triangulos congruentes

To the north of the pyramid of Cholula is a small hill known as Montero, which also aligns with the solar zenith (69.67 degrees) that passes over La Malinche, the hill Teoton and Popocatepetl.At this hill there is also an archaeological site with ceramic remains from the Preclassic period, as well as caves, a large rock on its summit with inscriptions, and a cross. With the use of a GPS unit, a cartographic reading of the hill gives an elevation of 2, 189 meters, with a latitude of 19.08'12" and a longitude of 98.17'40".

With regards to the importance of this site in the vernacular geography, lets cite the words of the archaeologist Ismael Arturo Montero, with whom we visited at the said hill in May of 1996:

“The landscape surrounding the cross of the hill Montero is impressive; the alignments are astounding: first, a straight line links the volcano the Malinche to the northeast with the cross of the hill Montero, which serves as a marker at the center, with the hill Teoton to the southeast, and the summit of the volcano Popocatepetl; this lines orientation is 250 degrees.From Montero to the peak of the volcano Popocatepetl (approx.); the second alignment corresponds to the south, exactly at 188 degrees (taking into account any magnetic deviation) and, at a distance of 8.30 km from Montero, stands the pyramid of Cholula.”

The following image (Figure 5), having a departure point at the pyramid of Cholula, better represents the foregoing statement:

Figure 5.From C (pyramid of Cholula) to P (volcano Popocatepetl), a M (hill Montero) and back to C, forms a scalene triangle.Note that the line PM intersects T, the point corresponding to the hill Teoton.

Directly to the north of the volcano Popocatepetl with a bearing of 0 degrees, there is a site called Apatlaco, located on the eastern flank of Iztaccihuatl, approximately 1, 600 meters to the west of Cerro Gordo.Figure 6 demonstrates how the sites of Cholula-Apatlaco-Montero-Cholula form the following triangle:

Figure 6.A line that goes from C (pyramid of Cholula) to A (Apatlaco) to M (hill Montero) and back to C.Note that the line AC intersects T (Teoton) creating a figure that in shape and dimension also corresponds to a scalene triangle

Both scalene triangles have the same shape and their corresponding sides and angles are equal.Both pairs of opposite sides are parallel, thus creating a parallelogram.The parallelograms diagonals intersect each other.This in turn places T (Teoton) precisely at its center.Thus, making the pyramidal hill Teoton and its ancient shrine an axis mundi, such as is illustrated in the following model:

In this way we observe that the axis mundi or navel of the earth, located at the hill Teoton, constitutes a radial center for a cosmic quadrangle, better described as a cosmic parallelogram, having vertices of

Apatlaco:Situated directly to the north of Popocatepetl and at 1, 600 meters to the west of Cerro Gordo.Located under the alignment of 97.90 degrees

Cerro Montero:Situated to the north of Cholula.Located under the alignment of the zenith passage of the sunrise over La Malinche and intersects the hill Teoton and Popocatepetl

TEOTÓN

Popocatépetl:Located directly to the south of Apatlaco.It lies under the alignment of the zenith passage of the sunrise over La Malinche and intersects the hill Teoton and Popocatepetl.

Cholula: This great pyramid is situated to the south of the archaeological site of the hill Montero. It lies on the alignment of 97.9 degrees.During the last twenty-five centuries, Cholula has been a religious Mecca and a commercial center.