Red Jaguar and Chac Mool
Nov 5, 2009
Around the temples complex, there’s a statue called Red Jaguar. According to Bishop Landa, in this place in past there were veneration. The sacrifice can be jaguar, turtles, turkeys, dogs or all animal’s heart. Or sometimes the sacrifice were human.
There are eight statues of Chac Mool in Chichén Itzá area too. Chac Mool is statue depicting human with head hold-up. Both the hands are holding veneration, and the human’s head turning left. Chac Mool is built to worship the God of Rain.
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Categories: north america, pyramid | Tagged: architecture, chac mool, chichén Itzá, culture, el-castilo, kukulkan, Mayan, Mexico, pyramid, red jaguar, temple, tribe |
