Qualla: Pyramid of the Moon https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/8/pyramid-of-the-moon-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pyramid of the Moon https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon Pyramid of the Moon: Introduction https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon/ Photo credit Daniel gaytan romo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Seven buildings lie stacked inside the Pyramid of the Moon, each one sealed over the last like a set of nested stone envelopes. The oldest dates to roughly 100 CE, making it the earliest known monument at Teotihuacan. The newest, completed around 400 CE, is the structure visitors see today -- 43 meters high, positioned at the northern end of the Avenue of the Dead so precisely that it mirrors the silhouette of Cerro Gordo, the mountain rising behind it. The Nahuatl name for that mountain may have been Tenan, meaning "mother or protective stone." The pyramid was built to echo its shape, as if the city's architects wanted their greatest ceremonial platform to appear as an extension of the earth itself.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/8/pyramid-of-the-moon-wp/9g98-pyramid-of-the-moon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pyramid of the Moon: Layers of Power https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon/ Photo credit Syced, CC0. Between 100 and 450 CE, successive rulers expanded the Pyramid of the Moon at least six times. Each renovation was not merely architectural -- it was political. The first three buildings were relatively modest platforms built in the talud style, growing from 23.5 meters across to...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/8/pyramid-of-the-moon-wp/9g98-pyramid-of-the-moon-layers-of-power.mp3 0:06 2 full Pyramid of the Moon: What the Dead Reveal https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon/ Photo credit Mike Sharp - User: (WT-shared) 2old at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1998, archaeologists began tunneling beneath the pyramid, and the tombs they found read like dispatches from a civilization determined to consecrate its power in blood. A burial from Building 4 contained a man seated facing west, probably 40 to 50 years old, surrounded by ear ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/8/pyramid-of-the-moon-wp/9g98-pyramid-of-the-moon-what-the-dead-reveal.mp3 0:06 3 full Pyramid of the Moon: The Great Goddess and Her Plaza https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon/ Photo credit HighVibrationStation, CC BY-SA 4.0. A platform atop the pyramid once served as the stage for ceremonies honoring the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan -- the deity of water, fertility, earth, and creation itself. The Aztecs, arriving centuries after the city's collapse, reported that a massive stone figure related to th...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/8/pyramid-of-the-moon-wp/9g98-pyramid-of-the-moon-the-great-goddess-and-her-plaza.mp3 0:06 4 full Pyramid of the Moon: Obsidian, Eagles, and Storm Gods https://qualla.com/pyramid-of-the-moon/ Photo credit Gorgo, Public domain. The artifacts entombed in the pyramid paint a picture of a civilization whose trade networks and ritual vocabulary were vast. Greenstone and obsidian -- the latter Teotihuacan's most prized commodity -- were crafted into figurines, serpent-shaped knives, and ceremonial blades. St...

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