The Origin and Function of Mesoamerican Pyramids and TOLTECS

[Mario Marquez]

Juan,
 
Thanks for your comments. 
 
I can not support Castaneda’s hypothesis. I’m just wanted to share it
because it would be an alternative explanation to a worship inherited
from ancient cultures in Mesosamerica. 
 
I would like to say something more ; Don Juan Matus expose  that he (
and Carlos of course ) belongs to an ancient culture, in fact , Toltec
Culture. Castanenda’s book “El don del Aguila” propose a Toltec
civilitation who made temples to focus an special attention ( attention
is a concept to awake a spirituyal consciouness) . The top of one temple
would be a point of a superior attention – I do not know , I’m just
playing with ideas – because many arqueologist says pyramids were
builted in layers at different times. It could be like a trainning were
subject –candidate to this mysteries- took many years.
 
Toltecs means “builders”. What is the relation between Pyramids,
magicians and toltecs ?
 
I’d really like to know more comments to this topic.
 
Regards,
 
Mario Marquez
 
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De: Nahua language and culture discussion
[mailto:NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU] En nombre de Juan Alvarez Cuauhtemoc
Enviado el: Lunes, 11 de Octubre de 2004 11:23 a.m.
Para: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Asunto: The Origin and Function of Mesoamerican Pyramids
 
Mario Marquez comments on Castañeda's hypothesis of the function and
origin of pyramids in Mesoamerica (as outlined below) does not take into
account one important feature of the pyramids of Mesoamerica: the temple
(or the dual temples) at the apex of the pyramids. What was the function
of these temples at the top of the pyramids?  Why do some pyramids have
temples (Tenochtitlan, e.g. the pyramid of el Templo Mayor) and some
don't (Teotihuacan, e.g., the pyramid of the Sun)?  
 
Obviously, there is more going on here than what Marquez and Castañeda
propose below.  
 
Teotihuacan, Tula, Chichén Itza, Monte alban, solo son
resquicios de monumentos creados para el incremento de estos "poderes".
Los brujos de antaño se sentaban a concentrar su atención en puntos
particulares de las pirámides logrando desconectarse del "mundo real" de
manera que alteraban su visión y su concepción del mundo.
 
Podríamos quizá relacionar a miles de monumentos en todo el planeta con
este objetivo; hacer que el iniciado centrara su atención plena para
despertar sus facultades mentales, físicas y espirituales.
Is the temple(s) on top of the pyramid a late development?  Was the
vision and conception of the world transformed from an awakening of
people's psychic and spiritual consciousness to a mode of worship,
ritual and ceremonial center based on their own (or a new) understanding
of Ultimate Reality?  These are the questions that are not accounted for
in the Castañeda/Marquez hypothesis.
 
I would be interested to know what other Listeros think about this.  
 
Juan Alvarez Cuauhtemoc
Independent Scholar 
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