we are at chichen itza in this vlog or visiting one of the greatest wonders of
the world in largest ancient Mayan cities chichen itza follow us as we
journey through the history of this ancient wonder
[Mayan language]
[Mayan language] Chichen Itza [Mayan language]
to get here
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There is a water deposit, there is a cenote, a pit
They read stories about the sacrifices throwing people into the cenote wearing all
this jewelry it is kind of important things so that's why they thought also
these people had of course important things valuables so they thought well
well a wealth of about the treasures, Mayan treasure inside the cenote
Temple behind me is called Kukulcan, the feathered serpent. That's the rain god.
March twenty first and this means after this is time to start farming is time to prepare the
soil for farming. During the spring and autumn equinoxes the Sun casts a shadow
creating a serpent figure along the side of the pyramid
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Instead of a head
it has the blood squirting
this is turning into little snakes
snakes means fertility
fertility, death of course, even energy
very important here and the cosmos in general
now time to head into the Mesoamerican ball court, where we're gonna learn who got sacrificed and why.
If they are looking for the rain, of course
they need to get the gods fed.
Amigos, not only the Maya made sacrifices
The Celtics, for example made sacrifices
to calm the gods down, the Romans
the Greeks
The Japanese, all these civilizations made sacrifices
to calm the gods down, over here it was kind of different but it was to keep them alive.
Because they consider if we don't get them fed, we don't offer the blood to them
They're gonna die
They die, we're unprotected
We are unprotected, well disaster.
So that's why they consider this part very important so it's time to find out who's guy beheaded
oh is that the winner is that the loser is that a captive what do you think
which one would be choose? the winner. the winner?
why? because he was the strongest they wanted to be sacrificed. they wanted
According to more updated information they are captives if this was a simple
If this was a simple match it makes sense, right? if this was a ritual it also makes sense if you just
get the winner sacrifice because the guards deserve the past all right but
don't forget this detail that the winner gets protected by gods yeah so if you're
getting protected does that mean they're gonna be sacrificed no but of course we
also can get confused because we know we can't stir that the gods you serve the
past right so we might think oh if the gods deserve the best
I should get sacrifice we know here that according to
this there always when we see them in this position it means of course there
are on this is submission arms or hands tied up of course back in the front or
back so we know they're prisoners lots of them were used after the Rachel's
over here mainly this prisoners it doesn't mean they're not important
people their rulers from older ceremonial centers or even those
settlements but no we're gonna see another bathroom what they used to carry
or to put their heads of course and the body there usually through these bodies
into these waterfalls the water
well that is an important question because this is not there we have around
8,000 set of these over here or the the the water holes over here yes it's all
natural or d'etre of course what happens here is that the cenote is the entrance
to the underworld what this place is a place to reveal so that if there is a
match over there of course that you get thrown over there you start this trip
your need to get to the underworld to reborn right
this area right here is for a ritual ball game
so they would score points if they hit the ball through that hoop and the walls
are tilted so the acoustics are really loud this is from 900 AD all right then
you're trying to hear the voice on the other side Wow
here you can see the tilt of the wall tilted just a little bit who sticks
and here Mexican Pato is we represented by Eagle
Maya Jaguar that Jaguar isn't important anymore service powered by the way this
is the reason this group this important people practice the cranial deformation
you've heard about this using the board at a track around the head to get it
flattened flooded flooded of course yeah because they are trying to resemble the
Jaguars head because this is a great skilled animal - that's why they wanted
to assemble this I'm a Chichen Itza check this out this is the pyramid
the Mayan pyramid so part of this was restored you can see this side it's much
smoother and aside there's the fear rock and our guide said that it was not only
the sound hits the inner part and then comes back and there's nine tears here
nine two it makes the sound of a bird called a quetzal and Guatemala it's a
famous bird so there's nine floors here nine symbolizes nature's belly it's the
cycle of life and then thirteen is another number that you hear a lot in
now? Cenote! Cenote. this is a special cenote used for
sacrifice
before Sun all day this is the secret sin okay sacrifices they went in here
this is like the belly of the underworld historical Mayan sources to find this
natural well as an important ceremonial suture in pilgrimage destination between
the 5th and 16th century AD rituals were conducted here and offerings were made
of gold copper tone back a kind of brass obsidian quartz shell wood couple rubber
textiles and skeletal remains mainly of children and adult males
so some cenotes you can go swimming in this one is purely special and sacred
civilization collapsed for the mines they're still here in fact our guide is
Mayan and they live in Mexico Guatemala Belize Honduras part of El Salvador
Oh December 21st the winter solstice the Sun will set right in the center
this is the temple of the rain god chalk
look at all the tour guides here it's around noon right now so we're in
teaching you sit and there's all these other temples that I didn't even know
did you know this was here too
we hope that you enjoyed this tour of chichén itzá