Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury?

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Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 24, 2015 14:31:03 GMT -6 Gynsburghe, jmccann, and 2 more like this

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"Large quantities" of mercury discovered in a chamber at the end of a sacred tunnel sealed for nearly two millenia...Difficult to mine and prized for its reflective properties, mercury was rare in ancient Mexico.

www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/24/us-mexico-archeology-teotihuacan-idUSKBN0NF1US20150424

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tetramorph Regular Patron Posts: 1,626	Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 24, 2015 14:54:39 GMT -6 sepulchre likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by tetramorph on Apr 24, 2015 14:54:39 GMT -6 Wow, that first graphic -- I either want to crawl that dungeon, or run it!
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Falconer Global Moderator Cleric of OD&D Posts: 2,805	Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 24, 2015 15:11:47 GMT -6 sepulchre, battlebrotherbob, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Falconer on Apr 24, 2015 15:11:47 GMT -6 Aww, I thought it would be Aztec pyramid tombs ON Mercury!
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Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 24, 2015 18:11:54 GMT -6 Porphyre, tetramorph, and 1 more like this

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Apr 24, 2015 15:29:32 GMT -6 Gynsburghe said:

Love archaeology news! Seems like there has been a proliferation as of lately. Very cool, thanks!

Yeah, did everybody see this? Lost City of the Monkey-god

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Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 24, 2015 21:16:07 GMT -6

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Apr 24, 2015 18:11:54 GMT -6 Falconer said:

Yeah, did everybody see this? Lost City of the Monkey-god

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Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 25, 2015 4:49:24 GMT -6

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Apr 24, 2015 18:11:54 GMT -6 Falconer said:

Apr 24, 2015 15:29:32 GMT -6 Gynsburghe said:

Love archaeology news! Seems like there has been a proliferation as of lately. Very cool, thanks!

Yeah, did everybody see this? Lost City of the Monkey-god

With were-jaguars , and ape-men. If that doesn't sound like a Old School module, nothing does .

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Aztec Pyramids, Royal Tombs and...mercury? Apr 25, 2015 9:10:26 GMT -6 tetramorph likes this

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I'm surprised they haven't realized the Mercury is a trap set for tomb raiders. Other cultures have used lead dust and poisonous chemicals as Raiders of the Lost Arc style defenses.

Yet every article I've seen has experts speculating about how Mercury must have some symbolic ritual meaning.

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Apr 25, 2015 9:10:26 GMT -6 Red Baron said:

I'm surprised they haven't realized the Mercury is a trap set for tomb raiders. Other cultures have used lead dust and poisonous chemicals as Raiders of the Lost Arc style defenses.

Yet every article I've seen has experts speculating about how Mercury must have some symbolic ritual meaning.

I read you on this Red Baron.

The ancient Old World did not recognize Mercury to be poisonous. Perhaps neither did they.

There may be a cosmological connect going on. A lot of times tombs are designed to model and thereby (through a kind of sympathetic magic) resonate with or conduct a cosmos so that the buried can make it to whatever the next place they are supposed to be going.

I don't know about the New World. But in the Old World there is a cosmological- astrological- alchemical commutative principle across Hermes - Mercury - quicksilver. Maybe that is what they are guessing.

But I like the trap idea for the dungeon crawl!

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