It's nice that they had a special hell for people who mistreat dogs.

Big fan that one of the tenets of Aztec culture was “be good to dogs”

I really love the idea that children and babies are given eternal rest and happiness, and that babies can come back as the next humans in a world began anew. It's sweet. But also? The idea of warriors and women who essentially, ARE warriors who gave their lives for the Aztec world to continue get a paradise. It's sweet, in a way.

The nine underworld levels are complicated and well-ordered. I really like the respect given to women dying in childbirth as being equal to brave male warriors, and the favor shown to persons who had treated dogs well during their earthly lifetimes.

I'm writing lore for a Minecraft SMP a friend of mine did where the world of Minecraft is the sixth world and this is very helpful in something I wanted to write for the lore as it's entirely based on Aztec mythology. Thank You for this helpful video.

I love when people do this kind of videos to show the ancient mesoamerican cosmovision. I would like to add that in "Ilhuicatl-Tonatiuh" besides warriors who died in the battlefield and women during the birth-battlefield, people who where sacrificed would arrive there too, whether they where nobles, slaves or captured warriors and this was the most desired place to go in the afterlife.

0:00 - 1:28 *Short history and intro* 1:29 *Houses of the dead* 1:38 *Place of the nurse trees* 2:09 *The place of the temple of the Venerated corn* 2:22 *The place where the sun moves* 3:07 *The place of Earth's nectar* 3:41 *Mictlan: Where the nine layers begin* 4:01 _The place where the dogs live_ 4:40 _The place where mountains clash_ 5:00 _The obsidian mountain_ 5:15_The place where there is a lot of snow_ 5:44 _The place where people are waved like flags_ 6:12 _The place where you are shoot with arrows_ 6:26 _The place where your heart is eaten_ 6:58 _The place where one must cross water_ 7:42 _The place of nine waters_ 8:50 *Success, welcome home speech!*

I love this video. I love your voice and how you read. And the microphone you used is perfect. Can you make more videos with other Aztec stories? Or Mexica Stories? Please keep these coming por favor. Thanks for listening.

The third mansion sounds similar to how Spartans venerated women who died in childbirth.

I like that they weeded out those who are mean to dogs right away!

The 13 Heavens and the 9 layers of Mictlan thanks for sharing your videos share enough to see they're not exactly as they're treated in modern writing. It's with the nice videos like yours I figure out the balance and justice.

This is amazing. Excellent animations and love your narration.

It's important to distinguish the metaphorical with the literal when discussing Nahua religion, theology, and philosophy. One caveat I might add at the end is that "oneness with the cosmos" (not sure of the source for that statement) should be taken as a metaphor on account of two facts: (1) The individuated soul is acknowledged distinct from the members of the pantheon, and (2) The distinct individuated soul is told they are to enter their "mortal sleep," which may be a metaphor for entering conscious experience in the celestial realm where Mictlan is located. Experiential reality on earth (tlalticpac) was regarded as a dream experience whereas the ritualistic partaking of psilocybin mushroom wine (teonanacatl) was considered a gateway into the true reality of the celestial realm. This is why the Nahua used poetry (xochicuicatl) as one of their means of doing philosophy, for they were trying to balance the struggle of explaining reality regarded largely as metaphysical to our reality, yet with tools of linguistic construction born out of the dream that is empirical reality.

Very fascinating, thanks for making this!

Aztec afterlife is basically a gmod deathrun lobby or roblox obby where the reward is oblivion for completing it

Really interesting and well told. Thanks for making this video.

Thank you for this. Please keep going!

Thank you for this, brilliant presentation. I loved it.

Very beautiful video! Thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

When I die, if there is a heaven, there better be dogs...otherwise that is no heaven

I have watched all of your videos. They are absolutely amazing! And greatly in part to your narration. Please post more videos!?!? -Dying Jaguar

Very interesting. I've heard of the nine layers of the Aztec Underworld.

I just suscribed, greetings from México

Love this very beautiful

It's so nice to hear Nahuatl pronounced naturally, fluently, and (of course) "catsually". Sometimes, the mispronunciations in other videos can be distracting; not necessarily because of their inaccuracy, but because of their inconsistency... In one video the name "Tenochtitlan" will be pronounced as "tey-NOCK-teet-LAN", the next one will be "TAY-noch-TEET-lan" or maybe even "TE-noch-ti-TLAN"; never the same, and always wrong... I don't speak Nahuatl, but I know, somehow, that "Teotihuacan" (the other famous city-name) is not pronounced as "TAY-yo-TEE-hoo-WAH-kahn" or "they-YO-chi wa-KAN" or any of the other imaginative versions... It seems that people expect the language of "The Aztecs" to be as harsh as the stories we've been told about them, when in reality the language is very soft and musical and inoffensive to the ears, like a beautiful flower is to the eyes and nose, etc It's so nice to hear the language pronounced naturally and fluently, and catsually.

Muchas gracias! No tenía idea de estos temas. Muy interesante el video. (Thank you very much! I didn't know about these things. Interesting video!) (Dankon! Mi ne sciis pri ĉi tiuj aferoj. La video estas tre interesa.)

My grandma Mayan use tell me this as a child. I always remember be good to the dogs. Beautiful thanks 🙏

This is fabulous. Informative macabre interesting and you have a lovely speaking voice

Beautiful!

I would love to hear your narration of the Popol Vu.

excellent explanation of the aztec underworld mythology!

Amazing! 😍

The last hous seems very exhausting. I rather just settle for the Aztec version oh Valhalla to be honest. Also my uncle (may be rest in peace) is according by this on the Moon filled with beautiful pools and gardens.

Thank you

Aztec Afterlife = Legends of the Hidden Temple

tlazo for the excellent story telling.

This is the first time I hear about Aztec having 9 relms. Kinda like in Norse mythology has 9 worlds/relms very interesting.

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Making a game about this with a backstory and everything on roblox this was really informational.

Coming here for FGO's upcoming Nahui Mictlan

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Sounds like a lot of Peta members would suffer in the river for all eternity. Awesome.

No tienes canal en español?

I was watching Tree63 (9) a million lights.

Cover art looks pre-classic Mayan, not Aztec. I could be wrong, though. Definitely recognize it from some building. Love the imagery, though. It feels like the underworlds are liminal spaces.

0:17 NINE CIRCLESSSSSS!!?!?!?!?! FROm GeoMEtry DASHHHHH!!?!??!?!

Jesus Christ I'm gonna have to learn how to swim?

We found the Aztec pyramid on skeleton which the 🤘 became the devil ears toilet paper which they deployed on Japan earthquake situation

Do all Mexica people speak Nahuatl today? Or are there other languages that are still alive and spoken there

4:49 videogame vibes

what about those sacrificed

9 is a natural diminuation of the lunar cycle of 28....

These layers are crazy. Lol

hell didnt know about the storm that was approching......

Please don't use the word "hell" it's no the same concept.

but if I have a dog, why would I need to go any further?

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT THESE CONCEPTS AROSE SEPARATELY AND ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M GOING TO FUCKING LOSE MY MIND

No hell no diablos

Funny how they had a place in hell for ppl who harmed dogs but scarified humans.

It sounds a little unlikely that a child or an Infant could make it past the trials so it soundsike the first 2 houses would be virtually empty i feel like

I don't understand why they want to make crazy trails for 4 years just to die

Gotta learn how to swim now cause you never know

Grim fandango someone?

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Tryarch definitly used the religion for nazi zombies=origins/black ops 3 zombies.

The Aztecs believe in re encarnatiom , hell it wasn’t for ever on meson America beliefs

Wonderful presentation! I just wanted to say that it's actually Hel or Hela, not hell. America added an extra L to avoid the truth of it to be known. She's on Earth right now and the churches made her sound horrific. She is not. Love and Light be with you All 💙☀️🙏

Aztec's life was hell on earth and then they had circles of hell. It is like you can't get any lower and then there is a knock from under below.

The history of the indigenous peoples in the Americas is much, much older than a few thousand years. 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 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. Then the cycle starts again. During the first 4 suns the people were guided by alien deities. Also at the start of the fifth sun. At a certain moment in time, those deities leave the people alone. Led by fanatic priests, the people start offering more and more often and from fruits and animals, they started offering children and humans. They knew that after death, new life would occur and they wanted the deities to return. That is how the Aztec are remembered, but once they were high educated. They left us the sun stone, which is a 20,000 years old warning for this recurring disasters. To learn much more about the cycle of disasters and civilizations, recurring floods, ancient high tech and alien deities, read the e-book: "what I know about Nibiru". You can read it nicely on every computer, tablet or smartphone. Just search for: know Nibiru

what about the vietnamese who ate dog meat?

Maybe it's just me, but the journey through mictlan would make for a crazy dead souls/elden ring like game 😮

God I hate the Aztecs so much

Mexican Native Indians-Aztec- Hebrew Isrealites

That's it that's all they get for all that effort ? an quick merciful death ? like why even bother and half the time I'm always curious how they came up with these stories cause they sound so ridiculous and stupid that they are so far from what is intuitive that they must have been on shrooms when they wrote the myths in fact I have no doubt a bunch of people took a few drugs they interpreted that as god and then they wrote the myths