Sunday, March 18, 2007

Small pyramid at Ek' Balam






The area across from the front of the main pyramid has several smaller pyramid structures. Here I am at the top of one. There is a tiny room at the top without a roof, but it probably had a thatch roof. Or maybe a stone roof. I don't know. But the room is TINY and not very tall. As you can see from the doorway, I had to crouch to get through it. There's hardly room for two people in it and we don't know why it's there. It's alone at the top of the small pyramid. It seems likely that it was a ritual place for maybe one priest or elite person to perform something important, like human or animal sacrifice? I will expand on this in the next post.

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