[Aztlan] Is there an Aztec Lupercal?

[Paul Troemner]

Dick,
I seem to recall something about a seven-pronged cave
within the Teotihuacan Temple of the Sun, believed to
be a place of emergence of the ancestors.

Paul Troemner

--- "Diehl, Richard" <rdiehl at as.ua.edu> wrote:

...This leads me
> to ponder the possibility that certain Aztec
> emperors created artificial caves as replicas of
> their equally mythical Chicomostóc, birth-cave of
> their ancestors, as places of worship. Perhaps not,
> but if they did, the archaeologist in me naturally
> asks where they might be. In the Tenochtitlán palace
> complexes? At Teotihuacan? At Tula, where legend has
> it that the most sacred of Aztec relics were buried
> immediately after the Spanish sacking of
> Tenochtitlan? In some secluded natural cave on an
> inaccessible mountain top overlooking the Basin of
> Mexico?



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