All the Earth is a Grave - King Nezahualcoyotl (Ancient Aztec Poem)

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2021
  • King Nezahualcoyotl was an Aztec warrior king, scholar and poet who ruled the city-state of Texcoco in the 15th Century.
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    Read by Shane Morris

Комментарии • 223

  • @socrates7996
    @socrates7996 2 года назад +306

    He is saying basically that the only thing that last forever is change. If you are happy slow down and enjoy it, if you are suffering stay strong it won’t be long before it’s over. Much love to all who read this. ❤️

    • @tylerhulsey982
      @tylerhulsey982 2 года назад +4

      Heraclitean fire

    • @nickm1815
      @nickm1815 2 года назад

      Thank you

    • @Oz1111
      @Oz1111 2 года назад +2

      I love his first line. It is such a powerful perspective. The earth is a grave at the end of the day but it does cycle.

    • @qmsajidata
      @qmsajidata Год назад

      Thank you

    • @Deadly_fox512
      @Deadly_fox512 Год назад

      Imagine him saying this to someone he was about to rip their heart out? Lol

  • @amigoastronauta8388
    @amigoastronauta8388 Год назад +31

    "I love the song of the mockingbird,
    Bird of four hundred voices,
    I love the color of jade
    And the intoxicating scent of flowers,
    But more than all I love my brother, man."
    - Another poem by King Nezahualcoyotl

  • @kimboo3132
    @kimboo3132 2 года назад +46

    "All the earth is a grave and nothing escapes it".
    Stay humble 🥰

  • @kavoshkhoshbin1432
    @kavoshkhoshbin1432 2 года назад +43

    An amazing poem and a perfect delivery. The enunciation in some verses really transferred the disdain that should be felt for the false achievements in life.

  • @WAYBeYond1985
    @WAYBeYond1985 2 года назад +33

    Such treasure of the old sayings... Still a lot to learn, to explore, to admire, to adore....

  • @MrShoeler
    @MrShoeler 2 года назад +19

    I am not going to be able to forget "nothing recalls them, but the written page" for a very long time

  • @TacTar
    @TacTar 2 года назад +73

    Beautifully written. To me, it means that nothing, no matter how glorious or withered, giant or small, can escape death's embrace. Such wonders of mystery ever shrouded in the eternal unknowing, is only ever to retain its existence, as a memoir.
    We should not hurry so much to the next experience, but to learn to dissolve ourselves in the experience of presence. The present is the only experience and we must learn to return to it.

    • @ericdanieltrejo
      @ericdanieltrejo 2 года назад +2

      Well said. We have to learn to smell the Roses 🌹

    • @kristandagley7089
      @kristandagley7089 2 года назад +1

      Wow, you wrote that beautifully. Thank you

  • @a6hi5shek
    @a6hi5shek 2 года назад +40

    I cleared the toughest exam of India, credit goes to your videos sir.

  • @johnbyrne2127
    @johnbyrne2127 2 года назад +136

    "When you stand in the
    present moment,
    you are timeless."
    - Rodney Yee.

  • @cookiemonster749
    @cookiemonster749 2 года назад +11

    Very similar vibe to Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias.
    Except this was written 400 years prior.
    Incredible.

  • @paradisemusiclibrary1756
    @paradisemusiclibrary1756 2 года назад +121

    If you are reading this, I want to tell you that everything will be fine. You are incredible, you are unique, you can face anything in your life, you have the strength within yourself to overcome any obstacle, loss or situation. You are not alone, I am with you. Live life to the fullest. I love you! 💖

    • @lilmoe9537
      @lilmoe9537 2 года назад +2

      Thank you, I needed that :) I started a new job an was kinda nervous :/

    • @Livelove111
      @Livelove111 2 года назад +2

      You have no idea how timely your words are ..

    • @mdl222
      @mdl222 2 года назад

      Kind words from a kind person.
      Thank you.

    • @43warriormode98
      @43warriormode98 2 года назад

    • @appiedeventer6279
      @appiedeventer6279 2 года назад

      👏

  • @JaySeraphon
    @JaySeraphon Год назад +7

    Holy sh-
    I never expected something so profound from this culture. Truly this was a deeply introspective (and perhaps melancholic) person.
    And that voice actor... everything comes together here to form a perfect presentation.

    • @juanbmontes
      @juanbmontes Год назад +11

      Why? The Mexica were poets. Even made poems about ants walking in a line lol. Just that like most stuff the Spanish burned the books.

    • @forodinssake9570
      @forodinssake9570 Год назад +4

      Nahua are some of the most poetic, flowery spoken cultures we know of, if you should expect anything from them, its their poetry and philosophical view of life. Dont let colonial propaganda infect your mind

    • @forodinssake9570
      @forodinssake9570 Год назад +1

      @@juanbmontes I think the term Mexica is not accurate here? as far as im aware Mexica is only used for the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan

    • @omitl
      @omitl Год назад

      @@forodinssake9570 Mexica was more than Tenochtitlan, cause they had many cities

    • @forodinssake9570
      @forodinssake9570 Год назад +1

      @@omitl Mexica were an ethnic group pretty much limited to Tenochtitlan and few nearby communities, you're talking about the whole triple alliance

  • @kristandagley7089
    @kristandagley7089 2 года назад +4

    Im sorry if I repeat myself, but this channel gives me such peace. It's words are so beautiful and powerful. This was yet another stunning piece. Thank you once again.

  • @Eggwrite
    @Eggwrite 2 года назад +26

    I've never heard the flowing of water compared to the finality of death. This is a really interesting piece

    • @knickdodson4035
      @knickdodson4035 2 года назад

      Oddly enough... a video game from about a decade ago made a similar comparison.
      Check out Thane's prayer from Mass Effect 3 and some of the lore surrounding Kalahira.

  • @maeugeniajuarez3956
    @maeugeniajuarez3956 Год назад +9

    Netzahualcoyotl, Tlatoani Chichimeca de Texcoco.
    Su nombre Nahuatl significa "Coyote en Ayuno" fué Sabio Ontologico, Filósofo,, Poeta, promotor de las Bellas Artes, Arquitecto e Ingeniero!

  • @zerihungeressu7995
    @zerihungeressu7995 2 года назад +3

    I never enjoyed poems before this channel existed. Thank you for sharing! The reader of these poems is really magnificent.

  • @elcocovelazquez9793
    @elcocovelazquez9793 2 года назад +19

    Now say it in Nahuatl! ❤

    • @Richard-nu8mx
      @Richard-nu8mx 2 года назад

      Hi dear, how are you doing i hope everything is going absolutely perfect with you 💜💙💜💙💜💜💜💛?

    • @KaiSan3
      @KaiSan3 2 года назад +1

      I want the original too 💕
      pialli nikniw ✌🏼

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 3 месяца назад

      He barely pronounced popocatepetl he would disgrace the language if he tried to do the whole thing in it

  • @visionmindsetnetwork6
    @visionmindsetnetwork6 2 года назад +42

    Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.💪🔥🔥

  • @franciscosifuentes3007
    @franciscosifuentes3007 2 года назад +6

    shout out to my ancestors and thank you Red Frost

  • @lanagiba4333
    @lanagiba4333 2 года назад +11

    I adore thus thank you

    • @Richard-nu8mx
      @Richard-nu8mx 2 года назад

      Hi dear, how are you doing i hope everything is going absolutely perfect with you 💜💙💜💙💜💜💜💛?

  • @InspiringTips
    @InspiringTips 2 года назад +7

    What can make man happy, even in sadness?
    Love, love. What makes him cry?
    Love, love. What causes anger and rage?
    Love, love. And what enchants him with joy?
    Love, love; Love alone- nothing else

  • @diannh2894
    @diannh2894 2 года назад

    I appreciate this loving and positive channel so much, I needed it now more than anything. I am so thankful that I found you.

  • @xerxes5592
    @xerxes5592 2 года назад +5

    Amazing deep meaning poem

  • @stella-gf6jl
    @stella-gf6jl 2 года назад +3

    I am so thankful to this channel... Because it changed my hatred for poems into excitement...now i eagerly wait for another motivating poem and try to read between the lines..😌😊 thank you 💚

  • @bisayangboleroofficial7091
    @bisayangboleroofficial7091 2 года назад +4

    I really love the quotes it makes me feel more strength thank you idol for sharing

  • @hercules6380
    @hercules6380 2 года назад +5

    As written in Genesis: By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.

  • @weallking2527
    @weallking2527 2 года назад +7

    All the earth is a grave.

  • @tbsharkey
    @tbsharkey 2 года назад +9

    Wow, this guy was insightful.

  • @imperishablestuff8758
    @imperishablestuff8758 2 года назад +1

    Love your video!

  • @tigrex3622
    @tigrex3622 2 года назад +1

    So greatful and such wise words❤

  • @leedufour
    @leedufour 2 года назад +2

    Thanks!

  • @ozymandiasia1335
    @ozymandiasia1335 2 года назад +31

    "It is appointed unto all men to die" Bible.

    • @Mehrdad12
      @Mehrdad12 2 года назад +1

      كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ
      Every soul shall taste death. Then you shall be brought back to Us.
      29:57
      :Quran

  • @vmohan2224
    @vmohan2224 2 года назад +2

    Super 👍

  • @kntxplanet6944
    @kntxplanet6944 2 года назад +2

    Hey I’m not trying to be that guy at all. I really love this channel, and it has helped me through some tough times honestly. The only thing I wish is maybe you guys could do a few poems by Langston Hughes, or Mama Maya. Even some quotes from some ppl like Zora Hurston and Nikki Giovanni. You guys do a great job sharing work from all types of cultures, I just haven’t seen or heard anybody my grandmother would speak of before she passed.

  • @annacoribioanna
    @annacoribioanna Год назад +3

    The Aztecs loved poetry,
    they believed that in order to access God one could only do it through creativity and art. Poetry was one of the highest forms of Art for the Aztecs and for this reason the best poets were considered to be in connection with God or Teotl because they could use language outside of regular use and make something wonderful and unique, like mediums! Between God and man through language

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 3 месяца назад

      The aztecs were polytheistic so they did not try to connect with god there were multiple different deities which were worshipped separately with their own roles

  • @annacoribioanna
    @annacoribioanna Год назад

    Omg! 😮😮😮 what a dream to hear an Aztec poem in your voice

  • @feyree999
    @feyree999 2 года назад +7

    🙏🏼🔥

  • @2028end
    @2028end 2 года назад +1

    Pride ALWAYS goes before a FALL !!!

  • @ScribaeEducantum
    @ScribaeEducantum 2 года назад +3

    "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do."

  • @dano9411
    @dano9411 2 года назад +2

    Dope

  • @feyree999
    @feyree999 2 года назад +6

    Deeeeeeeep

  • @motivation7647
    @motivation7647 2 года назад +3

    "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther king Jr.

  • @elodiebleuciel5230
    @elodiebleuciel5230 2 года назад

    The voice is heart touching

  • @marashdemnika5833
    @marashdemnika5833 Год назад

    The painting is eye catching

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 2 года назад

    Thank you 🙏

  • @teresahildebrandt2390
    @teresahildebrandt2390 2 года назад

    Brought me to tears.

  • @lifequotes797
    @lifequotes797 Год назад

    Cool naration 🔥

  • @VoiceofNisha.
    @VoiceofNisha. 2 года назад +4

    💛

    • @Richard-nu8mx
      @Richard-nu8mx 2 года назад

      Hi dear, how are you doing i hope everything is going absolutely perfect with you 💜💙💜💙💜💜💜💛?

  • @elizajayne2888
    @elizajayne2888 Год назад +1

    All earth is a grave for life to end on ...
    Finally, someone who gets it .

  • @Lightningbeam317
    @Lightningbeam317 2 года назад

    I love this message

  • @thebamboozlerette1824
    @thebamboozlerette1824 2 года назад +25

    When aztec kings go through their emo phase.
    On a serious note, this is a lovely poem, I’m glad their civilized wasn’t just bloodthirsty temple killing-sprees and stepping on neighbor tribes.

    • @Strider91
      @Strider91 2 года назад +3

      No ones ever is. . . . .look deep enough, you'll always find the light of humanity

    • @makutas-v261
      @makutas-v261 2 года назад +10

      You have been sold dark propaganda.
      They far more civilized and advanced than germanics in their "living in hutts" age, also, it would be wise to remember that the Mexicas were just 1 civlization out of tons ancient Mexico had, it's like saying all ancient Greeks were Spartans or Athenians, you would do good in investigating those, overall Olmecs, the mother of all American native civilizations. .

    • @thebamboozlerette1824
      @thebamboozlerette1824 2 года назад

      @@makutas-v261 quite honestly, I’d rather be in a civilization only “lives in huts” than be part of one that killed millions on millions in ritual sacrifice. (It’s been proven. They found the skull racks.) Every civilization has had its highs and accomplishments, but not all deserve to be remembered through rose-colored glasses.

    • @papimidnight3748
      @papimidnight3748 2 года назад +7

      @@thebamboozlerette1824 What civilizations or great empires didn’t commit death upon its fellow inhabitants of the earth? Still, people. Cared for their young, yet the ignorant good are consumed by death none the same. I’d really like to know which civilization doesn’t do ritual killings?

    • @josejonhson674
      @josejonhson674 2 года назад +1

      You can't believe that foolish to think that the red savage was the whole story of the Aztecs

  • @Aninking
    @Aninking 2 года назад +1

    Sumber daya kehidupan untuk pagi hari...!!

  • @YaotlEhecatl
    @YaotlEhecatl 2 года назад +3

    What is the name of this poem in nahuatl?

  • @Rinkivani2897
    @Rinkivani2897 2 года назад +3

    "मां की "ममता" और पिता की "क्षमता" समझना आसान नहीं है, और जो समझ गया उसकी जीत निश्चित है."" 🌱🌹💘💘💘🥀

  • @citrusblast4372
    @citrusblast4372 2 года назад +4

    I dont get why aztec always have the title of ancient when they existed in the ages. Spanish conquered them in the 1500s. Thats like saying the ancient ottomans

  • @rornentertainment2895
    @rornentertainment2895 2 года назад +1

    Good

  • @irisvazquez6989
    @irisvazquez6989 2 года назад +2

    💚💚💚

  • @restualamhikmah3427
    @restualamhikmah3427 Год назад

    Nice😘😘😘

  • @Fab-n-dabKev
    @Fab-n-dabKev Год назад

    Dia de los meurtos means alot more when you remember its the main holiday or day of reverence for ancient Indigenous Mexicans.
    Nezahualcoyotl was also an architect and built gorgeous baths on top of hills in the valley of Mexico. Still very much existing today thank all that is good.

  • @javierj6084
    @javierj6084 Месяц назад

    This was good

  • @swampdogdiggity
    @swampdogdiggity 10 месяцев назад +1

    The earth consumes all

  • @hhdgdhum
    @hhdgdhum 2 года назад

    ❤️ it.

  • @emojiking8580
    @emojiking8580 2 года назад

    Chill , everyone goes through this

  • @mjmejiatv
    @mjmejiatv 2 года назад

    What a nice poem. "All the earth is a grave and nothing escapes it" - common denominator EQUALITY!

  • @makutas-v261
    @makutas-v261 2 года назад +1

    Reminds me of the Ozymandias poem.

  • @chriswedemann8599
    @chriswedemann8599 2 года назад +1

    In Death, we all are Humbled.
    In Death, we all are made Equal.

  • @johnbyrne2127
    @johnbyrne2127 2 года назад +29

    "Everything that is Mexican
    is either Aztec or Spanish."
    - E. Burnett Tylor

    • @orlandohurtado3869
      @orlandohurtado3869 2 года назад +4

      More Spanish tho. Many mexicans (actual mexicans that live in mexico) deny it.

    • @victorbaizan9855
      @victorbaizan9855 2 года назад +4

      @@orlandohurtado3869 It varies by region.

    • @lordbaiter6997
      @lordbaiter6997 2 года назад +3

      🧢, food? Music?art? Most Spanish dishes use tomatoes, tomatoes are native to Americas. Spanish cuisine influenced by Mexican produce. Just one of many examples, hence I call b.s. "everything". That most of everything is influenced, yes. Not everything.

    • @DavidRodriguez-tr7qw
      @DavidRodriguez-tr7qw 2 года назад +1

      We gonna forget about the Maya? Also Honduras included? Because the Azteca controlled that too

    • @orlandohurtado3869
      @orlandohurtado3869 2 года назад

      @@victorbaizan9855 it varies, lol. Even in
      Oaxaca you can still see the predominant spanish influence. please just stfu.

  • @Mehrdad12
    @Mehrdad12 2 года назад +1

    Every soul shall taste death. Then you shall be brought back to Us.
    كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ
    29:57

  • @ArcGG
    @ArcGG 2 года назад +14

    Your daily reminder that the term "Aztec" was never used by anyone till around the 1800s when it was made up by some random authors
    the "Aztec" were actually the triple alliance (Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān) which was made up of 3 Nahua city states!

    • @forodinssake9570
      @forodinssake9570 Год назад

      Aztec has utalitarian use today and has some historical basis but yeah its worth remembering that it was a complicated issue and the aliance consisted of many ethnic groups

  • @freesk8
    @freesk8 2 года назад +1

    Publish or perish. But then, perish anyway.

  • @ZENIGMATV
    @ZENIGMATV 2 года назад

    All life rises and returns as star dust.

  • @annacoribioanna
    @annacoribioanna Год назад

    ⚡🔱

  • @lordbaiter6997
    @lordbaiter6997 2 года назад +1

    🤜🤛

  • @dmtdreamz7706
    @dmtdreamz7706 Год назад +1

    Men detta är spelet "teotle" spelar,Och jag är bara glad att jag får vara med i den processen

  • @SuperMonkei
    @SuperMonkei 2 года назад +2

    -Nothing recalls you but your youtube comment.

    • @SuperMonkei
      @SuperMonkei 2 года назад +1

      Shadows and dust. Smart ones leave their mark, like parents.

  • @Angels_surround_me747
    @Angels_surround_me747 2 года назад +1

    👍

  • @Readinglovepoems
    @Readinglovepoems 2 месяца назад

    Very true thoughts that all people and even nature fades and goes into eternity. The only thing that even the Aztecs were not right about is that the memory of people who are gone fades away. No, they are sent to earth by their ancestors to fulfill each of their mission and if they have left the continuation of the family in the form of children, grandchildren, the dead will definitely come to some of them in dreams. I dream to visit Easter Island, to meet and communicate with shamans. I also often dream about my ancestors who have passed away, and not only. I even dream about departed celebrities, even though we are not related to them at all. I would like to understand more in detail with the help of experts in such necrotic dreams). 🔮

  • @jamesfehr3579
    @jamesfehr3579 2 года назад +3

    Trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not on unto thine own Understanding.
    Proverbs 3:5

    • @jamesfehr3579
      @jamesfehr3579 2 года назад

      @Lord Slade not trying to be rude just saying the truth but imagine burning in hell for eternity.

    • @jamesfehr3579
      @jamesfehr3579 2 года назад

      @Lord Slade plz accept the free grace that Jesus has offered you. I beg u plz, Jesus loves u and so do I plz accept God's love.

    • @jamesfehr3579
      @jamesfehr3579 2 года назад

      @Lord Slade people do horrible things for money I don't see how as u put it worship me or die is so bad. And plus if that is the reality which it is what would u rather do worship God which is fulfilling or burn forever. God is love because he died a terrible painful death so the we might accept his free forgiveness and live for him so that we would live eternaly in heaven where there is no pain. I can see u don't want to hear about Jesus's love for you so I will pray that one day u would find it and come to the truth.
      God bless you.

  • @sterlingkuhlmann6270
    @sterlingkuhlmann6270 2 года назад

    This reminds me of the third chapter of the book of Job in the Bible

  • @jeanpierrereynoso-fournel005
    @jeanpierrereynoso-fournel005 2 года назад

  • @joeasker5213
    @joeasker5213 2 года назад

    Yes they do rain come from were.?

  • @batukhan6406
    @batukhan6406 2 года назад +1

    Reminds me of Ecclesiastes

  • @jonathancarlson6127
    @jonathancarlson6127 2 года назад

    Back then, they had this guy. Now, we just got that kid from “Kindergarten Cop”.
    “Everyone dies, you know.”

  • @USNavyVet_STG
    @USNavyVet_STG 2 года назад +10

    The poem is beautiful. Timeless.
    But why do you depict a fair-skinned man in this image?
    My ancestors were darker than me!

    • @napoleonisthegreatest.2448
      @napoleonisthegreatest.2448 2 года назад +1

      Another crazy, unhinged leftist...

    • @charlesherrington7068
      @charlesherrington7068 2 года назад

      Really.

    • @bobklapetzky4678
      @bobklapetzky4678 2 года назад +1

      @@napoleonisthegreatest.2448 Not necessarily. I'm most definitely NOT a liberal, LOL, yet I thought the artwork not congruent with Aztec genetics. No big deal, just a nuance. Cheers!

    • @forodinssake9570
      @forodinssake9570 Год назад

      I mean the outfit is not accurate too, the painting looks like it's from colonial era so

  • @redgodofwar7723
    @redgodofwar7723 2 года назад +2

    Gene Roddenberry escaped it.

  • @Cybernaut551
    @Cybernaut551 Год назад

    Tlazocamati!

  • @12235117657598502586
    @12235117657598502586 2 года назад

    FACTS! … Poetically written.

  • @jordonthomas9358
    @jordonthomas9358 2 года назад

    Dude I think Hopsin listens to redfrost!

  • @zeynalnamazov3611
    @zeynalnamazov3611 2 года назад

    Get down all the Aztecs. We got the listen this

  • @jennidallas
    @jennidallas Год назад +1

    La vida no vale nada 💯

  • @sebastiaosalgado1979
    @sebastiaosalgado1979 2 года назад

    Those teachings have many similarities to the philosophy of Heraclitus.

  • @gabedawg
    @gabedawg Год назад

    The Aztec wojak

  • @bullvinetheband7260
    @bullvinetheband7260 6 месяцев назад

    All things fade

  • @r.t.972
    @r.t.972 8 месяцев назад

    This is the effect Satan tries to tie humans up with.

  • @alexisborgia91
    @alexisborgia91 26 дней назад

    MEMENTO MORI

  • @viktor_vaughn
    @viktor_vaughn 5 месяцев назад

    Marcus Aurelius is that you?

  • @dmtdreamz7706
    @dmtdreamz7706 Год назад

    Teotl

  • @elizajayne2888
    @elizajayne2888 Год назад +1

    I came here to die ...just like everything else...to rent life or die trying ...on liars world.

  • @ChristianMotivationMedia
    @ChristianMotivationMedia 2 года назад +7

    Remember this prayer tonight, “When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.” Psalms 63:6,7

  • @roxanneconner7185
    @roxanneconner7185 2 года назад +2

    The Aztec were the most goth of all peoples, even the goths.