Teotihuacan's Start a Mystery, But It's a Marvel

Teotihuacan's Start a Mystery, But It's a Marvel
(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

n the heart of central Mexico, surrounded by majestic mountains and volatile volcanoes, is the Valley of Mexico Basin. There, hidden in plain sight stands Teotihuacan, a vast vexing complex of pyramids, temples, causeways, and subterranean tunnels. Despite recent attempts by the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History) to alter its name, Teotihuacan means “City of the Gods,” “The Place Where Men Become Gods,” or “The Place Where the Gods Were Created.” The word nemesis is defined as the inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall. Teotihuacan is the nemesis of academic human history paradigms. The more this site’s chronology, iconography, and engineering is analyzed, the greater the magnitude of devastation inflicted on the obsolete narrative.

A Summary of the Crumbling Perspective
Even the authorities concede that the origins and founding of Teotihuacan is a mystery. Their best guess (a biased, preconceived and unfounded notion) is that around 300 - 200 BC, 6,000 unknown Mesoamericans united into a larger group and began to establish the city state. As the fable goes, the erroneously named Pyramid of the Sun was completed around 100 AD and the entire city reached its peak around 450 AD housing 150-250,000 citizens - making it one of the largest cities on Earth at the time.

 

 

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