Item from civilization by Firaxis Games / 2K
The great twin pyramid of Tenochtitlan, the spiritual heart of the Aztec Empire, where the gods receive their tribute and the sun is kept alive.
The Templo Mayor is not merely a building — it is the axis of the Aztec universe. The Aztecs believe the world was created through divine sacrifice, and must be sustained through the same. The rituals conducted here are not theater; they are, to Montezuma and his priests, the literal mechanism that keeps the sun rising. In Civilization terms, the Aztec pyramid wonder equivalent represents the Aztecs' religious production bonuses and their ability to convert enemy units. In roleplay terms, it is the most intense spiritual location in the known world — a place where the boundary between the human and the divine becomes uncomfortably thin.
A stepped pyramid rising in four stages, painted red and blue on its twin stairways. At its summit, two shrines burn with perpetual fires — one for Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun, painted red, and one for Tlaloc, god of rain, painted blue. The smell of copal incense and something darker drifts down from above.
Also known as: Templo Mayor, The Great Temple, Twin Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, House of the Hummingbird