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El Castillo (Spanish for “the castle”), conjointly referred to as the Temple of Kukulkan, could be a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the middle of the Chichen Itza archaeologic web site within the Mexican state of Yucatán. The building is a lot of formally selected by archaeologists as Chichen Itza Structure 5B18.
Built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization someday between the ninth and twelfth centuries atomic number 58, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent spiritual being closely associated with the god god better-known to the Aztecs and different central Mexican cultures of the Postclassic amount.
The pyramid consists of a series of sq. Terraces with stairways up every of the four sides to the temple on high. Sculptures of plumed serpents run down the edges of the northern bannister. Throughout the spring and season equinoxes, the late afternoon sun strikes off the northwest corner of the pyramid and casts a series of triangular shadows against the northwest bannister, making the illusion of a feathered serpent “crawling” down the pyramid. Every of the pyramid’s four sides has ninety one steps that, once value-added along and together with the temple platform on high because the final ‘step’, produces a complete of 365 steps (which is adequate to the quantity of days of the Haab’ year).
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