On Thursday Jeff and I went to the Aztec Temple which is right in the middle of town. It turns out Aztec is a term made up by a German in the 1800’s. The Mexican term is mexica.
The site is huge, seven city blocks.
And it’s truly in the middle of town. Here’s a wall of stone skulls with a church from the 1500’s behind it.
They were really into skulls.
As if a wall of carved stone skulls wasn’t creepy enough, they also did this.
The attached museum housed all the things found at the site which is good because the museum is air conditioned.
This stone tablet was so big you needed to be up.2 floors top see it.
And I think they must have invented the recorder we all played in third grade.
The green instrument is made of stone but looks exactly the same.
This guy might have invented corn on the cob
This was something to put an offering in. I love the face on it.
And of course one that looks really pissed off.
Then it was back to the apartment to have a Spanish lesson.