Sentence example with the word 'teocallis'

teocallis

Last update: September 26, 2015


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A remarkable feature of the Central-American ruins is the frequency of truncated pyramids built of hewn stone, with flights of steps up to the temple built on the platform at top. The resemblance of these structures to the old descriptions and pictures of the Mexican teocallis is so striking that this name is habitually given to them.   [Please select]

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The priests in the great teocallis, or temple pyramids, were beating the great drum of the war-god, Huitzilopocahtli.   [Please select]

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From the summits of the teocallis they looked down upon the great gatherings; angry that instead of, as usual, figuring in the chief places in the procession, they were forced to stand aloof.   [Please select]

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