When you reach the top of the Tepozteco, you will be charged $30 pesos to see the pyramid and to enjoy the panoramic view. If you have a proper student ID you will be exempt from this charge. The Tepozteco is a designated archaeological zone by the state of Morelos. This is the Temple of Tepoztecatl, patron god of the populace of the Tepoztlan Valley. The god´s statue was destroyed by the Dominican friar Domingo de la Anunciacion during the mid-sixteenth century. Tepoztecatl is one of the deities associated with the maguey plant and pulque; his calendar name is Ome Tochtli, 2 Rabbit. The rabbit was a moon being in Meso-American cosmogony. This connection with a heavenly body that dies and is reborn endlessly comes from the fact that pulque gods embodied nature's ongoing cycle of birth and death. These gods were celebrated at the end of harvest time.
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