[Aztlan] Inquistion records yeild clues to Mayan cave network

[Mario F. Malo]

Tzibichen Cenote, Yucatan      Associated press, Nov. 5, 2008,                                 Mexican Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda using long forgotten testimony from the Spanish Inquisition spent 5 years combing the 450 year old records of the Inquisition trials the Spaniards held against Indian "heretics" in Mexico. A network of underground chambers, roads and temples beneath farmland and jungle on the Yucatan peninsula suggests the Maya fashioned them to mimic the journey to the underworld, or Xibalba. de Anda introduced "an extremely important ingredient" by using historical records to locate and connect a series of sacred caves and link them with the concept of the Mayan road to the afterworld. Among de Anda's discoveries are a broad, perfectly paved, 100-yard underground road leading west the direction to the afterlife, a submerged temple, walled-off stone rooms, a collapsed and submerged altar with carvings
 indicating it was dedicated to the God of death and the passage to Xibalba.      Mario F. Malo