teocallis

When the Aztecs abandoned their temples, and began to build Christian churches, they called them also "teocallis," and perhaps do so to this day.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-ofgold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers, and teocallis of gold wedges.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-ofgold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers, and teocallis of gold wedges.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-of-gold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers and teocallis of gold wedges.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-of-gold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers, and teocallis of gold wedges.

Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

Near Nice there is a hill which gives a wonderfully correct idea of the appearance of the terraced teocallis of Mexico, as they must have looked before time effaced the sharpness of their lines.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The priests, keeping their night watch on the summit of the _teocallis_, instantly caught the tidings and sounded their shells, while the huge drum in the desolate temple of the war-god sent forth those solemn tones, which, heard only in seasons of calamity, vibrated through every corner of the capital.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Many times has that old city been restored, in the imagination of enthusiasts, with its forty pyramids (_teocallis_) and unnumbered palaces, adorned with all the luxury and magnificence of the most refined civilization, united with barbaric grandeur and inhumanity in so strange a combination as to distract our feelings between hate and admiration.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

Traces of two large teocallis are just visible, and Mr. Bowring has some burial mounds in his grounds which will be examined some day.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The larger of the two teocallis is dedicated to the Sun, has a base of about 640 feet, and is about 170 feet high.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor