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Aztec Steam Bath

A Ramble Around Teotihuacán with Dick Diehl

Aztec Steam Bath at Teotihuacán

Aztec Steam Bath at Teotihuacán

Photograph by Richard A. Diehl, November 2008

Aztec "Temascal"

This temascal (steam bath) is an Aztec structure erected almost 1,000 years after the Sun Pyramid was abandoned. Steam bathing was an important form of ritual purification amongst the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican Indians and what more sacred place to do than at the base of a pyramid built by the gods?

Written by Richard A. Diehl

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