Palenque
Palenque is surrounded by the jungle. This
Maya-city date from 300-900
A.D. hereafter it became
abandoned for unknown reasons. The complex
exists of several temples/pyramids, palaces
and an astronomic sun tower.
It has been built on a natural terrace above the outer
marches of the Río Usumacinta, and it was a
field of trade between several regions.
The river transported except trade products also knowledge and ideas.
Under the rulers such as Pakal the
great and his
son, Kan Balam, Palenque
became an important Maya-kingdom.
It is here WARM and MOIST.
We see the "Templo
de las Inscripciones".
In fact it's a temple on the top of a pyramid. The
temple has been named after the hieroglyphic
inscriptions on the walls, on which
is indicated also the date 692
AD. In 1952 they discovered a sealed stone
entrance which led to a
25m a deeper lain sepulchral chamber in the heart
of the pyramid. In the tomb they found
a skeleton of king PAKAL, who carried a
dead mask of inlayed gold and jade-stone.
Unfortunately nowadays the temple has been closed.
Templo XIII. In XIII one has found at
the base a tomb of the red queen.
Here we enter the way to it.
Palacio.
A building
complex with inner court, passages
and tunnels and a tower with 4
floors. One thinks that the tower was used
as an observatory. The walls of the palace
have been decorated with very detailed panels in plaster work, stones
statues and hieroglyphs.
See photo below.
King PAKAL.
Again the Palacio
Souvenir, bought here. See table mats on left
picture. It is a drawing on the lid of the
sarcophagus of PAKAL
The Heliconia flower.
Under and above:
Temples and pyramids which lie deeply in the jungle and where one has
still no money to expose
them. See this pyramid. Covered under trees and shrubs. What we
see in Palenque is only
4 % of what is still
there under the jungle.
Left: Templo del SOL.
Right: Templo de la Cruz foliada,
with the "keyholes"...
Overview of Templo del sol, palacio and templo
de la cruz.
Templo del Sol
Templo de la cruz.
A pyramid with 9 levels, a magical number, because it
returns everywhere at the Maya's, and represents the
9 (under) worlds. On the pyramid
stands a temple where a roof peak stands up.
Grupo Norte. These temples are built just
before the city fall down.
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Egypte, Peru, Bolivia en Mexico. Verder een kort
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