The Nunnery Quadrangle
at Uxmal stood at the heart of
the Puuc Confederacy
and its dynastic and cosmological heart as well. Keith Muscutt suggests
that the
interior area may have been a reflecting pool that represented the portal
to Xibalba
and would have been a magnificent, still mirror to the starry blacknessof
sky in the
city's center.
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