The largest city of the pre-Columbian Americas, in the Basin of Mexico, laid out on a grid around the Avenue of the Dead with the Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. At its height it held well over a hundred thousand people.
The genuine mystery
Nobody knows who built it. The city was already an abandoned ruin when the Mexica arrived and gave it the Nahuatl name it now carries, meaning roughly the place where the gods were created. Its own language and its rulers’ names are unknown; no royal tombs of the kind found at Maya sites have been identified with certainty; and the writing system, if there was one, has not been read. That is a real gap in the record rather than a manufactured one.
What the alternative literature does with it
Fingerprints of the Gods reads the site’s dimensions and layout as encoding astronomical constants and the scale of the solar system, following Hugh Harleston’s measurements of the 1970s. The method is the one the precessional code chapters use throughout: with enough dimensions and enough constants, matches are cheap. The Quetzalcoatl tradition that the site’s serpent temple belongs to is the same one Zecharia Sitchin identifies with Thoth in The Anunnaki Chronicles.
Connections
Quetzalcoatl · Fingerprints of the Gods · Graham Hancock · The Anunnaki Chronicles · Zecharia Sitchin · Maya Long Count · Lost Civilization Hypothesis · Nazca Lines