So, Aztec Mythology in a nutshell: Praise the Sun! No seriously, praise the sun or else the moon will kill us all...

@timothyzappa2828

4 жыл бұрын

*that one guy who questions everything*: But do we have to kill humans wouldn't a hummingbird be more effective? *Priest holding a still beating heart*: 😳🤬 *points at that guy* He's next The sun demands it!!

@mikaroni_and_cheez

3 жыл бұрын

Solaire's anxious thoughts in a nutshell

@christianmoralesortiz4688

3 жыл бұрын

Dark souls in a NUTSHELL!!!

@ashlingemberstone3913

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll kill them all in the name of the moon! :D

@D00000T

3 жыл бұрын

Christian Morales Ortiz time to see how the Aztecs now factor into dark souls lore

Red: who's a cute little guy- Humming: BLOOD! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! Red: So cute.

@centurionconrad

5 жыл бұрын

TwentyØne Crybabys at the Disco HERESY!

@haggisllama2630

4 жыл бұрын

Chaplain Conrad skulls for the skull throne

@centurionconrad

4 жыл бұрын

Haggis Llama MORE HERESY!

@MegaPompoen

4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to turn this into a D&D character... Somehow...

@paxshmitz2665

4 жыл бұрын

@@centurionconrad Children for the slave trade.

Coatlicue*is pregnant from a ball off feathers* Everyone: ZEUS

@flytedragoon3012

3 жыл бұрын

Me: LOKI!!!

@DrVella

3 жыл бұрын

its a fair reaction though

@anyathepanther7977

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody is safe! 😳

@arielnatalene3006

3 жыл бұрын

@@flytedragoon3012 But isn't he the one who got impregnated as a mare instead of impregnate other women?

@rubensneto9049

3 жыл бұрын

his dingus know no boundaries.Even mythologies.

"The aztecs sacrificed people to keep the moon from eating the sun." Wow someone must have seen a full solar eclipse and LOST IT!!

@kankeydang2488

3 жыл бұрын

lets get a time machine just to bring an aztec to a solar eclipse event and watch them lose their shit

@OriginalCreatorSama

3 жыл бұрын

@@kankeydang2488 I am so very down with this!!!

@kaboomgaming4255

2 жыл бұрын

@@kankeydang2488 been done in a few books and movies

@zekeryaoumar2356

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaboomgaming4255 which ones? i need some names!

@kaboomgaming4255

2 жыл бұрын

@@zekeryaoumar2356 One of James Patterson's books in the Treasure Hunters series uses it on a modern Aztec cult/religion that still used human sacrifices looking for the lost city of gold, and in that book it references another book

It is important to mention that Coatlicue's name literally means "snake-skirt", because instead of wearing a grass skirt she had thousands of live rattlesnakes growing out of her thighs. The Aztecs also believed that birth was a spirit-war waged between the mother and the gods, with the prize being the life of the child if the mother won. So every mother in Aztec society was basically automatically assumed to be a badass warrior.

@misselizabethplays8070

2 жыл бұрын

not wrong (also mothers who died in childbirth in Nordic civilizations were given a warrior's burial, neat parallel)

@irishmanfromengland25

2 жыл бұрын

_AWESOME_

@kamiraofthewoods

2 жыл бұрын

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

@brie5070

2 жыл бұрын

I love that

@chancethewrapper3557

Жыл бұрын

@@misselizabethplays8070 wow- same with spartans and zulu too

So according to the Aztecs the solar and lunar cycle is the equivalent of a Looney tunes chase.

@bellial974

4 жыл бұрын

Egypt was similar, Ra has to fight Apophis every Night

@merrittanimation7721

3 жыл бұрын

@@bellial974 And the Norse pantheon, with the sun and moon getting chased by wolves.

@DragonEmperorMycen

3 жыл бұрын

@@merrittanimation7721 and then the wolves win

@justjoking5252

3 жыл бұрын

That is until Daffy gets tired of fighting off Yosemite Sam and the world gets devoured.

@Alusnovalotus

3 жыл бұрын

Similar to the nativity story

"And then one day after being magically impregnated by a ball of feathers," ZEUS DID YOU DO IT AGAIN??

@shosty575

4 жыл бұрын

Weird cameo. 😂😂😂😂

@rjpederson2261

4 жыл бұрын

When I first read this ... I died from laughter

@Rachel-zf2wm

4 жыл бұрын

His influence spreads further than his legs

@Rachel-zf2wm

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry

@shosty575

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rachel-zf2wm 😂😂

Fun fact: the humming bird thing doesnt only apply to soldiers, it also applied to women who died in child birth. A warriors death indeed

@619ver1

3 жыл бұрын

So same rules as Valhalla then?

@tux_duh

7 ай бұрын

​@@619ver1not exactly, pregnancy was seen as a fight for the child's life between the mother and the gods, so if you die in childbirth you died in war

@laumoreri5983

6 ай бұрын

It’s pretty cool cause warrior would take skin from the mother who dies in child birth as a good luck charm.

@DaddyOwO

2 ай бұрын

Didn't the Spartans have the same thing for who did and didn't get a grave?

I just imagine a humming bird zip by screaming in a tiny voice “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”

@everstar6835

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine people reactions just seeing this tiny humming bird screaming "Blood for the blood god" that would be horrifying.

@steveisthecommissar4013

5 жыл бұрын

Guardsmen

@60sSam

5 жыл бұрын

I am very, very disturbed right now.

@everstar6835

5 жыл бұрын

@@60sSam It would be disturbing to see something like that

@JadeBlades098

5 жыл бұрын

*SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!*

So basically the Aztecs believed in a moon just as frightening as the one in Majora's Mask.

@tibiademon9157

7 жыл бұрын

The Aztecs believed _everything_ was frightening.

@thirteenfury

7 жыл бұрын

Fabrizio Illuminati True. When you live in a harsh unforgiving environment with psychotropic plants and venomous animals and neighbors who want you dead, everything _is_ frightening.

@pablo9234

7 жыл бұрын

sadly, they hadn't steamer duck. Now that (along with geese and casoar) is a bird i easily see a warrior reincarnating as).

@marcopohl4875

7 жыл бұрын

thought the same thing

@daughter-of-loki1062

7 жыл бұрын

And swans as well.

fun fact: hummingbirds are attracted to the color red me: humming birds like red...blood is red

@mrrey3481

3 жыл бұрын

Humming birds are the agents of Khorne

@terriblecompany1588

3 жыл бұрын

Step 1: cover yourself in blood

@anonguy772

2 жыл бұрын

@@terriblecompany1588 Alright, at risk of sounding like a dumbass zoomer memelord: Is that a reference to Trollge? (Blood floats on blood, the edgy sequel to oil floats on water) Edit: Obligatory grammar check because I'm incapable of ever getting it right on the first try

Red: Mother Nature is nice Tsunamis, Tornados, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Volcanos Me: the Aztecs were onto something

I feel like in the alternate universe where Aztec culture somehow became the dominant one, once they made the advances in science we did, they would've started outlawing human sacrifice by instead saying "...wait, why don't we just... have a blood bank for the blood god?"

@Enchie

6 жыл бұрын

Fionn Gallag Or do what most other religions do, and sacrifice animals instead.

@Djeljosue

6 жыл бұрын

Hey man, if you speak spanish you can look up a series of books called "Cronics of the plummed snake" (cronicas de la serpiente emplumada) if a really nice alternate history novel about the exact thing you described, it's a four book series written by an argentinian dude, but again, from what i know, sadly it's only in spanish

@Flowtail

6 жыл бұрын

Djeljosue I'm afraid I took Chinese instead of Spanish in high school :/

@Djeljosue

6 жыл бұрын

Bu danxin lol i wish it was easier to use Mandarin simbols on a PC

@Flowtail

6 жыл бұрын

Djeljosue 那不太難的!

"You turn into a hummingbird" - Well YEAH, have you seen hummingbirds? They're pretty and shiny but they're like psychotic little throwing darts with anger issues.

@kaboomgaming4255

2 жыл бұрын

exactly; they're warriors

@benthomason3307

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaboomgaming4255 that is how a hummingbyurd do.

@misselizabethplays8070

2 жыл бұрын

@@benthomason3307 clearly a [insert gender] of culture

@metarcee2483

Ай бұрын

My family has three hummingbird feeders in the backyard. The males go out of their way to find the feeder with another male for the specific purpose of fighting the other guy out of the feeder.

Ok, now I can imagine a character that speaks with animals hearing a hummingbird say something like "I'll drink your blood and gift your heart to the gods above!!" in the cutest and caries-inducing voice possible.

@LycanMOON

3 жыл бұрын

I just think of technoblade

@reklessbravo2129

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just imagining different possible reactions from Disney princesses

@rodrigomateodelgadodelacru8154

3 жыл бұрын

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

@worldweaver2691

2 жыл бұрын

*tanya von degurechaff in s1 ep5 ending scene/the raid on the weapons factory intensifies*

@AskMia411

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, given the way hummingbirds fight with each other... That is EXACTLY how they would talk. Hummingbirds are METAL

You know, the concept of two sibling gods who represent the sun and the moon seems very common. Huitzilopotchli and Coyolxāuhqui, Helios and Selene, Apollo and Artemis, Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, Princess Celestia and Luna.

@camilaalmiron5588

2 жыл бұрын

Me mataste con la ultima 😂🤣😆

@zodiac5403

Жыл бұрын

Actually Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi belong to a set of triplets what with their brother Susanoo

@maxwellmarques1607

Жыл бұрын

@@zodiac5403 yeah, and Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxaulqui had 402 other brothers, what's your point?

@daboi6509

11 ай бұрын

Who the fuck is princess celestia and luna

@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk

11 ай бұрын

What religion was the last one: Equestrianism?

That's why a solar eclipse was a really big deal for the Aztecs. for them, they represented events to nearly end of the world.

@Silverwind87

3 жыл бұрын

And they happened way more often back then.

@terriblecompany1588

3 жыл бұрын

Probably had to murder half the population on those days

@Broztito-bv9zq

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverwind87 why?

@ineptwombat8229

2 жыл бұрын

@@Broztito-bv9zq the moon was slightly closer to the earth, so it would've been seen as slightly bigger and therefore it would be slightly easier for it to cover the sun

@JRexRegis

Жыл бұрын

@@ineptwombat8229 That's not how the moon works It moves about 3 centimeters away each year, meaning that since the fall of the Aztec empire around 1500, it's moved away by about fifteen meters. The moon is about 3.5 million meters wide, making its movement since then essentially nothing. Additionally, solar eclipses happen based on mathematics, when the sun, moon and earth align perfectly in their orbits and its shadow falls on the Earth during the day, which has nothing to do with its distance from the Earth. Eclipses have happened at exactly the same rate for billions of years

_Aww what a cute little guy!_ “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!”

@marseldagistani1989

4 жыл бұрын

For Khorne!!

@pranavghantasala6808

3 жыл бұрын

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!

@ladywaffle2210

3 жыл бұрын

*In the name of the Khagan and the Emperor, I condemn you! Back to hell, Warp-spawn!*

@LycanMOON

3 жыл бұрын

Technoblade intensifies

@THE_VOID_14

2 жыл бұрын

@@LycanMOON lol yes

"Don't ask." I've stopped questioning myths long ago.

@memorynotfound-joviannguye3462

3 жыл бұрын

Same

This is actually exactly how hummingbirds are: their incredible metabolism means that they need to be crazy territorial, monopolizing a route of flowers to fuel their buzzing wings.

Brilliant. Hilarious. Adorable. And BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

@SudsyMedusa53

7 жыл бұрын

Flatflo SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!

@netherwalker1762

7 жыл бұрын

Think we would get a bonus for collecting the moon?

@williamelmore4100

7 жыл бұрын

You are now the enemy of the Magic Space Dinosaurs

@joshuadrinkwater4396

7 жыл бұрын

Heresy! Death to all enemies of the emperor!

@alejandromolina7270

7 жыл бұрын

Praise the Sun. Also, Fear the God Blood.

Aztec mythology is something beyond explanation outside of this. If you consider each mythology a genre of music, this would be the death metal of mythologies.

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

4 жыл бұрын

Now I'm wondering what the others would be...

@sozssarah4525

3 жыл бұрын

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts Think it's safe to say that Greek would probably be pop cause of how popular it is Norse is probably rock Not sure about the others though

@rodrigomateodelgadodelacru8154

3 жыл бұрын

I mean the sun is a dragon the mother of gods has two snake heads the moon is the broken down body of a goddes and humming birds are a representation if the god of war

@EduardoGonzalez-qd4qu

3 жыл бұрын

Crank it up a few notches. Aztec mythology is the Dark Souls of mythology, and even a little bit further from that (for real, check out more sources and you'll find some of the gods were absolute bastards and the landscape was a constant kick in the nuts for humankind). As a descendant, I take huge pride in this fact.

@KasumiRINA

3 жыл бұрын

Aztec myths are more grindcore like early Carcass or Napalm Death... I always associated Egyptian mythology with Death Metal, you know, literally the band Nile, and all that dark tombs with mummies and whole culture centered around death. And on just heavy side you got Creeping Death and Powerslave. Meanwhile, Greek is classical. Roman is opera. German is hard rock. Celtic is folk, obviously. Pop music is forever associated with Sweden for me but their mythology?.. Rock opera I guess???

Solar Eclipse: (happens) Aztec People: oh... *OH NO*

"My sister turned into the moon" "That's rough buddy"

@Kate-es9of

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for a comment like this.

As someone who loves Aztec culture and is born to a Native Mesoamerican Aztec mother I'm really happy you made this video, however as someone who has knowledge of the Nahuatl language I felt like you could really use some help with pronunciation. But I don't blame you, we are talking about a language whose word for pencil is Temextlawawanoni.

@hannahiseithertiredorwired6265

6 жыл бұрын

Good lord that is a long word and just curious here what is the longest word you know?

@wickedAberration

6 жыл бұрын

Rhydian van der Kroft Loves Aztec culture, eh? ... We better not find you sacrificing people atop a pyramid.

@GIRLZ-ARE-HAWT

6 жыл бұрын

Claude Wicked we don't do that

@deviljho9995

6 жыл бұрын

Jesús christ

@Scifoki

6 жыл бұрын

Clorox Bleach not since the accident

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

@cordach8173

7 жыл бұрын

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL-THRONE!!!

@Rayzu4

7 жыл бұрын

Rhys Tyley SOULS FOR THE SOUL EATER

@vyr9467

7 жыл бұрын

HUMMINGBIRDS!

@chevaliergeorgekaaro2280

7 жыл бұрын

BANANAS FOR HARAMBE!! *Just passing thru. sorry*

@maxthepaladin2147

7 жыл бұрын

MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES

Coyolxauhqui: wants to devour the earth Cipactli: finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!

The thing about the hummingbirds reminds me of a documentary that shouwed how the humming birds sometimes fight for dominance in an aggresive mini-air-force type battle using their little pointy beaks as weapons. So yeah, I can imagine an aztec warrior seeing that and thinking "they are one of us"

Based on the terrifying shit through out nature, I'd say Coatlicue is a refreshing and accurate take on "mother nature". Shit even her accidental pregnancy with a murder god sounds legit.

@Scifoki

6 жыл бұрын

Armendicus in the way I know the myth, Coatlicue actually was a really pretty goddess, married to the god of the sky and they had all those kids. until he cheated on her. then she killed him and became horrendous and... well like in the video, tho all he really did was swipe the floor.

@Cancoillotteman

5 жыл бұрын

Well try and tell Artemis (or Dian in Latin) that she's all sweetness, love and tenderness...

@christopherellis2663

5 жыл бұрын

Coatl.. kwatl snake

@giulliadellasara1887

4 жыл бұрын

@@Scifoki OMG, if that's the case than Slavic and Aztec mythology have a lot in common...

@misselizabethplays8070

2 жыл бұрын

The Wrath of Demeter is also pretty savage.

As a Mexican myself, I can confirm every single word is true. Love the videos, keep it up.

@joejohnson5410

7 жыл бұрын

TIE Fighter pilot Yeah, completely true story..

@pasita0865

7 жыл бұрын

TIE Fighter pilot x2

@spacegoblin0334

7 жыл бұрын

TIE Fighter pilot they should do one over Quetzalcoatl

@axolotl4203

7 жыл бұрын

TIE Fighter pilot yes but not just a bird you could enter more heavens like one were the one were dead woman help the sun go up or the people who like war go in never ending war

@Gourdgon

6 жыл бұрын

Dogs is true

Me: Aw what an adorable humming bird I wonder what he’s thinking Hummingbird: *blood for the blood god skulls for the skull throne!* Me: splendid

*"Mom, why do we have to sacrifice dad to the gods ?"* *"You see, Timmy, it's because Huitzilopotchli needs the blood to continue chasing the floating head of his sister in space"*

So basically the Aztec mythos is the most badass metal mythos. p.s - nice 40k reference (I think?)

@sanguiniusonvacation1803

7 жыл бұрын

Aurelian I belive so lorgar

@Athalwolf13

7 жыл бұрын

I think its Warhammer Fantasy

@davidcolby167

7 жыл бұрын

Chaos exists in both realms, actually.

@Ghostrebel017

6 жыл бұрын

Athalwolf it's actually both, because both have the same chaos gods.

@rebelbeammasterx8472

6 жыл бұрын

Viking is equal though. Viking Vs. Aztec sounds awesome.

Other Aztec myths for Red: - Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl (Popo and Itza for short) - The Five Suns - Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca - Xochiquetzal and Xochipilli

@Bysthedragon

7 жыл бұрын

Quetzalcoatl and Mayahuel

@pettylisa5599

7 жыл бұрын

Bysthedragon never heard of it

@Bysthedragon

7 жыл бұрын

Mayahuel was the only goddess who Quetzalcoatl was known to have fallen in love with. Mayahuel was imprisoned by Itzpapalotl and the Tzitzimitl, so Quetzalcoatl snuck into her realm, freed Mayahuel and the two of them ran off together but the Tzitzimitl found Mayahuel disguising herself as a plant and tore her apart.

@pettylisa5599

7 жыл бұрын

Bysthedragon the only goddess he loved? what about Chalchihuitlicue, his wife?

@Bysthedragon

7 жыл бұрын

AH! Something I love about Aztec mythology, even though I've been researching for 5 years I'm still always learning something new. That's a name I have not come across yet, thank you.

Fun fact: Guadalupe is a Spanish region and an Arab derived word meaning River of Light. The Spaniards in México could not pronounce Coatlaxopeuh (pronounced quatlazupe) in the Nahuatl (Aztec language) and used Guadalupe instead. Our virgin of Guadalupe is probably the most important religious figure in Mexico, but it was inspired on Coatlicue or Tonantzin (Tonantzin meaning "our mother"). Spaniards made us believed virgin of Guadalupe and Coatlicue were the same goddesses so... In theory we never stop loving her

This is one of the most badass ancient myths I've ever heard! This would be so cool fro the plot of a video game or movie where Huitzalopochtli has to fight of a literal Army of darkness.

We also turned a swamp into an island paradise (sort of), had one of the biggest precolonial slave empires in the New World, had libraries and aviaries, and viewed women in labor as warriors in their own right. We also had primitive ear gauging, and had some of the sharpest swords in history.

@nero0168

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@dragonheart1236

3 жыл бұрын

....... Are you an Aztec?

@dragonheart1236

3 жыл бұрын

@@username6787 well, from what I understood, the Aztecs as a culture died out a while ago, due to a mix of changing times, colonialism, and how unsustainable blood sacrifices are.

@DinsRune

3 жыл бұрын

_Sick_

@AtaMarKat

3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonheart1236 My Abuela claims that she’s half Aztec, but it’s more likely 1/4 for her.

Aztec mythology makes everyday life seem terrifying. Just think; there's an endless death race going on above our heads all the time.

@Crick1952

7 жыл бұрын

MythAlesh That's about as terrifying as the truth. We're clinging to a rock continously falling into a giant ball of burning gas that keeps missing.

@clockworkkirlia7475

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Crick1952 Also, if we get even slightly too close, all the air will blow away, and if we miss too hard we'll all freeze! It's okay though, because we're way more likely to accidentally turn the world into a solar oven or be too busy squabbling to bat away the big scary space rock. We're sort of badasses though so we have the power to change that AND be nice to each other. We're getting there! Just need to try harder!

@Shadow-gc6le

3 жыл бұрын

And the land itself is a lovecraftian monster it's dead but still hungry and only by feeding it blood can it be satiated enough to not just eat everything.

@annieandelsieofarendelle3294

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shadow-gc6le Yeah that's why I prefer Jesus. Seriously, Aztec Mythology is terrifying.

@dweebteambuilderjones7627

3 жыл бұрын

@@Crick1952 The Sun is made of plasma and it's not actually combustion.

0:44 Yes, it's an specially reasonable interpretation when you're liable to be eaten by jaguars, as lore says an entire world was. Jaguars do NOT mess around. They eat gators (20% + of their diet in fact). And... just about anything their size or smaller.. which in per-colonization meso/south America is... everything. Quite literally. Post colonization only horses and cows are bigger than jaguars.... and they STILL eat those too. TL;DR Don't fuck around with jaguars.

@thomasbourbon4443

3 жыл бұрын

This is why TierZoo rated Jaguars as the top-tier wild cat build.

@ckl9390

2 жыл бұрын

Jaguars also out competed terror birds when the Americas joined by land.

Red: How do you come up with a design like that?! Xochipilli on a pedastal decorated with literal shrooms and peyote: We have so much to show you...

Another explanation that is more historically accurate is that the early Aztecs were nomadic and not treated very kindly. Bearing a grudge, they settle and gain power and proceed to use the Flower Wars to kill their neighbors for religious reasons. The neighbors bear a grudge against the Aztecs for this, and get their revenge by helping the Conquistadors. Moral of the story: be a good neighbor.

@KanaidBlack

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and later when the conquistadors became even more big assholes, the neighbors regret their desicions, but who could blame them?

@hydraloveingman1

7 жыл бұрын

In reality, a lot of the natives who sided with the Conquistadors made out like bandits: made honorary members of the Spanish nobility, put in charge of colonial administration, etc. There was already a bloodthirsty system of chattel slavery in place that the Spanish simply re-purposed in defiance of their own laws, but the only new evil they introduced was stamping out the native non-Christian religions. There's a reason the population of South America is overwhelmingly mixed as opposed to a sea of white settlers and small islands of native survivors.

@Sora744

6 жыл бұрын

hydraloveingman1 and the evil of mass rape, don't forget about that.

@h0m3st4r

6 жыл бұрын

Needless to say, this goes hand in hand with the fact that it wasn't guns, germs, or steel with which Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztecs; it was diplomacy.

@Sora744

6 жыл бұрын

h0m3st4r there was alot of steel involved. Like using steel to kill emperor Montezuma and the bolts used by crossbows that killed the last of his sons. Most of Cortes' "diplomacy" involved massacring the nobility of any given Mexican town, then extorting gold and sex slaves from the rest of the town with the threat of another massacre if they didn't comply.

So a giant killer chick gives birth to a giant feathered serpent and a giant eyeless dog and has two giant snakes for heads. ...I have no words

Great, now I can't stop thinking about the teletubbies yelling "BLOOD, BLOOD FOR THE SUN GOD".

@ayleth891

3 жыл бұрын

There's a MeatCanyon video about the teletubbies with that sort of vibe

"Mom, what the -" _Attack on Titan music intensifies_

I forgot to read the part at the end because I was distracted by your heavenly voice red please sing more I love it

@lydiavalentino

7 жыл бұрын

someone nominate red for a grammy

As a mexican I am very happy that this video exists & that people from other countries can get a taste of our culture shoved into their faces by an amazing channel that I now absolutely believe tries to cover myths from all cultures. Keep up the great work you guys! (~^-^)~♡ Lots of love from Mexico

@dariaxolotl

6 жыл бұрын

rafael cruz i know that. But aztec culture still affects our culture today & it's part of our history.

@GIRLZ-ARE-HAWT

6 жыл бұрын

rafael cruz well actually it is and it isn't

@leonardorojas6999

6 жыл бұрын

rafael cruz actually we have a looooot of traditions that are like Aztecs stuff, so yes, we are "almost" the same

@tomselleck6912

6 жыл бұрын

Virtually nothing remains of the Aztec culture, a lot of things that we know today from the Aztecs were found by archeologists or by people studying ancient writings, the Spanish were pretty good at forcing catholic culture down the throats of everyone.

@falpsdsqglthnsac

5 жыл бұрын

@rafael cruz, Mexicans are, by and large, descended from the various native cultures of the region, including, but not limited to, the Maya, the Purépecha, and, you guessed it, the Aztecs. You obviously know nothing of this matter, and @daria has a right to be proud of the culture of his/her ancestors, however assimilated into Spanish culture it may have become in the colonial period. So, Rafael, I must ask you to buzz off, and leave Daria alone, as they simply wanted to express gratitude towards Overly Sarcastic Productions for making this video. Damn, I didn't mean for it to get this long.

Let’s be honest red makes what’s supposed to be horrifying either adorable or hot

2:04 ah yes, the silver lining of being turned into a nectar addict as a reward for defending your faith, absolutely terrific

I now want a Rick Riordan Aztec series even more now after this

@ifeeldead463

7 жыл бұрын

Same. I'm gonna feel bad for the main character, though. First, you find out you're half-god then you have to sacrifice people just so the world won't end.

@KanaidBlack

7 жыл бұрын

He'll probably sugar coating all. Personally, I would made the main character a Huitzilopochtli's son and add a rule that if any of his children sacrifice themselves to him, he would boost ten times more than in an ordinary sacrifice, making Huitzilopochtli the ultimate villain of the plot. I have issues.

@ebonydragionhart8769

6 жыл бұрын

SON OF NEPTUNE IS A FORESHADOWING!!!!

@ebonydragionhart8769

6 жыл бұрын

KanaidBlack Dude. He killed at elast one person ineach book from book 3 to the last book of Heroes of Olymlus.

@leonr8255

5 жыл бұрын

So he can screw up yet another mythology?

i just got to see a hummingbird shout a prayer to khorne, well then, guess its time to go join them, BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

@Pyrotic_Napalm

5 жыл бұрын

Just rewatched this and read this and all i can say is. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! LET THE GALAXY BURN!

@cariboudesbois9289

5 жыл бұрын

MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKE

@solidlegion5542

5 жыл бұрын

VULKAN LIVES

@georgekikionis7167

4 жыл бұрын

@@solidlegion5542 *VULKAN* *LIVES* *STOMP* *STOMP* *VULKAN* *LIVES*

The fact that Quetzalcoatl is represents arts and crafts has always been funny to me, I imagine him in a group of seven year olds at summer camp making keychains and bookmarks, idk why.

@maguiAM13

3 жыл бұрын

And without arms 😆

2:09 "blood for the blood god" My mind immediately: *TECHNOBLADE-*

2:09 blood for the blood god, Blood for the Blood God, BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! (waffles)

@michaelindustries9460

6 жыл бұрын

Body fluid for the body fluid god craniums for the cranium chair

@merrittanimation7721

6 жыл бұрын

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

@odysseusinspace9704

5 жыл бұрын

WAFFLES FOR THE WAFFLE GOD! Oh, and blood.

@solidlegion5542

5 жыл бұрын

VULKAN LIVES

@gameingboy9541

10 ай бұрын

Oh this is how he got that saying

1:47 Me and my sisters relationship in one picture. (No really I asked her to explain the picture without context and said she was Coyolxauhqui, and I was Huitzilopochtli being chased by her)

Aztec Mythology: the Doom of mythologies

Hear me out, I'm from Mexico. In the Templo Mayor (Major Temple) archaeological zone, the story we were told was pretty much the same, but if anyone cares about some more details, this is it: In Tenochtitlan, two gods were worshipped above all others, which is why the temple has a binary symmetry of red and blue. One was Huitzilopochtli, the god of sun, fire and war, and the one that supposedly led the aztec people in pilgrimage to the Texcoco Lake, where they founded Tenochtitlan and became the mexicas. The other was Tlaloc, the god of rain, storm and thunder. The sacrifices were offered to each one individually, and Tlaloc preferred children to serve him as tlaloques, heavenly children in charge of breaking the vases in which the rain was held. Huitzilopochtli had instead human hearts, and there seemed to be two pairs of gods of the sun and the moon. Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui, and Tonatiuh (the fifth sun, which appears in our $10 coin) and Metztli (the moon hare), which are like, the same gods, but in different stages of their cycle through the sky. Coyolxauhqui was so pissed when she heard Coatlicue was pregnant that she went to kill her mom alongside the Centzon Huitznahua (The 400 stars of the south. Keep in mind that 400 in náhuatl wasn't meant to be literally 400, but as a way of describing the uncountable; the 400-voiced bird (Centzontle) was known for its many sounds, for example) Huitzilopochtli emerged alongside his living weapon, Xiuhcoatl, the fire serpent, to defend Coatlicue. He defeated the Centzon Huitznahua and his sister. He threw her from the stairs of the temple and she was dismembered in the process. That's why at the stairs of the Templo Mayor, there was the moon stone, a monolith representing the dismembered goddess Coyolxauhqui. The eternal battle continues between Huitzilopochtli, which travels the sky as an eagle (the sun) and then turns into a jaguar to enter the Mictlan (underworld) at night, when the moon and stars would emerge, chasing him forever.

@koscheiivanovisch4540

3 жыл бұрын

@Mullerornis Well, all mesoamerican gods are pretty much the same ones, but they got kind of mashed up after Tenochtitlán. You see, the aztec people are called aztec because they claimed to come from Aztlán, a place no one knows where is, but speculated to be somewhere in Northern Mexico. When they reached the Texcoco Lake, where they supposedly saw the eagle standing in a cactus eating a snake, they became the Mexica people and ended their pilgrimage. Then they proceeded to grow and conquest almost every culture in Mesoamerica, but left out a few ones on purpose so that they could have "Flowery Wars" which were battles to satisfy the gods. The mexica empire absorbed all other civilizations and time did his thing with language, mythology and culture.

I wanna be an Aztec warrior now.

@madisongreen7975

6 жыл бұрын

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

@97CoolDragon

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, I saw that John. XD

@ItsMzPhoenix

6 жыл бұрын

STOP HUMMER TIME

@d.shaffer8782

6 жыл бұрын

About that. One of the personal sacrifices that Aztec warriors did was ritual bloodletting. They'd stab their penis and tear it open with thorns. Have fun!

@Wren_the_Bird_King

6 жыл бұрын

If you are a Nordic warrior you get to go to Valhalla, a mead hall where all you do is eat, drink and fight.

Depending on who you ask, some Navajo traditionalists say we're currently in the Glittering (Fifth) World, or the White (Fourth) World. The First World (Black) destroyed by fire. The Second (Blue) destroyed by gust storms. The Third (Yellow) by a great flood.Cool video, you don't see much Native mythology on any medium these days.

Gotta love how detailed and creative Aztec myths were

1:35 Hold on, red-eyed beheaded moon sister? THAT'S REI.

Warhammer 40k: Modern day incarnation of Aztec mythology.

Let's be real, Aztec mythology _totally_ deserves its reputation for unpronouncable proper nouns. (I'm sure it's a piece of cake for people who grew up with them, but to an Indo-European culture, getting Aztec (or other Mesoamerican) proper nouns right is slightly easier than speaking Chinese without messing up tones.)

@KanaidBlack

7 жыл бұрын

It's a little bit of a challenge for some Mexicans too

@timothymclean

7 жыл бұрын

KanaidBlack Doesn't Mexico still speak Spanish?

@KanaidBlack

7 жыл бұрын

Timothy McLean Yes, but sometimes people who doesn't live in the center of the country (were the aztecs mythos developed) have difficult the first time they try to say those name out loud.

@timothymclean

7 жыл бұрын

KanaidBlack Not surprising. I mean, unless you're talking about people who speak the rest of the Aztec language fluently.

@kristophernekula5151

4 жыл бұрын

@@timothymclean The Nahua Languages are not related to Spanish, though Mexican Spanish has a lot of Yucatec Mayan and Nahua loanwords. Also, while Nahua and Mayan Languages are not tonal, the Zapotec language is.

Only mostly? Eeeh, their water god required frequent child sacrifices.

Huitzilapochtli: * kills 400 people and gets frequent sacrifices * Red: My girllll

Khornate huming birds are the best huming birds. Skulls for the skull throne

you know I think Irish stuff like Finn McCool cuchulainn and Liam neeson really deserve more recognition

@y2killian

7 жыл бұрын

Har Ton Liam Neeson, The Celtic God of Finding

@harton2759

7 жыл бұрын

+Killian Hackenschmidt and killing

@y2killian

7 жыл бұрын

Har Ton Oh don't forget that.

@zeitgeistindustries1792

7 жыл бұрын

And don't forget jacksepticeye god of...septic stuff.

@thirteenfury

7 жыл бұрын

Killian Hackenschmidt And un-takening.

"The primary focus of the Aztec Empire at this point was keeping Huitzilopochtli alive" geez that's a disturbing concept. Imagine if there really was only 1 empire on earth that believed in the real gods and they were the only ones doing the blood sacrifices needed to keep the sun alive. Now I'm imagining some sort of historical fantasy story where after Cortez disrupts the Aztec Empire, the sun starts acting funny- to make it an interesting story he'll make some really obvious signs that the world is about to end, like flickering or lots of eclipses or something- Cortez eventually gets so scared he allows them to perform a few blood sacrifices or maybe a splinter group in one of the provinces manages some, whereupon the sun starts to recover; Cortez and his men as well as the surviving Aztec leadership have to deal with both the political question of allowing blood sacrifices and the theological implications, while within weeks news gets back to Europe where they independently confirmed the same observations, and you see the same debates in Spain and beyond

I think your drawings of Coyolxauhqui are my favorites you've ever done! The blue iris surrounded by red looks so good!

Correct me if im wrong but, the piramid you claim to have climbed is Templo Mayor and its burried under México City Downtown, is it possible that you might be confused between Tenochtitlan and Teotihuacan?

@jennytargaryen

6 жыл бұрын

Esteban Lara i think you are right she confused both pyramid

@ArtoriusBravo

6 жыл бұрын

Was about to write bout this. You can enter the ruins (which I recommend, the museum is really good) but as a destroyed pyramid it's impossible to climb lol

@jennytargaryen

6 жыл бұрын

Arthur Bravo solo puedes subir hasta arriba a la piramide del sol y solo hasta la mitad de la piramide de la luna(al menos asi fue cuando fui de visita 7 años atras)

@ArtoriusBravo

6 жыл бұрын

KhaleesiJen Luna Pero, por obvias razones, no puedes subir a ningún lado del templo mayor. Que fue lo que señaló en la imagen jaja.

@jennytargaryen

6 жыл бұрын

Arthur Bravo yo se. Me referia a las piramides en Teotihuacan

Can you do other Aztec lore? .....please?

So the moon and stars in Aztec mythology are all severed heads... These guys were intense.

Red was really ahead of her time with the “Blood for the blood god” quote.

@alekssavic1154

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's a reference to Warhammer that's been around for probably decades at this point. 2016 wasn't *that* long ago.

@Feu_Ghost

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is a reference to something more... porcine, i suppose the reference was already a reference to warhammer 40k... i have say to be careful around baby undead too

YES! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! FINALLY ONE FROM MY COUNTRY! I LOVE THIS SO MUUUUCH!

When i was in the 5th grade we did a project on ancient civilizations and we had three choices Aztecs, Incas and Mayas and 85% of my class choose the Aztecs (probably because of murder which was unheard of in our school of no bulling posters and healthy gross food) i and like 3 other kids choose Incas and like one kid choose the Mayas so some kids had to switch to the Mayas, they looked sad. (on a side note i studied Inca agriculture, mostly terraces and when terraces are every mentioned as a question in class my hand goes up faster then the speed of light and sound combined) I know this comment is way too long but i was looking at the description and i had to mention that i know how it feels to draw a character with different colors (a mudkip) and it was tedious and i had to color it in and the lines didnt work properly with Adobe Draw and i was so mad at the fact i needed to fix it.

1:56 Soooo, what I'm hearing is that Huitzilopochtli is the God Emperor of Mankind? A lone beacon of light shielding humanity from the armies of chaos while simultaneously consuming humanity to do so?

@maguiAM13

3 жыл бұрын

Almost, quetzacoatl love the humans more and always tries to protect them or made them again ... (he is fond of them but in a good way, not in a ZEUS way, except, of course when - our old snek-get drunk)

0:24 "I climbed this one!" $10 says she has confused Teotihuacán with Aztecs.

I wish u could do more Aztec legends like this... T^T I need to learn more about my ancestors legends

@kartassio

6 жыл бұрын

Read a book?

@fizzledimglow3523

6 жыл бұрын

Aris CH But books don't have Red's presentation and iconic illustrations!! (I'm kidding books are good read and you'll be as knowledgeable as Red one day if not more)

You should do the story of Popol Vuh! It's kind of the Mayan's reply to Spanish Conquerors trying to spread Christianity... and the Hero Twins are adorable tricksters :)

Thanks beyblade you're the only reason I can spell 'Quetzalcoatl' very well

Also, maybe what I find most incredible about you videos is how cleanly you pronounce all those names.

Woah my Spanish class is doing ancient civilizations right now Sending this the teacher’s way ASAP

You guys should write a sarcastic world history textbook, complete with memes and a myth from the relevant culture at the end of every chapter. That way, everything is less racist and cherrypicked and more brutally honest.

@ketimamulashvili1012

3 жыл бұрын

this comment is gold

Hearing red say xolotl is like music to my ears cause I never thought someone would pronounce the xolot part correctly

"I climbed this one!" I know that feeling XD

I love that you do more than just European mythology! There are so many amazing stories out there and I'm impressed how you do a fantastic job summarizing the story down without losing the essence.

Huixtocihuatl, god of salt. If I could be any god, I would be a god of salt.

Red, given the research you’ve done on Mesoamerican mythology, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Onyx Equinox.

Just imagine you see a hummingbird and it just randomly screamed *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!*

Why didn't you mention that huizilopotchili means, the humming bird to the left?

Was that you singing at the end?? If so that was really awesome!

@papajohnloki

7 жыл бұрын

ditto

@zeitgeistindustries1792

7 жыл бұрын

I honestly came back to this video just for reds singing, she's almost like a siren.

@hedgehatchet3578

7 жыл бұрын

Wookster5 What if she is?

@madisongreen7975

6 жыл бұрын

What if indeed

@magecalamari_damace3989

6 жыл бұрын

Wookster5 she was singing the song "my girl"

Didn't think I needed a hummingbird to say "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" But here we are

1:40 gets me every time. “AAAAAAAAAAA!”

we learned about this in my nonwestern art history history class. Pre-colonial American mythology is some of my favorite mythology. More Native American myths please!

I had this idea for a story where basically the Aztec mythos was true and there was this order of... well they're basically Aztec monks, who go around consicrating violent deaths, specifically murders, in the name of keeping the sun alive, a couple of them set up shop in the middle east and use the charnel house it is at the moment to hide the fact they are performing aztec rituals to keep the world running Its basically Percy Jackson+Dark Souls, with Aztec mythology behind it.

...I have spent the past few days binging your mythology videos, yet that was still SEVERAL TIMES MORE BONKERS than I expected.

1:21 So that’s why life in adventure time has two snakes for heads!

Please do Quetzalcoatl next!

@FantasyAngel-zj7bw

6 жыл бұрын

I can pronounce that. Just saying. Like I have been. for 13 years.

*hypnotized by your singing voice*

I am the only one extremely impressed by Red's ability to pronounce those names?

Oh! another really interesting thing about this story is that it's mirrored in a set of statues on the templo mayor! there's the colossal coatlicue that Red mentions in the endscroll, but at the BASE of the steps there was also this HUGE round stone called the coyolxauhqui stone! see in some versions of the story there's a lot of emphasis put on the fact that after beheading and dismembering coyolxauhqui, huitzilopochtli tossed her to the bottom of the big mountain where he was born. This is supposed to mirror how actual sacrifices were carried out (when a sacrifice is made, they're tossed to the bottom of the temple steps, and their blood kinda seeps into the grooves of the stone, as coatlicue looks on.