Temple Of The Cat

Temple of the Cat, Ayeron :)

~*LYRICS*~
Shine down on me, Sun of the Underworld
Set me free, chase away the night
Proud Jaguar, king of the Mayan Gods
Shining star, light up the sky

And guide me to the Temple of the Cat

Heart-of-Sky, Maker and Hurricane
Mighty eye, harvester of life
We were born solely to speak your name
Bring the dawn, we'll praise the sky

Here inside the Temple of the Cat

Upon his throne the High priest addressed the crowd
Now carved in stone his holy name
Beads of jade adorn his cotton shroud
His silvery blade on a golden chain

He lies here in the Temple of the Cat, dead
He will rise again from the Temple of the Cat

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The Mayan City of Tikal:
For centuries the Mayan city of Tikal was completely covered under jungle, one of dozens of large cities scattered through present day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Southern Mexico. It wasn't until around 1850 that this city was explored and became known to the wider world, partly because of the difficulty of reaching its location in North-Eastern Guatemala. When explorers did arrive, all that was visible was huge mounds, covered in undergrowth and large trees. Under the vegetation, however, the ruins were still in good condition, with even some wooden door lintels still well preserved. Excavation and well thought out restoration work now gives a good balance between how the structures looked when rediscovered and how they looked when the city was still inhabited.
After walking along broad paths under the shady jungle canopy, past a number of low pyramids and stone dwellings, visitors arrive at the Grand Plaza. Walking out of the jungle into a large grassed area, the first view of the Temple of the Grand Jaguar is enough to blow your socks off, even if it is a view of the rear of the building.
Impressive as it is, the Temple of the Grand Jaguar, at 44 metres (143 feet) isn't even the tallest temple at Tikal. Temple III, which is unexcavated, is 55 metres (179 feet), temple V is 58 metres (189 feet) and temple IV is 64 metres (208 feet). In case you have a strange feeling that you've seen this temple somewhere before, maybe that's because these temples were used near the very end of the first Star Wars movie as a rebel base!
Like the pyramids in Egypt, these temples were built over the tomb of the kings of Tikal, and precious burial goods were entombed with them.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Guatemala/Tikal/index.html

Etymology
The name Tikal, 'place of the voices' in Itza Maya, is not the ancient name for the site but rather the name adopted shortly after its discovery in the 1840s (Drew 1999:136). Hieroglyphic inscriptions at the ruins refer to the central area of the ancient city as Yax Mutal or Yax Mutul. The kingdom as a whole was simply called Mutal or Mutul, which is the reading of the "hair bundle"
Read more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal

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Con Amor,
Vanesa
aka Ph4n3s
aka *SiRiUs Brightest Star*

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