#skull platform

[man578]

ID: https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/courses/599F-0000-0313-94AF

This level's idea was generated from a theme generator. Plenty of tricky jumps (trying to jump in place while riding a fast skull platform on tracks is one example).

[rabbitcruiser]

Ruins and the Tzompantli or Skull Platform (Plataforma de los Cráneos)

The Wall of Skulls is called the Tzompantli, which is actually an Aztec name for this kind of structure, because the first one seen by the horrified Spanish was at the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan.

The Tzompantli structure at Chichén Itzá is a Toltec structure, where the heads of sacrificial victims were placed; although it was one of three platforms in the Great Plaza, it was according to Bishop Landa, the only one for this purpose--the others were for farces and comedies, showing the Itzá's were all about fun. The platform walls of the Tzompantli have carved reliefs of four different subjects. The primary subject is the skull rack itself; others show a scene with a human sacrifice; eagles eating human hearts; and skeletonized warriors with shields and arrows.