"The Universe is not just stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
J.D.S. Haldane 1927

"You can't find something when you don't want to"
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Broken Architectural Slab?

This rock is interesting, at the top of it you might see the two faces noted on other sites which have been analyzed to the extreme. The two pieces I have cropped out look like they were split from a single piece, they have a very flat surface with some type of pattern on it. The part that is bowled out just seems to fit together. This rock lies just to the top of the bird carving and just below the rock called 'Half Dome'. Now compare that to something I found at Chichen Itza I was stunned when I saw the rock below just lying on the ground behind the structure known as the Observatory. Notice how they both are dished out in the same way. They are even broken in two in the same way.

I wrote the above in 2003 and since have returned to Maya world twice. I have found similar ceremonial bowl stones at Ek Belam as well as several more at Chichen Itza. Those at Chichen Itza are lying about the grounds not associated with any structures but rather nearby them. While at Ek Belam the main gate structure has two of these stones in the center sill of the doorway and another lies in a temple. It is indicated in Ek Belam that they were mainly used to hold offerings but did have other more mundane functions.

Ceremonial bowl near the Observatory at Chichen Itza

Ceremonial Bowl Stone #1 on the ground at Chichen Itza near the Nunnery

Ceremonial Bowl Stone #2 on the grounds at Chichen Itza

Ceremonial Bowl Stone in a temple at Ek Belam

Cermonial Bowl Stone in main gate doorway at Ek Belam