Templo del Dios del Viento

About this audio guide

This guide to the Temple of the Wind God in Tulum, Mexico, is about a small round shrine on the clifftop above the Caribbean and the reason the Maya gave it a curved wall instead of the square corners used everywhere else on the site. It follows the building's double life as sanctuary and lookout, and the wind gods the Maya linked to it, Kukulkan here and Ehecatl elsewhere in Mesoamerica. It also traces how long people kept coming back to pray at this exact spot, long after the rest of Tulum had gone quiet.