Word: kukulcan
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...Harper's vision of North America is also remarkably similar to Martin's. After posing with Bush and Fox near the weathered steps of the Kukulcan temple, built by the Mayans at Chich?n Itz? more than 1,000 years ago, the PM threw his support behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership approved by the three countries a year ago as a step toward managing the integrated North American economy. Said Harper in his best policy-wonk style: "We have got to think continentally...
...other words, this building may be a tomb. Or it may have been associated with worship of Kukulcan. God of the Air. There is one more possibility which suggests itself with much force that this peculiar edifice, like the only other round building now known to be standing in the entire Maya area the so-called Caracol at Chichen Itza was an astronomical observatory. Most of the 30 per cent of the Maya hieroglyphs that have been translated relate to the calendar and astronomy of the ancients or to methods of counting. We realize how advanced was the science...
...gods commonly portrayed in painting and sculpture the jaguar was second in importance only to the plumed serpent, Kukulcan. This serpent of ours has no plume, but he does have a bird's foot with distended claws at the extremity of a sort of dragon's leg attached to his body. This foot is held angrily below his open jaws. These would not be recognizable as a snake's jaws by a person unfamiliar with Maya art, which advanced over a course of conventionalization that took it to the pole opposite that of such realistic portrayal...
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