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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