Why were the Aztec's So Obsessed with Blood?
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2024
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Imagine being Aztec after the fall of your civilization and finding out that the world just kept on going even when the rituals and sacrifices stopped.
Like 😮 lol
I'd Probably think the gods were fully Statisfied and the end of my Civilization was because they had no need for us anymore.
That would be just another case of "the gods are testing my faith" or "they're satisfied now". Once you and your people sacrifice others (even friends and relatives) believing that it was for a greater good the mere thought that it all may have been for nothing must be psychologically torturing and the certainty that it was indeed for nothing would put anyone on su1cide watch in my opinion.
Hell, the Aztecs could even believe that the destruction of their civilization itself was the greatest sacrifice of them all, satiating the gods for the rest of time.
@@manwiththeredface7821e3e3e
I was at the ceremonial ball courts at Chichen Itza with a tour group. Someone asked if they sacrificed the losers. "Oh, no," the tour guide said. "They sacrificed the WINNERS." Because the gods only get the best.
Would be fun if we do this in the Premier league 😂
I was there 2 weeks ago and it was incredible that they had the level of understanding to manipulate sound and frequency. Honestly the coolest place I’ve ever been lol
I got the same info at the same place!
EPIC response!
I can hear the shouting…‘We’re number 2!’
I bet the Aztecs had a storyteller like Simon but with cool piercings, tattoos, and scars. Rest in peace Aztec Simon.
His tangents must have been insane. Insaner
They probably sacrificed him, too.
@@abcdef27669🤣🤣🤣
@@abcdef27669if not, they certainly went for his head 2 years after sacrificing was outlawed cause Aztec Simon would’ve been passing down all the ritualistic methods
@@abcdef27669ALLEGEDLY
Tlaxcalans hated Aztecs so much that they became the most loyal allies of Spaniards for centuries. Even during Mexican war of independence most of the Tlaxcalans supported the Spanish. So yeah, Tlaxcalans oversaw the fall of their enemies and were soldiers that build Spanish colonial empire (they even fought for Spain to conquer Philippines). :D
You mean like Neelix?
Did the tlaxcalans receive guns?
Something Anti Colonial People dont get or understand.
@@canyonroots No. About 10k Tlaxcalans helped the Spanish. Cortes only had 506 soldiers, some cannons, and 16 horses. He didn't bring a whole armory with him nor take the time to train them on the use of firearms. They were subjects just like the other Mesoamericans, after all.
Wait they really were involved in the invasion of the Phillipens?
I once read an essay in which it was theorized that ancient societies which grew obsessed with blood sacrifice became so based on nothing more than coincidence. A bad harvest, harsh weather, or some other less-than-optimum climatic period or episode came to an end after a random blood sacrifice which might have been performed in desperation. It seemed to work, and thus blood sacrifice became an integral, indispensable part of their theology.
Isn't that true for all religious customs?
@@JoanMendozaThat's what I was just thinking. Basically all religious customs can be summed up as "somebody confused correlation and causation."
yea there isn't really that much of a difference between 'praying to god for things to get better' and "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" is there? All it takes is somebody trying something random in hopes of a good outcome and it can get disturbing *very* fast.
@@jellybean9207 - That is Reductive Thinking and Ironic since You Commit the dame Fallacious Thinking You accuse "The Religious'; Of by assuming all Religious Custom is Somebody Confusing Correlation with Causation, based on Nothing but Your assumptions of Correlated Rituals and assumed Causes.
@@JoanMendoza - No, it is Not True that All Religious Ritual is based on Coincidence. its Not even True of Blood Sacrifice. And Really this Anti-Religion Sentiment of Todays Supposedly Non-Religious Secularists is Absurd given the Very Idea of Religion You take for Granted did not even Exist Until the 1500's. In Reality, most Religious Customs are simply Cultural Traditions that occure Specifically in Given Cultures for a Specific Reason. Not All Religious Rituals are even Understood as having an Effect on Actual Events Beyond their Symbolic Representation of some Common Ideal. For example, Jews do Not Think Rosh Hoshanna, the Hebrew New Year, has Any Actual Ability's to Change Anything. And given Secular Customs like Saluting a Flag or Silence at Funerals also Exist, it is Obvious that Human Customs and Rituals often Exist Not because People Assume Behaviour Caused Behaviour Y Supernaturally, as You Seem to Think, but simply as an Extension of Our Need to mark Occasions. Even When Rituals are Thought of as Efficacious, such as How Catholics View The Eucharist for example, it is Not something Believed based on Coincidence, but on a Diliberate, Obvious Connection between Words Spoken by Jesus (Who was a Real Person don't start the Jesus Myth nonsense) and a Very Obvious Jewish Passover Seder.
Reducing all Religious Ritual to Simply Coincidence and Magical Thinking is Really Why I don't Find Todays "Secular, not Religious": Crowd to be Rational or Logical. Its as if You want Simple Explanations to Dismiss "Religion" as Primitive Superstition all to feel Superior,. and have No interest in Real Human Psychology or History.
Once again, Simon reminds us that the past really was the worst.
I'm glad my ancestors were too far north to have to deal with this stuff. Goddamn.
North american indians wohld drag babies through cactus and tortue their enemies its bad every @EksaStelmere
Homie, do I have some news for you about the present.💀
Bruh WW2 was in living memory for some folks
@@IvarThe0Plessyeah? what’s the news? what could possibly even come close to this level of sadistic painful torture and depravity in modern times
6:54 "the more the child cried, the greater the offering"
(Nervous Aztec baby noises)😳
Generally it is considered a bad thing to lose cultural beliefs, but that one can go into oblivion and no one will mourn it.
As a kid I was a real cry baby. Imagine how I would have been loved before being murdered 😮
😂get in baby 🐥
@@dearbrad1996be cool bet we'll get like a week of rain ☔☔☔
@@softlightlaboratory wtf are you on about? Stop thinking about butt holes for a moment and try and fly straight
I'm an anthropologist there is story about the Conquest (probably apocryphal but still) that a Catholic priest with Cortez who had been sent to convert the ingenious population observed a (letting) ritual and horrified turned to his ingenious guide/translator and asked "Why would you do such a thing?" and the guide replied "We feed our Gods; you eat your's."
In what way did the Catholics eat their god?
@@SEbsEBiskate during mass there is the consumption of the sacramental bread. Which is a symbolic consumption of the blood and body of Christ.
It’s interesting that Yahweh is prepared to give himself for the redemption of his creation, but the “gods” of other civilisations always demanded human suffering to appease them.
@@LouisaWattQuetzalcoatl did give himself in order to create humanity. Tezcatlipoca dismembered his own feet/leg in order to bait Cipactli and tlaltecuhtli (the beast of the world) into getting out of the primordial waters and being captured, dismembered, and with that, they used the flesh of the beast to create the world. Huitzilopochtli had to kill his sister because she was willing to kill his mother, and so he was born as an adult, armed and ready, and killed her.
If you research nahua religion myths, you will find out what this video already told you. Gods sacrificed for humanity. So humanity had to give back a tiny little part of what was given to them, so they could continue to fight, for example the sun, everyday the sun had to fight against the night, and win to come out again next day.
I don't justify them, what they practiced was brutal, but it's wrong to judge without even knowing or understanding the meaning behind their actions.
@@SEbsEBiskate transubstantiation during Mass Catholics believe that during the eucharist prayer the host literally becomes the body and blood of Christ. Like I said validity of the story is questionable so there may be motivations of Protestant propaganda.
One of the best story tellers of all time, Simon.
He's just a présenter The writers are actually telling the story.
@@jond661plus he fucked up the final sentence. It doesn't make any sense
lol, no
@@jond661yeah but the delivery of said story is also important. I could read the same text but by the end of the first video I could open a pitchfork warehouse.
He tells the stories wrote better than anyone else could.
Aztecs did not have pack-animals and so for warfare, they could only take what they could carry. This limited their ability to do wars further away, since the jungle also doesn't offer much food. This is a huge factor in them deciding to keep enemies alive.
Their "limited" use of warfare made them unprepared for the European way of concluding wars. They thought the Spanish would just go away after a while, like they did so many times themself.
The Spanish gave them measles, smallpox and typhus. No amount of warfare could have prepared them for that.
The Spanish (and European) way at the time was the classical (in this side of the pond) "fight until one side flees, take captives and finish with ransom and treaty". Didn't help that sieges had been for a long time and were still being perfected against targets more easily defensible for long periods of time.
They were masters of agriculture for their region, but just as they lacked pack animals, they had no livestock or other reliable sources of animal protein. So one side of all this human sacrifice that Simon mentioned only slightly, was that after they tossed the now heartless body down the side of the pyramid, the local populace wouldn't just let it go to waste. They used it for food. Why let a good source of protein go to waste in an otherwise protein-poor dietary system? Simon did mention once that if the sacrificed body was due to a capture in war, the responsible warrior would get the body for ritualistic cannibalism. It might have been cloaked in ritual, but the underlying driving force was to get more protein into the diet of the locals.
@@karlsokalski4234 it was mentioned several times that most ritualistic sacrifices ended in comsumption, even saying that meat from sacrifices was often sold in stalls alongside or as if they were meat from other animals (they had no livestock, but they knew how to hunt, after all).
All (or at least most) ancient human cultures had at least some form of cannibalism, but they usually phased it out through improvements in proteine acquisition (either by having some proteine-rich crop, like soy or chickpeas, by improving their unting methods, by developing animal husbandry or by a mixture of the former); the Aztecs followed the opposite route and cranked it up to eleven.
Wrong. The Aztecs and other native groups defeeated the Spanish in battle several times. Cortes 100,000 native allies and smallpox is ultimately what toppled the Aztec empire
Thanks Simon - as a Mexican that grew up with all these mythologies and stories, this is all largely consistent with the facts as understood today.
The Aztec believed Tenochtitlan to be literally the center of the world - not just in the middle of the earth but also in the crossways between heavens and the underworld. And the current era - 5th Sun - was indeed (as reported) initiated by the sacrifice of the gods to put the sun in motion - and sacrifice was required to keep the celestial bodies moving.
Makes you realize the magnitude of insane power religions have, and how easy is for political, economical and religious powers to combine.
The Aztecs were by far one of my top subjects in history. Alongside the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Vikings. I loved learning about the Aztecs, but my they were brutal.
Yeah so brutal the Spanish were instantly convinced they need to be removed. The temples full of dead bodies on proud display would be a shock to anyone from a civilized society
As were they all, especially the Roman's and Vikings. Gosh, what does that say about you?
@@jakeeschen7868The Romans explicity went out of their way to conquer and wipe out other nations that practiced human sacrifices.
@@jakeeschen7868weird chip on your shoulder eh
You just described Kratos' hitlist
Wow, Aztecs were about as close as we'll (hopefully) get to a Chaos cult
It keeps happening; Liberia, Haiti.
Bro China has sacrificed over 400 million babies for the god of wealth.
Chaos is without order they had order
@@Retr0Duck He’s referring to the Chaos faction in the Warhammer universe.
I mean ... Khorne was definitely very happy with them
This is the video I send people when they ask me _“What people do before television?”_ 😂
Not a phone in sight, beautiful.
😂 It's true.
This video came out today on the 505th anniversary that Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico which is today by the way.
Also great video Simon!
Yes sir, that's what anniversary means🙃
Ahh colonization SOOOOOOOOO wonderful
/s
Too soon, too soon
@@kspeed419
Well, imagine what they’d be like if we left them in the Bronze Age.
@@kspeed419better than the Aztec “culture”
Is it just me or does Simon's narration breathe life into every topic??
Some years ago historians questioned the validity of spanish accounts as propaganda, "there's no way the aztects were that bloodthirsty...", and then they found the mass graves for ritual sacrifices lol, they did indeed perform mass sacrifices.
I question it too, I became interested in reading explorers journals 30 years ago and they didn't mention human sacrifices for the first 9 years and the one eye witness account that I found was Spaniards being sacrificed and the explorers expressed sadness about telling lies to turn them against each other bc they described living among them as heaven on earth, i have a feeling that they told other tribes that they were doing human sacrifices to turn them against them bc they got other tribes to attack the aztecs.
@@MissCleo24other tribes of voluntarily attacked as Aztecs was Aztecs kidnap them and sacrifice them
As an anthropologist it's a bit complicated because they did exaggerate or at least misinterpret a lot of what they saw happening. For example despite at one temple claims of what have amounted to 1 death every 15 seconds in a four day ritual only approx. 600 skulls have been found linked to human scarifies. Of course, the video discussed there were several common methods (which the there are a lot more remains for) and there is other evidence to point to higher amounts such as skull racks in some temples which size suggests they were built for thousands, although seems likely then that it took years to accumulate what would of been needed to fill them. Many of the records of the Conquests were written by Catholic Priests heavy bias and agendas. Additionally, nothing could have have justified the actions the Spanish took.
That's false.
Most of the Western World buys into Bernal Diaz's account despite it's very dubious nature given that it wasn't published until 50 years after the conquest.
Cortez's letters, despite his false promises to Native Allies, were being released during the events and contradict the barbaric depiction of the Natives in Bernal Diaz's account.
This is not true. If you actually read the articles about the Great Skull Rack excavations you're talking about, the rack is less then 10% the size the Spanish said it was: The rack held ~12,000 skulls, likely deposited over years, if not decades. That's a few hundred to a few thousand sacrifices a year, which is in line with what a variety of Mesoamericanists have been saying, and is as I said, orders of magnitude less then what Spanish sources claimed, where Andres de Tapia claimed the rack held 136,000 skulls, or Duran claimed 80,000 people were sacrificed within a week, and so on.
That thumbnail art is metal af
That would look dope airbrushed on the side of a windowless van
😀🤘🏻
It's also NOT Aztec.
The crimson pyramid once white turned the ladders red by rivers of blood for sacrifice to fill the gods
Mayans and Aztecs are overemphasized. Nobody talks about the Purepechas, aka Tarascans, who had long ago discovered metallurgy and weapon smithing and thus successfully kept the Aztecs at bay.
Also, the Aztecs were universally hated. Thus, the Spanish were able to get other local Nahuatl speaking tribes to fight and defeat them. This is the reason Nahuatl is still spoken today, despite no true Aztecs still being around anymore.
nahuatl wasnt invented by the aztecs lol nahuatl was simply a language they picked up
@@carlosm.3426 I never said it was
i think the aztecs were an black curled slave tribe that comes from northamer that means they are still walking around
Yeah? And where are they now?
@@matts2488 in the same place they were before, becuase nobody was able to dominate them lol
last time I was this early, the Aztecs existed
How old are you if that's the case?
😂😂
Jesus watched the last one with me when I was this early. He really liked Simon.
a couple of centuries@@chickenwarriorr
Last time I was this early Apocalypto was deemed controversial for showing what natives did instead of depicting them as a hippie's wet dream with peace and love and handholding.
Though I knew many of the facts that Simon said back when I was in school I appreciate Simon making a video on this topic.
According to my nieces and nephews, schools these days just don't acknowledge that the Aztecs participated in human sacrifices at all.
It's quite interesting how you would censor that part of history, but to be fair I imagine the child sacrifices would traumatize some kids. I did learn about WWII during school, and later in life of own interest, and I gotta admit the Aztec really have done stuff more henious than any WWII warcrime/crime against humanity I heard about.
Because school these days in the US especially is just European bad brown black good. Which is why I went to sleep frequently in class I’m not trying to hear about MLK for the thousandth time.
Not me realizing that eagle warriors, jaguar knights, and garland wars are historically accurate 😮
"Two floppy ears" god damn...
Yeah, gnarly stuff.
Blood for the Blood god Skulls for the Skull throne
The Gorechosen of Dromm Warband and the new Realmgore Ritualist have some elements that kinda look Aztec-y
HERETIC!
Unironically yeah
Tenochtitlan dudes be like: Blood for the [rain] god, skulls for the skull [tzompantli]
My religion not your play thing 😔 (All hail the unclean one)
DJ Peachcobbler has an excellent set of videos on the fall of the aztecs, with great analysis of the biases of the sources
Well then, i feel a whole lot less bad for the Aztecs
It's almost like native Americans have been romanticized and were like the rest of the world. Warmongering people that were not the "one with nature" that we are taught.
You have so many channels. Just now re finding this one. But you and the why files are the best informational channels about older stuff and debunk it. Thanks for your hard work!
Chichen Itza is incredible.If you ever get the chance to go you absolutely should. Truly fascinating stuff.
Chichen Itza was a Mayan city. Not aztec.
It's also not Aztec. Westerners be like "Maya, Aztec, same thing". 😅
@@crampusmaximus8849 yes I’m aware of that I never said it was and I’m not the “well acKsHullY” type lol. I only said it was a cool place to visit.
You should do something on the Carthaginian practice of child sacrifice and immolation.
Unusual to have a relatively recent Mediterranean culture involved in such a thing.
I might be alone in feeling this way, and I don't know if it's the actual sounds or the recording hardware used, but the sound of Simon's S's feels like needles in my ears. I've rarely heard such a piercing S-sound in my life.
It's quite simple Simon. Have you ever heard of the phrase "Blood for the Blood God?"
13:43 "many of us would like that to be ture"... what an odd thing to say?
It's almost like your surprise that the indigenous people's of the Americans weren't all "noble savages" or that Europeans weren't the only people in history that could commit violent atrocities
As a Native, I'm sad to say there is indeed a subset of people who treat my ancestors like precious, unerring hippies. It's more funny than frustrating, thankfully.
Jesus christ is this another new channel? One day we will need a full yellow pages book just to navigate simon's channels😂
I didn't know about the baby thing that's messed up
Awesome video mate
The real question is that did they scream: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!" as they did their sacrifice?
You played Warhammer too much bruh
Aztecs were the real deal Warhammer MF’s back in the day lol
I’ve always wondered what went through the Aztec’s heads the first time they saw the sun rise without the required sacrifices.
Thats why i think its such a shame they werent allowed to live. They could have been shown a world that existed without their systems and were better off in a lot of ways, but they werent allowed to adopt and adapt their world like the japanese, and instead was almost erased
@@citrusblast4372 The Aztecs, specifically the Mexica, did survive as a people. They live to this day as the Nahuas. Obviously their culture has changed a lot and they don’t have an empire, but they’re very much still around.
Love your content 😊😊😊
Fantastic video and one of the very few channels that don't need to 2x it
The excellent series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker", starring Darren McGavin, has an episode based on the month of Toxcatl (5:47) called 'Legacy of Terror'. Erik Estrada of CHIPS fame played the role of the flute-playing 'impostor' who is feted by four lovely young women, but for a year, not a month. It's available here on RUclips if anyone's interested (got a great ending!).
Thanks for that. As a kid I used to love the night stalker. I'm happy I can check it out again
80k sacrifices in a day mean 55 sacrifices per minute, which is practically 1 sacrifice per second
yeah very exaggerated number from white folks LMAOO no proof of big sacrifices happening
Really enlightening, without the cultural baggage that usually comes with this subject. Understood on its own term.
Hearing Simon trying to pronounce aztec names was fun.
Honestly hearing a British person trying to pronounce anything in not-English is fun lol.
Right? They don’t even try. Americans imo are usually better at pronouncing foreign names.
@@xxxkueckxxxmeh! The thing is, to be honest, nahuatl (the language of the aztecs) is kind of a tongue twister for foreigners and sometimes even for us as mexicans.
Khorne and Slaanesh would absolutely love the Aztec Empire. 😂
I'm surprised in a pleasant way there's quite many wh enjoyers in that part of youtube.
Blood for the blood god
"The Aztec" Crazy, Twisted, Entertaining Novel. Opulance through religion. Very good read.
I thought it was pretty well established that Aztec sacrifices were hugely exaggerated because the only source on it was the spaniards and they're anything but reliable.
Even one person cannibalized is far too many. Cortez was right
Nah. They found alot of the things the Spaniards wrote about like the massive skull piles
I understand the psychology behind it. People commonly forget lessons particularly when it comes to spirituality, but few ever forget pain or trauma. By scarring your body and the minds of others and having it be a cultural practice, you’re psychologically bound to whatever belief is behind it, adding to the power of the egregore.
Great job Jehron . ❤
Without The Ceremony, there wouldn't be *any* *Reign*!
I'll help myself out now
😅
I’m donating plasma/blood to pay for a tattoo of the god of blood sacrifice Huitztolopochli lol how ironic
Repent
This man is the best, I mean, how many channels do you have, Mr Simon
Man I wasn’t ready for this video… 🥲
Had to stop at 7:10 couldn't stomach anymore 😢
Same. It just couldn't stand the idea of them torturing a child. It's despicable.
I'm unsure if this would be the right channel for it, but i'd like to suggest a video on Oury Jalloh in the Simon Cinematic Universe as this it not talked about enough, in my opinion.
He was an African living in Germany. He died in police custody - being burned to death. The police said, he did that himself by lighting the matress he was laying on while there was no lighter in the cell and experts stated, that the matress wouldn't have burned the way it allegedly did and there had to be fire accelerator in the cell. Examinations also showed there were several skull fractures and they concluded that he was tortured before he died.
No one was held responsible, the involved police officers covered each other but also contradicted each other in court. Protests and investigations are going on since 2005.
WHen I was in middle school, my textbook told me the aztecs developed the ritual of human sacrifice and cannibalism as an act of desperation in a uniquely protein-deficient ecosystem. But many years later I was told this aidea had been refuted, since another human living in the same ecosystem will be just as protein-deficient.
They were the first recorded followers of Khorne, the Blood God.
Well done to anyone who made it through this one. I made it 4 minutes and decided I didn't really need to know. lol
one thing I learned from this video is that if you were upset with the Aztec you didn't wanna say "Eat me." to them
"Who died & made you god?"
@@cuginkcain5430 Elohim
Wow! For an Anglophone, your pronunciation of Nahuatl is rather good. You have the right intonation, but your execution of the individual sounds are incorrect. It’s okay because you put the accents on the right syllables so it’s better than most Anglophones! Bravo! 🎉
You're a number years behind, they have found Mayan temples with massive amounts of children sacrifices around them, It wasn't just Azteca.
Mexica.
Probably but the Azteca made it an art form
there is no proof they were sacrificed at all, NONE
How many channels does this guy have man
Every now and then I check out other channels with Simon, such as this one, and it feels insane the they guy doing brain blaze is capable of keeping a straight face this long and I can only imagine how bad the edits must be to get rid of tangents
Simon's narrating style is unique.
Did anyone else notice that Simon didn't end the last sentence? 🤔 🤔 "It appears that the information we shared today.........." (was what? True or Not)
It is so hard for me to feel bad about the Aztecs being destroyed by the Spanish they were just as evil as the Spanish
@@GrievousReborn idk man the Spanish set the bar pretty damn high
He's got a hotwatabotl 😊
The first thing I noticed was the possessive Aztec's in the title, and then it finished with an incomplete sentence. A Grammar N@2i's nightmare! lol
@@MariU9You obviously don't know shit about human history. The Mongols set the bar pretty damn high. They make the Spanish look like amateurs.
These people were sick!
I think you have the concept of Aztec 'Flower War' wrong. I've read that this type warfare was a form of territorial encirclement basically creating a prison for the people to be conquered & the actual waging of direct war upon the target state was the finishing 'Coup De Gra'. Sun Tzu would have been "proud".
Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus- Orson Scott Card was dope.
4:38 I love you Simon, but you really should have worked on that Nahuatl pronuciation. It's pronounced more like "Hwit-zil-oh-poach-tlee" (not exactly, but you can find pronunciation videos here on RUclips) rather than *"wizzickle pittle"* 😅
I think it would have been nice to use more Nahua/Mexica names like ocēlōmeh/ocēlōtl (for the jaguar warriors) and cuāuhocēlōtl/cuāuhtli (for the eagle warriors) rather than calling them "knights", which is using a European reference for Native American culture. They're very different roles and titles.
For those watching this video, I think it's worth mentioning that a lot of the Spanish accounts came from a biased perspective of conquerers trying to tame the "savages", rather than with the intention to give a fair cultural assessment from an anthropological perspective. Friar Diego Durán was a Dominican friar who tried to fairly represent the Mexica/Aztecs culture and document it in his book titled "The History of the Indies of New Spain". It was controversial among Spanish for trying to retain and fairly-represent Mexica culture (which the Spanish were trying to erase and turn the people into "good Catholic subjects".) Take Spanish Conquistador accounts with a grain of salt and hyperbole.
There are lots of inaccuracies in this video, but that's nitpicking. And not necessarily Simon's fault. I think the script writer should have done more research.
Well, in Simon's defense, not even Mexicans can pronounce náhuatl words correctly.
@@WanderingMiqothe human remains found will show that they were savages and the conquistadors did the world a favor. Cannibalism and Human sacrifice is demonic and evil.
@@WanderingMiqoThat's not what the archaeological or anthropological evidence says.
@@DEC3TheWokeProject But murdering everyone that wasn't Spanish during Recounquista wasn't savage? What about enslaving indigenous people and killing 90% of them due to disease and abuses? Learn your history. 😂
Huitzilopochtli: Weed-Zeelo-Poach-ly
This needs to be a movie
So... Apocalypto?
And yes, it's supposed to have Mayans as the antagonists, but the film's depiction of mass human sacrifice and slavery has been commented to be much more typical of the Aztecs instead.
@MosoKaiser thank you! I was going to reply saying "it already is one, just with Mel Gibson getting the Aztecs mixed up with the Mayans". It does seem silly he went through so much work to make it very authentic but botched that part.
@@matthewlook3597 a savage is a savage. Interchangeable.
Apocalypto
I read the title, and thought, 'why is someone killing for fish?'
Explain yourself
Remember everyone, no matter how much you tell me all civilizations should be appreciated, the Aztecs had it coming.
Yeah! The Aztecs had a pretty f up mind set.
sacrificing has always been something that is preached by the powerful to get more wealthy, but willingly giving up able bodies shows how prosperous that society was. So many able bodies that they didnt need them to prop up expansion. I know a majority of sacrifices were PoW/Slaves/Conquered people, but there was still a reverence of aztecs that willingly gave up their life for no reason. It is kinds of reminiscent of the complacency bias that has happened in modern, first world, society leading younger generations of prosperous countries to be so infatuated about jokes of killing themselves.
5:05 And I get an Ad for a food delivery service xD
Was that last sentence incomplete?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that noticed.
Your pyramid in the cover image of your video is the Castle, in Chichen Itza, which is actually Mayan...
I'm surprised this ended up on Into the shadows instead of Today I found out
When I heard about the child sacrifice all I could think is "iTs iMPoRTanT To ReSpEcT OtHer CuLtUrEs"
"Aztecs" doesn't take an apostrophe. It's only used to show possession.
Aztec's! (Thats me owning them...)😂😅
I wouldn't expect such an intelligent channel to make this mistake.
@@gizmomckopp1131 Yes. In addition, I wish he could have done a little more research in how to properly pronounce the names of these cities and the Aztec people mentioned. He does only have so much time and makes so many of these videos, but I doubt he's doing this alone and is there nobody on his team who could check these things? In all the times I've heard the Aztec capital pronounced, I've never heard it said other than one way and definitely not how Simon says it.
@@karlsokalski4234 in all honesty, the correct pronunciations do not seem to be widely known.
I put it down to obscurity of the translations and, really, unknowing ignorance.
For me, when I learned the proper pronunciations, everything sounded so much more metal and awesome!
Why, oh why did I start watching this video as I prepared my lunch...?
Hahaha I love how Simon butchers "Huitzilopochtli" every time he says it in a slightly different way :D
I thought everything in the Americas was peace love and sunshine until the Europeans showed up.🤔
Barbaric
Ouch!
Thanks but this is NOT a video to watch high😬🫨
i’m going in wish me luck
@@user-xf2dj2sh8x hope you had a better experience than me bro🤞😆
Meh, you Europeans can't handle the true Mexican vibe, you couldn't 500 before, you can't now
Can confirm, did some fentanyl beforehand 😅
@@cantool 😂 happy to see you agree bro but don't do that shit my g, i smoke weed everyday but that shit is f'ed up
Mad love and respect 🤍
Imagine seeing this demonic shit and not wanting to stamp it out thoroughly and completely. Everyone complaining about conquistadors would go insane if they had to see this horror
This episode must have sooooo many bloopers
5:50 ah so jack sparrow being treated like a God in pirates 2 has historical accuracy
I guess Mexican cartels still got Aztec blood in them with those gore videos💀
more like Conquistador blood, Mexican cartels were formed in Northern Mexico where no Aztecs lived
@carlosm.3426 this stuff was going on all over south America lol
@@Witchmee no it wasn't, cartels came from Colombia paisa region, the most European region, and in Mexico it was in Northern Mexico in the state of Sinaloa where the cartel culture took place, northern mexico is Mexico's more European region, so clearly this is more of a Conquistador bloodline rather than Amerindian, if it were amerindian the first cartels would be emerging from Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala
@carlosm.3426 ?? Cartels are just gangs and there have always been Gangs everywhere. So no, "blood lines" dont have anything to do with it. Trying to say Europeans are genetically more violent is ridiculous and racist.
Never thought of catch myself rooting for Cortez of all b@stards, but that fact about the babies pushed me over the edge. 💔
Wait till you learn what The Spanish did during Reconquista and the colonial period. They killed 90% of the indigenous population, but people don't seem to really care about them for some reason 🤔
With as many wars going on at the present, we must think the same nowadays.
Seems like Cortez and the gang did the world a favor...
Nah, learn more about Cortez and the atrocities they committed too. This isn't blameless.
I like to think the Spanish just showed up, looked around, and was like "bro, you guys got to go." 😂
I just wanna know how they built their temples….i wanna see them doing the math and geometry
I love the story of the Aztecs because it has a happy ending 🥰
suddenly Abrahams God seems a lot more digestable
No God sound even better , you can sleep in on Sunday and not sacrifice your child
Abraham Gods were used to justify Slavery and the current state of war going on in the world. So, they are no better.
Aztecs: So you are telling me that your god only demands to eat bread and wine on Sundays and good behaviour?
The spaniards: Yep
A: No sacrifices?
S: Nop
A: No cannibalism?
S: Not at all
A: We are in!!!
Then the Inquisition came along and it was all downhill...
@@paraquatpopcicles the inquisition didn't had jurisdiction over natives
@@Canario_27 In their minds, they had jurisdiction over EVERYONE, which seems to be a running theme with many organized religions.
PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE MAYANS NEXT!!
Dude... The Azteks were gnarly