Looking northeast from the House of the Turtles, the line of view is cut by the massive Pyramid of the Magician. Its rounded edges and curious profile, where two temples prominently stand at different heights on its western façade, is rather unique. Archaeologists have in fact located five different temples in the Pyramid of the Magician. They mark successive building phases in this massive pyramid, which did not even start out as a pyramid/temple, but as a range-type palace that once formed part of a quadrangle arrangement.