"Whoosh, whoosh!"
The banner of the Main God Huitzilopochtli flew high above the three-story tower-shaped wooden hall, like a relaxed, unhurried "Buddha" sitting atop the tower. In truth, this three-story wooden building, something none of the Nahua tribes had ever possessed before, was the first wooden temple to the Main God built in the style of the Triple-Story Pagoda of Chinese Buddhism.
"A triple-story tower, enshrining the bodhisattva god-banner. Eight inner pillars form its bones, each three zhang and three chi long (10.56 meters), one chi in diameter (0.32 meters). Twenty-four crossbeams, each two zhang long. Three stories raised: the first one zhang and two chi tall, the second one zhang and one chi, the third one zhang, decreasing step by step. Each story rests upon the inner pillars and crossbeams, laid with wooden planks three cun thick. Besides the eight inner pillars, there are also sixteen outer pillars supporting the eaves, four on each side, shorter and smaller than the inner pillars. Finally, atop the third story, a flagpole of over two zhang is erected, from which hangs the god-banner of the Great Bodhisattva of the Main God."
Master builder Yachiku Jiro muttered to himself, and together with master carpenter Kizaku Jiro, led a dozen or so Purepecha apprentices in carefully inspecting this newly built "Main God Bodhisattva Pagoda Temple." They walked across the broad base platform, like that of a Nahua pyramid temple, while behind them, the tribal apprentices held all manner of ink-line measuring cords, bamboo measuring rods, and wooden sticks large and small carved with scales. The earthen platform beneath everyone's feet had mobilized a vast amount of manpower; it had been rammed from broken stone and clay, a full one zhang thick, and had also lifted the entire tower and flagpole one zhang higher. At