Templo Mayor, Mexico City

Posted on September 4, 2018by travellovekai ”Templo Mayor, Mexico City”

The temple according to tradition myth is located on the exact spot where to god Huitzilopochtli gave the Mexica people the promised land. The Templo Mayor was a symbolic representation of the Hill of Coatepec where Huitzilopochtli was born emerging from his mother fully grown and ready to fight his sister Coyolxauhqui and her brothers the Centzon who intended to kill their mother and him.

Templo mayor which is Spanish for “The great Temple” is a vast temple and city of waterways created on Lake Texcoco that was originally inhabited by the Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco established around 1325. It was added to the UNESCO world heritage list in 1987. The city was the capital of the Aztec Empire in the fifteenth century. Until it was conquered by the Spanish in 1521. It is said that when the Spanish first saw the city they thought maybe they were dreaming. Never before had they seen a city built on top of the water, They were amazed.

Moctezuma II welcomed the Spaniards as a special guest fearing a war and that Cortes could be the returning god Quetzalcoatl because of the arrival time and the cycle of the Aztec…