Damn real question!!!!👍

@@jimmygarciagaricia4108 Just go to any UKposts lecture on Egyptology, and you'll find plenty of comments about "ancient astronauts," hieroglyphic evidence for light bulbs and helicopters, and arguments about the racial nature of Pharaonic-era Egyptian people. 🙄

@@johnraynor489 That's kool!.

@Rhizosphere mushrooms by themselves taste like shit add chocolate and its heavenly

No.

@@jimmygarciagaricia4108 brainwashed jimmy🤔

It's a WHITE hijacking real TRUE history ......

Everything came from AMERUKHAN LAND.

No it isnt

The Aztecs invented chocolate.

Interesting. Sounds like you've had encounters with the nagual, to borrow Castanedas verbiage. Although Coe doesn't mention its entheogenic use, an audience member @ 1:12:02 asks if it was ever used in shamanism. However, Coe readily dismisses this claim. If you listen to his other lecture on the Maya script @ 1:04:50, he describes your nagual as an alter ego or spiritual counterpart. He humorously says if he would ever take a journey, for "slobs" like him, he might be a rat or gopher.

1:12:00 ''no hallucinatory substance in chocolate. they may have mixed mushrooms with it.'' you didn't stay for the questions.

I guess that negates all of his years of research, traveling, writing, and studying that culture and how cacao had a sacred place. What a waste of everyone's time, if only your comment was pinned so that we could all save ourselves the time. You should be on UKposts, not this guy who didn't even know about shamans or possibly ever heard of psilocybin mushrooms in his decades of study of Mesoamerican civilization. Where is your presentation? I would love to see it.

Llll

Thea Hollett. If this recipe was passed down from Motecozhoma, it couldn't contain spices brought by the Spaniards-- unless M. learned of these spices during the short time before his death. While it's possible he could've learned of spices from Cortes or his retinue during their meetings prior to the Sp. seizure & imprisonment of M., it seems highly unlikely (if not impossible) that M. would've made changes in an ancient recipe to include foreign spices about which he & his people would've had no experience in using. The Aztec/Mexica had a very highly developed pharmocoepia, partly passed on to them from more ancient cultures & partly developed by Aztec/Mexica specialists, with their knowledge of psychedelic substances now thought to have been far more advanced than what is known by modern western science. Unfortunately, the Eur. invaders made great efforts to destroy the native libraries & knowledge, vast destruction that continued through colonialist times. After the Sp. conquest of Tenochtitlan (the Aztec/Mexica 'capitol' of some 200,000 citizens), which resulted in the deaths of at least half the residents), the Sp. forces killed any survivors they identified as native 'priests', with orders given to hunt down & kill any native priests in the land. The native priests were very highly educated in various fields, with some priests specializing in pharmacology. Motecazhoma had studied to be a 'high priest' before becoming the principal leader of his people & would have been quite knowledgeable about substances used in psychedelic formulas. And it's possible that formulas known to M. & his contemporaries were secretly passed on to their surviving descendants, but this would've been kept secret from outsiders for at least another century or more, as knowledge of such things was punishable by death in Colonial Mexico. Native books, art, etc, were as a rule destroyed by the invaders & colonizers, as anything to do with native spirituality was considered the work of the Devil & was destroyed if found. Natives who were 'priests', 'medicine men', etc, among the Aztec/Mexica as well as among all other native peoples, were either killed outright or tried by Sp. courts & as a rule put to death. Cacao was probably used in various mixtures that might well have included psychedelic substances, but cacao itself is not a hallucinogen, at least in the sense that mescaline & other such substances are. Cacao does of course have noticable effects on human mood & perhaps it has effects about which we know nothing, but there's no evidence of it having psychedelic effects. (Of course it's possible that it has effects we don't know of, especially when mixed into formulas known to the native peoples. Aztec/Mexica pharmacology was very highly developed during the time of Motecazhoma.) It still amazes me to hear non-natives claiming to have knowledge such as that you claim, especially when they claim to know secrets not known by natives. Not that some outsiders haven't been taught by native specialists-- but to.become privy to special knowledge, a person usually has to learn to live as a member of a native society. Centuries of severe persecution of those practicing any native spirituality has resulted not only in great loss of knowledge but in great secrecy in protecting native people who practice the old ways. For example, in the US it was illegal to practice native religions until the mid-1980s, when the UN & Eur. allies pressured the US to decriminalize it. BTW, the idea that Motecazhoma invented a new formula for cocoa during the brief time he spent with Cortes (mostly as a prisoner isolated from his ministers & people) reveals an extreme lack of knowledge about the 1519-1521 invasion & conquest. Aztec-Mexica pharmacologists were superb at inventing formulas to influence the human mind & not all of these formulas included hallucinogens. Cocao has certain effects on emotion certainty & may well have been mixed with hallucinogens, but the idea that this secret formula you speak of was passed down from M. & was invented during his last days to include spices brought bt the Spaniards & that this secret formula somehow ended up here....sorry, it is just too much a stretch to consider seriously, unless there is more evidence.

I like the add dill spice. Nothing else. I think it gives it a humorous or interesting accent.No other kitchen herb no.

Loose the chillies .. find a bit a pepper then..

@@diannemyers6266 sprinkle in a bit a nutmeg ,cinnamon a couple a cardamon seeds.. healthy spicy hot choc

Damn gringos. Keep simple, Cristo Dios mio

@@ricvibesinc1 No.

Native American?, Culture???

@@jimmygarciagaricia4108 Yup I get youre trying to minimize our culture but who do you think domesticated corn, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes and peppers and more?? Corn is the most widely grown crop in the world.

@@jimmygarciagaricia4108 Did you ignore the entire lecture??? Lmfao

@@jakewhoskate Thanks to Mexico.

@@jakewhoskate Minimize??????, No.

he was onto it man

Ayahuasca

@Rhizosphere Very healthy!

Hi. Popolocas are actually in Puebla. The last people of this culture 😢

You can tell by his accent that he's not American, thus lacking the proper manner an educated Westerner would have when asking questions in an academic environment such as this one. But I guess you can't blame anyone for anything nowadays other than saying "we shall tolerate his cultural background" or else you are the R word (take a wild guess which word it is) lmao

@@terranrepublic7023I was going to use the R word on you myself... It is unfortunate that the speaker gets very defensive about the questioner who called attention that chocolate was mixed with blood. Actually, this is important because of the allegations of cannibalism that were used to justify the conquest.

​@@khubza8999 Oh no... you called me the R word, my head is gonna explode, my family will now disown me, I will die in shame and penniless! LMAO, I don't care WTF you call me, nor should anyone that have basic common sense and know who they actually are. The problem with the U.S. today is they care too much about what people think of them, trying calling a Chinese or the Muslims the R word, and see if they care. That's why they are succeeding while the West is failing, so enjoy your demise while being offended everyday, what a wonderful life ain't it? Also Dr. Coe was as courteous as he could be, it was the guy who asked the question being unfortunate, what an uncivilized vile creature.

@@terranrepublic7023 Americans now are the prime example of educated academic westerners? Proper manners? This is why the world has such bad opinions on americans and then they ask why...Get your head out of your ass.

@Rhizosphere You always hear the evils all around the world telling their stories as truths

Wat explain

No. Mexicano.

Mexico.

Oregon

Mayan civilization

maybe you do

Mesoamerica is a region, not a time period. The Spanish destroyed much but the languages remain. How many do you know?

Yeah I was immediately skeptical upon hearing this old white guy claiming to know the “true history” of cacao /: I’m going to go search for similar info from someone who’s actually Native to the area

Nobody thinks conquests are justified anyway so it isnt important.

Ancient people have always done what they did for a reason. That's true for canabalism and for conquest. Luckily, those tendencies have been subdued in modern people, irregardless to one's ancestors. The lecturer isn't coming from a point of implicit bias, so I think the questioner was more reactive than observant in his comments and thus overextended himself.

@Pukar Lund look for the "Caps Lock" button on the left of your keyboard, press it once. You're welcome.

it isn't silent. it IS a sound - just not elllllll sound - more like the first two Ls in Llewellyn.

At least frances said please....lol

Fuck off, stop focusing on irrelevant issues ....

@Pukar Lund yes

Nah you’re just boring. This is awesome

can you explain what exactly goes wrong in your head???

@@maikmost8589 The truth is what's wrong. You fools hate the truth. The first people to the Americans were black. They spoke Hebrew and derived from the Phoenicians. All you butthurt cry babies need to do your research. Look up the Native Americans in the 1600's. The so called Negroes were here before Columbus and the mongloids who invaded America after the war.

The Olmecs yes. Let's not take it too far.

You are Delusional

I concur