Chichén Itzá - Temple of the Warriors

(Local Name: Templo de los Guerreros) On a step platform east of El Castillo stands the Temple of the Warriors (Templo de los Guerreros). This magnificent structure comprising several spacious, columned halls is unmistakeably a larger version of the Temple of the Morning Star at Tula. Several rows of square pillars guard the foot of the stairway, at the top of which squats a chac-mool. The main temple entrance is again flanked by two massive serpent columns, heads on the ground, tails, originally carrying the lintel, pointing to the sky. Behind them four atlantes support a large stone altar. Here too archaeologists discovered the remains of an earlier, smaller Temple of the Warriors concealed inside the pyramid.