Could you do the Olmecs next?

Brother please make videos on Hindu gods and mythological characters

13:48 18x20=360 (a superior highly composite number belonging to a class which is supposed to be the most conveniently divisible class of #'s proportionally).

So 360 is a nice number. 3600 is seconds in an hour. 144 is 36x4=144. 144 is 12x12.

pos video

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@user-on3zi9fo2g hahah yes... very silly he says. While he prays to a dead man

@user-on3zi9fo2gTroll, get out of here

That's amazing, we might never know what extension really had their trading network.

Miami or MAYAmi :) I was told that is the origin of the city's name

@@quetzal-colibri9617 YESSSSSSSS🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

That would have been right before the bronze age collapse. It was the only other time in history , besides now, where trade was international Makes sense Mayan goods were found in florida. It matches up with the time

@@mickj9203 Why would the Bronze Age Collapse affect the Mayans? The Mayan were on the American continent (Central America south of Florida) which remained uncontacted with the Old World of the Bronze Age civilizations. Also international trade during the Bronze Age was centered around the Middle East to Europe. It's not really global.

I’ve been saying the same thing

It’s true! We shift in a way

The maya didn’t predict the end of the world, 2012 actually was the end of the time period.

Chivalry in the world came to an end.

I feel the same way

If you’re born in the us, how are you a Guatemalan shaman? Doesn’t that make you an American shaman?

@@m0m065 I'm assuming "Guatemalan" here refers to the type of shamanism practiced. As in "a shaman from the religion/spiritualism within Guatamala"

Be proud of your heritage.

Im sure you're mestizo mixed with European

@@crotalusatrox7931 proud to be of what heritage..? Proud to be offering human sacrifice for their impersonal supernatural being called God...?

But the thing is a lot of the time, people talk about the Maya like they were absorbed into another ethnicity, like how Etruscans were absorbed into the Romans. Rather than a a living breathing separate ethnicity, which they are heck if I'm not mistaken, aren't Maya the largest indigenous ethnicities in Central America?

When I tell my friends I study Maya language, the first question is, do they still exist...

@@ANTSEMUT1 yes, when all the different Maya peoples are counted they are by far the largest distinct indigenous communities. For example, although Quechua (Incan) is the largest spoken Native American language, the Mayan language family has millions of speakers

@@gustavovillegas5909 i thought so.

Both cultures don't exist like they did so yeah

I'm curious, what does Afrocentrism in Maya studies look like?

@@Salsmachev Oh and of course the Olmec collosal heads are seen as "evidence" that the people of the region were from Africa.

@@8ahau279 Wow that's pretty wild, I'd never heard that conspiracy theory before!

@@Salsmachev it looks like a bunch of USA culture vultures! There is absolutely NO scientific proof to their culture vultures BS! NONE!! Pathetic wannabe interlopers intrusive menacing culture vultures, that's what it looks like!

Do you know the Maya are Modern Negros in North America? Central America?

That's awesome. I spent four years in Coban, but only saw a few cultural ceramonies from a distance.

I always wondered why jaguars? There aren't jaguars in Mexico ???

@@rp70113 yes in fact there are jaguars in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala to this day, although they are much rarer now. Their range once extended along the gulf coast as far as Florida

@Jennifer D'Ambrosio doubtful

@Jennifer D'Ambrosio I did. It's not for me. Thanks.

My production cycle takes 13 bak'tuns between videos.

@@ReligionForBreakfast can you do on Hinduism because it has various school of thoughts which contradict yet respect each other and is the first of the dharmic religions.

@@khosrowanushirwan7591 The Hinduism video will take a Brahma year to be made

@@ulti-mantis correct 💯💯

@@khosrowanushirwan7591 Let's Talk Religion has done some good academic Hinduism content while you wait.

Brutal

Bloodletting through body piercing of the elite was just as important as sacrifices. The Feather Wars were wars between waring states in one state has already been declared the winner and the other state the loser. The losing state offered a fixed number of soldiers to be offered to sacrifice. The Azteca took this to another level.

When he mentioned the King of Copán, I immediately thought of Vercingetorix, lol

No, there is no parallel. Nice trying to twist facts though.

@@wednesdayschild3627 there is a clear one

Very cool!

Please! Keep it alive! We’ve lost so much of the past

Keep the tradition alive ❤️ that's absolutely awesome and inspiring

Bish a bel (sorry for my spelling)

@@anapatriciaruizbeltran9822 jach ma'alob , kuxtun teech ?

Cool channel man

We also love your channel!

Love your channel! Glad to see you commenting on this!

It's always fun to see how channels I'm subscribed to actually watch each other!

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I have no idea if the pronunciations were accurate (indeed, it's probably impossible for ANYone to know), but I did appreciate how you pronounced them confidently and without faltering.

@@gejyspa Its not impossible to know if the pronunciations were correct. Just ask any of the millions of Mayan speaking peoples who live all over the world

@@RafaBustamanteSarria pronunciations change over time, though, and very quickly. English, as a trivial exanple, had a great vowel shift a mere 600 years ago or so, affecting tens of thousands of words. Sounds in Hebrew drifted into several different varieties, and it's not clear what the "original" might be except by educated guesses. Heck, even in the US today, there are many different regional accents. So, no, in the absence of sounds recordings, or at least transliterations into multiple different other languages, all we have is educated guesses. Phonemic drift off a real thing

@@gejyspa but these Mayan religions are still practiced today. Sure pronunciation can change over time but, for example it’s possible the pronunciation of the name of Hindu deity Krishna has slightly changed over the last thousand years, but I highly doubt it’s unrecognizable to how it sounded originally.

I’m blessed to be half Guatemalan with a Mayan last name and I’m so happy my dad taught us so much about Mayan culture/history and how great our ancestors were growing up. Truly an honor to be descendant of such an intelligent amazing civilization. I’m studying to become an astrophysicist because of their connection with the stars and planets. They were stargazers and naturally born astronomers !

@@Jessknowsbestt that’s so cool 🥹

No just like everyone else he has no understanding of religion as anything other than his own superstition. He is just another cattle person pretending to know anything at all

You should also check out “Let’s Talk Religion”. Another great and insightful channel about theological topics 👍

@@Keebrev already do. Another channel.

The cult of the god of maize also reminded me of the cult of Dyonisos in Greece. Excellent video btw!!

Mayan beliefs in deities changed overtime. When they were hunters and gathering people they worshipped the serpent which symbolized abundance, later on, Mayas changed to the Jaguar on the transition from hunters to agricultural era.

It's more a matter of monotheism (or, rarely, "god by committee") being a weird thing that pops up once in a while in a previously polytheistic culture. Polytheism is the natural state of religious belief; it gives intentionality to otherwise baffling things in nature, and we humans are, if nothing else, pretty good at figuring out who did what and why. It's sort of how we keep our little societies running. And we're pretty good at doing the same thing even when there no real "who" or "why" involved. On _very_ rare occasions, somebody will come up with the idea that it's _all_ one guy's fault, and that's how you get monotheism.

I read in an academic paper that polytheism arises in some agricultural civilizations as a reflection of the multiple forces that act upon the land which attribute to a successful/unsuccesful harvest. That's another reason why many hunter-gatherer and foraging societies have more animistic (animism) beliefs. Facts may very, so take what I say with a grain of salt, I'm not an expert!

@@anthonylezama1645 It makes sense to me. Local conditions and needs influence the kind of religious beliefs that arise. After all, it seems to be a common feature of the emergence of monotheism that someone wants to bring about a strong organised unified state under one ruler ... and why the monotheism usually deals robustly with the former beliefs.

I’ve been trying to do a glottal stop for years and thanks to your advice I got it in a few seconds. Great tip; thank you!

@@StandardChunk I was in the same boat! Tried for *years* and found a random UKposts that mentioned it. If I could remember which video it was, I would've linked/credited. But it's an amazing tip!

Like saying button like a very brittish person, bu'on

@@imyourmaster77 exactly!

the apostrophe in Mayan orthography indicates aspiration (eg, k and k' are two different k sounds in Mayan; k' is not a k followed by a glottal stop, but rather a k pronounced with a puff of air), the ' is not a glottal stop.

There is a comment down there by Andy Chuc, a man of Maya ancestry, telling he belongs to a group that has conserved their religion. It's difficult to say how much of their practice is original after so many years, persecution and varied cultural influences, but one thing is historically clear: the Mayas didn't disappear, their ethnicity and culture are alive today in Guatemala and Mexico.

Human sacrifice bro

The good ending.

Yokai is just the Japanese transliteration of Chinese yaoguai (妖怪) which literally means "strange weird" and is specifically used to designate evil supernatural beings. They are synonymous with Chinese mo (魔), which literally means demon. Yokai are not venerated as deities ever. What had happened in the past is that some divinities have been demoted to yokai status or some yokai are believed to have achieved enlightenment through study of Buddhist scriptures or other acts of piety/penance. Some deities in Suwa are examples of the former, older local gods that the imperial Kojiki demoted to demonhood, but they are rarely known. The more famous examples are of the latter variety - the three yaoguai who accompanied the Tang Monk in Journey to the West, but also Sun Wukong's adopted brother the Bull Demon King (牛魔王) and his son Red Boy (红孩儿). Both repented after being beaten up by Monkey and agreed to accumulate good karma to achieve godhood. It should be noted that the story itself ended with them still just starting the thousand-year process to attain godhood, so technically the Bull Demon King would have achieved godhood at the earliest around the late 17th century. The Korean Odyssey made fun of this technicality by having Bull Demon King still working on his karma collection well into the early 21st century (he wasn't that good at being good). Also, while the rest of his gang became buddhas or gods, Zhu Bajie kinda failed and we last saw him as an altar guardian hanging out in temples cleaning up expired offerings (well, he's a pig, so...) and seemingly still failing to accumulate good karma. The dragon-horse graduated from being a cursed yaoguai dragon to becoming a proper dragon with an official job posting. The point here is that they have to shed yaoguai status to earn divine status worthy of veneration. So as you can see, yokai are slightly more down-to-earth regular demons with their own stories rather than some abstraction of nature. The stories are important as ALL yokai have literary background behind them. In the past yokai were created by bards and writers, but in the modern era some yokai are born out of urban legends. The more famous recent examples are Hachishaku-sama (the 8-foot woman) and the Kuchisake-onna (slit-mouth woman). While perhaps having more ancient roots, both were first attested to in Japanese urban legend of the 1960s. Yokai are still being born left and right thanks to Japanese urban legends and the internet, so the stable continues to grow. With all that said, there is one specific type of Japanese yokai that may fit your description, and that is the tengu. Tengu are actually worshipped as minor deities in some places, but that is because the general lore is that tengu are ALWAYS in training to achieve enlightenment (like Red Boy). They actually have a special realm for themselves known as the Sixth Heaven, populated by creatures which are clearly demonic but sometimes (wrongly) venerated by the masses.

@@andrewsuryali8540 the ones I generalized as venerated as local gods were once gods or local deities but are not "god" like a kami but given respect for the element in nature such as the local river or a local sage/monk. Some were once gods or a monk according to their legends but became corrupt that cause misfortune or trouble for the town or that specific area like a pond or tree. They are associated to the urban legend of that region.

Yokai watch

i have always find their artwork a bit similiar with the japanese style i dunno

The closest indigenous American analogue would probably be ‘Teotl’ as the professor mentioned; which can refer to gods (Teotihuacan meaning ‘place of the gods’) but also merely that which is unexplained - for example, if you were seized by inspiration or touched some kind of earthly enlightenment, that would be given a different prefix based off of the word for ‘heart’ so it was more of a blanket term for the inexplicable.

Great idea, the modern maya religion is fascinating too.

That would be interesting. I grew up practicing Mayan/Catholic beliefs, it's interesting how it's been mixed together. I told my boyfriend that we would have a white Jesus candle burning in the kitchen while doing our cleansing rituals in the other room lol

Apocalipto is a TERRIBLE movie in terms of historical accuracy, it mixes periods, depicts the natives as only savages and greatly exagerates sacrifices to make it more gory than they already were. Also, the 80k thing is mostly a made up number, since the Mexica sacrifice was much more elaborate and they also took their time with their ceremonies. That number was pretty much invented by spanish friars to scare the king.

The people that gave the world corn, turkey, rubber, tomatoes, potatoes, all sports, and chocolate, are treated like utter trash by the spanish and the rest of europe. those europeans are truly a compassionate people : P

@@krono5el All sports?

@@ericktellez7632 which ever uses a rubber ball or puck

@@krono5el what about boxing and martial arts?

@@ericktellez7632 idk, im sure people have been punching since forever.

haha we are the olmec g they just separated us. Dont forget why our skin is dark and many of us have curly hair. we are the gods

@@rags2bags we ain't Afro and u ain't Native, get over it, Afros came with the white man on ships and that is very well documented!! Find the DNA, it ain't there, culture vultures!

I saw that where you clap and a different sound comes back that was so amazing there had to be someone incredibly smart way back then to figure that out I wonder who it was

@@rags2bags really? There are many people in Mexico today with the same features as those Olmecs and Toltecs carved in stone from ancient Mexico's past. I have seen them with my own eyes.

Another thing Apocalypto got wrong is, in using that sun eclipse as a means for the main character to escape. I almost laughed when I saw it. The Maya rulers knew about solar eclipses, so, they would not have been afraid of such an event, because they would have known that it was going happen, beforehand. Silly Mel, next time, get off of your Aussie and do better research.

Thanks for enjoying My beautiful country Guatemala 💜

Yes, I too have been to Coba many times and even got a tour by a resident Mayan who knows the area very well. I had read before in a book on the site that this man would on very rare occurrences select someone for a private tour. The natural lakes around Coba with the Cenotes depicts the abundance of diversity of those underground rivers. Walked the ancient Sacbe said to travel through the jungle all the way to Tikal.

So lucky ! I want to visit all of them I heard they’re breathtaking

And Modern Day Paganism, that would be cool to see.

he did a whole series on origins of judaism and torah on the patheos channel: ukposts.info/slow/PLRnXSS4SzUG66tF70EKGgzIV2B5-qnXmJ

for more details on the origins of specifically the torah and the rest of the bible i recommend this series on the useful charts channel: ukposts.info/slow/PL5Ag9n-o0IZACF2h6ztqC1wxmeUug1rtD

I thought only the the king's do that, it's only their blood that can be used?

@@Dee-jq2ob Yes, it was only the elites (this included kings, queens and generals), it’s also speculated that they used hallucinogenic mushrooms as small depictions appear of mushroom-like shapes in bloodletting stelae, and gods appearing out of smoke pillars

@@Dee-jq2ob yeah everyone else just pricked the thumb and dripped on paper to burn, and they also poured a bit of coco drink into the fire for their ancestors.

I definitely want to know about the pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu deities of Malaysia. There is scant evidence other than the ancestral knowledge of the elders of various indigenous tribes of Sabah and Sarawak.

I was thinking about that, some sort of cleansing that God demands to be done or at least that's how it could have been perceived at the time. There was this ritual in ancient greece where the most ill fated the "sickest" person in a village was forcibly exiled out in order to maintain the health for the rest of the village, it has a specific name maybe I'll find it in my old documents

Do your own research

It's hundreds a year rather than the 10's of thousands a year of the Aztecs performed ,so in a sense it isn't as large of a scale.

@@ANTSEMUT1 Hundreds a year at one location.

@@spiffyspifferson8434 even with that it would still pale in comparison to what the Aztecs commonly performed. 40,000 to 60,000 a year from the Aztecs wasn't uncommon.

@@ANTSEMUT1 I'm not telling you you're wrong. I'm saying we don't know how many people were sacrificed by the Mayans, because we haven't explored every location for human sacrifices they used. These locations are far older than the Aztecs' presence in the area of Mesoamerica. Even with the cenotes alone, we haven't been able to find them all, and we don't know which cenotes were and weren't used. They would also change which cenotes were used from time to time. Mayan shamans didn't agree with each other, or would change their minds as to which cenotes could be used for sacrifices, making the activity inconsistent. The Aztecs had an empire that lasted a couple hundred years. Evidence for human sacrifice by the Mayans goes back to the mid 200s AD and lasted until the very end of the 1690s AD. Well over 1500 years. There were hidden places where the Mayans would take sacrificial victims' remains, even that recently, that we still haven't been able to find. The Mayans had more time and likely more victims. The passage of time has probably done away with the evidence.

@@spiffyspifferson8434 oooh.

He touches on this in his video of the druids

@@chendaforest Oh really? Nice, I'll have to check it out then. Thanks! :)

Yeah I appreciate someone bringing up christian mythology

Fun fact: the Popol Vuh was written by a Spaniard priest