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El Castillo
Maya calendar rendered in stone? Each starcase has 91 steps, which, added to the single step at the main entrance to the temple, amounts to 365. On each face, the central staircase divides 9 terraces into 18, the number of months in the Maya solar year. Additionally, 52, the number of stone panels on each face, is deeply symbolic, representing the number of years required for the two Maya calendar systems to align and repeat. Date: 2009:03:03 15:16:21 |
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