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Attached Link: http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/arch_pic.asp
VS, the link to that file is here if you haven't found it. It's the 3rd from the right on the 1st row.One of mine. This is a terrain I created for Terragen. I'm working on the aztec city also.. but in Bryce. I've taken the model apart, - because that way it's easier to work with, - and the file size is considerably smaller. Britt PS. I also have a US DEM (and a terragen terrain) file of Ampato, where the Isen Maiden was found. She was apparently sacrificed to the god on the well known vulcano. Later several other mummies have been found other places in Peru and Bolivia.
Attached Link: http://www.jqjacobs.net/mesoamerica/images/tenochti.jpg
The link provided is an image of a large scale model of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan - the very same one as the 3D model. A large murals on the wall shows the city and causeways leading to the great metropolis. The entire city was leveled by the Spanish invaders. I plan at this time to make the model if it were found in its present day condition. Making it in that time period will take a lot more research.Attached Link: http://www.weirdass.net
Miguel Leon Portilla and Eduardo Matos Mochtezuma are the preminent scholars on the Mexica (only the spanish called them aztecs). Both are based in Mexico City, which is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan and Texcoco. The former was the ceremonial center (Vatican) of the Mexica Triple Alliance and the latter was the working city (Rome). Just like the Catholic empire, the names of the two are synonomous. Tenochtitlan was the Venice of the Americas, a city whose principal mode of transport were canals trafficked by flat bottom canoes carrying crops and goods to the lodge houses of the Mexica lords from their feudally controlled chinampas (manmade islands for the agricultural exploitation of lake Texcoco). The Mexica were bastards, warrior poets who conquered and cruelly subjugated their captives. Two principal warrior societies controlled the material empire (eagle and jaguar lodges) while the priests of Huitzilopochtli, Tlaoc, Tezcatlipoca, and Quetzalcoatl controlled both empirical bureacracy and common folk. They admired the Toltec in the way that we westerners do the Ancient Hellenists. To the Mexica, flower power was a metaphor for wafare. The symbol of power carried by their governors was a mere bouquet with each flower representing a scarifice to heaven. On one day in 1489, during the "new fire ceremony" the Mexica rendered 15,000 sacrifices on the chac mool of their patron god Huitzilopochtli in Tenochtitlan. (the large pyramid in ppowela's post) I suggest getting a look at the Codex Nuttal, which is a survivng Mexica book detailing both Costume and custom. Keep me appraised of your progress, and if you need any further background, contact me.Thank you for the great information at this point every bit helps- I will be looking out for the book. I have studied over the years mostly ancient north Americans - Paelo-Indian, Meso-Indian, and Neo-Indian. But did take one half credit in university on the Zinacantecos and modern Maya life and culture and their customs. But, nothing as far back as what is depicted in the model. I guess what I am looking for in research at this time like you have suggested is in area of material history - costumes, pottery, tools, codexs, murals, etc - which I must admit I don't know very much.
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The images above are a model of the Aztec City, which is free and can be down loaded from 3Dcafe.com. My first step forward in my new Aztec adventure. I have stared mapping every part of this Dyarama (2 buildings maped out of 11 completed) and eventually will be texturing the whole thing. Each building has anywhere from 7 to 10 maps each at 2000 X 2000 or higher. I hope to eventually get it all into Vue d'Sprit.