Theory: Symbolism in Architecture

The city of Uxmal seems to have nothing that was built by chance. All doorways, sculptures, carvings have a symbolism or reason. Even the location and orientation of the buildings were carefully plotted out to have a correlation with the stars and the planets.

The most common figure seen throughout the site is of course that of Chaac, the Mayan god of rain. The repeated presence of this figure shows the importance of rain in this region. The lack of any nearby water supply meant that the only method of retaining water was from rain.