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Temple to wind god found beneath supermarket


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Archaeologists working in Mexico City have uncovered a circular temple built more than 650 years ago to worship a god of wind.

It was excavated at a site discovered two years ago when a mid-20th-century supermarket was demolished. The circular platform, about 36ft in diameter and 4ft tall, now sits in the shadow of a shopping mall under construction.

The site is believed to have been built to worship the god of wind, Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, and the plans are to preserve it and make it visible to the public with a large viewing window.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/30/mexico-temple-wind-god-archaeology-supermarket

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That is so cool. Something similar happened in New York City when excavations began to build an office tower. They found the remains of a tavern dating back from when NYC was the Dutch settlement Haarlem. So they built around it, and put in "glass" so people could view it from the building's plaza. 

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I agree brlesq1,     Great that it will be saved for the public to appreciate.

sorta sad that we have outgrown all of those Gods.... Well, unless they might want to sacrifice me to the "wind God".  .. Then, good riddance! 

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Shame the developers and supermarkets do not care about what they are building on, their selling of bread and most importantly their profits are clearly rated at a much higher level than any god.

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