Part III Plumed Serpent Central America Chapter 13 - Blood and Time at the End of the World http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/fingerprintgods/fingerprintgods03.htm#Chapter 13 Chicken Itza, northern Yucatan, Mexico Behind me, towering almost 100 feet into the air, was a perfect ziggurat, the Temple of Kukulkan . Its four stairways had 91 steps each. Taken together with the top platform, which counted as a further step, the total was 365. This gave the number of complete days in a solar year. In addition, the geometric design and orientation of the ancient structure had been calibrated with Swiss-watch precision to achieve an objective as dramatic as it was esoteric: on the spring and autumn equinoxes, regular as clockwork, triangular patterns of light and shadow combined to create the illusion of a giant serpent undulating on the northern staircase. On each occasion the illusion lasted for 3 hours and 22 minutes exactly. 1 I walked away from ...
