Theory: Skewed Axis

Nearly all Mayan city sites are skewed slightly clockwise. This average fifteen degree shift in alignments “may reflect orientations to the horizon positions of the sun at the solstices.”* Ninety-three percent of the structures in the Puuc group are slanted but nor uniformly; they vary depending to the site. On the Yucatan’s flat plains, “where topography might be expected to impose a minimal influence of site planning, the skew seems especially uniform.”* This skew is directed towards the southernmost rising position of Venus, which the Maya extensively studied.

*A. Aveni and H. Hartung, “Maya City Planning and the Calendar,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol 76 No 7 (1986) 1-87