Feb. 16, 2026
Re What to Look for … Wen Visiting Maya Ruins:

Things to ponder … versus just wandering past yet another ruined Maya building … ?

Old fotos sometimes reveal a lot?

Especially things that hot-sweaty wandering-tourists miss. 🤣

Notice all the peculiar angles … of how Chichen Itza’s El Observatorio building is placed so peculiarly – not centered on the platform … where virtually NOTHNG lines up … not the stair cases, not the platform … not the building … not the doorway(s) … not even the small extra front-building & wall on the front right corner (SW corner) ….

… It’s all basically constructed with intentionally skewed angles that are NOT humans’ normal 90º … nor straight alignments.

Straight alignments? … Notice how even the main entry-way doorway does NOT align symmetrically with the center of the top stairs. … and the bottom sets of stairs are WAY OFFSET from everything … and they’re way off-angle from the top set of stairs.

AND … the El Observatorio BUILDING is not even centered on it’s little top-platform, as it is skewed way to the South.

Why?
… Just a smidgin’ of careful inspection reveals that El Observatorio contains all the information of BOTH El Castillo …. AND … “La Casa de Siete Muñecas” (Temple of the 7 Dolls @ Dzibilchaltun).

El Observatorios’ wall’s … platforms … foreground-buildings’ … doorways’ etc ~curious angles~ point directly to:
~ The Spring Equinox
~ The Summer Solstice.
~ The Fall Equinox.
~ The Winter Solstice.
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~ The northernmost rising points & setting peoints of the Full Moon.
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~ The southernmost rising points & setting peoints of the Full Moon.

… PLUS … Just like Dzibilchaltun’s Casa de las Siete Muñecas temple, the peculiarly placed openings in the walls of El Observatorio are paired-aperatures that align with the Northermost & Southernmost rising & setting points of our 5 visible planets.

and yes, Dzibilchaltun’s original Casa de las Siete Muñecas was built around 350 CE (when Scotsmen were still painting themselves BLUE & howling at Romans) … and the current Temple of the 7 Dolls version was built in 750 AD … while Chichen Itza’s El Observatorio was completed around 906 AD.

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Things to ponder … versus just wandering past a Maya building?

Casa de Las Siete Muñecas … Temple of the 7 Dolls, Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan.


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Example … How many readers have noticed how Uxmal’s “Palace of the Governors” building is aligned? 😉

Dr. Steven M. Fry

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… and no, It’s not because Maya elites were cross-eyed. 😉

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