As to the chief purpose for which the ensayo was written, the author claims the following analogies between Teotihuacan and the Egyptian pyramids: 1. The site chosen is the same. 2. The structures are oriented with slight variation. 3. The line through the centres of the pyramids is in the 'astronomical meridian.' 4. The construction in grades and steps is the same. 5. In both cases the larger pyramids are dedicated to the sun. 6. The Nile has a 'valley of the dead,' as in Teotihuacan there is a 'street of the dead.' 7. Some monuments of each class have the nature of fortifications. 8. The smaller mounds are of the same nature and for the same purpose. 9. Both pyramids have a small mound joined to one of their faces. 10. The openings discovered in the Moon are also found in some Egyptian pyramids. 11. The interior arrangement of the pyramids is analogous.
[IX-90] Mexico, Anales del Ministerio de Fomento, 1854, tom. i., pp. 382-3; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, etc., vol. ii., p. 282.
[IX-91] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., p. 258; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., pp. 171-5; Chaves, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. v., p. 300.
[IX-92] Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 96, 100, with cut of a knife or spear-head; Burkart, Mexico, tom. i., pp. 124-5. Löwenstern speaks of the obsidian mines of Guajolote, which he describes as ditches one or two mètres wide, and of varying depth; having only small fragments of the mineral scattered about. Mexique, p. 244.
[IX-93] Mexico, Anales del Ministerio de Fomento, 1854, tom. i., p. 277.
[IX-94] Burkart, Mexico, tom. i., p. 51.
[IX-95] Mexico, Anales del Ministerio de Fomento, 1854, tom. i., pp. 623-4, 719; Huasteca, Noticias, pp. 48-9, 69.
[IX-96] Latrobe's Rambler, p. 75.
[IX-97] J. F. R. Cañete, in Alzate y Ramirez, Gaceta de Literatura, Feb. 20, 1790; also in Id., reprint, tom. i., pp. 282-4. Sr Alzate y Ramirez, editor of the Gaceta, had also heard from other sources of ruins in the same vicinity.
[IX-98] Prescott's Mex., vol. i., p. 13.