[Aztlan] A RESPONSE TO RICHARD DIEHL ON ARTIFICIAL CAVES

[michael ruggeri]

In response to Richard Diehl's pondering as to whether or not the  
Aztecs ever created an artificial cave to represent the cave of  
Chicomoztoc, the Aztec site at Malinalco is a perfect example of an  
artificial cave built by the Aztecs right into a mountain with an  
inner chamber where they carved jaguar and eagle seats out of the  
rock. Could this cave site have been in some way a reference to the  
tale of Chicomoztoc?

The URL below from Antonio Rafael de la Cova's site has some good  
pictures of Malinalco.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/malinalco.htm

Mike Ruggeri