By The Power Of The Sun and The Moon
Trip Start
Jan 08, 2007
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Trip End
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Trujillo,
Peru
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
This also meant I had a bit of company for one of the most amazing ruins so far. Lorena along with her cousin Jenny and myself settled on the Sun and Moon Huacas for our first outing. These two crumbling mounds are thought to be from the Moche period over 600 years before Chan Chan. The sun temple is a gigantic towering mound with very little excavation yet done. The smaller moon temple has had extensive work done and has endured a severe beating by grave robbers who have left a potholed shell in their wake. Excavations have revealed 6 different levels built up over many generations. As each new level was constructed the lower level was bricked up to give a stable footing to build up from, thus the friezes found decorating lower levels are highly preserved and more spectacular than the higher levels that put up with attacks from both mother nature and unscrupulous looters. The names of these temples have been given recently by the archaeologists working on them based purely on the different sizes and knowledge that many cultures worshiped these astral bodies.
