El Castillo ("the castle") Step pyramid stands about 30 metres (98 ft) high It represents the Snake Mountain the two upright bodies of the snakes serve as columns for the pyramid's upper temple, and are meant to represent the Kuxan Sum or "living cord" that connected the rulers of the earth with their gods. Snake Mountain was also where, in Maya folklore, where creation first occurred. Xmucane, the first mother, used maize dough to mold the first humans at the beginning of the fourth creation.