. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. days it could neverhave been much more than a huge mound of clay andsun-dried brick, pierced with subterranean passagesand surmounted by a rude sanctuary, without eventhe saving grace of good proportion, Only bread, roses, and perfumes were offered forsacrifice in the Cholula temple, for the beneficentQuetzal-coatl was believed to abhor bloodshed, thusgreatly differing from other Aztec gods, for whoman average of twenty-five thousand human beingsare said to have been annually slaughtered in thecity of Tenochtitlan and its
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. days it could neverhave been much more than a huge mound of clay andsun-dried brick, pierced with subterranean passagesand surmounted by a rude sanctuary, without eventhe saving grace of good proportion, Only bread, roses, and perfumes were offered forsacrifice in the Cholula temple, for the beneficentQuetzal-coatl was believed to abhor bloodshed, thusgreatly differing from other Aztec gods, for whoman average of twenty-five thousand human beingsare said to have been annually slaughtered in thecity of Tenochtitlan and its suburbs. D PL I to-d ■ ~ent Bu- -. ■ - --. - Rusthe ] the realm. 1 ■ _ ■ I the _ andI ■ PALENQUE AND UXMAL. 105 cardinal point- . , pilaster : theses adorn the facade I king 1 1 the east Bas-reliefs on background tnt as the plu- ma^; of humming birds decorate in* .-;d with twi >glyphics and tached c _ -que c These lend a weird effect in the duli-hued light, : Aztec. .tec h< Then I important statu red ar. he ruins wa I »n feet in ith .re -stal cutThe reverse side has been left flat, so that it probaonce rested against a wall, or more likely flanked ado the fa The g;.- • and fantastic was aimed at rather than the beautiful in a Aztec sculpture— in Japan during the sixteenth century—but tcertain efficient boldness of execution about it whichmerits approval, even outside the wonders of thecol ieme, which nally well c:. Uxmal. After Palenque, Uxmal is held to be the most re-markable city of Yucatan and indeed of the wholentinent, and has been not inaptly called the Pom-peii of America. The Casa
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