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"The design and placement of the largest monumental building on the site – Structure 5.... – is based on a “cosmogram,” a geometric figure depicting the universe wherein the arrangement of the buildings follows a main east-west alignment, the intersection of which with a north-south axis is the “Ombligo-Mux” (“navel,” “mux” in the indigenous Mam language) as a central point or axis mundi for the city" (AB ev)
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Umbilicus urbis Romae, a structure in the Roman Forum from where all the Roman roads parted.
See en.wikipedia.org
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"Sun Pyramid was the axis mundi for Teotihuacan culture, a space from which celestial and underworld levels were accessed symbolically."
See www.inah.gob.mx
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Japan's highest mountain, Mount Fuji, has long symbolized the world axis in Japanese culture (wiki)
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