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cubic metres. This makes it, as one authority succinctly states, ‘the
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largest building ever erected on earth.’
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Why?
Why go to all that trouble?
What sort of name for themselves were the peoples of Central America
trying to make?
Walking through the network of corridors and passageways, inhaling
the cool, loamy air, I was uncomfortably conscious of the great weight
and mass of the pyramid pressing down upon me. It was the largest
building in the world and it had been placed here in honour of a Central
American deity of whom almost nothing was known.
We had the conquistadores and the Catholic Church to thank for leaving
us so deeply in the dark about the true story of Quetzalcoatl and his
followers. The smashing and desecration of his ancient temple at Cholula,
the destruction of idols, altars and calendars, and the great bonfires
made out of codices, paintings and hieroglyphic scrolls, had succeeded
almost completely in silencing the voices of the past. But the legends did
offer us one graphic and powerful piece of imagery: a memory of the
‘gigantic men of deformed stature’ who were said to have been the
original builders.
The Riddle of the Pyramids, p. 190.
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24 Ibid.
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