Kukulkan at Chichen Itza during the Equinox
The famous descent of the snake
"El Castillo", Chichen Itza served as a Temple to Kukulkan
During the spring and fall equinoxes the shadow cast by the angle of the sun and edges of the nine steps of the pyramid combined with the northern stairway and the stone serpent head carvings create the illusion of a massive serpent descending the pyramid. Watch the snake.
On the equinox Kukulcan returns to earth. For five hours an illusion of light and shadow creates seven triangles on the side of the staircase starting at the top and inching its way down until it connects the top platform with the giant snake stone head at the bottom.
For forty-five minutes this impressive shadow stays in its entirety before slowing descending the pyramid and disappearing along with the crowd that gathered to see it.
4 comments:
The city engineers built those pyramids "how they do that?" look at the curbs they have tiny snake serpents.
@9:23 They used yellow plastic bump stops lol
tHE CITY HAS SIX ENGINEERS WOW.
Its more like ten...
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