Zeng Lu asked curiously, "That's right." Brother Xiaofei, what did you just say about this Kukulkan, what kind of god is it, I just watched other things, I didn't remember, what kind of god is it?" Xiao Fei involuntarily blurted out: "Kukulkan originally meant a place for dancing and singing, or a snake god with feathers." And Quetzalcoatl is known as the embodiment of the sun, that is, the sun god. Zeng Lu nodded as if he didn't understand, and said, "I see." ”

Xiao Fei sprinkled and said: "By the way, I suddenly remembered that the Mayan pyramid has many secrets, as we all know, it is a nine-story circular altar built of earth, 29 meters high, more than 55 meters wide around the perimeter, about 250 meters in circumference, the highest floor is built with a 6-meter-high square altar temple, the Kukulkan pyramid is about 30 meters high, surrounded by 91 steps, adding up to a total of 364 steps, plus the Quetzalcoatl Temple at the top of the tower, a total of 365 steps, guess what this represents?" In fact, it symbolizes the 365 days of the year. On both sides of the stairs is up to 1 meter wide side wall, and at the lower end of the north side wall, there is a large stone carving with a feather snake head, the snake head is 1.43 meters high, 1.80 meters long, and 1.07 meters wide, and a large tongue spits out of the snake's mouth, which is quite unique. At sunset on the two days of the spring and autumn equinoxes each year, the side wall of a set of steps on the north side will form a seven-section isosceles triangle in the sunlight, and together with the snake head carved at the bottom, it resembles a giant snake swimming from the top of the tower to the earth, symbolizing the legendary Quetzalcoatl god awakening and crawling out of the temple at the spring equinox. Each time, the illusion lasted exactly 3 hours and 22 minutes, every minute of it. This mystical landscape is known as the Serpentine of Light and Shadow. Whenever the pyramid of Kukulkan is unveiled with a snake shadow spectacle, the ancient Mayans gathered together to sing and dance to celebrate the arrival of the feathered serpent god. So this ancient building, before it was built, was clearly carefully geometrically designed, and the precision and subtlety and dramatic effect it expressed, the wonderful display of the Maya's knowledge of architectural geometry, this superb geometrical and astronomical knowledge is vividly expressed. It will amaze our descendants. It's a pity that we didn't come at the right time, and we had to wait impartially until that day to see the fantastic scene of light and shadow snakes, which is a pity, a pity, and only have the opportunity to see it again in the future. ”

We were eager to look around at the other ancient buildings of Chichen Itza on a large scale. In addition to the famous Mayan pyramids, the complex also includes the Doge's Palace, the Sister's Palace, the Temple of the Warriors, the Temple of the Tiger and the huge pyramids. , there is a palace in front of the pyramid to the right. In the middle of the palace is a huge compound, which seems to have been the place where the royal family watched competitions or performances at that time. There are all kinds of lifelike, colorful paintings and reliefs on the walls of the corridor, which have gone through a long period of thousands of years, and their colors are dim but still recognizable, especially the green, and there is a steam room in the northeast corner of the back corridor, where a boulder is first burned with fire, and then water is poured on the stone to give off steam for the royal family to bathe. In front of the palace, there is a square tower with a total of five floors. On all sides of the palace and the tower, there are palace-like buildings. In front of the pyramid is a huge square, which was an important center of activity for the city-state.

There are also rows of particularly eye-catching, neatly arranged stone pillars that have sprung up from the surface like mushrooms after a rain, Hu Jiaojiao asked curiously what this is for? Xiao Fei gushed endlessly: "The Mayans often set up pillars in the city to keep notes, and the time interval has a fixed number of years, usually every 20 years to erect some stone pillars to remember some important things. Historians can know the ins and outs of the city based on the records on the stone pillars. According to the available materials, the age of the pillar is more than 1,200 years, the earliest stone pillar was erected in 328, and the last one was erected in 1516. For example, the Mayan script, which has been deciphered, is erected on June 20, 468, which happens to be the 13th year of the Mayan calendar. The text on the pillar mainly recounts the deeds of Kanac, the 12th ruler of the city of Tikal, and his family. The inscription on the pillar also tells us that Si'an Cha'an Cavill became ruler of Tikal on 27 November 411 AD, that he died on 19 February 456 and was buried on 9 August 458. The city of Tikal was founded by a Mayan named Jax Mokshok, who was the ancestor of Kanac. After more than 100 years of rule, the Kanac family turned the city of Tikal into the most glorious city of its time. The stone pillars erected by the Mayans are valuable historical materials for the study of Mayan culture. ”

In front of the right side of the pyramid there is a magnificent circular building, 22.5 meters high, its design is very ingenious, ingenious, the whole tower is like a snail shell. Inside the tower there is a spiral staircase leading to the observatory at the top of the tower. There are 8 elaborate windows on the wall of the tower, from which you can observe the celestial phenomena. The facades, door frames, and friezes of these buildings are covered with intricately carved reliefs of the Quetzalcoatl, whose finesse in material, beauty and symmetry surpass the architecture of the original southern Mayan culture, and even today's architects are amazed. The observatory is dedicated to Quetzalcoatl, who is in charge of the winds and learning, and is located at a location where you can observe the equinox of day and night in spring, the maximum north-south tilt of the moon, and other astronomical phenomena. The Mayans judged the arrival of the summer and winter solstices by the shadows that the sun created on the doors of the house. On the edge of the building lay large stone cups, which the Mayans filled with water and observed the stars by reflection to determine their rather complex and extremely precise calendar system. Dumbo wasted no time in interjecting that the Mayans were second to none in the world at that time in terms of astronomical calendar and mathematical operations. They set the year as 365 days and divided the year into 18 months. There are 20 days in each month, and the remaining 5 days are taboo days. The accuracy of the calendar predates the Gregorian calendar that the Europeans later used. They also calculate the cycles of the moon, Venus, and other planets, and the time of solar eclipses. The Mayans used the "Taiyin Calculation Method" to calculate the year of Venus for more than 1,000 years, which was not worse than one day, which was more accurate than any calendar in the world at that time. The Maya's achievement in mathematics was the discovery of zero, which is a remarkable achievement in mathematics. Because this achievement predates Europe by 800 years. The Mayan method of calculation is based on the combination of human fingers and toes, so it is a 20-digit system. The Mayans used only 3 combinations of numbers and symbols to calculate very precise astronomical calendars and all the mathematical problems of everyday life. These three numbers are represented by a dot representing 1, a horizontal representing 5, and a shell representing 0.

The temple of the warriors was apparently built after the temple of Tula, the capital of Toltec, and was more grandiose than its prototype due to the skill of the Mayan architects. The samurai temple is a stone building topped by a stepped pyramid, and the pillars inside are carved into the shape of a samurai. At the top of the pyramid staircase leading to the entrance to the temple there is an altarpiece statue of the Angel Chuckmo. There are also 7 Central American squatting courses, of which the one around 150 meters northwest of the pyramid is the most eye-catching. This is the largest golf course in ancient Mesoamerica, with a length of 166 meters and a width of 68 meters. The interior of the stadium is lined with stone slabs carved with the images of the players. It is said that the ball game in Chichen Itza is a religious ritual, and the priest will first count a hexagram, which may say that if team A wins, the wind and rain will be smooth that year, otherwise it will be a disaster year. The players on both sides were in the dark, not knowing the content of the hexagram. In the end, maybe Team B won. When the priest unveiled the hexagram, the poor captains of both A and B offered their heads to quench the wrath of God. This scene can be seen on a picture of the captain's decapitation on the field. One of the outer walls of the course is built with a jaguar temple with another jaguar crown on it. Because it has been buried in the ground for a thousand years, the red paint and the inlaid jade spots on it have disappeared. Next to the pitch is an open-air platform flanked by skull reliefs – stone-carved skulls worn on wooden frames. To the east is the government palace, which the Spaniards named the Convent. Not far to the east is a small temple, nicknamed the Church, decorated with elaborate masks of the rain gods. There are also the Grey Owl Temple and the Monkey Temple, etc., which make us jaw-dropping, dazzling, intoxicated, dreamlike, and breathtaking.

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