The Secrets of El Castillo | Buried Truth of the Maya

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National Geographic

National Geographic

3 жыл бұрын

Two National Geographic Explorers enter the Mayan Pyramid, El Castillo, in search of a hidden entrance to an underground cave. While inside they explain the significance of the jaguar throne and human sacrifice.
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@NatGeo
@NatGeo 3 жыл бұрын
What intrigued you most about the significance of jaguar throne and human sacrifice?
@jooniverse7362
@jooniverse7362 3 жыл бұрын
The passage looks so narrow and the throne looks pretty small as well. So I wonder whether they were smaller people?
@fernandocarniado1118
@fernandocarniado1118 3 жыл бұрын
@@jooniverse7362 yes we the mexicans are and come from smaller people. We are an average 5.5ft or 165cm
@lavandosnapas654
@lavandosnapas654 3 жыл бұрын
The shrine impressed me the most
@PrinzPiquero
@PrinzPiquero 6 сағат бұрын
skibidi toilets?
@IGATECK
@IGATECK 9 ай бұрын
I'm just glad the Jaguar is not in some European museum
@michaelgermanovsky1793
@michaelgermanovsky1793 9 күн бұрын
It would be pointless to carry that much weight over the ocean for a few pieces of jade.
@Wallstreetavarice
@Wallstreetavarice 3 жыл бұрын
So glad I got to go in there before it was closed to the public. I'm not a fan of enclosed spaces like that but I was so excited I didn't care at all
@alixmildred250
@alixmildred250 3 жыл бұрын
You are so lucky!! I cried because it was closed off to the public.
@filipkustudic419
@filipkustudic419 Жыл бұрын
Why is it closed for the public?
@biinano8845
@biinano8845 Жыл бұрын
@@filipkustudic419 too many disrespectful people, I assume. They don't want the temple to be destroyed or manhandled
@Siroek_CPA_CAMV
@Siroek_CPA_CAMV Жыл бұрын
@@filipkustudic419 by tourists like you who do not respect our Mexican culture and want to paint them or remove pieces of structure thanks to foreigners they do not allow access to the Mexican once again thank you tourists for you we pay
@janisreasnor8687
@janisreasnor8687 11 ай бұрын
Me TOO
@James-wv3hx
@James-wv3hx 6 ай бұрын
I video taped myself climbing El Castillo in 1983 when it was still allowed. I hope l can find that tape someday. I have not seen any other videos of such. I was told to stop video taping. And tragically as l was leaving, l saw a little boy tumble down it.
@dwaynezilla
@dwaynezilla Жыл бұрын
Going into this chamber would be surreal, including that climb to the top. Really great video!
@janisreasnor8687
@janisreasnor8687 11 ай бұрын
It was 65 steps straight up to a landing where the room with the Jaguar throne & Chacmool figure sets is all we were allowed to do the room had bars over the entrance & the doorway to inside to the little pyramid, as we were told, was just beneath the side of the stairway on El Castillo where the shadow of the serpent/snake looks like it"s ascending in the fall & descending in the spring.
@Encantada777
@Encantada777 Жыл бұрын
I’m so glad the jaguar was not stolen and was recovered just on time! 🙏 I’m so proud to be Mexican and have “Chichèn Itzà” be part of one of the wonder/ of the world! 😍😍😍
@Julianaraiza
@Julianaraiza Жыл бұрын
Was there an attempt to steal it? So glad they didn't
@fhlostonparaphrase
@fhlostonparaphrase 10 ай бұрын
Yes thankfully the conquistadors nor those that followed them didn't find the entrance.
@Mexicano1768
@Mexicano1768 8 ай бұрын
Igual!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
@orobleh77
@orobleh77 Ай бұрын
It is amazing this Mayan culture and what they have achieved. When Europe was in the dark ages, Mayans were in the first world
@ojaskulkarni2296
@ojaskulkarni2296 3 жыл бұрын
Very informative, never seen before!
@JR-jk5wz
@JR-jk5wz 3 жыл бұрын
I was just there at chichen itza. It’s an amazing place to visit!
@EuanWhitehead
@EuanWhitehead 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome NatGeo brilliant video
@cashalinn2517
@cashalinn2517 3 жыл бұрын
What intrigued me the most that you watch this trailer and have seen the full hours episode...ohh wait its missing the 2 min of footage where they go down ropes and 30secons into the water beneath then spend so much time dragging the rest out..
@blackdogleg
@blackdogleg 6 ай бұрын
I was in that room. Prior to the 2000s people were allowed in.
@yesh409
@yesh409 3 жыл бұрын
My favourite artstyle
@jonahr.1236
@jonahr.1236 3 жыл бұрын
Ok I really really hope someone from Nat Geo responds to this comment: I finished this episode wanting more! Will there be a continuation or is there one already??? I need to know if Memo and Cory are still working on finding a way to enter El Castillo or the cenotes. WE NEED ANSWERS! OR A SEQUEL TO THIS!
@firethorn9134
@firethorn9134 Жыл бұрын
National Geographic videos are consistent with their info and is right. It seems to me that I'm always last to find out changes. I've been cursed and 7years difference.
@The_Jaffo
@The_Jaffo 3 жыл бұрын
The rain god *CHUCK*
@jamiefisher5523
@jamiefisher5523 2 жыл бұрын
Lol it definitely sounds like that but from my understanding it's pronounced like chalk but the L is silent
@Humanofplanetearth
@Humanofplanetearth Жыл бұрын
@@jamiefisher5523 correct , thank you for giving the right way to say it 😊
@firethorn9134
@firethorn9134 Жыл бұрын
Are sure on the way it's spelled. Look into it. It can change alot on what you may see.
@davidsharpness9990
@davidsharpness9990 2 жыл бұрын
The Choc has a step fret on his ear...the Moche put human bones in their adobe walls too...and revered Jaguars too-lots of Jaguar pottery figurines...three coorespondences-step fret, bones in wall, Jaguar shamanism (Rebecca R. Stones' book)...Mesoamericans and Andeans were connected at the elite level...🙂
@MichaelBoyers
@MichaelBoyers 2 жыл бұрын
The bones could be used to talk to the former persons DNA as that seems to be the part that was left exposed they could also use the DNA to identify the ancestors today of the person on the throne at the time and their family
@CazadoresRob
@CazadoresRob 6 ай бұрын
DNA get corrupted as time passes. The only way it would be recoverable is if it was frozen in perma frost.
@zaynearnett4759
@zaynearnett4759 3 жыл бұрын
Look back at it!
@dragon202920
@dragon202920 3 жыл бұрын
Rain god is Chaac and human sacrifices weren’t as common as you think I wish they would stop bringing it up like it was an everyday day thing
@turinmormegil7715
@turinmormegil7715 3 жыл бұрын
What bothered me the most wasn't that, but the fact they said the Chac Mool is an altar. It isn't. It is more of a receptacle
@irmags82
@irmags82 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!! I hate that they make it seem like that’s all they did, human sacrifices. They were much more than that!
@erk5027
@erk5027 Жыл бұрын
There are larger bore holes on the ceiling as well. Could these not be possible drains for water to create a rain God effect? It all drained down to the aquifer at the bottom anyway
@jooniverse7362
@jooniverse7362 3 жыл бұрын
Pretty fascinating stuff 🤔
@NatGeo
@NatGeo 3 жыл бұрын
We're glad you enjoyed the video, Mathangi! Never stop exploring.
@ginormousgarbanzos1710
@ginormousgarbanzos1710 3 жыл бұрын
@@NatGeo youre mome.
@fokhrulislam5420
@fokhrulislam5420 Жыл бұрын
Where I can find the full documentary?
@jennylundgren2105
@jennylundgren2105 8 ай бұрын
Disney+ 👍
@turinmormegil7715
@turinmormegil7715 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder why they can't acess the wall behind. Would it collapse the top?
@josephibarra8405
@josephibarra8405 2 жыл бұрын
Either that or they just don’t want to damage anything
@michaelgermanovsky1793
@michaelgermanovsky1793 9 күн бұрын
Those bones are ventilation shafts for rooms behind the wall
@janisreasnor8687
@janisreasnor8687 11 ай бұрын
Chacmool..been there inside the pyramid got to see yhe Jaguar throne & the Chacmool figurine
@ThinkLascivious
@ThinkLascivious 3 жыл бұрын
Where is the full episode of this?
@altheaunertl
@altheaunertl 3 жыл бұрын
It looks like season one is on Amazon prime, but this seems to be season 2, which as far as I can fine, airs October 19th. I always wish they'd put that info in the video description.
@arunsd2108
@arunsd2108 3 жыл бұрын
@@altheaunertl what is the name of show on prime?
@altheaunertl
@altheaunertl 3 жыл бұрын
@@arunsd2108 Buried Truth of the Maya
@oniokami13
@oniokami13 3 жыл бұрын
@@altheaunertl Thank you
@amanjhariya3427
@amanjhariya3427 3 жыл бұрын
Black Market
@susancampos8959
@susancampos8959 2 жыл бұрын
Jaguar throne found and possibly the King of the Mayan at this pyarmind too. Is a big discovery. But unknown yet ? Theary at this time. As wall, at kown location is noted human bones in- cased in wall. So it's speculated King at burial site there. Very interesting. Good to know. For Mayan culture.
@billyclyde5129
@billyclyde5129 3 жыл бұрын
From 2:28 to around three. How did they know that bones had been hanging on that wall. There weren't any there in the film. Were they originally there and have since been removed?
@Theofficialmichael
@Theofficialmichael 2 жыл бұрын
The holes are the bones
@arkiu-himikoi
@arkiu-himikoi 2 жыл бұрын
@@Theofficialmichael what
@SokhiengTim
@SokhiengTim 3 жыл бұрын
Angkor and Maya has similar civilization.
@ojaskulkarni2296
@ojaskulkarni2296 3 жыл бұрын
Sokhieng Tim No
@jeniliciouscakoh1875
@jeniliciouscakoh1875 3 жыл бұрын
Mlso pohere to support
@voicetube
@voicetube 2 жыл бұрын
I came for the pronunciation of El Castillo (or at least Chichén Itzá) and I don't think they ever got spoken :-(
@pedrozatravel
@pedrozatravel Жыл бұрын
Back in the day anyone was allowed to go in, but bad apples ruined it.
@francestation
@francestation 3 жыл бұрын
It that blood on the altar?
@rtk406
@rtk406 Жыл бұрын
Is that jaguar made out of Pipestone?
@garrettg119
@garrettg119 3 жыл бұрын
Vary gooood
@SrimaniChakraborty
@SrimaniChakraborty 3 жыл бұрын
Good story 👍
@NatGeo
@NatGeo 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching this video! What's the most interesting thing you learned from it?
@SrimaniChakraborty
@SrimaniChakraborty 3 жыл бұрын
@@NatGeo As I said, I liked the story of Mayan pyramid, ei castillo and their activities inside the cave in a 3 minute video.
@nibiruresearch
@nibiruresearch 5 күн бұрын
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. They claim to be the ancestors of the Maya. 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 the next 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 Aztec sun stone is a warning for this event is known as Quetzalcoatl, Tonatiuh, 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 = Nibirul". Search: invisible planet 9 roest
@joel46n24
@joel46n24 Жыл бұрын
There's not alot of images of the inside of the pyramid. Or footage. Why so secretive ? That little room is all I can find.
@experiencethis360
@experiencethis360 Жыл бұрын
You got it. Look to the cutting of the stone. The inside chambers and older structures show that the rocks were much, much larger and cut with better precision.
@rudetoy8264
@rudetoy8264 15 күн бұрын
Where the earth penetrating radar when you need it🙄
@sharmaignemabano650
@sharmaignemabano650 3 жыл бұрын
T
@garrettg119
@garrettg119 3 жыл бұрын
I like the red soap stone more than the Jade
@ddpwe5269
@ddpwe5269 3 жыл бұрын
Oh wait, that wasn't panted red? Neat!
@dwaynezilla
@dwaynezilla Жыл бұрын
@@ddpwe5269 it's apparently painted with cinnabar
@ivaxnog6157
@ivaxnog6157 Жыл бұрын
Gaiko
@varunraj8981
@varunraj8981 3 жыл бұрын
Messi 🐐🐐🐐
@shahriarrahman3174
@shahriarrahman3174 3 жыл бұрын
Congrats King
@stichizen
@stichizen Жыл бұрын
Shows an amazing throne to NatGeo: “This is where he sat to witness thousands of sacrifices” We get it guys, for you the people of the Americas only focused on sacrifice before the holy Europeans arrived, they can show you a spoon and you’ll say that it’s main purpose was sacrifice.
@garrettg119
@garrettg119 3 жыл бұрын
Green
@justsomemegwithalongnose7116
@justsomemegwithalongnose7116 3 жыл бұрын
your first
@kongdont4319
@kongdont4319 3 ай бұрын
About 90 percent of artifacts have been stolen
@Flash-dc4gs
@Flash-dc4gs 3 жыл бұрын
Did your world end today? Mayan didn't
@Flash-dc4gs
@Flash-dc4gs 3 жыл бұрын
@@pavan5140 ikr it's cheesy...
@ScoobyFermentation
@ScoobyFermentation 3 жыл бұрын
Take down that wall!!!
@leo-qf9sz
@leo-qf9sz 2 жыл бұрын
Leave them alone!!!
@mctapper3112
@mctapper3112 11 ай бұрын
Old day human sacrifice , now day (christian) god sacrifice All this nonsanse its pegan worshiper
@Cloud-gc8qs
@Cloud-gc8qs 3 жыл бұрын
royal throne? Sacrafice? *ADIOS*
@garrettg119
@garrettg119 3 жыл бұрын
First
@rabeaw
@rabeaw 3 жыл бұрын
So,, everyone has to die one day
@kyleg4453
@kyleg4453 3 жыл бұрын
Jesus te ama!
@orionpk
@orionpk Жыл бұрын
Ellos no creían en fe cristiana
@justsomemegwithalongnose7116
@justsomemegwithalongnose7116 3 жыл бұрын
im 6th to comment wow yay
@justsomemegwithalongnose7116
@justsomemegwithalongnose7116 3 жыл бұрын
whoever is reading this is a mayan
@vishalkulkarni8224
@vishalkulkarni8224 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not
@echoman4202
@echoman4202 3 жыл бұрын
Evil kings would sit on their thrones and watch human sacrifices.
@thechatroom5620
@thechatroom5620 3 жыл бұрын
@@geviji1814 tell that to Pacal the Great. Thanks to him and his descendants we were able to admire the ruins in Palenque.
@garrettg119
@garrettg119 3 жыл бұрын
MMMMMMMM
@accimesylvia1129
@accimesylvia1129 2 жыл бұрын
Spanish cultures only
@teresafernandez9849
@teresafernandez9849 2 жыл бұрын
Why don't the USA ppl educate yourself more about Native intracasies, u r the most misinformed about Native ppl, and ur world is very small about Native ppl. Mexican Meztizo is 50 percent or more Native,. Meztizos marry and have kids, that Native DNA keeps getting stronger and the other weaker, and we love it! We were perfectly fine being and looking full Native, we didn't invite the horror! Of course ur gonna have some European influence, Spain ruled with an iron hand for centuries, but if u knew the intracasies of Native ppl, u could see how much the Mexicans still follow the Native ways, most of u don't even know that all Southwest tribes were Mexican!!
@Pipe_Piper
@Pipe_Piper 2 жыл бұрын
Looks other period and lesser.
@jcra4195
@jcra4195 2 жыл бұрын
Pure evil. This whole pyramid was constructed to sacrifice unwilling humans to their idol.
@teresafernandez9849
@teresafernandez9849 2 жыл бұрын
And the French guillotine was built to chop heads off over religion and politics, u burnt people at the stake in New England in the name of Christianity, u slaughter men women and children at wounded knee. This is the way they deal with the biggest human genocide in the history of mankind, make them look like undeserving savages so we won't be judged as badly,. The USA archiologists know we were no better or worse than all continents. They have always done this, they can't end a report without saying something about human sacrifice, that was the beginning of horrible propaganda against the Natives and Méxicans on the both sides of the border, and it has never stopped¡
@experiencethis360
@experiencethis360 Жыл бұрын
That's exactly what the Conquistadors and the Church wanted you to believe. They did such a good job that it is believed today...
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