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Cenoté

Maya city of Chichen Itza. This was the huge water hole known as a cenoté where indians use to commit suicide by jumping in and sometimes they use to throw young woman in the cenoté as a sacrifice to the Gods.

 

In the wells around Chichén Itzá have been found scores of skeletons. Mayan petroglyphs depict human sacrifices at these sites. What lies under this Cenoté is not known, no one has ever been able to reach it's depths.

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Uploaded on January 10, 2006
Taken on April 25, 2004