gods they did human sacrifises at the top of the temple at an altar. Some cool things that were found in the temple are, wall of sculls, lifesize clay warriors, and a stone eagle. The wall of sculls were from human sacrifices that took place there.
It is located in the exact spot where the God of War showed the people his profecy was true or something. It was shown by and eagle sitting on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. Templo Mayor is built to resemble the hill the god was born on and killed his sister on.The wall of sculls is placed where the Gods sisters head was placed. The different level of the pyramid also mean different things.
This pyramid was in the aztec city of tenochtitlan. That was one of the biggest aztec citys of that time. When the spaniards conqured tenochtitlan the took over Templo Mayor as well. They took apart the pyramid and destructed the rest of the city. discovering the how pyramid took several years.
It took 7 men and like 100 years to finally discover Templo Mayor. There is a museum with all the artifact from Templo mayor. It is located in Mexico city. During excavations, more than 7,000 objects were found. All of them are found in the museum. The museum is open to the public.
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