Grid of the Gods by Joseph P. Farrell, Scott D. de Hart

accomplished through the barbaric practice of human sacrifice, a practice overseen by priests who, according to Nahuatl tradition, directed sacrifices as part of the ritual of immortality and ascension connected with the pyramids. 23 Beforeproceeding to a more detailed examination, it is worth speculating on why sacrifice was thought, in some manner, to be connected with pyramids, immortality, and the manipulation of the medium.
    We have already noted that pyramids were understood by the Meso-Americans, in some rudimentary form, as machines directly linked to the cosmological processes of creation, to a physics . As I have also noted in my book The Cosmic War , some of the ancient technologies seem to have been operable, or were perceived as being operable, only in close conjunction or actual physical contact with their possessors. 24 It is also known that the Aztecs in particular practiced human sacrifice with what may best be described as reckless abandon, as if, somehow, the sheer numbers and emotional trauma associated with them somehow enhanced the effect - whatever it was perceived to be - of the practice. Taking the Aztec and Mayan myths as our clue, we may conclude that at some point during the development of the Grid, that an elite arose - or perhaps simply asserted itself - that understood that there was a direct effect of consciousness upon the physical medium, and through the practice of massive human sacrifice, was attempting literally to “traumatize” or “shock” it.
    Turning to Teotihuacan itself, it is to be noted that the site is very ancient, and bears the marks of several eras of construction. 25 The problem is, that no one really knows who built it, nor really, when it was built. Indeed, when the Conquistadors discovered the site,
No one could tell them who had built the great ceremonial center, whence the builders had come, or whither they had gone. All they could learn was that two centuries earlier, when the Mexica had arrived in the valley, they had found the mysterious city already in an abandoned condition, covered with earth and vegetation. 26
     
    The presence not only of vegetation but of earth covering the monuments of Teotihuacan suggests that when the Aztecs came upon the site, it had been abandoned for some time.
    There is loosely corroborating support for the antiquity of this site from Mayan texts, Aztec mythology and ritual practices. Peter Tompkins notes that the Aztecs and Mayans may have inherited the practice of human sacrifice from some contact with the Phoenicians, who were the ultimate practitioners of child sacrifice. Citing the work of archaeologist Hugh Fox, Tompkins notes that the practice of sacrifice in the Old World, emerged after the Flood in conjunction with an attempt to appease the gods and ward off another catastrophe, a conjunction of ideas also apparently at work in Mayan and Aztec thinking. 27 The Mayan Troano Codex spoke of a great catastrophe that had sunk an island in the Atlantic Ocean “extending eastward in a crescent as far as the Canary Islands” ca. 9937 BC. 28 The close proximity of this date to the 10,500 BC date mentioned elsewhere should be noted, for again it suggests that one is looking at a common cultural inheritance spanning the globe.
    It is fairly certain that the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan was once dedicated to the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, Quetzcoatl, for the Mexican archaeologist Batras discovered many worked shells depicting snakes on and around the pyramid during his excavations of the site in the early twentieth century. 29
    However, there was a much deeper mystery concerning the Pyramid of the Sun, one suggesting that the structure was conceived for some machine-like function:
An unpublished find on the fifth level has never been adequately explained. While the Sun Pyramid was first being probed by Batras in 1906, an archeologist working with him reported a thick sheet of mica covering the top of the fifth body. This material