The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . V -^S WMPW\ MEDALLION IN PASSAGE OF INNER TEMPLE OF INSCRIPTIONS, PALENQUE. CHAPTER XIV. PALENQUE. TEMPLES. Palenque a Holy City—Bas-reliefs—Rain and Fever—A Grateful Cook—Temple ofInscriptions—Temple of the Sun—Temple of the Cross No. i—Temple ofthe Cross No. 2—Altars—Mouldings and Photographs—Fire—Explorations—Fallen Houses—The Age of Trees in Connection with the Ruins—Recapitulation. Some writers have called Palenque a capital, and the great edificeknown as the palace a
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . V -^S WMPW\ MEDALLION IN PASSAGE OF INNER TEMPLE OF INSCRIPTIONS, PALENQUE. CHAPTER XIV. PALENQUE. TEMPLES. Palenque a Holy City—Bas-reliefs—Rain and Fever—A Grateful Cook—Temple ofInscriptions—Temple of the Sun—Temple of the Cross No. i—Temple ofthe Cross No. 2—Altars—Mouldings and Photographs—Fire—Explorations—Fallen Houses—The Age of Trees in Connection with the Ruins—Recapitulation. Some writers have called Palenque a capital, and the great edificeknown as the palace a royal mansion, but they have erred, for ifthere was a royal palace It was not the one we have Teotlhuacan, Izamal, and Cozumel, Palenque was a holyplace, an Important religious centre, a city which was resorted 246 The Ancient Cities of the New World. to as a place of pilgrimage, teeming with shrines and temples,a vast and much-sought burial-place. In this and in no otherway can be explained the silence surrounding this great city,which was probably peopled by a floating population dispersedat the first alarm of th
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