The Aztecs from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan: The Codex Boturini & the Mexica Pilgrimage Read page-by-page

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Professor Estrada, Historian of the Americas

2 жыл бұрын

This is the story of the Aztec’s historic 200+ year pilgrimage, as told from the 16th Century Primary source: The Codex Boturini.
The Aztecs came from a place in the north called: Aztlan, which means, “place of the White Heron.”
The Aztecs left their homeland Aztlan in about 1111 C.E. After more than 200 years of trials and tribulations, they stopped when they saw their sign from their god Huitzilopochtli: the eagle perched on the cactus. There, they would build one of the greatest cities in world history.
This is the story of their historic migration from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan in their own words.

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@Thereisnogod666 20 сағат бұрын

Man I love coming back to your videos, one of the best professors I’ve ever had. Thank you for helping solidifying my passion for history.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 19 сағат бұрын

Hey.... thanks so much.... I appreciate it... you just made my day (and year). I try really hard to create academically sound works in a visually pleasing way (I'm still learning the video craft). Thanks again....

@lostcapital2591 2 жыл бұрын

After watching these, Idk how to explain it but I just feel powerful. I’m not sure if that’s the right word but I just love the feeling I get after watching your vids man. I’m from NYC, Brooklyn & I’m constantly putting my friends/family on to your channel.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad learning your history connects with your DNA.... keep connecting.... thanks for watching...

@kristiantorres478 8 ай бұрын

It’s a weird yet extremely powerful feeling of pride

@RAEchelRunning Жыл бұрын

this is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever seen!!! Now that Lake Powell is revealing the ancient history of the ancestors. I'd love to learn more! Animated ancient texts of the Americas! Thank YOU creative team!

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

Thank You. This is one video where I spent a lot of time researching and animating this important story.

@nathanhawee5373 11 ай бұрын

Do they believe lake Powell is the lake from the story?

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 10 ай бұрын

@@nathanhawee5373 I've heard everything from Utah, Arizona to northern Mexico. I've heard some semi-recent buzz about someone who claims he figured it out. It's in Mexico..... google it..... it's interesting, but who knows for sure...

@ignaciovarga3162 Ай бұрын

My new favorite channel.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Ай бұрын

Hell yeah... thanks so much for watching and thanks for your kind words. I try my best to teach our great history.... 🙌🏽✊🏽👊🏽

@joshualinares6453 Жыл бұрын

"Firmé, come with us"-The Aztecs ...Interesting.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

That's a direct quote.... 🤣

@joshualinares6453 Жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD I'm sure it was. Translation brought to you by, The Homies.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

@@joshualinares6453 👊🏽✊🏽👊🏽

@Native_Creation Жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD I thought the Codex translation was "Andale güey ", lol

@LS-kg6my Жыл бұрын

Mind blown AGAIN !! thank you so much for these videos. You are truly an educator in the most revered sense of the word

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comments. This codex is insanely important and I did my best to make the narrative come alive. Thanks again.

@speedbag2000 Жыл бұрын

Just saw this one...great video. These are stories that need to be told. Everyone knows of Romulus and Remus....Homer and the Iliad and the Odyssey. But Xicanos don't know their own origin story coming from Aztlan...or as some believe modern day Los Angeles ;) or somewhere in the US Southwest. The Aztecs were nomadic like many other tribes early on before settling in Tenochtitlan. Thanks for doing this. BTW....This document is prominently displayed at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City...I saw it but this def helps give a much better understanding....Too bad many of the other codecies are stuck in Europe.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and thanks for your comments. We have definitely been left out of the history books. I'm hoping more of our stories can be told... thanks again.

@Itzpapalotl. 8 ай бұрын

Que bonita nuestra historia. My family brought us up knowing Nahuatl names, words and gods.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 8 ай бұрын

Hi.... thanks for sharing, it's cool you knew some Nahuatl ..... and thanks for watching...

@lewisc9959 Жыл бұрын

My people, our people, our land, from Nicaragua all the way up to the Great Lakes!! Aztlan!

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

Que Viva Aztlan!

@chicanx6756 Жыл бұрын

To Costa Rica aswell

@angely.2440 5 ай бұрын

Not just that, biblically speaking we own a whole lot more as the descendants of Noah. He divided the whole world up for his sons, and put a curse on anyone who should break that law. Our cousins are the Indo europeans, Turks and many more from Siberia all the way to Germany and even down. Same with The "darker" races to the south in India, Australia and Africa. Aztlan is a mixture of history, between the possibile name of a mother. As well as the legend that was passed down to us about our ancestors building the tower of babel. Aztan is babel, we were told to leave it to populate the world. Even though we wanted to stay, our biblical ancestors also lived hundreds of years. Which is why we remember them as immortals or deities in Aztlan. All the great tribes remember the great flood because the story was given to us by our fathers. The legend has changed many times as our original ancestors came here from Siberia and has passed from ear to ear. Your inheritance is much bigger than you know.

@nathanhawee5373 11 ай бұрын

Amazing how back then how everything had meaning and they were able to see sign of their god in the world around them. Religion is nothing compared to what it used to be. Not talking bad about anyones "god" but today we ask for help, back then they looked for the answer. Big difference

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 10 ай бұрын

Good or bad.... people were pretty damn serious about their religious beliefs....

@danielgallegos1528 9 ай бұрын

Very nice. Thank you.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment..... I've been working on the Codex Boturini for years.

@ryder5420 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the graphics.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you...

@nathanhawee5373 11 ай бұрын

Way kewl story. I truly love the Aztecs and mayin. And I think that's why I love gold

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 11 ай бұрын

👊🏽✊🏽🙌🏽

@deanedge5988 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@susanperez6568 2 жыл бұрын

Very educational

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you...

@icemantoby4392 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@NataliaPerez-ck3ro 2 жыл бұрын

That woman’s voice is so soothing

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 жыл бұрын

Professional voice over actress..... she's amazing.

@whlewis9164 4 ай бұрын

If the prophecy said go to where the eagle is seated upon the cactus, would it be safe to assume Aztlan has both eagles and cactuses? That would rule out some areas.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 4 ай бұрын

That makes sense.... 👍🏽

@bomh399 5 ай бұрын

Aztlan is in the Great Lakes region look up the mounds we traveled south thru Mississippi to Texas to Mexico

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 5 ай бұрын

That's definitely one theory ..... thanks for watching and commenting. 🙌🏽🙏🏽

@rickecheverria8052 2 жыл бұрын

Such detail, too bad this codex (probably written after the conquest) never pinpointed the location of Atzlan or ever gave a clue of the number of Mexica who went on this journey. I wonder if there are any pure-blooded Mexica around today?

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 жыл бұрын

The Codex Boturini was probably written a decade or so after the conquest. The great mystery is "where" is Aztlan? When I was a grad school a guest speaker said DNA evidence proved Aztlan is not the U.S. (of course I forgot his name). There are several theories, mostly in Mexico. In fact, one guy says he has pinpointed the exact spots in Mexico (don't know his name either, but you should fine him easy, although I think his work is in Spanish). If you watch my video and pay close attention to the dates (I am very brief) it takes the Mexica about 100 years to get to the valley of Mexico from Tzompanco. If their entire journey took a little more than 200 years, it's doubtful Aztlan is that far away...

@rickecheverria8052 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD Thank you for the quick reply. I also have an area I believe the Mexica came from just before they arrived in the Valley of Mexico, if you care to here my reasoning I will be glad to write you...

@tamusbaby 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD have you ever read "Cradle of Aztlan"?

@MexicaUprising 2 жыл бұрын

you can track the journey as many of the Atepetl listed in the video still exist as cities today. as Professor Estrada mentions, Aztlan must not be far based on the geography of those cities. Also, they are already using the calendar symbols, time-keeping practices, and 52 year ceremonies that were present in the valley of Mexico during their journey.

@HUGOandONLY Жыл бұрын

There's people in Mexico that don't even speak Spanish.. you need to travel more..

@mysticalkungfumastersuprem3646 Жыл бұрын

That was awesome. I believe it all.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

Thank You ... and thanks for watching...

@soymarkkol 2 ай бұрын

They were called Aztecs before European contact? I thought Aztec was a European term, by a german man and that they were known as Mexica since the days that they were with the other 6 tribes in Autlán?

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 2 ай бұрын

Aztlan is a Nahuatl term, meaning "place of the White Heron." Aztlan was made popular by a very popular 1843 book, "The History of the Conquest of Mexico" by William Prescott. According to the Codex Boturini, Mexica was given to them at some point during their pilgrimmage from Aztlan to the Central Valley of Mexico.

@HVLLOWS1999 10 ай бұрын

Have you guys done the Popol Vuh? The K'iche Mayan Codex

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 10 ай бұрын

I wish.... that source is very long and a lot more complicated, but hopefully in a year or two, I can get to it.

@NativePillowFist Жыл бұрын

Post more videos please

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 11 ай бұрын

Thanks.... I appreciate it..... please subscribe..... Longer videos like these take me awhile, especially with the research, but I'm definitely trying to create videos that you can't really see anywhere else... 👊🏽✊🏽👊🏽

@AcuaitzinMoteuhczoma 5 ай бұрын

Question : The Mexica called themselves Aztecs prior to leaving Colhuacan? Asking since the video says that Huitzilopochtli named them Mexica on their journey after Colhuacan

@ProfessorEstradaPhD 5 ай бұрын

Hey... according to Codex Boturini (and a few other sources), they were called the Aztecs before they left Aztlan. Somewhere along their journey (no one knows where), Huitzilopochtli gave them gifts and changed their name to Mexica. You might be thinking of Culhuacan, which is at the Southern end of the Ixtapalapa causeway. Colhuacan and Culhuacan are two different places (again, no one knows where the Aztecs origin is). But there are some examples where names / places along their 200 year journey are used again in the basin of Mexico.

@Junior-ko6gg 4 ай бұрын

No they they didn’t call them selves Aztecs. That name was giving to them by the European after hearing their origin story. The name was giving because they calme from aztlan but not their original name.

@GueyGueycoyotl Ай бұрын

Anyone from Aztlan is an Aztec but the specific tribe most refer to is the Mexica. saying you are Aztec would be like saying you are Latino like “oh this person comes from Latin America” but it doesn’t really get into specifics. Like Aztec technically could mean Acolhua, Tlaxcallan, Toltec, or Mexica.

@Native_Creation Жыл бұрын

Aside from MX, Mesquite grow in some parts of Arizona (Southern) and New Mexico (Eastern) yet are all over Texas. In MX, Mesquite are very prominent with the Guachichile (Chichimecans), and they would dress in animal skins. Yet if they're not mentioned with the mesquite/cactus, it could also be from Coahuiltecan or Jumano groups from TX, they would paint their skin and sometimes wear animal skins.

@ProfessorEstradaPhD Жыл бұрын

According to several source, Mexico-Tenochtitlan had a similar environment as Aztlan. White Herons are pretty ubiquitous from Florida to California.... I wonder how common they are in Mexico, especially the northern section which has a lot of desert conditions. I wish someone can crack the code and find out where Aztlan exactly is.

@elmalote4003 4 ай бұрын

We have mesquite trees in Reynosa Tamaulipas we have two in our back yard

@AntzLoks1314 Жыл бұрын

Antz-that-crawls-on-the-ground 🐜🐜

@FrancContreras_FrancMex 2 жыл бұрын

After living in Tenochtitlán for 26 years, I am ready for Chicano Studies scholars to explore other aspects of our ancient past. Why do we only focus on creation stories related to the great Mexica empire? Did PRI governments in Mexico only focus on this aspect in an attempt to create a unified nation that was/is actually based on massive diversity? Do we miss that diversity by only focusing on histories related the the Mexicas (aka Aztecs)?

@markavelisocal 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed however not enough is not for most of us about Mexica culture, let’s include all peoples of Mexico and southwest and all 1st nations peoples.

@Native_Creation Жыл бұрын

Mexicas have the most extensive historical records and myths because they were the ruling elites. The rest of Mexican history is not as well preserved save for the Tlaxcalans.