... placed inside. Like the earlier burial, they all had their hands behindtheir backs, and none emerged as the primaryoccupant. Instead of housing the tomb of a ruler, the Pyramid of the Moon records ... the status of those parts, emphasizing their independence,or, at the very least, their prominent role in the structure of the whole. In the following chapters I hope to seize uponthis distinction. ... monu-ment to the office of the king, yet, ironically, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid inside the Ciuda-dela may have marked the decline of powerfulindividual rule at the site. In the years following construction...