Word: paalmul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found at Paalmul a perfectly round building, 31 feet 8 inches high, but bigger than that measurement indicates, for it is roughly cone shaped and has a considerable diameter at the bottom. There are two stairways and four different walls or belts of masonry, looking not unlike four turrets of a battleship, placed one above another, the smallest at the top. The only room we could find was a small one in the next to the highest turned. An altar at the back of this room had been broken, exposing crevices that ran down several feet...
Four miles south of Paalmul, at Chakalal, we found a temple, on whose interior walls were painted red hands and the jaguar and the feathered serpent...
...buildings we found were of religious significance. This is true of the mysterious round building at Paalmul even if that was an observatory, for in that case it was an observatory manned by priests. It is difficult to name another race in which the religious emotion so dominated the high artistic expression of a whole people or worked to produce so ardent a search for the secrets of the universe...
...Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason, formerly on the editorial staff of the Outlook, cruised the Yucatan coast, putting ashore five times in six days to visit Mayan cities unknown to modern history-Xkaret, Paalmul. Chakalal, Actuo, Acomal. Four or five miles apart, they were each discoverable by a small temple seen from the sea, and might be approached in a launch by a creek or canal leading to a lake, lagoon or bay. These cities were on the trade route between northern Yucatan and Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like...
...Perhaps the most interesting temple at Paalmul was a round one with two stairways. There was probably a room on top but all that romains is a small chamber on third terrace...