Mae's Real Stories

We visited Chichen Itza, the most famous city of the Maya people in Mexico. They lived there about 1000 years ago, built beautiful buildings with many stone carvings, and then they all moved away.

About 90 years ago, people cleared away the jungle and built the buildings back the way they were long ago. As we walked around this big city, we saw many statues of a special snake with feathers named Kukulkan. His other name is Quetzelcoatl. Maya artists loved to make statues and pictures of him.


Here is Lenny at a big platform with another Kukulkan on it:
Maya artists also made pictures of another character named Chacmol, who had a funny long nose.