El Castillo

El Castillo

El Castillo( Spanish pronunciation( elkas'tiʎo), Spanish for" the castle"), also known as the Temple of Kukulcan' is a Mesoamerican step- aggregate that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological point in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The tabernacle structure is more formally designated by archaeologists as Chichen Itza Structure 5B18. erected by thepre-Columbian Maya civilization eventually between the 8th and 12th centuries announcement, the structure served as a tabernacle to the deity Kukulcán, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity nearly related to Quetzalcoatl, a deity known to the Aztecs and other central Mexican societies of the Postclassic period. It has a substructure that probably was constructed several centuries before for the same purpose.

The tabernacle consists of a series of square sundecks with stairways up each of the four sides to the tabernacle on top. Puppets of plumed serpents run down the sides of the northern banister . Around the spring and afterlife equinoxes, the late autumn sun strikes off the northwest corner of the tabernacle and casts a series of triangular murk against the northwest banister , creating the vision of the feathered serpent" crawling" down the tabernacle. To contemporary callers, the event has been veritably popular and is witnessed by thousands at the spring equinox, but it isn't known whether the miracle is a result of a purposeful design since the light- and- shadow effect can be observed without major changes during several weeks near the equinoxes. Scientific exploration led since 1998 suggests that the tabernacle mimics the chittering sound of the quetzal raspberry when humans crack their hands around it. The experimenters argue that this miracle isn't accidental, that the builders of this tabernacle felt divinely awarded by the echoing effect of this structure. Technically, the clapping noise rings out and scatters against the tabernacle's high and narrow limestone way, producing a chirp- suchlike tone that declines in frequence. All four sides of the tabernacle have roughly 91 way which, when added together and including the tabernacle platform on top as the final" step", may produce a aggregate of 365 way( the way on the south side of the tabernacle are eroded). That number is equal to the number of days of the Haab' time and likely is significantly related to rituals. The structure is 24 m( 79 ft) high, plus an fresh 6 m( 20 ft) for the tabernacle at the top. The square base measures55.3 m( 181 ft) across.