Templo 1

This is the Temple at the front of the Gran Basamento. To give you an idea of what the Mayan's were like, I have provided this information that I feel is accurate. It is from the internet and describes the things we heard on our tour.

The Maya had a highly developed, and to modern eyes, a highly bizarre aesthetic sense. "Slightly crossed eyes were held in great esteem," writes Yale anthropologist Michael Coe in his book The Maya. "Parents attempted to induce the condition by hanging small beads over the noses of their children." The Maya also seemed to go in for shaping their children's skulls: they liked to flatten them (although this may have simply been the inadvertent result of strapping babies to cradle boards) or squeeze them into a cone. Some Mayan experts speculate that the conehead effect was the result of trying to approximate the shape of an ear of corn.

The Maya filed their teeth (it's unclear whether they used an anesthetic), sometimes into a T shape and sometimes to a point. They also inlaid their teeth with small, round plaques of jade or pyrite. Young men painted themselves black until marriage and later engaged in ritual tattooing and scarring.