Blocked Entrance to Mysterious Mayan Temple Tunnel Found
by Paul Seaburn November 17, 2017 (mysteriousuniverse.org)
• The ancient Mayan culture built their temples over underground aquifers, which were used as the Mayan’s primary source of fresh water.
• In 2015 an aquifer was discovered underneath the Temple of Kukulkán. This in turn has led them to a never-seen-before blocked passageway from the Chichén Itzá ossuary (bone vault) to the Kukulkán temple – a passageway that was apparently sealed by the ancient Mayans and has never been opened.
• Legends hold that these sinkholes were gateways to the underworld of the afterlife. These were the sites where human sacrifices were made to the rain god Chaac and where archaeologists have found hundreds of human bones.
• The archeology team has been granted permission to break into the sealed chamber.
• [Editor’s Note] As the Mayan civilization was able to leave the planet and establish an off-world civilization, the findings in these deep aquifers may be quite compelling.
A bold project in Mexico has brought archaeologists, biologists, underwater photographers and cave divers to the Yucatán Peninsula to study the network of sinkholes known as cenotes that make up the Mayan Aquifer. These natural openings formed by the collapse of the underlying limestone bedrock led the ancient Mayans to what became their primary sources of water, since the peninsula has few lakes and rivers.
As a result, it’s no surprise that they were used for sacred ceremonies and sacrificial offerings and became starting points for the building of temples. A cenote was detected in 2015 underneath the El Castillo (The Castle) pyramid, also known as the Temple of Kukulkán at the Chichen Itzá archeological site using the ground-penetrating electrical resistance survey technique. Those 3-D images and further underground exploration led the Great Mayan Aquifer (GAM) team to a never-before-seen blocked passageway from the Chichén Itzá ossuary (bone vault) to the Kukulkán temple … a passageway they believe was sealed by the ancient Mayans and has never been opened.
“We will enter again and, this time, we will try to open it to see if the passageway leads us to the entrance of the cenote beneath the Castle.”
El Universal reports that team leader Guillermo de Anda is ready to break the seal and open the passageway to the temple’s cenote, despite the legends that these sinkholes were gateways to the underworld of the afterlife and the fact that these were places where human sacrifices were made to the rain god Chaac – the GAM team has already found hundreds of human bones in the Sacred Cenote (Well of Sacrifice) at Chichén Itzá.
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