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Since this Mayan temple is already crumbling, although it has been reinforced, there are still certain risks, so everyone did not go inside to visit, but just looked around outside and around.
Under this situation, it is natural that everyone does not see it very clearly.
But in Ye Tian’s eyes, he knew everything inside and outside the Mayan temple, every corner, and even the situation deep underground in the temple.
In this long-abandoned temple, he saw many Mayan hieroglyphics and various exquisite patterns and decorations, which were the relics left by the splendid Mayan civilization. He also saw the relics left by the years and time. trace.
Besides these, he did not find anything else, such as hidden compartments or treasures buried deep underground.
This place has been explored countless times by countless archaeologists and explorers. If there were hidden compartments or other treasures in the temple, they would have been discovered long ago and would never have been preserved until now.
The same goes for the head of the Sun God placed on the steps in front of the temple. Apart from looking quite imposing and valuable, there is no hidden secret.
There may have been some major secret hidden in this Mayan sun god’s head.
However, as the Mayan hieroglyphics and patterns on the avatar have weathered and even disappeared, the secrets hidden on them have become impossible to explore and have been completely lost in the long river of time, becoming an eternal secret.
After visiting this Mayan temple, Ye Tian and the others walked to another temple not far away.
Compared with the first Mayan temple, the next temple we visited was a little smaller, but equally dilapidated. The second half of the temple had collapsed, and the stones that formed the temple were scattered. land.
The outer walls of this Mayan temple and the granite stones scattered on the ground are also engraved with Mayan hieroglyphics and various patterns and decorations, many of which are very blurred and cannot be identified!
On the steps in front of the temple, there are two lion-headed statues. One of the statues holds a torch in the hand, and the other statue holds several snakes in its hands. Also holding a snake in its mouth.
In addition to their rather peculiar shapes, these two statues are also engraved with Mayan hieroglyphics and various patterns. Even the faces of the statues are fully engraved, giving people a strange feeling.
As before, Professor Delgado is still responsible for the explanation.
“Steven, David, the two statues you see now have different meanings. The torch in the hand of the statue on the left symbolizes the rain **** revered by the Mayans.
The snakes in the hands and mouth of the statue on the right symbolize the snake god. In ancient and modern Mayan culture, there has always been a tradition of animal worship, such as Quetzalcoatl.
The age of creation of these two statues and their special meanings, as well as the Mayan hieroglyphics and patterns engraved on the two statues, are explained in detail…”
While Professor Delgado was explaining, Ye Tian had secretly turned on clairvoyance and began to explore the Mayan temple and the conditions deep underground in the temple.
As before, he found no surprises inside or outside this Mayan temple.
However, when his sight reached a depth of more than three meters and nearly four meters underground, a bright golden light suddenly flashed in his eyes, making him feel dizzy.
Ye Tian calmed down for a moment, and then he saw clearly what those things buried deep underground were.
There were more than a dozen gold products of different shapes and dozens of irregular-shaped gold nuggets, piled together haphazardly and covered with a stone slab, which looked like they had been buried in a hurry.
On those gold products, there are more or less Mayan hieroglyphs engraved on them, as well as some decorative patterns and patterns, while the gold nuggets are bare.
The first time he saw the gold products deep underground, Ye Tian could tell that this treasure had a long history buried here.
As early as BC, these gold products and gold nuggets were buried deep underground. At that time, it was the time when the Mayan Empire made Copan its capital, far earlier than the Kingdom of Copan.
In addition to the inherent value of gold itself, those gold products also have certain research value. Some of the Mayan hieroglyphs engraved on them may not be known yet.
Once those Mayan hieroglyphs are discovered, they are likely to cause quite a stir and push the study of Mayan civilization forward a big step.
Ye Tian secretly admired the treasure deep underground before retracting his gaze and ending the perspective.
Next, he turned into an ordinary tourist, listening to Professor Delgado’s professional explanation while admiring the ruins of this civilization.
After visiting this Mayan temple, everyone continued to move forward, and then visited other ruins in the ancient city of Copan. Through these long-abandoned ruins, we got a glimpse of the Mayan civilization that had mysteriously disappeared long ago.
After walking a few steps, everyone saw several huge stone statues with different expressions on the gentle **** of a small hill and on the steps.
These human-head stone statues are also engraved with Mayan hieroglyphics and patterns representing various meanings, which are worthy of careful study.
After passing these huge statues of human heads, Ye Tian and his group came to an altar and stopped to admire it.
This altar is not big, about 1.22 meters long and about 70 centimeters high. There are four statues of priests sitting cross-legged and facing each other on the altar.
Their bodies were engraved with Mayan hieroglyphics and various patterns. Each of them held a book in their hands and seemed to be discussing something, with quite focused expressions.
The area around this altar is also engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs and various patterns, as well as some stone tigers and turtles inlaid with obsidian fragments, as well as some other animals.
The stone tiger here is of course a jaguar unique to Central and South America, not a real tiger.
“According to legend, after the death of Itzana, the first priest of the Mayans and the inventor of Mayan hieroglyphs and calendar, he was carved into the main **** among the Mayan gods and was enshrined by the Mayans in the ancient city of Copan. .
It is a pity that we have never found the statue of Itesana. In the long history of the past two to three thousand years, the statue of Itesana may have been smashed to pieces and disappeared completely.
Of course, it is also possible that the statue of Itesana is not actually here, or it was hidden somewhere by the Mayans. That would be great. I hope someone can discover this statue in the future.
The figures carved in these statues in front of us are the four priests of the Mayan people. In the Mayan civilization, the priests are the most important cultural inheritors of the Mayan civilization…”
Professor Delgado introduced the sacrificial statues in front of him with a hint of regret in his tone.
As for the others, they were admiring everything in front of them and listening to the professional explanations. Everyone was enthusiastic and enjoying themselves.
Of course, Ye Tian will not let go of the opportunity to see things through.
He thoroughly looked through the altar in front of him and the small hill made of earth and stones below the altar.
Here, he also discovered something, but it was no surprise.
After a while, the group of them came to the temple dedicated to the Moon God and began to visit and appreciate the architectural ruins of the temple.
When they entered the ancient city, the first temple they visited was the Temple of the Sun. There was a huge head of the Sun God on the steps in front of the door.
It can be inferred from this that there should have been a statue of the Moon God in front of the Moon Temple, but I don’t know where the Moon God’s head went. The steps in front of the temple were empty.
The two temples are the same size, each thirty meters long and ten meters wide, facing each other far away, just like the sun and the moon echoing each other.
In the open space between the two temples, there are fourteen stone tablets standing, which look like a forest of tablets and are quite spectacular.
At this point, Professor Delgado suddenly became more excited, and the voice of his explanation increased a few degrees.
“The temple you are seeing now is the temple of the Moon God. As the name suggests, the **** it worships is the Mayan Moon God, which corresponds to the Sun Temple we just visited.
Constructed between 613 and 783, these stelae are carved from a single block of marble and are of varying heights. They are covered with symbolic carvings and thousands of hieroglyphics.
Among the many figures on the stele, only one looks like a woman, indicating the low status of women at that time. Female images are very rare in Mayan sculptures and are very precious.
It is the patterns and hieroglyphs engraved on these stone tablets that reveal to us how glorious, splendid and shocking the Mayan civilization once existed in Central and South America…”