The Secrets of El Castillo | Buried Truth of the Maya
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2020
- Two National Geographic Explorers enter the Mayan Pyramid, El Castillo, in search of a hidden entrance to an underground cave. While inside they explain the significance of the jaguar throne and human sacrifice.
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What intrigued you most about the significance of jaguar throne and human sacrifice?
The passage looks so narrow and the throne looks pretty small as well. So I wonder whether they were smaller people?
@@jooniverse7362 yes we the mexicans are and come from smaller people. We are an average 5.5ft or 165cm
The shrine impressed me the most
I'm just glad the Jaguar is not in some European museum
It would be pointless to carry that much weight over the ocean for a few pieces of jade.
So glad I got to go in there before it was closed to the public. I'm not a fan of enclosed spaces like that but I was so excited I didn't care at all
You are so lucky!! I cried because it was closed off to the public.
Why is it closed for the public?
@@filipkustudic419 too many disrespectful people, I assume. They don't want the temple to be destroyed or manhandled
@@filipkustudic419 by tourists like you who do not respect our Mexican culture and want to paint them or remove pieces of structure thanks to foreigners they do not allow access to the Mexican once again thank you tourists for you we pay
Me TOO
I’m so glad the jaguar was not stolen and was recovered just on time! 🙏
I’m so proud to be Mexican and have “Chichèn Itzà” be part of one of the wonder/ of the world! 😍😍😍
Was there an attempt to steal it? So glad they didn't
Yes thankfully the conquistadors nor those that followed them didn't find the entrance.
Igual!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Going into this chamber would be surreal, including that climb to the top. Really great video!
It was 65 steps straight up to a landing where the room with the Jaguar throne & Chacmool figure sets is all we were allowed to do the room had bars over the entrance & the doorway to inside to the little pyramid, as we were told, was just beneath the side of the stairway on El Castillo where the shadow of the serpent/snake looks like it"s ascending in the fall & descending in the spring.
I video taped myself climbing El Castillo in 1983 when it was still allowed. I hope l can find that tape someday. I have not seen any other videos of such. I was told to stop video taping. And tragically as l was leaving, l saw a little boy tumble down it.
Very informative, never seen before!
Awesome NatGeo brilliant video
It is amazing this Mayan culture and what they have achieved. When Europe was in the dark ages, Mayans were in the first world
I was just there at chichen itza. It’s an amazing place to visit!
My favourite artstyle
What intrigued me the most that you watch this trailer and have seen the full hours episode...ohh wait its missing the 2 min of footage where they go down ropes and 30secons into the water beneath then spend so much time dragging the rest out..
Look back at it!
The Choc has a step fret on his ear...the Moche put human bones in their adobe walls too...and revered Jaguars too-lots of Jaguar pottery figurines...three coorespondences-step fret, bones in wall, Jaguar shamanism (Rebecca R. Stones' book)...Mesoamericans and Andeans were connected at the elite level...🙂
Ok I really really hope someone from Nat Geo responds to this comment: I finished this episode wanting more! Will there be a continuation or is there one already??? I need to know if Memo and Cory are still working on finding a way to enter El Castillo or the cenotes. WE NEED ANSWERS! OR A SEQUEL TO THIS!
National Geographic videos are consistent with their info and is right. It seems to me that I'm always last to find out changes. I've been cursed and 7years difference.
The rain god *CHUCK*
Lol it definitely sounds like that but from my understanding it's pronounced like chalk but the L is silent
@@jamiefisher5523 correct , thank you for giving the right way to say it 😊
Are sure on the way it's spelled. Look into it. It can change alot on what you may see.
The bones could be used to talk to the former persons DNA as that seems to be the part that was left exposed they could also use the DNA to identify the ancestors today of the person on the throne at the time and their family
DNA get corrupted as time passes. The only way it would be recoverable is if it was frozen in perma frost.
Rain god is Chaac and human sacrifices weren’t as common as you think
I wish they would stop bringing it up like it was an everyday day thing
What bothered me the most wasn't that, but the fact they said the Chac Mool is an altar. It isn't. It is more of a receptacle
Exactly!!! I hate that they make it seem like that’s all they did, human sacrifices. They were much more than that!
I was in that room. Prior to the 2000s people were allowed in.
Pretty fascinating stuff 🤔
We're glad you enjoyed the video, Mathangi! Never stop exploring.
@@NatGeo youre mome.
There are larger bore holes on the ceiling as well. Could these not be possible drains for water to create a rain God effect? It all drained down to the aquifer at the bottom anyway
Where I can find the full documentary?
Disney+ 👍
Jaguar throne found and possibly the King of the Mayan at this pyarmind too. Is a big discovery. But unknown yet ? Theary at this time. As wall, at kown location is noted human bones in- cased in wall. So it's speculated King at burial site there. Very interesting. Good to know. For Mayan culture.
Mlso pohere to support
Where is the full episode of this?
It looks like season one is on Amazon prime, but this seems to be season 2, which as far as I can fine, airs October 19th. I always wish they'd put that info in the video description.
@@altheaunertl what is the name of show on prime?
@@arunsd2108 Buried Truth of the Maya
@@altheaunertl Thank you
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Those bones are ventilation shafts for rooms behind the wall
Chacmool..been there inside the pyramid got to see yhe Jaguar throne & the Chacmool figurine
Back in the day anyone was allowed to go in, but bad apples ruined it.
Angkor and Maya has similar civilization.
Sokhieng Tim No
I came for the pronunciation of El Castillo (or at least Chichén Itzá) and I don't think they ever got spoken :-(
I wonder why they can't acess the wall behind. Would it collapse the top?
Either that or they just don’t want to damage anything
From 2:28 to around three. How did they know that bones had been hanging on that wall. There weren't any there in the film. Were they originally there and have since been removed?
The holes are the bones
@@Theofficialmichael what
Vary gooood
It that blood on the altar?
Is that jaguar made out of Pipestone?
Good story 👍
Thanks for watching this video! What's the most interesting thing you learned from it?
@@NatGeo As I said, I liked the story of Mayan pyramid, ei castillo and their activities inside the cave in a 3 minute video.
There's not alot of images of the inside of the pyramid. Or footage. Why so secretive ? That little room is all I can find.
You got it. Look to the cutting of the stone. The inside chambers and older structures show that the rocks were much, much larger and cut with better precision.
I like the red soap stone more than the Jade
Oh wait, that wasn't panted red? Neat!
@@ddpwe5269 it's apparently painted with cinnabar
Where the earth penetrating radar when you need it🙄
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Shows an amazing throne to NatGeo: “This is where he sat to witness thousands of sacrifices”
We get it guys, for you the people of the Americas only focused on sacrifice before the holy Europeans arrived, they can show you a spoon and you’ll say that it’s main purpose was sacrifice.
Messi 🐐🐐🐐
Congrats King
Gaiko
Green
your first
Take down that wall!!!
Leave them alone!!!
Did your world end today?
Mayan didn't
@@pavan5140 ikr it's cheesy...
First
About 90 percent of artifacts have been stolen
Jesus te ama!
Ellos no creían en fe cristiana
So,, everyone has to die one day
royal throne?
Sacrafice?
*ADIOS*
Old day human sacrifice , now day (christian) god sacrifice
All this nonsanse its pegan worshiper
Evil kings would sit on their thrones and watch human sacrifices.
@@geviji1814 tell that to Pacal the Great. Thanks to him and his descendants we were able to admire the ruins in Palenque.
MMMMMMMM
im 6th to comment wow yay
whoever is reading this is a mayan
I'm not
Spanish cultures only
Why don't the USA ppl educate yourself more about Native intracasies, u r the most misinformed about Native ppl, and ur world is very small about Native ppl. Mexican Meztizo is 50 percent or more Native,. Meztizos marry and have kids, that Native DNA keeps getting stronger and the other weaker, and we love it! We were perfectly fine being and looking full Native, we didn't invite the horror! Of course ur gonna have some European influence, Spain ruled with an iron hand for centuries, but if u knew the intracasies of Native ppl, u could see how much the Mexicans still follow the Native ways, most of u don't even know that all Southwest tribes were Mexican!!
Looks other period and lesser.
Pure evil. This whole pyramid was constructed to sacrifice unwilling humans to their idol.
And the French guillotine was built to chop heads off over religion and politics, u burnt people at the stake in New England in the name of Christianity, u slaughter men women and children at wounded knee. This is the way they deal with the biggest human genocide in the history of mankind, make them look like undeserving savages so we won't be judged as badly,. The USA archiologists know we were no better or worse than all continents. They have always done this, they can't end a report without saying something about human sacrifice, that was the beginning of horrible propaganda against the Natives and Méxicans on the both sides of the border, and it has never stopped¡
That's exactly what the Conquistadors and the Church wanted you to believe. They did such a good job that it is believed today...