6. SACBE 1, DZIBILCHALTUN The Temple of the Seven Dolls, located l.3 km east of the Xlacah Cenote and the city center, was not placed there for daily visits and may have been the precinct of a priestly cult. At the same time, it is clearly visible at the end of the sacbe leading from the population centers of the city (in the distance in this photo taken the temple.) Dzibilichaltun, as shown on the site plan, was comprised of separate quarters at some distance from each other with a roughly orthogonal network of sacbeob connecting them. In front of the Temple of the Seven Dollls are six back-to-back nearly identical buildings (structures 4 - 9) with rooms or cells appropriate for the temple's priest. In the near distance is one of the stela or gnomon, Structure 12, the upright of a sundial which are characteristic of the city. In addition, a number of small ancillary buildings, including a pyramid, cluster around the temple and are presumed to have fulfilled an astronomical function (though what exactly has yet to be discovered) . Most of the alignments at Dzibilchaltun are fairly straightforward and solar; indicating its early date before the Venus (Quetzalcoatl) cults of Central Mexico penetrated the Mayan peninsula. Many temples were also situated above small openings or cenotes regarded as entrances to the underworld. Since it has never been fully explored the Xlaiek Cenote's cavern might extend this far.