WHEN I GRADUATED FROM WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY I TRAVELED TO MEXICO FOR A DIG AND THEN I TRAVELED DURING THE WEEKENDS TO DIFFERENT SIGHTS INCLUDING TEOTIHUACAN. THIS CITY WAS A RELIGIOUS CENTER FOR OVER 12,000 YEARS. IT MEANS THE PLACE WHERE MEN BECOME GODS. THE MEXICANS THOUGHT IT WAS THE PLACE CHOSEN BY THE GODS TO BEGIN THE 5TH REINCARNATION OF THEWORLD. IT WAS A MAJOR PREHISTORIC TRADE CENTER WITH OBSIDIAN SCULPTURES, WOODEN SCULPTURERS AND MANY DIFFERENT CRAFTS PEOPLE. BOWLS, MASKS, POTTERY, ETC. MADE FROM HERE HAVE BEEN FOUND IN ELITE BURIALS THROUGHOUT MEXICO. IT HAD A GREAT MARKETPLACE IN THE GREAT COMPOUND. I VISITED THE SITE WHEN I WAS ABOUT 20 AND LOVED PHOTOGRAPHING THE RICHLY PAINTED FRESCOS AND SCULPTURES OF THE SUN AND RAIN GODS. THE LORDS/KINGS HAD ELABORATE PALACE COMPOUNDS ARRANGED AROUND A COURT. NO OTHER PREHISTORIC CITY IN MEXICO HAD SO MANY PAINTED WALLS. THIS CITY INFLUENCED ALL THE CITIES IN THE VALLEY OF MEXICO.
IN 900 YEARS IT GREW FROM 6000 - 120,O0O PEOPLE, AND INCLUDED AN 8 SQUARE MILE CITY THAT WAS ORIENTED N-S AND E-W WITH PYRAMIDS OF THE SUN AND MOON AND A TEMPLE OF QUETZALCOATL. RULERS AND CHIEFS CAME FROM THROUGHOUT MEXICO.
IT'S PEAK INFLUENCE WAS AD 500 - 650 AD. AT THAT TIME IT SHIFTED FROM A GOVERNMENT RULED BY PRIESTS TO A MORE SECULAR CONTROL. THERE WERE 2000 1 STORY APARTMENTS FOR THE COMMON FOLKS. I STUDIED THE ARCHITECTURAL LAYOUT OF ALL OF THESE COMPOUNDS AND THE ENTIRE CITY IN GRADUATE SCHOOL. THE FARMERS LIVED ON THE PERIPHERY IN SMALL QUARTERS. THE CITY WAS BURNED IN 650 AD!
WILLIAM FERGUSON
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