Uxmal (19)


Source: WTL photographs© on site at Uxmal Archeological site.
Notes: Before entering the Nuns Quadrangle, the photographer nearly bumps into the corner of a wall on the Governor's Palace decorated with an elaborate frieze in the Chenes style.
Humanities ideas: horror vacui (from the Mayan cultural perspective) and admiratio (from the Spanish European perspective). (See: <= Latin American Terminology #2 for a definition of horror vacui.)