{"id":666,"date":"2018-10-14T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2022-09-17T02:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T02:22:43","slug":"xtoloc-temple-chichen-itza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/xtoloc-temple-chichen-itza\/","title":{"rendered":"Xtoloc Temple in Chichen Itza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Xtoloc Temple in Chichen Itza receives its name because it\u2019s located next to the Cenote with the same name, the second largest cenote in the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/chichen-itza\">Chichen Itza<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It probably was used in religious ceremonies, perhaps related to the Cenote. Its construction dates from 900 to 1200. There are sculptured representations of warriors and priests on the pillars of the temple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physical description of The Xtoloc Temple<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Xtoloc Temple has an altar in the interior of the third chamber, originally decorated with bas-reliefs of plants, birds and mythological scenes. A container of offerings with human remains was found beneath the floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facade faces west and due to an alignment, which includes a simple altar, a path of stone slabs and a natural rock outcropping, marked by rows of cut stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Location of The Xtoloc Temple in Chichen Itza<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The central entrance of the Xtoloc Temple in Chichen Itza is in front of a Cenote with the same name on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sacbe\" target=\"_blank\">Sacbe<\/a> 15, that goes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/thousand-columns-chichen-itza\/\">Group of the Thousand Columns<\/a> plaza to the Ossuary group of buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1EPvsmskOPW6HkjoYj1nDUVOmSncpHxLo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xtoloc Temple in Chichen Itza receives its name because it\u2019s located next to the Cenote with the same name, the second largest cenote in the center of Chichen Itza. It probably was used in religious ceremonies, perhaps related to the Cenote. Its construction dates from 900 to 1200. There are sculptured representations of warriors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chichen-itza-en","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}