[Aztlan] A RESPONSE TO RICHARD DIEHL ON ARTIFICIAL CAVES

[Miguel Covarrubias]

If not entirely artificial, there's a cave carved by Aztecs at Barranca
Moctezuma, in Cerro de la Estrella, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, consisting of
two chambers separated by a basalt wall with a sorrounding bench.


2007/11/22, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com>:
>
> 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
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