That means a lot, thank you

I think I will mostly stick to the old one or find some middle ground, not super happy with how dry this one turned out. Thank you!

@@intiorozco5063 That's great to hear! They have been rebuilding the museum and cleaning up new parts of the site, so it should be even more interesting once it reopens.

Ahh. Most Mesoamerican pyramids are NOT for tracking time and Egyptians did not build pyramids to harness energy. They are as you see them. Burial chambers

Thank you!

@@OttoChenault Thank you! Although the Maya did use magic mushrooms for their psychological effects (as well as many other sacred plants, some of which are depicted in art and haven't even been identified yet), chemical analysis shows that the blue comes from dye from indigo plants mixed with copal (tree resin/incense), and a very particular type of soil called polygorskite. There is some mystery about where they found the latter. I bet they would have appreciated that color appearing on mushrooms though!

@@pyramidreview8664 Thank you so much! I appreciate the insight, so much respect for your research and passion.✌🏻Wow,just read up on polygorskite…amazing properties, thanks professor!

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There are so many more, and I have only started. Stay tuned!

@@pyramidreview8664 Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Thanks...

I was thinking about arranging some kind of trip to several sites and inviting my viewers. The problem is that you aren't allowed to give a tour without a license, so I could talk about the site before or after, or we could hire a guide at the site and go together as a group, but I can't lead a tour.

@@pyramidreview8664 We flew a private plane into the airport next to Chichén Itzá, it was the sketchiest airport I have seen, dirt runway, armed military. It was great, you could still climb the structure then. We did not do any tour.

Yes indeed, an archeologist told me this later on.

There is a lot of debate about this on the internet even though scientists say they are not parasitic; because for some reason the are almost always on very dead-looking trees. But they also grow on electricity cables so I guess they’re fine without a host.

@@pyramidreview8664 They'll also grow on rocks/pyramids/walls (if the conditions are right). I have one on a metal fence at home and one in a 'vase' without any water. I just spray them twice a week....

Unfortunately the limestone around Dzibulchaltun isn’t very strong, so there wasn’t a lot to see of old inscriptions while I was there. However I know some things were preserved and they are currently building a new museum there, and based on some recent satellite photos I saw, it seems like they cleared out a big part of that sacbe I was on and opened up a new part of the site. So once it opens I would like to go back. Just not in August…. No way that limestone would last a million years, that’s for sure. Also, you can see architectural similarities between the two largest pyramids and the main pyramids of Izamal and Edzna, indicating they were built in the same era, and there are many ways we can date those things, including writing and dates in some cases. The cenote was used as a source of water. It is very similar to the main cenote of Chichen Itza. In both of them it seems that lots of stuff was thrown in for religious reasons, including pottery and blue paint, and sometimes even human remains. It’s not been proven that these were human sacrifices. Both the pre-classic and classic periods ended in times of great drought, and it has been theorized that in these desperate times the water level was very low, and people did dramatic rituals to try to create more rain. You have to imagine that this would have been the last thing that anyone would try to do. When the Maya civilization was at its height, there were complex systems in place to filter water. So if this is what they were doing, it’s very likely that they were already in a very desperate state, and this was not the cause. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-uncover-2000-year-old-mayan-water-filtration-system-180976186/ There is also the phenomenon of hydrologic lensing. To make it simple, the Yucatán has no rivers, no springs, and it is made of very porous karstic stones. It only gets fresh water from rain. Rain comes from above and falls into the cenotes, and that keeps the peninsula filled with fresh water. This is called the fresh water lens, it is a body of fresh water which fills every hole on the peninsula. But in a time of drought, when all that fresh water disappears, there is nothing to stop the sea water from entering into the cenotes and caves from the sea. So when there was a great drought, and that 40 meter cenote was empty, the only water there was also likely to be undrinkable salty sea water. A terrible situation. People got desperate. I mention many times that pyramids are observational points for the sun or the moon or Venus, and this is absolutely not my own idea, this is a topic which has been studied heavily by archeologists and historians for a very long time. In my video about the eclipse I show a book about this topic. Someone once commented on a video of mine that the pyramids are so short, they can’t possibly give you a better view of the heavens! But it did not work this way. The pyramids were a way to get above the trees, and when you are up there you can watch the movement of these planets. The sun and moon and venus all move around the sky in predictable patterns, and if you watch them, you can determine these patterns. This is what the Maya did. It gets extremely complicated once you dig into the details, but here is a recent article from the journal Science which explains how hundreds of ancient Maya sites have been aligned to these sorts of things since extremely ancient times: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7675 I am happy to answer your questions! Let me know if you have more.

I am a huge fan of your show! I have a backlog of videos from Edzna and other interesting places to edit and publish, enjoy!

@@pyramidreview8664 Keep going! If you want to post links to your videos in my comments sections, feel free. I'd be happy to get the word out about your show.

@@pyramidreview8664 And thanks for being a fan of the show. Much appreciated.

@@mexicounexplained I will definitely take you up on that. And thanks to you for being part of the inspiration for me to go out and explore these wonderful places!

@@pyramidreview8664 Please do. I am always happy to help in any way I can.

The round ones! Those are very unique!

@@pyramidreview8664 I live in Memphis, TN and am somewhat familiar with the 'Mississippian Culture'. (Think Cahokia). They had enormous round mounds. I'm always interested in the 'lesser known' places. I mean; They're all fascinating in their own right, but I always wonder...what is it we haven't seen yet? That's fun to figure out!

@@dutchreagan3676 Well you've got the Mississippians up there whp certainly built quite a lot of impressive stuff, but don't forget the bass pro shop pyramid!

@@pyramidreview8664 Dang! You really ARE well-informed. It's one of the largest in the world! And almost abandoned; just like those old Mayan cities....

@@pyramidreview8664 Some specs on the Bass Pro shop pyramid: It is 321 feet (98 m) (about 32 stories) tall and has base sides of 591 feet (180 m); it is by some measures the tenth-tallest pyramid in the world.

Thank you rain god, I apologize for my mistake.