Quirigua - A Site for Sore Eyes

[stusik_i_sharik]

To make it easier to explain, a hot waterfall is, in many ways, a lot like a hot shower. For one, getting out is just as hard - you want to stay as long as time allows and just stand there under the pressure of the water, watching your skin wrinkle and feel your mind going a bit foggy from the heat. One way this hot waterfall was not like a hot

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[gadikus]

Good job! :)

[stanyslava]

:)

[stoshagownozad]

Ho! There was a book in my childhood - "A Warrior from Quirigua". terrific story.
Suppose it was inspired by theese stellae ( or stellas?)

[pofig37]

Don't know about the book, but the story here is that Quirigua ruler, Cauc Sky, was put in power by the neighboring and much larger city state Copan (across the border in Honduras). But then he somehow managed to conquer Copan, behead their ruler Eighteen Rabbit, and erect dozens of stellas to commemorate his achievement.

[stoshagownozad]

Oh dear! what an awfull name... Eighteen Rabbit... Maybe the guy deserved his death, who knows...