I cannot stress enough how much I appreciate the fact that the characters speak Nahuatl, it's just a bit of additional detail but adds SO much in my opinion, to this overall amazing animation. I could no doubt watch an entire movie about these characters and this world.
I love how the other girl is initially mad about being saved by the other girl and ultimately how futile it was to save her in the end. For a film so short this has a wild amount of drama. Good job
I will be 100% transparent here: I was initially drawn in cause I was like “The hell!? Tits in my recommended feed?!” But I ended up staying for the enthralling story and amazing art work, the stylized nudity wasn’t even a factor anymore. This is genuinely a near masterpiece, and you should be proud of it.
@@Leviathans88 I’m not a nudist or anything but if we didn’t sexualize every goddamn thing, then there would be more creative art and expression across the bored. I think that we cheapen everything about humanity by making everything sexual. Nudity without sexual context should absolutely not be considered by anybody to be sexual.
@@rebelliousfineart8202 generally I agree, though I understand that people will be people. Ultimately that reality is an impossible one; our emotional states change constantly, so all but a few people are able to stick to that belief 100% of the time. I’ll freely admit I’m not among them. Though I suppose that’s kinda given, given what initially drew my eyes to the video lol.
Aight, Imma just shed some light into this. I'm a Mexican. I know the cultures that lived here and their rituals were... Not considered very 'humane'. But please know: -being sacrificed was considered an honor. Depending on the culture, it was mostly done to allow the Sun to rise again the next day (given the sun was very important for them, and most were done on specific situations), and only a few people were chosen for it. They prepared them since they were children and treated them with very high respect and privileges. -when the conquerors arrived, they exaggerated the number and way this rituals were performed. They were just trying to avoid pissing off their own gods and deities, which I bet in every culture isn't a good thing I am in no way trying to make it seem as a good thing, I'm not, cause in the end they w e r e actually k1lling people. Just trying to share some information as to why they did so. Great animation, tho!
i was thinking if id ever get to see it depicted from within its own cultural context. i wonder if the abundance of these kind of stories where the sacrifice victims rebel is a western fantasy we keep telling ourselves to lessen horror of the conquest of the west. why is it that sacrificing 1000 people absolutely horrifies us but 10 000 people dying on a battle field is "just war"
I know it’s not historically accurate, but I keep coming back this film. It so well done! What they do with the idea of sacrifice is so interesting, the relationship between the two main characters really hits, and the visuals are amazing. I just really love this film
I can't wait til the people who make all these stunning animated shorts create a full length animated film shown in cinemas worldwide. Absolutely stunning and powerful as always Gobelins 😍
Nobody will finance or approve of a full length film this gory to be shown in cinemas worldwide. It's not feasible unfortunately. But they can publish it or distributed it online.
i love how the nudity isn't considered sexual, it shows how normal it actually is. amazing animation, story, and art. ❤ edit: the internet will never be satisfied, huh?
Bruh everyone is just forgetting the fact that this whole thing is based on true events. This obviously didn’t happen exactly but women getting sacrificed was definitely a thing.
What's even worse is that the people literally believed that if they didn't do it the Sun wouldn't rise the next day. I cannot imagine the guilt they felt when they realised that there were wrong and that millions of people had died for nothing.
Even though it’s not perfectly historically accurate, the message and symbolism is amazing. It’s about standing up for what you know is right even if it goes against traditional means and what others see as “normal”
@@Krystalmyth I think the point is more to understand when its a bad thing and when its a good thing. She still prayed and felt that the answer to her prayers was the god telling her to defend herself.
yeah sure like that hasnt been done before and this would never happen irl. there was no "standing up for what is right" because this was their religion, it literally makes no sense
I love how in the beginning, they are illuminated by a blue glow. Blue is a very peaceful color, and it shows how as they bathe in the water they are somewhat calm. It also seems to show the sisterhood pf the women. Suddenly though, it becomes red as they make their way up the pyramid. It shows the fear of the girl and the violence around them. It also matches the blood, contrasting with the calm blue water. When the girl is battling with saving her friend or sticking to tradition, it becomes blue again, possibly relating again to sisterhood. After killing the executioner, the world around them becomes white. I’m not sure how this plays into color symbolism, but it might show the hard truth of the situation. They feel blank, because they may have saved themselves, but they’ll still die in the end. It’s a bit hard to tell but it is a lovely short film.
Agreed, kind of reminds me how color had a role in the Mayans. Those who wore red or white were sacrifices, and those that wore blue or green were priests.
Wow, escaping the tight grasp of dogmatic religion is not an easy task. The examination of it through our knowledge of other religions that really encapsulated the lifestyle of the people themselves is a fascinating way of looking at this topic. The entire culture itself is surrounded by their beliefs. The image of the woman praying. The home that was created by her prayer and the small cracks that eventually crumbled her entire world- its a perfect rendition of what that feels like. Many of us go through these feelings. I myself was raised in a religious cult and at one point it felt like everything was crumbled around me. Wow what a powerful animation.
I will admit as much that I have not grown up a muslim but a christian, but as far as I have been told by a Jordanian and have surmised for myself, there is a difference between the Quran and the Hadith, the latter being outside of the former. They are confused as being one and the same but I will believe, unless proven resoundingly wrong by earnest scholars, that the tribal custom that can supersede the Quran at times is not part of the book itself. The Hadith is an option and addition to Muhammad's own exact teaching. You don't have to have a beard. You don't have to stone people. You can tell me otherwise so long as you can do so without the bias of an Ethno National Socialist.
I don’t know how this video didn’t get instantly demonetized, but I am immensely grateful that it didn’t. I wish that there were more videos on UA-cam like this. Gory, brutal, honest action scenes. This was a good video about a horrible subject, and I need more like it. Good job 👍
@@pegpeg9833 correct, but only to an extent. The only difference is that most of the sacrifices had to be dragged screaming to the altar, and those who fled, usually didn’t escape. Thrown over a blood-soaked altar, their arms and legs were held in place facing the sky. The priest would then use a sacrificial dagger made from obsidian glass and cut the hearts out of the victim's chest. The body was then thrown down the steep steps.
even though this is such a short film, I was still able to understand what was going on and could still appreciate how well made the film was, as well as build empathy for these characters from the get go. I can also appreciate how the nudity isn't used in any sexual way but is being used to show the kind of culture that is being portrayed within this film. Awesome!
@@wizardrat8520 I'm pretty sure they're focus is on the sacrificial aspect genius. I don't think anyone gives a fuck about a bit of nudity when it comes to mass sacrifice.
I know it’s not historically accurate. But imagine standing in line waiting your turn to be “sacrificed” in order for the world to keep turning, only to find out that no matter what you did the world was going to keep turning anyway regardless of what you thought would happen if you didn’t die for the cause. It’s primitive and barbaric thinking in hind sight and such a waste of life. Good animation short though.
This short film transported me into a different world. I don’t know how they were able to animate such intensity and mystery into this, but I seemed to feel all the fear inside the characters. Very well done
Prince Of Egypt And Joseph Coat Of Dreams Were The Exact Match Of This Artstyle I Would've Loved To See What Happened To The Girl That Was Saved Like Did She Move To Egypt And Start Her Life There
I love the animation. It is a bit exaggerated compared what actually happened in those times but I really like that 2 women band together and fight back. The whole short (to me, at least) really speaks a lot about religious leaders abusing their powers because of fear and the victims fighting back because of love.
I love the imagery of the snakes symbolizing her change of mindset. The wall shattering felt like it represented her mind breaking through the illusion and deception that religion creates.
@@jovivianed4602 i mean, i'd rather be sacrificed with honors to some foreign god as a genuine act of belief and honor than picking their weath for the rest of my life like the romans did.
@@philipearakaki no you dont , stop talking bs. Those sacrificed people we´re women and children of the Mexicas population , who we´re sold by the aztecs to their gods , not an honor garbage or whatever you´re talking about , they we´re slaves doomed to a terrible fate
"human sacrifice was exaggerated" was the statement that historian agreed till recently. they found a aztec tzompantli was 35m by 5m made of estimating 136k humans, in Aztec temple located in Mexico City. June 2018 edition of "Science" journal talks in more details.
They were exaggerated, but based on very true baselines. At one point, one Conquistador claimed 80,000 people were sacrificed in a single day. There's no evidence that the Aztecs could do that reliably. That doesn;t mean they didn't practice a lot of sacrifices: thats what the Tzompantli prove.
I was Not looking for this, but I’m very appreciative that the algorithm for sending it my way. This was Extremely emotional! This made me feel so many emotions in such a small timeframe. FABULOUS 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Everyone's discussing the nudity in the film. Me: What about the women getting killed by those shamans? and what about those snakes? ... okay, maybe it's just me.
Full body nudity that wasn't censored or monetized in the thumbnail? 😮 UA-cam is growing up, artistically. 🤓👍 This was in my Watch Later playlist from 4 years ago and UA-cam just now recommended it to me. I guess that amount of time was late enough to watch it.🤣 I was not disappointed in its creativity and originality at all.🙂
Whenever I get this video in my recommended again, I sort by new comments and the amount of kids and teens who only talk about how there are naked women is extremely disappointing. It’s not being sexualized so don’t act like it is.
Chase Madison Get away? You’re missing the point. Kids in the comments just see naked women and think they have to mention it, while saying the most childish things. The animation is not sexualizing anything, they are only topless because it’s supposed to be historically accurate.
Tigress Wolf actually not true, that was for the games your thinking about, women and children were sacrificed in other ways, for example if you were born during a certain month then you would be sacrificed
@@grantcole1898 Hey Grant Iam mexican and I was taught about the origins of my country. So most of the sacrificed were war prisoners from other tribes whom didn't pay tribute, and some citizens were saceificed too. The citizens from the city would eat the corpses from the sacrificed, but still there were sacrifices almost daily because the Aztecs believes that the Sun would dissapear and start the end of the world.
It’s curious, because Mayan people and ancient mexica civilizations consider sacrificing as something “honorable to their gods” (they were polytheists) and the author of this animation forgot something important, they never use to climb up the staircase of the pyramid facing front, it was ALWAYS sideways, this was in order to not face your back to the authorities when you went downstairs. That’s why most Mayan pyramids have really small stairs, so your feet could face perfectly sideways.
The author also forgot the fact that fights like this wouldn't happen, and that the sacrifices was mixed with both men and women. I just wanted to expound further on that.
Monique Brown And actually you’re not wrong tho! They were really small, people who still preserve the mayan genes in southern Mexico are pretty tiny and have small hands and feet
@ShogunBean do you have facts and Evidence saying that one religion is right. 23 thousand different religions and beliefs since mankind created the first religion. So how do you know christianity or catholic which the Spaniards followed is the right one that speaks the truth. Do you actually believe Noah fit 2 kinds of every Species of animals into a boat that's half the size of the titanic or some being created the earth and the universe what about the flood that covered 90% of the planet. If you new your history you would know 43% of the religion's we have today are copies and rewritten from Ancient samarian text. So who says Samarian religion isn't the right one. Religion has been rewritten and changed so much that it's impossible to determine truth from fiction. I believe there was a man name Yeshua which you would know as jesus. But as for the Miracles he has done in the bible is impossible unless you believe in unicorns and Leprechauns or there was technology of some kind involved that we don't know about. I believe he has died on a cross for our sins anything before or after that is nothing but fiction unless you can provide Evidence saying otherwise. And don't worry bout me my life is good with those guidelines..
Okay, people that are not from Mexico read this and say it along, AZTECS NEVER HAD AN EMPIRE; Let's read some about history, yes? Imagine you are in south Mexico, in a place named Aztlán, there is people in there, the Aztecs, and then a sacerdotist cames running and yelling that Huitzilopochtli (a war god) gaved him a prophecy, Oh! Now the Aztecs have to move to other place: Huitzilopochtli said that the Aztec people have to search an eagle, an eagle eating a snake in a cactacea (sounds familiar uh? check Mexico's flag) and when they find it they will create a city in that exact place The Aztecs searched for years that eagle, and then, in the freacking middle of a lake there is it, the eagle and the snake, and, in the freaking middle of the lake, they started building a civilization that one day will have even more population than the actual Ingland, BUT, they are not Aztecs anymore, when they arrived Texcoco lake and asked for a place to start building (there were other civilizations on the lake!) they changed their name from Aztecs ('People from Aztlán') to Mexicas, naming the Empire under the name of Mexica Empire, the Mexicas were descendants from the Aztecs, they spended years migrating looking for the eagle, and they changed their name, and that city, Tenochtitlan will be the capital of the Empire of the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan-Tlacopán-Texcoco (that were 3 different cities in the lake)
@@TAGNET Medio concuerdo medio no, si bien, si bien tuvieron increíbles avances técnologicos sí que se pasaban de lanza con los sacrificios la verdad u.u Y ni hablar de la historia de cómo obtuvieron su territorio en Texcoco, pero dudo mucho que haya sido la peor la verdad
@@xx_hivewars_xx9013 La Azteca supera a la mayoría, tanto a la Persa como la Espartana. Tú nombre de perfil empieza y termina con dos x, me parece que el niñato eres tú. 😂
I like that nudity es presented in a non sexual fashion, and that the protagonists fought for what they felt was right. Dogmatism and sacrificing people is always wrong.
why would nudity HAVE to be represented in a sexual fashion in the first place ? there are countless cultures in the world where barebreasts is normal. and sometimes other parts of the body are taboo like legs or thighs.
zecle bruh he was pointing out that he liked that nudity isn't sexualized like everything else in our generation ,Jesus calm down what are you a fucking feminist nazi???
LMAO why the hell does everyone think i'm mad ??? XD are american people really THAT sensitive ?? damn that's scary ! chill out guys. i just meant not everyone in the west is afraid of a nipple. even more if it's a fictional nipple. gobelins are french. have you ever seen Kirikou and the sorceress ?
I love how everyone in this comment section is going "religion bad😡", when the real point of this is that you shouldn't sacrifice yourself and everything you care about for the sake of some deranged lunatics who use religion as a mask to hide behind and hurt people. In other words, the real message that everyone is misinterpreting is that you shouldn't die on the alter of a false prophet. But I guess that message isn't as edgy as "condemn all religion".
Except it's not actually accurate at all. The sort of massive sacrifice by the thousands at once with corpses just strewn all over the place never happened, that's a played up pop culture exaggeration. Human sacrifice happened, but not on this scale (the Mexica of the Aztec captial in particular did do it more then other cultures in the region but even still not to this extent) and the bodies wouldn't have been treated so carelessly: After all, it's a sacred ritual and meant to honor the gods. It was heavily formalized and the sanctity and cleanliness of the thing was important. In one of the rituals that was rather gruesome where people were skinned, their skins worn by others to dance around in, when it was done the skins and other remains where carefully preserved in jars and kept inside the temple, for example. Also, the VAST majority of human sacrifices were prisoners of war. The popular notion that it was their own citizens or women or children dragged off from some other town or city is a misconception (The Aztec political system was fairly hands off, which is why the Conquistadors got allies: in a political framework where you generally maintain independence anyways, you have nothing to lose by pledging yourself to a foreign power and help them conquer stuff, under the assumption you'd be in greater standing in the new hegemony you helped prop up). There were a few specific religious festivals where women or children would be sacrificed but it was the exception, not the rule. It's also not accurate at all in terms of symbolism and visuals beyond that: The temple, dress, costumes, and archteture on display here is just a generic mash of vaguely Mesoamerican looking things: It's not speffically Aztec, or a particular Maya culture, or the Purepecha, Zapotecs, etc: It's just a generalized mix. Get off your high horse about "no whitwashing" and whatever, you claim to care about historical accuracy and representation but you don't know crap. The film itself is very well done and they should get props for actually using nahuatl if that's what's being spoken, but that's it.
+Jabberwockxeno As I expected, predictable af, as usual..There will always be people focusing on flaws while complaining about the quality when these animators and everyone involved in this short made a huge effort to bring a story showcasing traditional rituals with half naked but non-sexualized women of color, all that executed in the right context, you see that often huh? 'Historically' talking, sure it has flaws, of course some elements are either minimized or over-exaggerated, that's the point of animation. Was it disrespectful 'culturally' talking? NO, not at all. And just for that, I will always encourage people to support such animators. If you're not able to see how their attitude is progressive in this industry then that's your personal problem.
BrandNewSongz It is culturally insensitive demonization, or at least it is continuous with culturally insensitive demonization. Just because it hits marks of progressivism in modern Western social issues does not mean on the whole that it's necessarily okay. It can be praised for its accomplishments and highlights as much as it can be criticised for its faults. The "historical" nature of its ignorant portrayal doesn't necessarily make it any less impactful to traditional Nahua people who care about their culture and traditions than other things that might fault them in the vein of modern issues of social justice.
You keep talking about "women of color" or "person of color", but the animation is using harmful, demonizing stereotypes that portray the culture those women of color are from as a bunch of bloodthirsty savages. Do seriously not realize how self defeating your argument is? You might as well defend the Columbus day cannibal video as being good for representation too on that note. I personally don't mind the thing using stereotypes to tell the story it wants to tell, I think the animation is fantastic, I just think you are so deep into your own dogma you don't realize how hypocritical you are being.
My sole question about this: what happened afterwards? Were they killed for blasphemy? Did their society change because there was now proof that the sacrifices weren't needed? And I know I'll never know...
@@andreabolanos8899 Well nope they sacrificed so that the sun will come up and go down and i don't remember exactly when they do the sacrifice in the morning
@@user-zy7cy4fo8w I know, 😔. And even if they didn't sacrificed them they would have been excecuted for killing the priest. Going against the religious powers was a big no-no. Also the morning comment is because of the coloring of the backround, it was black during most of the short but ay the end it starts to clear. Not because of an specific timing of the rituales in real life. Good thing we don't need to kill to keep the sun going tho😅
Damn as some one who’s ancestry is Mayan this video was powerful. One can only imagine the thoughts one was going through while knowing they’re about to sacrificed for worship. That’s a crazy thought. Deep ass video and I absolutely loved it.
A part of me was expecting a deus-ex-machina type of happy ending, but I'm glad it wasn't there. More open and less predictable endings make room for thought.
saying that this is un-sexualized nudity is completely right, the point of the women in the video being naked has nothing to do about sex, its just how it was and its not meant to present any sexual activity or meaning, so no, they did not miss the point of the video
don't pity those who only talk about the nudity, we live in an age were we only see it as a sexual thing. this animation is a gem that requires a certain perception to appreciate.
I’m Caribbean and I just remember reading in history class about the how the Maya people would make these type of blood sacrifices. Humans were seen as the ultimate offering. This animation just describes perfectly how depressing I imagined those sacrifices to be. The Mayans are an intelligent group of people though and I enjoyed reading about the history of all of the Amerindians. This was a great animation!
This kind of sacrifice was actually rare for the Mayans. Heart removal was more a central Mexico custom, which the Maya adopted on a smaller scale and somewhat late in their history. Before (and after) that, they would ritually wound themselves to offer their blood to the gods, or decapitate "a few" prisonners of war to consecrate a new temple, or throw sacrifices in the sacred cenotes in times of drought. In fact, pretty much every sedentary culture south of Texas practiced human sacrifice in some manner, with even the Incas leaving children and teenagers to freeze to death as an offering to the mountain spirits. And even then, sacrifices the scale we see in this movie, with hundreds and hundreds of hearts being taken at once, were only ever done by the Aztec Empire of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City (this was not the only method they used, and not even the worst...). The initial acceptance of the older girl is actually not surprising, since the people believed being offered as a sacrifice meant going to the paradise of the god one was offered to, and the lifeforce offered to the god was used for important purposes such as making the sun move and preventing the end of the world. Of course, the Aztecs offered so many prisonners that they pretty much had to always be at war, and that is one of the main reasons the Spanish had no problem finding local allies when they invaded.
Vincent Des Rosiers Wow.. it’s been so long since i’ve read about this stuff. This is incredible information! Thank you! I’d have to read more about it
Sacrifices to the gods were considered with much pride. Not anyone could be chosen just like that. It was considered a very high honor to be sacrificed to the gods in hopes of being more prosperity to the clan.
Fun fact: There is very few cases of people actually resisting or trying to prevent being sacrificed in Aztec society. They were taught from birth that 1. Its the highest honor, and 2. there is an afterlife. If anything this girl would have been pissed that the idiot tried to stop her from meeting the gods. But the younger girl wouldnt have been too concerned about the whole thing in the first place.
Useless Taco Ummm... you haven’t seen all of it... I once clicked a link on a comment and it lead to a video ON UA-cam called “Naked News” it was literally naked women... So you haven’t shit on UA-cam.
Awww! it ended as cliffhanger! Shoot! if this was turned into a show i would of watched it! It kind of reminds me of Genndy Tartakovsky artwork style. :)
There is a live action movie that exactly shows this religious tradition/act. Watch "Apocalypto" it's a real great movie, plus it is directed by the talented Mel Gibson.
Very good work indeed! Shows how truly awful the pagan Mayan religion was, and why it was a good thing when it was abolished and most of its texts burned. Some awful practices are best left forgotten.
Brings to mind a child's ability to disappoint their parents by rejecting societal norms.. and how the bonds of family are later strengthened again when an understanding is reached. Interesting piece of art.. both with the story itself and the colors used to represent the emotions for each scene.
It is truly sad. And even more so, when you think about the fact that most likely no one ever responded like this in the past to actually try and stop it. At least it’s very much doubtful.
I'm sorry, but zealots of ALL religions still practice this today. Perhaps not on an alter, but in the battlefield. Bombs dropped on innocents is every bit as horrifying as alter sacrifices. My religion is better than your is a common cause for many wars.
Basically Aztecs were like hmmm. Daily sacrifices. Seems like gods want that. They literally had piles of bodies lying around because yeah. Gods. Also it wasn’t just females. It was everyone. Yaaaaay
Iam mexican and I was taught about the origins of my country. So most of the sacrificed were war prisoners from other tribes, and some citizens were sacrificed too. The citizens from the city would eat the corpses from the sacrificed, but still there were sacrifices almost daily because the mesoamerican cultures especially the Aztecs believed that the Sun would dissapear and begin the end of the world. The serpent statues and symbols is the God Quetzalcoatl THE FEATHERED SERPENT who was the most praised god of all their gods.
Texan Taxer, definitely the Aztecs. The Mayans killed, too, but the Aztecs were notorious for it. There’s depictions of human sacrifice and ritual self mutilation in their art. Even the king and queen occasionally had to give blood sacrifice.
Welll you got wrong some information, quetzalcoatl wasn't actually the most praised God (the fuction of the gods were diverse) and he was strongly against human sacrifices.
@@undignified2843 I'm pretty sure this isn't very representative of the culture. Yes, people were sacrificed, but it wasn't en masse like this. I personally saw the setting as a one-off instance of a crazed ruler gone mad with power and zealotry.
It's soul wrenching to look at/observe this level of horror. And heartbreaking. Any kind of being, god or otherwise, that needs this kind of slaughter in order to feel satisfied should only be considered sick and not worthwhile.
What about the sick bastards that committed human sacrifice on an industrial scale? There was a reason the Spanish found so many eager allies among conquered native tribes who were tired of being sacrificed like sheep
@@thebonewitch11 more religions cause war than anything else?? Well the Encyclopedia of Wars state only 8% of wars were religious by nature and ⅔ of that 8% were Islamic wars..the other 92% of wars were secular wars..wars like the World War 1, political..World War 2, political..Vietnam war, Korean war, nothing to do with religion but politics and land..and you know who the greatest killers of war are, atheists..you've got Pol Pot, Mao, Lenin and Stalin, responsible for 100 million deaths through atheistic communism..but ultimately the problem is not communism or religion *BUT* mankind itself =) God bless
I love this the details are immaculate, tons of symbolism, THEY ARE SPEAKING NAHUATL, and the animation is beautiful really reminds me of Gennedy Tartakovky's primal
Nothing. It was just a second girl's bravery. She was blind and believed in the snake god and wanted to die for him, thats why she was angry when her friend tried to protect her. But after she saw the priest beating her, after she heard these violent sounds, her fear of this god and worship destroyed. Thats all. Thats all about two girls, trying to protect each other. And they will be killed, obviously.
@@jakwath well, they stopped the ritual and killed the priests, you think, any chances left? I think, guardians are not non-agressove, looks more like shock.
I cannot stress enough how much I appreciate the fact that the characters speak Nahuatl, it's just a bit of additional detail but adds SO much in my opinion, to this overall amazing animation. I could no doubt watch an entire movie about these characters and this world.
Yes me too
What are they saying please ?
@Ksjs Jdjdb sorry what do you mean ?😭
From what i've searched Nahuatl is the language the Aztecs would use back in that time in Mexico. Please somebody correct me if i'm wrong.
@@oceanmars2421 yup
I love how the other girl is initially mad about being saved by the other girl and ultimately how futile it was to save her in the end. For a film so short this has a wild amount of drama. Good job
Drama, but also and above all : depth
I know I was thinking the same. It's so short but you feel emotionally connected which is shocking. This should be a 2 hour long movie tbh.
Why do you think it was futile sir
I thought this is her mother
I think it's a guy and girl. Not two girls
I´m Mexican, I have Indigenous Heritage and all I can say it´s amazing the fact they made characters speak Náhuatl (Indigenous language).
That explains why cartels are so violent. they inherit that trait from their blood thirsty and human sacrificing ancestors.
¿Sabes que están diciendo?
@@crumbsintopebblesApuesto a que no, casi nadie en México lo habla, está a un par de decadas de ser una lengua muerta.
lol 1/100th indigenous heritage haha
All has indigenous heritage though.
I will be 100% transparent here: I was initially drawn in cause I was like “The hell!? Tits in my recommended feed?!” But I ended up staying for the enthralling story and amazing art work, the stylized nudity wasn’t even a factor anymore. This is genuinely a near masterpiece, and you should be proud of it.
thought of the same thing
I’m happy when I see more non-sexual nudity happening in media today.
@@Leviathans88 Indeed. I’m all for it.
@@Leviathans88 I’m not a nudist or anything but if we didn’t sexualize every goddamn thing, then there would be more creative art and expression across the bored. I think that we cheapen everything about humanity by making everything sexual. Nudity without sexual context should absolutely not be considered by anybody to be sexual.
@@rebelliousfineart8202 generally I agree, though I understand that people will be people. Ultimately that reality is an impossible one; our emotional states change constantly, so all but a few people are able to stick to that belief 100% of the time. I’ll freely admit I’m not among them. Though I suppose that’s kinda given, given what initially drew my eyes to the video lol.
Aight, Imma just shed some light into this. I'm a Mexican. I know the cultures that lived here and their rituals were... Not considered very 'humane'. But please know:
-being sacrificed was considered an honor. Depending on the culture, it was mostly done to allow the Sun to rise again the next day (given the sun was very important for them, and most were done on specific situations), and only a few people were chosen for it. They prepared them since they were children and treated them with very high respect and privileges.
-when the conquerors arrived, they exaggerated the number and way this rituals were performed. They were just trying to avoid pissing off their own gods and deities, which I bet in every culture isn't a good thing
I am in no way trying to make it seem as a good thing, I'm not, cause in the end they w e r e actually k1lling people. Just trying to share some information as to why they did so. Great animation, tho!
Thank you for the information
As I have heard it, the only death sacrifices tended to be heads of enemy armies; most sacrifice was just ritual bloodletting.
i was thinking if id ever get to see it depicted from within its own cultural context. i wonder if the abundance of these kind of stories where the sacrifice victims rebel is a western fantasy we keep telling ourselves to lessen horror of the conquest of the west.
why is it that sacrificing 1000 people absolutely horrifies us but 10 000 people dying on a battle field is "just war"
thank you! I always get a little bit frustrated when people depict tenochtitlan in this way, but I did really enjoy the film
Well that makes more sense because I wondered how they could kill in large numbers and still have a healthy population.
I know it’s not historically accurate, but I keep coming back this film. It so well done! What they do with the idea of sacrifice is so interesting, the relationship between the two main characters really hits, and the visuals are amazing. I just really love this film
Omg too
It actualy is accurate
Does it need to be historically accurate? It’s not an informational film
@@gektoast4968 noone said it had to be. And when ur dealing with real cultures it can be important to be historically accurate if it's serious
Mexican here. What part is not accurate?
with everything going on, how can you possibly focus on the nudity?
fr, this is scary as hell lol
@Frederick Acker bobs
it just because it’s rare that nudity is treated this way, especially in cartoons or animation.
i think its great that they portray nudity in a non sexual way
Yeah....
"You're gonna sacrifice us? Have a heart!"
"Actually.. that's a great idea!"
I can't wait til the people who make all these stunning animated shorts create a full length animated film shown in cinemas worldwide. Absolutely stunning and powerful as always Gobelins 😍
the girl looks like Moana btw and i'm not complaining!
Nobody will finance or approve of a full length film this gory to be shown in cinemas worldwide. It's not feasible unfortunately. But they can publish it or distributed it online.
Emil Lorenzo I FOUND MY AVATAR TWIN !!!!
avatar twins?
Skeptical me I WAS SO CONFUSED FOR A MOMENT I WAS LIKE "I DIDN'T TYPE THAT"
I love the fact that the girl with the tail was ready and so calm about this but the scream of her friend let her break through the manipulation
It, is, the scariest student film I've ever seen. And it's more than amazing.
I'm surprised it isn't cancelled for depicting the brutal honesty of an inferior culture.
@@undignified2843that doesn't exist
@@undignified2843your culture's inferior, too.
@@ericharris9767 Nobody's culture is 'inferior', you bigoted racist.
@@wisteriiiiaayikes
i love how the nudity isn't considered sexual, it shows how normal it actually is. amazing animation, story, and art. ❤
edit: the internet will never be satisfied, huh?
And I love that there’s no weird kids talking about “omg ewwwww!”
Truly shows how much of a masterpiece it is ❤
nudity to be shown in animation while NOT making it the main focus, is OK ...? I see. understandable 🧐
Sb would have masturbated by watching this video 😊
@@unrelated6739omg! tit's! 😅
@@bluefirework yeah, why not? it's so great when bodies are just there. and when they're not sехualized.
Bruh everyone is just forgetting the fact that this whole thing is based on true events.
This obviously didn’t happen exactly but women getting sacrificed was definitely a thing.
dang
Gamer Guy historical fiction
What's even worse is that the people literally believed that if they didn't do it the Sun wouldn't rise the next day. I cannot imagine the guilt they felt when they realised that there were wrong and that millions of people had died for nothing.
It was men women abs children. Not just women.
@@ZephLodwick it's the same when a white man believed a god Will send You to the Inferno if You don't go to the church every sunday
Even though it’s not perfectly historically accurate, the message and symbolism is amazing. It’s about standing up for what you know is right even if it goes against traditional means and what others see as “normal”
Because that's always a good thing apparently.
@@Krystalmyth I think the point is more to understand when its a bad thing and when its a good thing. She still prayed and felt that the answer to her prayers was the god telling her to defend herself.
@@Krystalmyth...yes, of course it is? If you *know* something to be right, then yes, do that. Obviously?
It also highlights the undeniable proof that some cultures are just better.
yeah sure like that hasnt been done before and this would never happen irl. there was no "standing up for what is right" because this was their religion, it literally makes no sense
when you realise the dead women on the steps were the ones who tried to run away :(
Aztecs push down the dead body after killing them to complete the ritual (I’m not 100% sure if this is true)
Judging from Apocalypto, they were discarded
It's actually part of the ritual. The bodies are pushed down the stairs to make sure the blood sacrifice runs down to the bottom of the pyramid
OH. Okay well ya learn something new every day. Thank yall for the explanations now Im even more depressed over this 😭
Blood for the blood God say it with me!!!!!
I love how in the beginning, they are illuminated by a blue glow. Blue is a very peaceful color, and it shows how as they bathe in the water they are somewhat calm. It also seems to show the sisterhood pf the women. Suddenly though, it becomes red as they make their way up the pyramid. It shows the fear of the girl and the violence around them. It also matches the blood, contrasting with the calm blue water. When the girl is battling with saving her friend or sticking to tradition, it becomes blue again, possibly relating again to sisterhood. After killing the executioner, the world around them becomes white. I’m not sure how this plays into color symbolism, but it might show the hard truth of the situation. They feel blank, because they may have saved themselves, but they’ll still die in the end. It’s a bit hard to tell but it is a lovely short film.
Agreed, kind of reminds me how color had a role in the Mayans. Those who wore red or white were sacrifices, and those that wore blue or green were priests.
It’s honestly refreshing to see nudity just as the human body and not as something sexual.
GAAAAAAY!
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@@god_of_fails6361 STAP. WHY CARE IF YOUR GAY WHY DOES ANYBODY CARE SOMEBODYS GAY OR TOMBOY
@@leonardjamesdeleon5934 GAAYYYY
Y’all need to chill, they’re not gay just because of this
Wow, escaping the tight grasp of dogmatic religion is not an easy task. The examination of it through our knowledge of other religions that really encapsulated the lifestyle of the people themselves is a fascinating way of looking at this topic. The entire culture itself is surrounded by their beliefs. The image of the woman praying. The home that was created by her prayer and the small cracks that eventually crumbled her entire world- its a perfect rendition of what that feels like. Many of us go through these feelings. I myself was raised in a religious cult and at one point it felt like everything was crumbled around me. Wow what a powerful animation.
Sonja Galetti Somehow, this reminded me of Islam and its religion so full of extremism.
Fernanda Hassen More than just Islam, this animation is relevant to every religion.
Tiki Omzee I know, but what other religion does he ask you to commit suicide and kill others in the name of your God?
There is also no mention of sharing wives, and having sex slaves is one of the greatest taboos
I will admit as much that I have not grown up a muslim but a christian, but as far as I have been told by a Jordanian and have surmised for myself, there is a difference between the Quran and the Hadith, the latter being outside of the former. They are confused as being one and the same but I will believe, unless proven resoundingly wrong by earnest scholars, that the tribal custom that can supersede the Quran at times is not part of the book itself. The Hadith is an option and addition to Muhammad's own exact teaching. You don't have to have a beard. You don't have to stone people. You can tell me otherwise so long as you can do so without the bias of an Ethno National Socialist.
I have never been more invested in this story. I forgot it was only 5 minutes long and was physically shocked when it ended so soon.
Me too
This short film is truly amazing
The animation, the drawing style, the music, the mood
It’s all just so amazing
I don’t know how this video didn’t get instantly demonetized, but I am immensely grateful that it didn’t.
I wish that there were more videos on UA-cam like this.
Gory, brutal, honest action scenes.
This was a good video about a horrible subject, and I need more like it.
Good job 👍
cause it labeled as Educational
it's still a good film but it is *not* an honest representation of the practice of human sacrifice
@@pegpeg9833 correct, but only to an extent.
The only difference is that most of the sacrifices had to be dragged screaming to the altar, and those who fled, usually didn’t escape.
Thrown over a blood-soaked altar, their arms and legs were held in place facing the sky. The priest would then use a sacrificial dagger made from obsidian glass and cut the hearts out of the victim's chest. The body was then thrown down the steep steps.
@@pegpeg9833 Human sacrifice? I thought it was about the dangers of shopping at Wal-Mart on Black Friday!
I’m pretty sure not being sexualized plays a factor into why its not demonetized
even though this is such a short film, I was still able to understand what was going on and could still appreciate how well made the film was, as well as build empathy for these characters from the get go. I can also appreciate how the nudity isn't used in any sexual way but is being used to show the kind of culture that is being portrayed within this film. Awesome!
I like how you stylized the nudity to be less explicit without butchering its essence. It's a great compromise and it fits the aesthetic beautifully.
@@bluenorth3965 hear hear
@@bluenorth3965 only in america
@@zecle I don't think it's only in America but ok
zecle stop going around and hating on Americans you stewed prune.
somehow i didn't even notice they were nude. it doesn't call attention to itself.
Si jamais des Français passe par cette animation ne vous fait elle pas penser a l'Atlantide sur certains points ?
Non, désolé ce n'est juste que toi
Oulah 😂
L'Atlantide ? On suppose qu'ils étaient plus civilisés et n'ont pas fait de sacrifices humains.
Je parlais de l'animation il est vrais que j'ai omis ce détail@@AntonioParedes-d3m
No, no lo es era México, Nose si serán los mayas puede que si, ese al que venderán es el Dios mictlantecutli y su esposa la diosa micte
Please and I mean this with all sincerity MAKE THIS INTO A MOVIE !!!!!!! I want to see this.
apocalypto is vary similar to this.
Watch apocalypto, it has the same culture background and POV
me too
@@diogoandrade5114 this is Animation? Just It would be nice to watch a similar animated film.
Omg i was thinking the same thing, this is amazing like seriously this its the best thing ever
UA-cam: "is this a suitable video for kids?"
Also UA-cam: "let's recommend this to everyone"
Fucking UA-cam i swear
Smh UA-cam is some perverted mofo
josh macdonald boobs shouldn’t be hidden they should be normalised just as guys nipples are normalised
@@wizardrat8520 I'm pretty sure they're focus is on the sacrificial aspect genius. I don't think anyone gives a fuck about a bit of nudity when it comes to mass sacrifice.
Because its an animation ,wow youtube.Incredible job
I know it’s not historically accurate. But imagine standing in line waiting your turn to be “sacrificed” in order for the world to keep turning, only to find out that no matter what you did the world was going to keep turning anyway regardless of what you thought would happen if you didn’t die for the cause. It’s primitive and barbaric thinking in hind sight and such a waste of life. Good animation short though.
How is it not accurate? It follows right along with what I know about this practice.
That’s my bad. I meant it in the context that what my comment above may not be historically accurate
@@TheAlbertaChannel Oh, oh... I see. Sorry I misunderstood.
I mean people still think praying for things does anything, so we’re not that far away from it yet
@@uniwolfacorn Yeah. (Sigh...)
This short film transported me into a different world. I don’t know how they were able to animate such intensity and mystery into this, but I seemed to feel all the fear inside the characters. Very well done
I love the Tartakovsky vibes that this animation has. The action and use of color reminds me Primal and Samurai Jack a lot.
Adds so much to this helpless vibe.
I sense you've watched Primal as well lol. This literally looks like the first few minutes of an episode
This reminds me of Samurai Jack as well.
Prince Of Egypt And Joseph Coat Of Dreams Were The Exact Match Of This Artstyle I Would've Loved To See What Happened To The Girl That Was Saved Like Did She Move To Egypt And Start Her Life There
@@haileeraestout5567 Bro that's all the way across the world lmao. They are presumably residing in the Americas.
I love the animation. It is a bit exaggerated compared what actually happened in those times but I really like that 2 women band together and fight back.
The whole short (to me, at least) really speaks a lot about religious leaders abusing their powers because of fear and the victims fighting back because of love.
It's an animation why do you expect it to be realistic 1:1??
@@Xackory Who said that's what I expected?
@@Roberta_Trevino “it’s exaggerated”
@XavierDatesXavierJrDates Which is true. Doesn't mean I expected it not to be.
Yes :')
I love the imagery of the snakes symbolizing her change of mindset. The wall shattering felt like it represented her mind breaking through the illusion and deception that religion creates.
The slaves sacrificed were not members of the same religion Aztecs were
@@dreadpiraterobertsii4420damn, in a way it’s kind of more horrific considering they didn’t want anything to do with being sacrificed then
@@jovivianed4602 i mean, i'd rather be sacrificed with honors to some foreign god as a genuine act of belief and honor than picking their weath for the rest of my life like the romans did.
Or the DMT she drank?
@@philipearakaki no you dont , stop talking bs. Those sacrificed people we´re women and children of the Mexicas population , who we´re sold by the aztecs to their gods , not an honor garbage or whatever you´re talking about , they we´re slaves doomed to a terrible fate
Admit it a lot of us clicked on this for the naked women in the thumbnail. Stayed because the animation was actually awesome.
"human sacrifice was exaggerated" was the statement that historian agreed till recently. they found a aztec tzompantli was 35m by 5m made of estimating 136k humans, in Aztec temple located in Mexico City. June 2018 edition of "Science" journal talks in more details.
They were exaggerated, but based on very true baselines. At one point, one Conquistador claimed 80,000 people were sacrificed in a single day. There's no evidence that the Aztecs could do that reliably. That doesn;t mean they didn't practice a lot of sacrifices: thats what the Tzompantli prove.
Magnifique, j'adore !
Superflame Hey mec !
Lucas Hauchard Hey fake !
kalandre bel Hey Québec !
Tu t perdue toi aussi sur ytb??
Ok
The colour work in this is amazing! Tres bon!!
Thanks ! You can see the backgrounds on my tumblr simonsitron.tumblr.com
Petitecreme francais ?
Petitecreme bah non petite creme c'est pas français c'est chinois -_-
Petitecreme n'essaye même pas de parler francais >:(
J'ai pas compris, pourquoi ça parle visiblement un peu mal à Petitecreme ?
I was Not looking for this, but I’m very appreciative that the algorithm for sending it my way. This was Extremely emotional! This made me feel so many emotions in such a small timeframe. FABULOUS 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Disney is shook.
Disney is a big maker in the porn industry
@@CJTower. and they didnt even know it until the internet came out
Wait a minute this isn’t the emperors new groove?!
@@vanspratzy9573 i know
Strange how this was a recommended after watching new groove clips for 2days straight
Just saying that the girl looks like Moana
Everyone's discussing the nudity in the film.
Me: What about the women getting killed by those shamans?
and what about those snakes?
... okay, maybe it's just me.
Read about inka
Nobody is
the only reason why this is the most popular video of the channel is because it has nudity in its miniature
Eh to each deity their own I guess...
Blood for the blood god.
Boobs for the Boob god.
@@coldfusionwaffles Is this a Warhammer reference? 😉
Skulls for the Skull's Throne!
This is pure art, animations, style and music!.
Full body nudity that wasn't censored or monetized in the thumbnail? 😮
UA-cam is growing up, artistically. 🤓👍
This was in my Watch Later playlist from 4 years ago and UA-cam just now recommended it to me.
I guess that amount of time was late enough to watch it.🤣
I was not disappointed in its creativity and originality at all.🙂
Whenever I get this video in my recommended again, I sort by new comments and the amount of kids and teens who only talk about how there are naked women is extremely disappointing. It’s not being sexualized so don’t act like it is.
Talking about comments that don't exist I see, love when people do that.
Chase Madison I specifically mentioned that you need to sort by new. Mostly it’s just people saying “boobs” and that’s it.
@@enixma820 what boobs these women were flat-chested. Probably so they could get away with showing them shirtless I guess.
Chase Madison Get away? You’re missing the point. Kids in the comments just see naked women and think they have to mention it, while saying the most childish things. The animation is not sexualizing anything, they are only topless because it’s supposed to be historically accurate.
Why do you feel the need to tell people what to do? Mind you business and let the children play, Karen.
There is nothing stronger than love. No culture, no rules, no rites.
*rights
@@camilagrijalva4109 Rites is correct. It means a religous or social custom, which is different to the definition given by rights.
Very true.. And to understand it more.. U should read Paulo Coelho.
They are just friends
Ash Lee There are different kinds of love
Sad but true. Many Meso-Americans who were sacrificed were young women.
Grant Cole actually they were sacrificed by fighting each other and whoever lost was the sacrifice
Tigress Wolf Are you sure?
Grant Cole yeah
Tigress Wolf actually not true, that was for the games your thinking about, women and children were sacrificed in other ways, for example if you were born during a certain month then you would be sacrificed
@@grantcole1898 Hey Grant Iam mexican and I was taught about the origins of my country. So most of the sacrificed were war prisoners from other tribes whom didn't pay tribute, and some citizens were saceificed too. The citizens from the city would eat the corpses from the sacrificed, but still there were sacrifices almost daily because the Aztecs believes that the Sun would dissapear and start the end of the world.
Getting recommended this on the 1th of November
Same
Same 😂
@@surupmaple2426same bitcg
It’s curious, because Mayan people and ancient mexica civilizations consider sacrificing as something “honorable to their gods” (they were polytheists) and the author of this animation forgot something important, they never use to climb up the staircase of the pyramid facing front, it was ALWAYS sideways, this was in order to not face your back to the authorities when you went downstairs. That’s why most Mayan pyramids have really small stairs, so your feet could face perfectly sideways.
Karla Lopez wow ty for that
COOL TO KNOW
The author also forgot the fact that fights like this wouldn't happen, and that the sacrifices was mixed with both men and women. I just wanted to expound further on that.
Monique Brown And actually you’re not wrong tho! They were really small, people who still preserve the mayan genes in southern Mexico are pretty tiny and have small hands and feet
@@amberslahlize7961 well of course the fights didnt happen lmao
Aztec: we have many gods
Spain: ding dong your religion is wrong
All in reality all religion is wrong it's more of a guideline to having a good life and to teach you from right and wrong..
herbert freeman That speech is so cliché I’ve heard it like a million times.
@@isaacperetz5984 well maybe there is something to that saying then maybe you should expand the way you think..
@ShogunBean do you have facts and Evidence saying that one religion is right. 23 thousand different religions and beliefs since mankind created the first religion. So how do you know christianity or catholic which the Spaniards followed is the right one that speaks the truth. Do you actually believe Noah fit 2 kinds of every Species of animals into a boat that's half the size of the titanic or some being created the earth and the universe what about the flood that covered 90% of the planet. If you new your history you would know 43% of the religion's we have today are copies and rewritten from Ancient samarian text. So who says Samarian religion isn't the right one. Religion has been rewritten and changed so much that it's impossible to determine truth from fiction. I believe there was a man name Yeshua which you would know as jesus. But as for the Miracles he has done in the bible is impossible unless you believe in unicorns and Leprechauns or there was technology of some kind involved that we don't know about. I believe he has died on a cross for our sins anything before or after that is nothing but fiction unless you can provide Evidence saying otherwise. And don't worry bout me my life is good with those guidelines..
pillar men?
Okay, people that are not from Mexico read this and say it along, AZTECS NEVER HAD AN EMPIRE;
Let's read some about history, yes? Imagine you are in south Mexico, in a place named Aztlán, there is people in there, the Aztecs, and then a sacerdotist cames running and yelling that Huitzilopochtli (a war god) gaved him a prophecy, Oh! Now the Aztecs have to move to other place: Huitzilopochtli said that the Aztec people have to search an eagle, an eagle eating a snake in a cactacea (sounds familiar uh? check Mexico's flag) and when they find it they will create a city in that exact place
The Aztecs searched for years that eagle, and then, in the freacking middle of a lake there is it, the eagle and the snake, and, in the freaking middle of the lake, they started building a civilization that one day will have even more population than the actual Ingland, BUT, they are not Aztecs anymore, when they arrived Texcoco lake and asked for a place to start building (there were other civilizations on the lake!) they changed their name from Aztecs ('People from Aztlán') to Mexicas, naming the Empire under the name of Mexica Empire, the Mexicas were descendants from the Aztecs, they spended years migrating looking for the eagle, and they changed their name, and that city, Tenochtitlan will be the capital of the Empire of the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan-Tlacopán-Texcoco (that were 3 different cities in the lake)
La sociedad Azteca fue la más aberrante y cruel de la historia, sin lugar a dudas, un régimen de terror
@@TAGNET Medio concuerdo medio no, si bien, si bien tuvieron increíbles avances técnologicos sí que se pasaban de lanza con los sacrificios la verdad u.u Y ni hablar de la historia de cómo obtuvieron su territorio en Texcoco, pero dudo mucho que haya sido la peor la verdad
@@TAGNETHubo y hay mucho peores niñato.
@@xx_hivewars_xx9013 La Azteca supera a la mayoría, tanto a la Persa como la Espartana.
Tú nombre de perfil empieza y termina con dos x, me parece que el niñato eres tú. 😂
Ok.
What a daring short film, there is no censorship
I researched about mehua meaning “make a stand”
Lhyne Abarro Well in Finnish it means juice
Ooohhh that makes sense. Thanx
@@j4sp3rd51 😂
I wonder what else stood
Lhyne Abarro *pillar men theme plays*
So did this also apear on your recommended or was it just me??
Boomy Fn yeah it did
UA-cam censors no no words, but recommends the boobies
Yeah suddenly appear. .
>.> i think its because i listened to Caravan Palace...
Some how...
The quality of this animation rivals Disney and Dreamworks in their golden era, holy shit.
uh no definitely not
Bro... UA-cam really want me lose nnn so bad..
Edit:I take it back...this is not something that sexually able.The plot are actually good..
Yo Fr
But nnn is going on...
I like that nudity es presented in a non sexual fashion, and that the protagonists fought for what they felt was right. Dogmatism and sacrificing people is always wrong.
why would nudity HAVE to be represented in a sexual fashion in the first place ? there are countless cultures in the world where barebreasts is normal. and sometimes other parts of the body are taboo like legs or thighs.
zecle dude chill tf out, this person was pointing out that theyre glad its not sexualized like america does to nudity all of the time
zecle bruh he was pointing out that he liked that nudity isn't sexualized like everything else in our generation ,Jesus calm down what are you a fucking feminist nazi???
LMAO why the hell does everyone think i'm mad ??? XD are american people really THAT sensitive ?? damn that's scary !
chill out guys. i just meant not everyone in the west is afraid of a nipple. even more if it's a fictional nipple.
gobelins are french. have you ever seen Kirikou and the sorceress ?
Dogmatism is ok.
I love how everyone in this comment section is going "religion bad😡", when the real point of this is that you shouldn't sacrifice yourself and everything you care about for the sake of some deranged lunatics who use religion as a mask to hide behind and hurt people. In other words, the real message that everyone is misinterpreting is that you shouldn't die on the alter of a false prophet. But I guess that message isn't as edgy as "condemn all religion".
It's crazy to see another "Cookie" who also loves Invader Zim 💞😍 Much respect to YOU 💪🏼
Kookie Monette shut up
@@millydamenaceee Smd.. End of story.
Kookie Monette lmao stfu with yaaa goofy lookin ass 😒
@@millydamenaceee I said what I said pussy 😂😂 foh
No whitewashing, accurate representations and symbolisms. Here's why we need to support french animation studios.
Except it's not actually accurate at all. The sort of massive sacrifice by the thousands at once with corpses just strewn all over the place never happened, that's a played up pop culture exaggeration. Human sacrifice happened, but not on this scale (the Mexica of the Aztec captial in particular did do it more then other cultures in the region but even still not to this extent) and the bodies wouldn't have been treated so carelessly: After all, it's a sacred ritual and meant to honor the gods. It was heavily formalized and the sanctity and cleanliness of the thing was important. In one of the rituals that was rather gruesome where people were skinned, their skins worn by others to dance around in, when it was done the skins and other remains where carefully preserved in jars and kept inside the temple, for example.
Also, the VAST majority of human sacrifices were prisoners of war. The popular notion that it was their own citizens or women or children dragged off from some other town or city is a misconception (The Aztec political system was fairly hands off, which is why the Conquistadors got allies: in a political framework where you generally maintain independence anyways, you have nothing to lose by pledging yourself to a foreign power and help them conquer stuff, under the assumption you'd be in greater standing in the new hegemony you helped prop up). There were a few specific religious festivals where women or children would be sacrificed but it was the exception, not the rule.
It's also not accurate at all in terms of symbolism and visuals beyond that: The temple, dress, costumes, and archteture on display here is just a generic mash of vaguely Mesoamerican looking things: It's not speffically Aztec, or a particular Maya culture, or the Purepecha, Zapotecs, etc: It's just a generalized mix.
Get off your high horse about "no whitwashing" and whatever, you claim to care about historical accuracy and representation but you don't know crap. The film itself is very well done and they should get props for actually using nahuatl if that's what's being spoken, but that's it.
+Jabberwockxeno As I expected, predictable af, as usual..There will always be people focusing on flaws while complaining about the quality when these animators and everyone involved in this short made a huge effort to bring a story showcasing traditional rituals with half naked but non-sexualized women of color, all that executed in the right context, you see that often huh? 'Historically' talking, sure it has flaws, of course some elements are either minimized or over-exaggerated, that's the point of animation. Was it disrespectful 'culturally' talking? NO, not at all. And just for that, I will always encourage people to support such animators. If you're not able to see how their attitude is progressive in this industry then that's your personal problem.
BrandNewSongz It is culturally insensitive demonization, or at least it is continuous with culturally insensitive demonization. Just because it hits marks of progressivism in modern Western social issues does not mean on the whole that it's necessarily okay. It can be praised for its accomplishments and highlights as much as it can be criticised for its faults. The "historical" nature of its ignorant portrayal doesn't necessarily make it any less impactful to traditional Nahua people who care about their culture and traditions than other things that might fault them in the vein of modern issues of social justice.
You keep talking about "women of color" or "person of color", but the animation is using harmful, demonizing stereotypes that portray the culture those women of color are from as a bunch of bloodthirsty savages. Do seriously not realize how self defeating your argument is? You might as well defend the Columbus day cannibal video as being good for representation too on that note.
I personally don't mind the thing using stereotypes to tell the story it wants to tell, I think the animation is fantastic, I just think you are so deep into your own dogma you don't realize how hypocritical you are being.
"Accurate"
I'd watch a full movie in this style. Stunning in every sense of the word!
My sole question about this: what happened afterwards? Were they killed for blasphemy? Did their society change because there was now proof that the sacrifices weren't needed? And I know I'll never know...
No, they probably killed the women with sticks and then they got another priest to make the sacrifices
It was a sacrifice because if they don't sacrifice themselves they thought the sun will never come up
But by the time the guards come up it's already sunrise... Maybe they live, I like to be hopefull
@@andreabolanos8899 Well nope they sacrificed so that the sun will come up and go down and i don't remember exactly when they do the sacrifice in the morning
@@user-zy7cy4fo8w I know, 😔. And even if they didn't sacrificed them they would have been excecuted for killing the priest. Going against the religious powers was a big no-no. Also the morning comment is because of the coloring of the backround, it was black during most of the short but ay the end it starts to clear. Not because of an specific timing of the rituales in real life.
Good thing we don't need to kill to keep the sun going tho😅
Fun fact: "Mehua" means "Juice please" in Finland XD
Suomi perkele
I can't wait to someday go to Finland and be thirsty so that I may order some juice
İ thought about consistency of blood and tomato juice, the phrase will the best, who to describe the will of gods.
Well.... they were getting juiced lol
Lenni Salmi , good to know
Props to the voice actors for their performance. Those screams were authentic and a little too realistic if you ask me
Honestly, at times like that you forget there's someone behind a microphone in a recording booth
uh yeah sure. voice acting
You just earned a new subscriber. This is awesome, I got some major “Love Death Robots”, and “I Pet Goat II” vibes from this.
The fist bath scene looked so relaxing and then it just went south real quick.
First thing first! Who signed for this BS? If I was them I find myself another line!
Its makes me feel good how ppl are talkin about thé animation quality and not about *BOOBS*
Ppl are only talking about the boobs when it’s about it not being sexual
Wow
*That because there's no boobs there to talk about in the first place😂😂😂*
Indigo The Demigod tru
I see bobs
Damn as some one who’s ancestry is Mayan this video was powerful. One can only imagine the thoughts one was going through while knowing they’re about to sacrificed for worship. That’s a crazy thought. Deep ass video and I absolutely loved it.
Es azteca no maya
Didn't they give drugs or something?
they actually were raised to be sacrificed from childhood, and high respect and privileges. Few were chosen and it was considered an honor.
Political brainwashing of the masses by the elites is ancient! Like really ancient.
This is what real evil looks like.
Why did this randomly show up in my recommended 💀
A part of me was expecting a deus-ex-machina type of happy ending, but I'm glad it wasn't there. More open and less predictable endings make room for thought.
Šimon Hrbek they do that to men too 🤦🏻♀️
Lol they're dead.
For those of you who are applauding about nudity, and not being sexualized, you’re missing the point of the video
You're exactly right.
saying that this is un-sexualized nudity is completely right, the point of the women in the video being naked has nothing to do about sex, its just how it was and its not meant to present any sexual activity or meaning, so no, they did not miss the point of the video
@@chiarouchka1507yeah you are right but the point of the video is not about the women being nude, its about human sacrifices in the past
Chiarouchka you’ve COMPLETELY missed the point. There’s a deeper meaning to this video that just “unsexualized titties” and “free the nipple”.
kingdomkeycrafter ikr
People commenting must be for children...
Notice literally says age-restricted video.
It's because of UA-cam's new rules
Yeee its useless bc the new rules says anything I mean anything children find attractive (cartoons/animations) they recommend it
The thumbnail tho
People are idiots
Ji-Ho Song I’m a child and this age restriction on this is kind of annoying and r*cist
I'm so lucky to not be born in that Era of time.
don't pity those who only talk about the nudity, we live in an age were we only see it as a sexual thing.
this animation is a gem that requires a certain perception to appreciate.
I agree, society has it all wrong and has tainted our views on nudity, it is a shame.
Society is the reason why I can’t stand the thought, so seeing it done like this in a calm and respectful manner makes it interesting and meaningful
Especially men. Woman can be fully clothed and they'll still find a way to sexualize and objectify.
Its fine... why are we over praising it. Doesn't particularly do anything special.
@@jacksonconnelland why is nudity being normalised so important to you lol?
Cried so hard that my mom came in to my room and asked if I’m watching Shrek again
Just me looool
Andoc *fairies and I prefer house elfs☺️💕
Your mother sounds lovely
Hahaha🤣
honestly same
I’m Caribbean and I just remember reading in history class about the how the Maya people would make these type of blood sacrifices. Humans were seen as the ultimate offering. This animation just describes perfectly how depressing I imagined those sacrifices to be. The Mayans are an intelligent group of people though and I enjoyed reading about the history of all of the Amerindians.
This was a great animation!
This kind of sacrifice was actually rare for the Mayans. Heart removal was more a central Mexico custom, which the Maya adopted on a smaller scale and somewhat late in their history. Before (and after) that, they would ritually wound themselves to offer their blood to the gods, or decapitate "a few" prisonners of war to consecrate a new temple, or throw sacrifices in the sacred cenotes in times of drought. In fact, pretty much every sedentary culture south of Texas practiced human sacrifice in some manner, with even the Incas leaving children and teenagers to freeze to death as an offering to the mountain spirits. And even then, sacrifices the scale we see in this movie, with hundreds and hundreds of hearts being taken at once, were only ever done by the Aztec Empire of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City (this was not the only method they used, and not even the worst...). The initial acceptance of the older girl is actually not surprising, since the people believed being offered as a sacrifice meant going to the paradise of the god one was offered to, and the lifeforce offered to the god was used for important purposes such as making the sun move and preventing the end of the world. Of course, the Aztecs offered so many prisonners that they pretty much had to always be at war, and that is one of the main reasons the Spanish had no problem finding local allies when they invaded.
Vincent Des Rosiers This was really informative, what was the worst case of human sacrifice, was there an event where the sacrifices many at a time?
Vincent Des Rosiers Wow.. it’s been so long since i’ve read about this stuff. This is incredible information! Thank you! I’d have to read more about it
Sacrifices to the gods were considered with much pride. Not anyone could be chosen just like that. It was considered a very high honor to be sacrificed to the gods in hopes of being more prosperity to the clan.
Human sacrifice for many meso Americans was a way to heaven, and one would be lucky to be chosen as a gift to the gods
Fun fact: There is very few cases of people actually resisting or trying to prevent being sacrificed in Aztec society. They were taught from birth that 1. Its the highest honor, and 2. there is an afterlife. If anything this girl would have been pissed that the idiot tried to stop her from meeting the gods. But the younger girl wouldnt have been too concerned about the whole thing in the first place.
UA-cam: "No boobs!"
Also UA-cam: "Murder is fine."
This video: "I am about to do what is called a pro gamer move."
XD
Also UA-cam: Pepperoni nipples
Useless Taco
Ummm... you haven’t seen all of it... I once clicked a link on a comment and it lead to a video ON UA-cam called “Naked News” it was literally naked women... So you haven’t shit on UA-cam.
you need to watch "Fake taxi russian show" on youtube xD
UA-cam: no boobs
UA-cam: yes murder
This guy: what about murderboobs
Superbe! La séquence avec les serpents est trop ouf!!!
un petit cadeau : vimeo.com/139903764
Mais elle symbolise quoi ?
@@ambrevigneron5911 Le "réveil" quand tu te rends compte de l'absurdité de la situation où tu étais.
and here i am pissing myself while i wait in line to get some shots
Don't flex your muscles and it won't hurt.
R.I.P Thierry Mercier (1961-2023)...😢
Fear is conveyed so well in the character’s faces…this is amazing
Did everyone else just get this recommended to them at the same time 😂
Probably
Same
Lol
Yes
Yup
Awww! it ended as cliffhanger! Shoot! if this was turned into a show i would of watched it!
It kind of reminds me of Genndy Tartakovsky artwork style. :)
crazyponygirl not really a cliffhanger. They died for what they fought for, the death of a martyr.
There is a live action movie that exactly shows this religious tradition/act. Watch "Apocalypto" it's a real great movie, plus it is directed by the talented Mel Gibson.
@@inap1807 I have seen it before and it is a beautiful looking movie with beautiful elaborate costumes and the story is not bad either.
crazyponygirl
crazyponygirl zawzawxxxx
To whoever made this: congratulations, you and this short film are incredible. Make some more like this. Create a series if it’s possible
Very good work indeed! Shows how truly awful the pagan Mayan religion was, and why it was a good thing when it was abolished and most of its texts burned.
Some awful practices are best left forgotten.
The best way to keep people from trying to escape a prison is to never tell them they're in one...
Came because of the thumbnail
*_Stayed because of the sinister yet interesting story behind this_*
Brother, seek help if you're that down bad
Mehua litreally means "juice please" in my language so it was hilarious to just see *M E H U A* on a black screen, loved the vid though
Kaumira no se ei oo täsmälleen “juice please” mutta yhä aika funny to just see JUICE as the tittle
A Z T E C ' S
Ha ha I thought the same! 🇫🇮
Juice be also be made into a great short film you know?
@@harryvenderveer8116 I tried to find it but I couldn't :'(
Я не понял о чем этот мультик, но мне понравились кричащие, голые женщины. Однозначно лайк 👍🏿
Бро, я удивляюсь что Ютуб это вообще пропустил
@@Бензавозов Так 21 век на дворе! Морали больше нет! Хорошо это или плохо делайте выводы сами…Ладно (с) Жак Фреско
This is about human sacrifice.
Real history by the way 😬
Animation: * is really well made and interesting *
Everyone in the comments: *BOOBS*
Bow before your king, fellow pigeon
I'm a pigeon, you peasant no, haha
BOOBS
Hell yeah. Boobies. This is awesomely done. The story and emotion is perfectly revealed. Truly touching.
🅱️🅾️🅾️🅱️S
Brings to mind a child's ability to disappoint their parents by rejecting societal norms.. and how the bonds of family are later strengthened again when an understanding is reached.
Interesting piece of art.. both with the story itself and the colors used to represent the emotions for each scene.
Me at the start of the video:
“MULAN?!”
ikr
me on the thumbnail XD
Especially the way it’s filmed
Yeah i'm thinking so lol
Oh, sorry, wrong old civilization.
Isso tem potencial de virar um excelente filme (provavelmente de terror). Com esse mesmo estilo de animação.
Sadly this sort of thing is part of our past. I hope we have the wisdom to not repeat these type of mistakes.
??? White wash
teyon millen damn right
It is truly sad. And even more so, when you think about the fact that most likely no one ever responded like this in the past to actually try and stop it. At least it’s very much doubtful.
You really think the Human species is intelligent enough for that?
Never take the word wisdom into your fingers again 😂
I'm sorry, but zealots of ALL religions still practice this today. Perhaps not on an alter, but in the battlefield. Bombs dropped on innocents is every bit as horrifying as alter sacrifices. My religion is better than your is a common cause for many wars.
ima be honest
I have no clue whats happening
I can second that
Basically Aztecs were like hmmm. Daily sacrifices. Seems like gods want that. They literally had piles of bodies lying around because yeah. Gods. Also it wasn’t just females. It was everyone. Yaaaaay
I want to like but it’s to perfect
And folks wonder why Cortez.... 🙄
This is South America
Iam mexican and I was taught about the origins of my country. So most of the sacrificed were war prisoners from other tribes, and some citizens were sacrificed too. The citizens from the city would eat the corpses from the sacrificed, but still there were sacrifices almost daily because the mesoamerican cultures especially the Aztecs believed that the Sun would dissapear and begin the end of the world. The serpent statues and symbols is the God Quetzalcoatl THE FEATHERED SERPENT who was the most praised god of all their gods.
No estudiaste muy bien que digamos carnal...
Te lo dice un estudiante de Antropología
But wasn't it mostly the Mayans who practiced public sacrifices?
Texan Taxer, definitely the Aztecs. The Mayans killed, too, but the Aztecs were notorious for it. There’s depictions of human sacrifice and ritual self mutilation in their art. Even the king and queen occasionally had to give blood sacrifice.
Welll you got wrong some information, quetzalcoatl wasn't actually the most praised God (the fuction of the gods were diverse) and he was strongly against human sacrifices.
@@xCoatlicuex thanks to clear that up, made sense why the snake thing rose up & made her fight back
Idk why but the thumbnail reminded me of that scene from Mulan when she was taking a bath
same
I swear me too!!!!
Sure it did
Same
Saame
When you’re taking a non western art history class and spot Coatlicue and you just geek out a little
Ginger Cat Jax, oh yeah! There she is at the top of the temple!
This would make a great longer movie.
Agreeedddd
Except if they cover the tits and stuff
@@jokrwx3 it's not shocking
I couldn't agree more with this short.
@@blackou6018 thats weird to say... any sexual part shouldn't been showed normaly...
They’re acting, they’re actually acting as classical traditional 2D animation is supposed to be, it’s brilliant!
It says a lot about how good the visual storytelling is when I can understand most of what's happening despite not understanding the language
It does a great job of highlighting how some cultures can be a nightmare.
@@undignified2843 I'm pretty sure this isn't very representative of the culture. Yes, people were sacrificed, but it wasn't en masse like this. I personally saw the setting as a one-off instance of a crazed ruler gone mad with power and zealotry.
@@AD-dg3zzdid they tell you that
*takes a sip of chocolate abuelita*
Damn, my ancestors were wack!!!
Lol
SIMÓN, alguien que confirme si la lengua que se habla en el cortometraje es maya?
🇸🇴🇹🇭🇸🇴
ramen noodles no? Where is it from then?
@ramen noodles But we sure drink it here in Mexico!😁
It's soul wrenching to look at/observe this level of horror. And heartbreaking. Any kind of being, god or otherwise, that needs this kind of slaughter in order to feel satisfied should only be considered sick and not worthwhile.
What about the sick bastards that committed human sacrifice on an industrial scale? There was a reason the Spanish found so many eager allies among conquered native tribes who were tired of being sacrificed like sheep
@Grungus Khan but Isaac never got killed... Because a ram got caught in the bush.. Since Jesus one man's blood covers many........
And how many people have Christian's killed?
This vídeo Is wrong.
@@thebonewitch11 more religions cause war than anything else?? Well the Encyclopedia of Wars state only 8% of wars were religious by nature and ⅔ of that 8% were Islamic wars..the other 92% of wars were secular wars..wars like the World War 1, political..World War 2, political..Vietnam war, Korean war, nothing to do with religion but politics and land..and you know who the greatest killers of war are, atheists..you've got Pol Pot, Mao, Lenin and Stalin, responsible for 100 million deaths through atheistic communism..but ultimately the problem is not communism or religion *BUT* mankind itself =) God bless
I love this the details are immaculate, tons of symbolism, THEY ARE SPEAKING NAHUATL, and the animation is beautiful really reminds me of Gennedy Tartakovky's primal
This needs a sequel... I must know what they awakened >.>
Nothing. It was just a second girl's bravery. She was blind and believed in the snake god and wanted to die for him, thats why she was angry when her friend tried to protect her. But after she saw the priest beating her, after she heard these violent sounds, her fear of this god and worship destroyed. Thats all. Thats all about two girls, trying to protect each other.
And they will be killed, obviously.
@@ДаринаРостовцева Well... you're no fun. You're absolutely right. But no fun
@@sadedrig sorry for russian type of thinking. We have been tаught to look for metaphores everywhere
@@ДаринаРостовцева Not sure they will be obviously killed, the soldiers didn't seem aggressive toward the two girls as they came upon the scene.
@@jakwath well, they stopped the ritual and killed the priests, you think, any chances left? I think, guardians are not non-agressove, looks more like shock.