PYRAMIDS OF SUN AND MOON, TEOTIHUACAN.
CHAPTER VII.
TEOTIHUACAN.
Quotations—Pre-Toltec Civilisation—Egyptian and Teotihuacan Pyramids Compared—General Aspect of the Pyramids—Cement Coatings—Tlateles and Pyramids—Idols and Masks—Description by Torquemada—S. Martin’s Village—Pulque and Mezcal—S. Juan of Teotihuacan.
On account of its vicinity to Mexico, Teotihuacan has been so often described, that there is little or nothing to be said which has not been well said before. She was a flourishing city at the time of the Toltecs, and the rival of Tula; and like her was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt by the Chichemec emperor Xolotl, preserving under the new régime her former supremacy. In the opinion of Veytia, Torquemada, and other historians, Teotihuacan was a Toltec city; and my excavations in bringing to light palaces having nearly the same arrangement as those at Tula, will confirm their opinion. The orientation of this city is indicated by Clavigero in the following passage:
“The famous edifices at Teotihuacan, three miles north of this village and twenty-five from Mexico, are still in existence.”