Near Nice there is a hill which gives a wonderfully correct idea of the appearance of the terraced teocallis of Mexico, as they must have looked before time effaced the sharpness of their lines.
Traces of two large teocallis are just visible, and Mr. Bowring has some burial mounds in his grounds which will be examined some day.
But one essential difference there was between them, and that is, that whereas in Mexico the teocallis seldom possessed interiors, this was very frequently the case with the temples of Babylonia.
The zikkurats of Babylonia and the teocallis of Mexico, as their names imply, were unquestionably religious in origin, and had nothing whatsoever to do with burial.
Work was continually pushed forward on the grand temple of Huitzilopochtli, and many teocallis were built at this period in each of the three allied capitals.
These structures are said to have served as models for the Aztec teocallis of later times.
They are surrounded, as we shall see, by statues, and are believed by Mr Squier to be remains of the teocallis known to have served the Nicaraguans as temples at the time of the conquest.
The teocallis or palaces at Palenque and Copan, ruins found in Yucatan and Honduras, are erected on truncated pyramids like those of Anahuac.
Thunder and lightning shook the shattered teocallis and levelled them to the ground.
The monuments of these prehistoric men are not unlike the teocallis and pyramids of the Nahuas.
There were thirteen teocallis in the town, and in one place in the suburbs one of the Spaniards counted the stored-up skulls of a hundred thousand sacrificed victims.
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.
Rising from an island, in the center of the largest of these, was the city of Mexico; its great buildings and lofty teocallis being seen clearly through the dry atmosphere.
The Mendoza Codex teaches us that when the Mexicans conquered a land they first burnt and utterly destroyed the teocallissituated in the heart of its central capital.
Angrand also mentions a line "of prehistoric ruins which extend northwards from Peru and display the essentially characteristic outlines of the Mexican Teocallis or temples.
In the ruined cities of Cambodia, which lies farther to the east of Burmah, recent research has discovered teocallis like those in Mexico, and the remains of temples of the same type and pattern as those of Yucatan.
This monument, like all the Mexican teocallis or temples, is composed of several stages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teocallis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
