Pyramid of the Sun

Pyramid of the Sun anchors Teotihuacan’s ceremonial heart, a colossal stepped mountain raised in the early 2nd c. AD above a cave long treated as a source of life and sacred power. Its sheer mass and deliberate orientation bind the city to solar time, turning architecture into a public argument for cosmic order and political authority. Centuries later the Aztecs read it as a place of creation, and restorations around 1910 helped fix it as a modern national icon.