Moon Gate – Peace

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Moon Gate – Peace

The Gate of the Moon is part of the Tiwanaku Monumental Archaeological Complex located on a rise of land near Putuni. It has a height of 2.23 meters and a thickness of 26 centimeters. It is characterized by being an arch carved from a single block of andesite stone., It has a frieze with sculpted decoration in high and low relief. It presents several zoomorphic motifs similar to the last decorative band of the Puerta del Sol., with the variant that they have puma heads with fish mouths and not bird heads, which shows the diverse functions and meanings of each of them in the symbology of the Andean world..

It is known that the Puerta del Sol and the Puerta de la Luna were probably part of the Andean worldview due to the characteristics of the architectural design., the location, the base material and the symbology; forming the very own concept of the Tihuanacota culture of unity in diversity. In the middle of the 19th century, when the importance of the archaeological site was not yet fully known, only legends and beliefs of the elderly circulated, about the existence of a great metropolis on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The evidence also indicates that the Puerta de la Luna was placed at the entrance to the cemetery and that it was later taken to its current location in the archaeological complex..

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