The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . caused 402 The Ancient Cities of the New World. his head to swim. He found in one of these apartments offeringsof cocoa and copal wJiich had been burnt very recently; con-sequently, fifteen years after the Conquest the natives were stillsacrificing to their gods, and practising their superstitions in theirown temples. That these edifices were entire in Cogolludos ;- ikf-^ 1 / •-L ^1 JiL % IF-i^h srrr ft MM^ {1WL t f if iH)i ri, tiirm ?nm\^nn!iiwiv^i Ti>^Jl!i->lA*^ f rt iiMM
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . caused 402 The Ancient Cities of the New World. his head to swim. He found in one of these apartments offeringsof cocoa and copal wJiich had been burnt very recently; con-sequently, fifteen years after the Conquest the natives were stillsacrificing to their gods, and practising their superstitions in theirown temples. That these edifices were entire in Cogolludos ;- ikf-^ 1 / •-L ^1 JiL % IF-i^h srrr ft MM^ {1WL t f if iH)i ri, tiirm ?nm\^nn!iiwiv^i Ti>^Jl!i->lA*^ f rt iiMMtiiiiiitiiiW SHOWING DETAILS OK EASTERN TATAUE OF THE NUNNERY, UXMAL. time is beyond doubt, since the Governors Palace, the easternand southern sides of the Nunnery, are still standing. Theyappeared new to Lizana, who {i6i6) says: These buildingsare alike both in style and architecture ; all are reared on sup-porting mounds (/v/, plural kites), which inclines one to thinkthat they were built at the same time, by the order of one guidinghead, seeing that they are similar. Some look so new and so UXMAL. 40:. ^.v;\r! * Si \l THE dwarfs house OF UXMAL. clean, their wooden lintels so perfect, that they do not seem to/mve been built more than twenty years. These palaces must havebeen used as temples and sanctuaries, for the dwellings of the 2 D 404 The Ancient Cities of the New World. natives were thatched, and always in the depths of theforests. * This quotation is not indicative of very early monuments,while it shows that the similarity of the monuments was noticedand recorded by the first explorers ; it will not, therefore, appearunnatural that aided by documents, when we write the history ofone monument should be equivalent to writing the history ofall ; and that the architectural manifestations which are identicalthroughout Central America should be ascribed to one people,the Toltecs. The culture of a nation is gauged by theirmonuments; if so, where are the structures marking
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