As a local from Merida, I’m impressed with the effort you have put into this video. Very entertaining and educational. I can feel your genuine love and interest for exploring this land while learning its history. You’re a gem of a channel, keep making stuff my gringo!
Hi! Just started following you. Love how much research you do before filming. I visited Izamal about 8 years ago. At that time, there was a "visitors center", mainly a city office that handed out a map of the town. The map had 7 pyramids on it, as well as a cenote or two. One or two of the pyramids were small and were in the backyards of residents. Very interesting that four of the pyramids were lined up to create a giant plaza. And that the church was constructed over the footprint of a huge, huge pyramid. Thank you! Love your channel!
Oh, interesting, I didn’t see the visitor’s center. Or any cenotes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some. Perhaps I will go back and film the smaller ones some day… Enjoy the channel!
Such deep and interesting info. I've always wondered about these things as a traveler, but it's hard to gather historical context of these places without a tour guide or talking to locals. I'm glad this video was recommended to me!
I'm surprised you mention that, most archaeological literature written on the subject (after spanish, obviously) is written in english, we've got more than a century of people from the USA writing books about this stuff.
Thank you for posting these. My husband and I just returned from our 1st trip to the region 2 weeks ago. I’m already planning my trip back for next year and I’m adding this one to my list. My favorite was Ek’Balam. We had the best local guide who actually helped in the restoration years ago and turned me on to Michael D. Coe’s works. I’m both reading and listening to The Maya. Do you have any other suggestions?
Have fun! Coe is great. I can recommend An Archeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula by Joyce Kelly as a really solid guide for travelling around and looking at sites. Also if you want to read about the clash of cultures when the Spanish arrived, I can recommend the book written by Diego de Landa about the Yucatan, which has several different names in English. And for another general overview similar to Coe, I recommend Maya by Charles Gallenkamp.
I am so grateful to live at an hours drive to these places! I have visited a few pyramids before but I never really learned about the history behind them (besides the general Mayan stuff taught in school). ¡Muchas gracias por hacer este video!
This is the 2nd video of yours I've now watched, the first was about Sayil, which is one of my favorite Mayan cities in the Puuc hills. I really appreciate the way you present the information about the Catholic church destroying the Mayan temples, erasing them to build their own structure to their own god. The Bishop believed he was doing God's work, even working under a covenant with God. I still weep at the loss of such magnificent architecture and artistry, to Catholic barbarians tearing down such magnificent temples throughout the New World to build their cathedrals.
Educational Video. Thanks. Maybe the yellow was due to large deposits of Yellow Ochre in the area. I know there are accessible deposits in France. Actually, all over the planet. John in Bethel, Missouri. USA.
The earliest I could find is the photos from the mid twentieth century. There are other theories that they were all painted yellow around then for tax reasons, or because the color repelled mosquitos somehow.
I wish i could see these in their height. Centro Lima and i think most if not all Peruvian government buildings are painted yellow. I was told for the inca sun good but i wonder if the vatican explanation is more likely. Maybe in both cases it was a happy coincidence for the vatican as they took over I don't know your main audience but i always get notified around 1am. If your main audience is in the Americas you might want to schedule release for a better time for the algorithm, but I'm not a RUclips pro.
There's a guy who made a video of Tenochtitlan at its height. It's spectacular. Google it. Dutch guy who has never been in Mexico and doesn't speak a word of Spanish.
Again an interesting and good video about Izmal this time. And this is my question: there are many famous Mayan sites in Mexico (not talking about those outside of that country). Chichen Iza, Uxmal, Palenque etc. But it looks like you choosing less known locations. Its a pity from the point you are making really good videos walking around/showing every corner of the place, you make it feel like me or someone who is watching, we are also have been there. I mean the feeling. So from that prospective, I would really love to see more Mayan places including those mentioned above. And my question is: why you are choosing less known locations and what are your plans for the future? Great job!
Well, I have been to many places, including Uxmal and Chichen Itza. They were some of the first places I visited so they are not my best videos but I will release them at some point. Later on I visited lesser known places and learned how to make better videos, and for now I am focusing on releasing the ones which I feel I was better at filming. Also, the lesser know places are more interesting! There are already a million videos about Chichen Itza. I have many more videos to release and to film, but editing is a slow process.
I noticed IMA has invested a great deal of time and money in restoring Kabah. (Next door to Sayil) are you familiar with the work being done at Kabah ? Your thoughts on the restoration since 1996 ?
Love this land. Love the history and people. Great content! I've seen other pueblos and cities paint their courtyard area and churches yellow...so maybe less to do with the Pope's arrival...
@@NathanBecerra-d9t The most recent thing I read is that people were selling their walls to be used as billboards in the mid 20th century, but weren't paying taxes on the ads. So to put a stop to this the local government ordered any buildings that were doing this to be painted over in yellow.
Thanks. Nice work! Wow is there any place as flat as Yucatan? We were there in the 90's and you can look at different pyramids for months. The view is similar from each!
The Mayans associate a sacred color with each cardinal direction: East is red, South is Yellow, West is Black, North is white. Somewhere back in the cities pre- history time, I'm guessing, Izamal became associated during protection and blessing rituals with the Gods of the south and it simply became ubiquitous to paint their homes and public buildings yellow as a symbol of that spiritual connection with the South..
The history of the indigenous peoples in the Americas is much, much older than a few thousand years. The Hopi people tell that they arrived in the America’s about 30,000 years ago when the continent that they were living on, Lemuria, sank under water. We judge the Maya, Aztecs, Inca’s and others on the traces that we find. But when we dig our way from the present to the past, we must know that the Earth is suffering from a cycle of seven recurring natural disasters. That is told in the Popol Vuh. These disasters create a cycle of civilizations. There are four primitive civilizations, sometimes mentioned a sun or world era. The next civilization lives in the fifth sun. This becomes eventually a high developed civilization that disappeared 20,000 years ago due to a recurring, thus predictable but inescapable disaster that is caused by the ninth planet in our solar system. That planet orbits our sun in an eccentric orbit hence it is only a short period close to our sun and its planets s it crosses the ecliptic planet at a very high speed. This high developed civilizations has built sturdy monuments all over the world and they must have buried knowledge about themselves and the world history deep in the ground. High in the mountains they have built shelters or surviving places for a selected number of people. Like Machu Picchu in Peru. The Navajo people tell us in their sand paintings about that planet and this cycle of civilizations. They also show the direction of the orbit of planet 9, also known as Tonatiuh or Xiuhcoatl or Nibiru in other regions. Much more details about this cycle of natural disasters and many images can be found in an e-book. "Planet 9 = Nibiru". Search: invisible nibiru 9
Yes, definitely. I have read that there is a possible relationship between Itzamnah and K’inich (in general, not necessarily K’inich K’ak Mo) because they are usually both depicted as having the same sunny square eyes, and that it might represent this sort of manifestation, but this relationship was described very ambiguously.
@@namelesswreck6383 Yes, possibly. I have also heard that about Calakmul. I think I misspoke in the video in any case, because I was thinking about the pyramids in Yucatan not all of Mexico, and specifically the one at Coba which is close to 50 meters.
Really Good! I have also read that pyramid is the pyramid of Queen Moo whose totem was a Macaw. She built a shrine in Chichén Itzá. ruclips.net/video/AuMKIRJhrro/видео.html Oh and the yellow paint is to reflect the sun. Merida was also painted yellow back in the 19th century, pretty sure its in Incidents…the book you mentioned
Good for you for taking the history of the Roman Catholic Church to task for its actions against the Maya. Diego de Landa (who had the monastery constructed) burned many of the Maya books...... Now only 4 survive. He also led a great Auto da Fe (an Inquisition Court) in several different Maya towns and had many of the Maya presented at the court humiliated and tortured horribly. Rather than face the court, the last surviving ruler of the Kokom Maya dynasty, Na Chi Kokom II ("Lorenzo"), either suicided in Castillean jail in Merida (Ich Kan SiHo tiHo), or was murdered inside by his jailers and torturers. You walked past de Landa's statue at the start of your film. If I were rich enough I would buy it and melt it into a puddle at the base of the main steps up to what is left of the pyramid of Pop' Hol' Chak. From then on (once cooled) the Maya could wipe their feet and spit on de Landa when-ever they ascended the steps.
@@alexanderalexander7404 It is a terrible tragedy. I went to Mani as well, and filmed some things there. One day I want to do a video with a more thorough history of the conquistadors in Yucatan, with all the terrible details.
I found it interesting that every nation in the ancient world had a form of sun worship, accept for the people of ancient Israel, who had only one Mighty One that they worship.
Great video just one note "the Americas?" Please stop this ignorant appropriation of the name AMERICA wich is ONE from Alaska to Isla de Fuego in Argentina. There's no more than ONE AMERICA just like there's no more than ONE EUROPE AND ONE AFRICA AND ONE ASIA there's no the Europes or the Asias or the Africas PLEASE.
The ruins always creep me out, thinking of the countless human sacrifices, of the priests and other upper class Mayans/Aztecs eating the flesh of sacrificed children at their banquets. It's easy to imagine why Cortes was so willing to overthrow their society and why the temples went so neglected.
The Maya didn't do that! You're thinking of the Aztecs. And there has been a lot of doubt and debate among historians about the details of that and how true or false it was for the Aztecs as well. It's an interesting topic and I am planning on making an episode discussing all that when I go to the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, the main pyramid of the Aztecs.
@@pyramidreview8664The Aztecs were an offshoot of Mayan civilization. We don't know to what extent they sacrificed humans, but we know they did it-probably more than the Aztecs did (they were a much larger and longer-lived civilization after all). The evidence for human sacrifice for both is overwhelming. We have tools, grave sites, Spanish first hand accounts and Indian codices (for the Aztecs), pictures/reliefs, forensic evidence, etc. We even have bountiful horrifying details that make me squirm; the more the children cried/screamed the more the sacrifice was seen as a good omen.
@@pyramidreview8664the fact that it is now debated whether the mayans or Aztec sacrificed humans or not is simply because the neo-mayans/Aztecs from those places felt the information to be a bit shameful to be recorded in their history, and on the other hand there are these new liberals/leftists/woke idiots who love to oppose anything that is traditionally correct and stated by institutions or they just love to shame the whites. So they will go against anything that is stated by academics and traditional historians. Other than that, it's very well known and recorded that those half naked barbarians were sacrificing humans.
The algorithm sent you my way, and I was engaged the whole time. Great video, thanks!
I’m glad you liked it! There is much more to come.
As a local from Merida, I’m impressed with the effort you have put into this video. Very entertaining and educational. I can feel your genuine love and interest for exploring this land while learning its history. You’re a gem of a channel, keep making stuff my gringo!
Thank you! It is a unique and wonderful place, and the history is incredible
Hi! Just started following you. Love how much research you do before filming. I visited Izamal about 8 years ago. At that time, there was a "visitors center", mainly a city office that handed out a map of the town. The map had 7 pyramids on it, as well as a cenote or two. One or two of the pyramids were small and were in the backyards of residents. Very interesting that four of the pyramids were lined up to create a giant plaza. And that the church was constructed over the footprint of a huge, huge pyramid. Thank you! Love your channel!
Oh, interesting, I didn’t see the visitor’s center. Or any cenotes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some. Perhaps I will go back and film the smaller ones some day… Enjoy the channel!
Thank for taking me along for your walking tour of the various monumentos of Izamal. I enjoyed the trip.
@@alexanderalexander7404 Alexander, are perchance an instructor in the Mayan language?
Such deep and interesting info. I've always wondered about these things as a traveler, but it's hard to gather historical context of these places without a tour guide or talking to locals. I'm glad this video was recommended to me!
Glad you enjoyed it! It is hard to gather the info indeed, but I am very curious, and happy to share what I find.
I'm surprised you mention that, most archaeological literature written on the subject (after spanish, obviously) is written in english, we've got more than a century of people from the USA writing books about this stuff.
Izamal was a gem of a visit. I enjoyed climbing that pyramid myself. You are a fascinating guide and would like to know you better.
Love the progress of your videos. Intro was great! Keep at it!
Thank you for posting these. My husband and I just returned from our 1st trip to the region 2 weeks ago. I’m already planning my trip back for next year and I’m adding this one to my list. My favorite was Ek’Balam. We had the best local guide who actually helped in the restoration years ago and turned me on to Michael D. Coe’s works. I’m both reading and listening to The Maya. Do you have any other suggestions?
Have fun!
Coe is great. I can recommend An Archeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula by Joyce Kelly as a really solid guide for travelling around and looking at sites. Also if you want to read about the clash of cultures when the Spanish arrived, I can recommend the book written by Diego de Landa about the Yucatan, which has several different names in English. And for another general overview similar to Coe, I recommend Maya by Charles Gallenkamp.
I am so grateful to live at an hours drive to these places! I have visited a few pyramids before but I never really learned about the history behind them (besides the general Mayan stuff taught in school). ¡Muchas gracias por hacer este video!
De nada.You are lucky to live there, enjoy the beautiful history (and good luck with the heat wave! 🥵)
@@pyramidreview8664 Thank you! Im gonna need the luck it’s SO HOT. Schools don’t even let kids outside during recess now!
@@OnTheBiggestBookHangover I would climb into a cenote and stay there all week!
@@pyramidreview8664 Good idea!
So glad to have found your channel. You're great - fine video, your interesting and informed narration, and just you. Thank you
Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Your translation of K'inich K'ak Mo was wonderful, even your guttoral stops were right.
Very interesting and informative not to mention the handsome host / narrator.
This is the 2nd video of yours I've now watched, the first was about Sayil, which is one of my favorite Mayan cities in the Puuc hills. I really appreciate the way you present the information about the Catholic church destroying the Mayan temples, erasing them to build their own structure to their own god. The Bishop believed he was doing God's work, even working under a covenant with God. I still weep at the loss of such magnificent architecture and artistry, to Catholic barbarians tearing down such magnificent temples throughout the New World to build their cathedrals.
Educational Video. Thanks. Maybe the yellow was due to large deposits of Yellow Ochre in the area. I know there are accessible deposits in France. Actually, all over the planet.
John in Bethel, Missouri. USA.
Do we know when the earliest record of yellow buildings in Izamel is?
The earliest I could find is the photos from the mid twentieth century. There are other theories that they were all painted yellow around then for tax reasons, or because the color repelled mosquitos somehow.
I wish i could see these in their height.
Centro Lima and i think most if not all Peruvian government buildings are painted yellow. I was told for the inca sun good but i wonder if the vatican explanation is more likely. Maybe in both cases it was a happy coincidence for the vatican as they took over
I don't know your main audience but i always get notified around 1am. If your main audience is in the Americas you might want to schedule release for a better time for the algorithm, but I'm not a RUclips pro.
There's a guy who made a video of Tenochtitlan at its height. It's spectacular. Google it. Dutch guy who has never been in Mexico and doesn't speak a word of Spanish.
Again an interesting and good video about Izmal this time. And this is my question: there are many famous Mayan sites in Mexico (not talking about those outside of that country). Chichen Iza, Uxmal, Palenque etc. But it looks like you choosing less known locations. Its a pity from the point you are making really good videos walking around/showing every corner of the place, you make it feel like me or someone who is watching, we are also have been there. I mean the feeling. So from that prospective, I would really love to see more Mayan places including those mentioned above. And my question is: why you are choosing less known locations and what are your plans for the future? Great job!
Well, I have been to many places, including Uxmal and Chichen Itza. They were some of the first places I visited so they are not my best videos but I will release them at some point. Later on I visited lesser known places and learned how to make better videos, and for now I am focusing on releasing the ones which I feel I was better at filming. Also, the lesser know places are more interesting! There are already a million videos about Chichen Itza. I have many more videos to release and to film, but editing is a slow process.
I noticed IMA has invested a great deal of time and money in restoring Kabah. (Next door to Sayil) are you familiar with the work being done at Kabah ? Your thoughts on the restoration since 1996 ?
Love this land. Love the history and people. Great content!
I've seen other pueblos and cities paint their courtyard area and churches yellow...so maybe less to do with the Pope's arrival...
@@NathanBecerra-d9t The most recent thing I read is that people were selling their walls to be used as billboards in the mid 20th century, but weren't paying taxes on the ads. So to put a stop to this the local government ordered any buildings that were doing this to be painted over in yellow.
Very informative.
We just didn’t that one it was greatness I walked around the whole thing
Wonderful work, as always. Adelante!
Thank you and graciaaaas! Edzna is next
@@pyramidreview8664 looking forward to it!
Thanks. Nice work! Wow is there any place as flat as Yucatan? We were there in the 90's and you can look at different pyramids for months. The view is similar from each!
Omg I was in Izamal last year and climbed the main pyramid but didn't even know there were other pyramids in the town. We need to revisit, good video.
There are even a few more small ones that I didn’t include! You can find them all in the article in the description.
Killer Vid! Keep it up!
The Mayans associate a sacred color with each cardinal direction: East is red, South is Yellow, West is Black, North is white.
Somewhere back in the cities pre- history time, I'm guessing, Izamal became associated during protection and blessing rituals with the Gods of the south and it simply became ubiquitous to paint their homes and public buildings yellow as a symbol of that spiritual connection with the South..
The history of the indigenous peoples in the Americas is much, much older than a few thousand years. The Hopi people tell that they arrived in the America’s about 30,000 years ago when the continent that they were living on, Lemuria, sank under water. We judge the Maya, Aztecs, Inca’s and others on the traces that we find. But when we dig our way from the present to the past, we must know that the Earth is suffering from a cycle of seven recurring natural disasters. That is told in the Popol Vuh. These disasters create a cycle of civilizations. There are four primitive civilizations, sometimes mentioned a sun or world era. The next civilization lives in the fifth sun. This becomes eventually a high developed civilization that disappeared 20,000 years ago due to a recurring, thus predictable but inescapable disaster that is caused by the ninth planet in our solar system. That planet orbits our sun in an eccentric orbit hence it is only a short period close to our sun and its planets s it crosses the ecliptic planet at a very high speed. This high developed civilizations has built sturdy monuments all over the world and they must have buried knowledge about themselves and the world history deep in the ground. High in the mountains they have built shelters or surviving places for a selected number of people. Like Machu Picchu in Peru. The Navajo people tell us in their sand paintings about that planet and this cycle of civilizations. They also show the direction of the orbit of planet 9, also known as Tonatiuh or Xiuhcoatl or Nibiru in other regions. Much more details about this cycle of natural disasters and many images can be found in an e-book. "Planet 9 = Nibiru". Search: invisible nibiru 9
Itzamnah, K'inich K'ak Mo, and Hunab Ku were actually quite separate gods to the Maya.
Yes, definitely. I have read that there is a possible relationship between Itzamnah and K’inich (in general, not necessarily K’inich K’ak Mo) because they are usually both depicted as having the same sunny square eyes, and that it might represent this sort of manifestation, but this relationship was described very ambiguously.
The largest one is in Cholula Puebla
The largest pyramid is in Puebla but it is not Maya
I think Toninà is the tallest Mayan pyramid in Mexico.
@@namelesswreck6383 Yes, possibly. I have also heard that about Calakmul. I think I misspoke in the video in any case, because I was thinking about the pyramids in Yucatan not all of Mexico, and specifically the one at Coba which is close to 50 meters.
That's not really a temple at the top, just a stage and a story. There's no words for what we want.
Really Good! I have also read that pyramid is the pyramid of Queen Moo whose totem was a Macaw. She built a shrine in Chichén Itzá.
ruclips.net/video/AuMKIRJhrro/видео.html
Oh and the yellow paint is to reflect the sun. Merida was also painted yellow back in the 19th century, pretty sure its in Incidents…the book you mentioned
@@gerrardthomas5607 Very interesting! I'll give it a watch.
Good for you for taking the history of the Roman Catholic Church to task for its actions against the Maya. Diego de Landa (who had the monastery constructed) burned many of the Maya books...... Now only 4 survive. He also led a great Auto da Fe (an Inquisition Court) in several different Maya towns and had many of the Maya presented at the court humiliated and tortured horribly. Rather than face the court, the last surviving ruler of the Kokom Maya dynasty, Na Chi Kokom II ("Lorenzo"), either suicided in Castillean jail in Merida (Ich Kan SiHo tiHo), or was murdered inside by his jailers and torturers.
You walked past de Landa's statue at the start of your film. If I were rich enough I would buy it and melt it into a puddle at the base of the main steps up to what is left of the pyramid of Pop' Hol' Chak. From then on (once cooled) the Maya could wipe their feet and spit on de Landa when-ever they ascended the steps.
@@alexanderalexander7404 It is a terrible tragedy. I went to Mani as well, and filmed some things there. One day I want to do a video with a more thorough history of the conquistadors in Yucatan, with all the terrible details.
Yellow reflects the Sun...
What a loss to humanity and who knows how many more
I found it interesting that every nation in the ancient world had a form of sun worship, accept for the people of ancient Israel, who had only one Mighty One that they worship.
Do some research
😂 they had no agricultural knowledge. That's why they all grow Native American crops!!! 😂
Great video just one note "the Americas?" Please stop this ignorant appropriation of the name AMERICA wich is ONE from Alaska to Isla de Fuego in Argentina. There's no more than ONE AMERICA just like there's no more than ONE EUROPE AND ONE AFRICA AND ONE ASIA there's no the Europes or the Asias or the Africas PLEASE.
North American continent, South American continent, hence Americas.
The ruins always creep me out, thinking of the countless human sacrifices, of the priests and other upper class Mayans/Aztecs eating the flesh of sacrificed children at their banquets. It's easy to imagine why Cortes was so willing to overthrow their society and why the temples went so neglected.
The Maya didn't do that! You're thinking of the Aztecs. And there has been a lot of doubt and debate among historians about the details of that and how true or false it was for the Aztecs as well. It's an interesting topic and I am planning on making an episode discussing all that when I go to the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, the main pyramid of the Aztecs.
@@pyramidreview8664The Aztecs were an offshoot of Mayan civilization. We don't know to what extent they sacrificed humans, but we know they did it-probably more than the Aztecs did (they were a much larger and longer-lived civilization after all).
The evidence for human sacrifice for both is overwhelming. We have tools, grave sites, Spanish first hand accounts and Indian codices (for the Aztecs), pictures/reliefs, forensic evidence, etc. We even have bountiful horrifying details that make me squirm; the more the children cried/screamed the more the sacrifice was seen as a good omen.
@@pyramidreview8664the fact that it is now debated whether the mayans or Aztec sacrificed humans or not is simply because the neo-mayans/Aztecs from those places felt the information to be a bit shameful to be recorded in their history, and on the other hand there are these new liberals/leftists/woke idiots who love to oppose anything that is traditionally correct and stated by institutions or they just love to shame the whites.
So they will go against anything that is stated by academics and traditional historians.
Other than that, it's very well known and recorded that those half naked barbarians were sacrificing humans.
To answer your questions, they were built by indians a long time ago.
I am happy you didn't mention aliens. 👽
Hope YOUVE got MEASUREMENTS MAN..