The Lost Realms (Book IV) (Earth Chronicles 4) by Sitchin Zecharia

Author:Sitchin, Zecharia [Sitchin, Zecharia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Archaeology/History
ISBN: 9780939680849
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 1990-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 74

Figure 75

At the opposite end of the sacred-royal western part of Machu Picchu, just south of the royal ward, rises the other magnificent (and unusual) edifice of the city. Called the Torreon for its semicircular shape, it is built of ashlars—cut, shaped, and dressed stones—of rarely seen perfection, matched in a way only by the ashlars of the semicircular wall that embraced the Holy of Holies in Cuzco. The semicircular wall, which is reached by seven steps (Fig. 77), creates its own sacred enclosure at the center of which there is a rock that has been cut and shaped and incised with grooves. Bingham found evidence that this rock and the masonry walls near it were subjected to periodic fires, and concluded that the rock and the enclosure were used for sacrifices and other rituals connected with the veneration of the rock.

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