Abstract
The orientation of the Governor's Palace at the Classic Maya city of Uxmal can be related to the extremes of the planet Venus on the horizon. While the sculptural decoration of the building contains iconographic elements clearly indicating an association with the planet, two opposing interpretations have been forwarded regarding its orientation, one linking it with the southernmost rising point of the morning star and the other suggesting it refers to the northerly extremes of the evening star.
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Šprajc, I. (2015). Governor’s palace at Uxmal. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 773–782). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_68
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