AutoCAD Model of Tlaloc the Rain God's Temple Complex (with lyrics) Calixtlahuaca

Appologies for this thumbnail which is not the best one for this video. But YouTube makes it difficult to choose a good frame to be the thumbnail.

Tlaloc was the Aztec god of Rain who could bring drought and starvation when he was angry. This temple complex, called Group B by archaeologists, is located at Calixtlahuaca in the Toluca Valley of Mexico. It was reconstructed by archaeologist José García Payón in the 1930's and surveyed by Arizona State University in the Spring of 2007.

The soundtrack is 'Song of the Rising Heart' by Stevie P. of Tribal Voices, a collective of British acoustic muscians. It was recorded in September 1997.

The lyrics are strangely reminiscent of the Aztec's 52 year cycle of the universe and might easily have been sung at the New Fire Ceremony:

There's fire on the land
There's fire on the water
The Universe has just been born
It's time to start again

Is this the first time or the last?
I don't know

Truth is undecided
Potential is unsure
Then you start to notice
There's a twinkle in the eye of the moon

But the rising heartbeat carries
Something more than a tune

Sense slips into chaos
Chaos falls apart
The more than earth and air and water
In the rising heart

I feel my mouth is closing
I wasn't even speaking
My eyes are awaking
I must have been sleeping.


Stevie P. - Glastonbury, England

For this song and others by Tribal Voices, visit:

www.tribalvoices.org.uk.

Thanks also to Catalino, Isabel, Tim and Rikke for their help with the surveying fieldwork in May 2007.