Teotihuacan name comes from two words Teo means God in Nahuatl and Ti means God. The name stands for The City of God Wahcan.
Tula the Toltec Capitol had different variation in names such as Tollan or Tullan. It is possible to be Teotihuacan.
(The Toltec Empire, Toltec Kingdom or Altepetl Tollan was a political entity in modern Mexico. It existed through the classic and post-classic periods of Mesoamerican chronology, but gained most of its power in the post-classic. During this time its sphere of influence reached as far away as the Yucatan Peninsula.)
Cronyn's description of the site:
"Under the ruins of Teotihuacan lies the ruins if a much earlier civilization buried beneath 15-20 feet of debris washed down from the surrounding hills."
On the ruins of this long dead metropolis arose Tula of early Nahuatl times.through the city an avenue several miles in length runs which was lined with temples.
On the Nirth it terminated innthe temple studded wall inclosing the grand Court of the Pyramid of the Moin.
South West it passed the Pyramid of Querzalcoatl.
Midway between these extremes stood the Pyramid if the Sun, raising its bulk above the conglomeration of temples palaces and Shrines.
No diety had a greater shrine than Quetzalcoatl. Avast court over six hundred feet wide by nineteen hundred feet long surrounded by a massive walk two hundred and sixty feet thick at the base and thirty two feet high, crowded by fifteen minor temples rising from all four sides bore whitness to the reverence the Toltecs paid to their greatest and most revered ditties
The famous wall.of Babylon dwarfs into insignificance in presence if this vast sanctuary erected to the God of the Winds.
In the center if the court on a truncated Pyramid is a ceremonial altar reached on all sides by stairs containing the thirteen traditional steps representing the thirteen cycles of The First Sun Age.
In the rear of this altar stands a higher one approached by a single.stairway of 39 steps symbolically of the 39 Ages.
(Remembet the history books were thrown in flames by the conquering Spanish.)
Vast underground stairways of soft conglomerate stone faced with cement take us to underground chambers of the fire worshipers who preceded the lava flows which inundated the southern end if the valley.
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