[Aztlan] THE TUNNELS UNDER THE PYRAMID OF THE SUN

[Harold H. Green]

So far, nothing has been mentioned regarding orientation of the tunnel 
(s).

In his 2000 paper in "Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage," edited by  
David Carrasco et al., Aveni said this about
the "cave" under Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun:

"Finally, there is the cave, with its mouth opening in the same east- 
west direction beneath the Pyramid
of the Sun as the Pleiades-sun alignment ... . Because the cave was  
regarded as the place where
time began, the sight line from its mouth to the western horizon  
commemorated when  time began.
What a graphic embodiment of the 'birth of the cosmos at Teotihuacan,  
the beginning of the present
era' (to quote Millon 1992:35)."

It is my understanding that there is now consensus that the Pyramid  
of the Sun is oriented to
sunset on April 29 and August 12 (or April 30 and August 13), the  
days of solar zenith passage
at the latitude of just shy of 15° N. The long interval between those  
dates is 260 days, and the
latter date (August 12/13) is the date (Gregorian) of "the beginning  
of the present era," August
13, 3114 BC.

I would be interested in anything regarding current understanding of  
the orientation of
the tunnel(s) and relationship to that of the Pyramid itself.

Hal Green


On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:08 AM, michael ruggeri wrote:

> John and Listeros,
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> Here is an article I posted at the time on muon detectors being used
> in Belize and at Teotihuacan inside the 330 foot lava tube under the
> Pyramid of the Sun.
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> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/9179/title/
> Muons_Meet_the_Maya
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> Tiny URL;
> http://tinyurl.com/6b49t7
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> And an article I posted in 2004 about the muon detector experiment in
> the tunnel underneath the Pyramid of the Sun from Physics Today
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> http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_57/ 
> iss_2/31_1.shtml
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> Tiny URL;
> http://tinyurl.com/5e5tb2
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> There was also a program on "Digging for the Truth" on cable which
> took us to the Muon detector inside the Pyramid of the Sun and walked
> us through the lava tube.
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> So the main tunnel has been open since its discovery in 1971. The
> other tunnel that was just re-opened after 30 years is a different
> tunnel and as Kim pointed out, is man made.
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> Mike Ruggeri
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> Mike Ruggeri's Teotihuacan; City of the Gods
> http://tinyurl.com/2nrs9d
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