The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . 1 ArADE OF EL CASTILLO, CHICHEN-ITZA. y ^th Toltec emigrations are known, we can fix approximately the ageof these monuments. We know, on the other hand, that theAztec civilisation was but a refiex directly derived from theToltecs, so that in some of their manifestations the two civilisa- Ciiichen-Itza. 343 tions must resemble each other ; from all whicli it may be seenthat these monuments are both Toltec and recent. Thebalustrade on the grand staircase consists of a plumed serpe
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . 1 ArADE OF EL CASTILLO, CHICHEN-ITZA. y ^th Toltec emigrations are known, we can fix approximately the ageof these monuments. We know, on the other hand, that theAztec civilisation was but a refiex directly derived from theToltecs, so that in some of their manifestations the two civilisa- Ciiichen-Itza. 343 tions must resemble each other ; from all whicli it may be seenthat these monuments are both Toltec and recent. Thebalustrade on the grand staircase consists of a plumed serpentlike those forming the outer wall of the temple in Mexico; anemblem of Quetzalcoatl, a deity common to the Toltecs, the.
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