Orion: Archaeoastronomy Inspiration for the Pyramids of Giza and the Pyramids of Teotihuacan

As ancient Egyptian architects gazed up at the night sky and built the three pyramids of Giza based on the celestial plan of the Constellation of Orion, so millennia apart and at the other side of the world, in Mexico at Teotihuacan, architects similarly took their inspiration from Orion to construct their pyramids, with a slight deviation that can be explained by examining the sky on the date of the Winter Solstice, December 22.

Dr Roberto Volterri in Teotihuacán, on top of the Pyramid of the Sun.

In the background is the 'Calzada de los Muertos' and the Pyramid of the Moon clearly visible.

Celestial Inspiration

Defined as ‘the City of the Gods’ or ‘the city where one becomes a god’, located less than 50 kilometers from Mexico City, in a barren, almost 'lunar' landscape, quite different from the green and very humid panorama of Palenque, one finds Teotihuacán, one of the most mysterious cultural regions of archaeological Mexico.  From the top of the 63-meter high ‘Pyramid of the Sun’, looking south, one can see a smaller ‘pyramid’ – though it does not have a pyramid structure – dedicated to the Feathered Snake, known as Templo de Quetzalcoatl, and north is the impressive ‘Pyramid of the Moon’. In the middle - almost connecting all three pyramids – runs the so-called 'Calzada de los Muertos', that is the 'Avenue of the Dead' or, in Aztec, Miccaotli.  From this vantage point an idea struck Dr Roberto Volterri: “Is it possible that what Robert Bauval in his Orion Correlation Theory, Adrian Gilbert and other followers of 'heretical' archaeology claimed - regarding the possibility that the three pyramids of the Giza Plain; Cheope, Chefren and Mycerino represent an earthly projection of the three stars of the Belt of Orion - could also apply to the three pyramids of the archaeological site of Teotihuacàn?”