The Maya site may have been formerly also known by the name Zama, meaning city of Dawn. Tulúm is also the Yucatec Mayan word for “Fence of wall” (or trench), and the walls surrounding the site allowed the Tulum fort to serve as a defense against invasion. From the numerous depictions in murals and other works around the site, Tulum appears to have been an important site for the worship of the Diving or Descending god. There’s is no such tall pyramid in Tulum ruin site, but the location of this ruin is very important. Right on the Ocean: great benefit of stiff cliff that protected the whole site and also the trading of Salt and Textile then.
The ruins at the north side tip of Tulum beach, from the top: the entrance to the “Fenced Wall’, temples with usual 2-3 windows and narrow columns, Gael and me looking over the look out of the beach at ruins…
