THE PYRAMID OF THE SUN 



Photo from Alberto L. Godoy 



What Cheops is to Egypt, such is the Pyramid of the Sun to Mexico. Its base is about as large as 

 that of Cheops, and it is 216 feet high. All we know of its origin is that it was built before the Toltecs 

 occupied the Valley of Mexico. According to tradition, a splendid temple once crowned its summit, 

 and contained a great monument to the sun made from a single block of porphyry. Excavations have 

 revealed galleries and vaults like those of Cheops, and Senor Garcias Cubas, the eminent archeologist, 

 says that a gallery in the companion pyramid, that of the moon, coincides exactly with the magnetic 

 meridian. ^6 



