The Pyramid of the Sun

Monday, we took two sister missionaries to the ruins of Teotihuacan. There we met up with about twelve elders from our mission. The ruins according to our guide date back to about 150 ad. Our guide, who had strong LDS leanings, said that these ruins were very sacred and a place of peace. As we walked through them, he described theories about what each of the structures were used for all relating to our modern day temples. My favorite was the Pyramid of the Sun, easily the largest structure around with a size that exceeds the Egyptian Pyramids. Near this pyramid our guide took us to a very quiet and peaceful place in the shade of the tree. He expressed his feelings while pointing to different parts of this immense structure, saying that it was the place were celestial marriages were consummated. I was deeply touched by what he was saying and I could feel a very special spirit and a reverential awe to a people who had built such a wonderfully beautiful and immense structure, quite likely to honor Heavenly Father and is Son. By the way, one of the pyramids bears the symbol of Quetzalcóatl, the bearded white god. According to archeologists, the people who inhabited this place were destroyed between 400 and 500 ad. The Aztecs believed it was holy and haunted, and the Spaniards mistook the great mounds of dirt covering the pyramids to be natural hills, and thus did not destroy them as they did many other sites. Our guide felt that they would be restored to their original use in the millennium.