The Founding of Mexico - Aztec Myths - Extra Mythology
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Huitzilopochtli, god of bloody victory, had promised the Mexica people a city. Before they would eventually settle down at Tenochtitlan, they wandered from place to place, inadvertently causing destruction on the orders of the violent god.
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A procession leads a woman up the steps of a great pyramid. The woman is to be the queen of the
Mexica, a new tribe of migrants that have come from a faraway place. However, no wedding will take place. The Mexica’s patron god, Huitzilopochtli, has other intentions.
hi extra credits can you feature me in the next video?
Hi. I'm really curious about what is your source for this particular story.
I believe I've never really heard of it, although probably I've always seen the historic events that lead to the foundation of Tenochtitlán rather than the history as seen through mythological events.
The Mexica came from an unknown land named Aztlán and became a somewhat nomad group who enden up under the domain of the Lord of Azcapotzalco, and after a while the Mexica ended up adoring a newborn god of war to justify their takeover of their neighboring towns. But I've never heard of a Huitzilopichtli's sister. So... I'm just curious. n_n
BUILD THAT WALL!
Huitzilopochtli was a asshole
😀😀😀 Love the video, I only wish it had spanish subtitles, so my daughter could understand it completely. Can viewers contribute with subtitles?
Well if the Norse Gods are Metal, than the Aztec Gods are Death Metal.
Obsidian Metal
I think it's more Grind Core...
i know right? i always thought that there should be an aztec themed death metall album. tons of gore in their myths
Loki once had his lips sown shut and has been strapped to a tree with venom dripping into his face for centuries, and the Norse gods were pretty cool with human sacrifice of enemies. Honestly, they're pretty death metal too, to be fair.
Well I say regular metal for Norse, since Norse God’s party way more often and get into rom foolery, while the Aztecs seem obsessed with flaying people.
Everyone gangsta til Extra Credits depicts cartoon violence
I think this is the first time they warn us about cartoon violence
It's a cartoon
McDogerson Jones they never did that before
Lol
@@GivemesubscribersIwantacheckma Well, to be fair, it was a particularly gruesome story.
Not gonna lie, Huitzilopochtli seems about as bad as his sister.
There's another story where Huitzilopochtli had another sister, Coyolxauhqui, who wanted the throne in heaven decided to kill her mother(Goddess of earth) by decapitation and eating her. She succeeded in decapitating the mom, but before eating her, huitzilopochtli was born from the corpse of her mom and decided to avenge her by killing his sister, Coyolxauhqui, and chopping her into pieces. But the mom, who at this point had grown two snake for heads, felt sad for her daughter and decided to forgive her which led Coyolxauhqui to stay alive even though she's still dismembered. Coyolxauhqui head is currently the moon, and she's planning her revenge to huitzilopochtli which will cause an apocalypse during an eclipse.
@@elg6197 Aztec Mythology, making GoT look like a children fairytale.
@Israel Salgado More than half of the Aesir pantheon are war gods and almost none of them are as psychotic. Odin is pretty bad at the whole idea of consent tho.
Well he is a god of war after all.
He was born fully as an adult to protect her mom Coatlicue from Coyolxautli and her 4400 brother and sisters (the countless stars of the sky) who wanted to kill her since they didn't wanted him to be born. He was armed with a "staff that spits fire" and with it he cut Coyolxautli into pieces and sent her back to the moon. Since then the Mexica became a warrior culture dedicated to conquer everyone.
Historicaly this leyends tell the shift of beliefs the Mexica had to justify their violent ascention to power. Coyolxautli was the godess of the moon and had a more passive role. Which can be understood since the Mexica were nomads after leving their original homeland called Aztlán and required the guidance of the nightsky to track their routes and travels. And after finding the lake of Texcoco they tried to settle down, however they became servants of the other "kingdoms" that arrived before them. After a while they became part of them and took over the Lord of Azcapotzalco, starting the conquering era for the Mexica. So you see, in a way Huitzilopochtli was born to kill Coyolxautli and the Mexica became the warriors as we know them.
When you learn about the Aztecs, you start to think that Cortez did nothing wrong.
Fun fact: the Aztecs believed that if a warrior died in battle, they would reincarnate as Hummingbirds.
All this blood and violence and they become a fucking hummingbird
@Gustavo Octavio deCampos bro, humming birds stab each other in the throat when fighting for food
@@andresibarra9914 blood drinkers
Unexpectedly wholesome for a pretty violent belief system.
That is..... _disappointing_ .......
Makes you wonder if one day an aztec warrior said to another one: *Are we the baddies?*
And he was answered: We do our Gods will. That cannot be bad, because He decides what is good and what is evil, thefore we are good, and our victims deserve to suffer, because they are not us. Now stop being a heretic or they will cut out your still beating heart next.
Ribbitgoesthedog Lastnamehereyeah “Do the gods love good because it’s good, or is something good because it’s loved by the gods?” -Socrates
@@captmoroni A simple question, with a power of thousand nuclear bombs.
Imagine it... almost three thousand years ago an old man said those simple words, and with a wave of his hand, the gods themselves died.
Cool guy, eh?
nah dude, they couldn't be the baddies, the blood of their enemies was powering up the battle against the evil moon godess and her 400 brothers
-Every one is the hero in his own history
-Dood we just saw 20 soldiers being cut open. I think that I will need treatment for pts, do you know a good psychologist?.
-I did but he… killed himself… while he was listening to me.
-Well, at least the exercise has being good for you, you look thinner.
-Yea… exercise.
Who needs warnings when you watched all the “cartoon violence” in Extra History?
*finishes video* Wait.....never mind
It's more like gore and body horror
Yeah, it was definitely more extreme than usual Extra History videos. The Aztecs were savage af
Yeah. XD
First thought: Well that seems uneccesary
Second thought:Oh god, yikes. complaint withdrawn.
None of it affected me until they skinned the girl
The first thing Huitzilopochtli did after being born was killing this other 400 sibilings when they tried to kill his mother Coatlicue. He cut their leader's head, Coyolxauhqui, and threw it to the sky like a soccer ball where it became the moon and the other sibilings the stars.
Aztec myths are the rivals in violence with the norse mythology
Coyolxahqui did cut off Coatlique's head, but two giant serpents' heads arose from the neck stump.
and don't forget that she wears a skirt made of snakes, a belt with a skull as a buckle and a necklace made from sacrificial hands and hearts
Ehhh, I'm pretty darn well-versed in Norse mythology and I have to say, the sheer level and detail of brutal violence in those stories doesn't really compete at all with Aztec stories.
Bowie Twombly Ya the Aztecs and Norse both took being chosen for sacrifice as a sign of privilege.
In the ball game the Aztecs played with the loops on the side of the wall, the winner was often times Sacrificed instead of the loser.
@@noah2339 That was the Maya.
The Aztecs always sacrificed people from other tribe's rather than their own people.
You know its some Aztec history when the comedic cartoon history videos have to have some fairly justified trigger warnings :P
Not to mention that the eagle eating a snake on a cactoo is still on Mexican flag. Just look closely at the centre.
ans we are proud of it
hitorijuunin Eso es cierto ( that is true )
I had already knew about that being on the flag, but never knew it was of Aztec origins
Proud of it. If you listen to our national hymn it says "if you touch our land we'll f*ing kill you! We're ready for war!"
Es lo único que me decepciono un poco...
Is there any wonder, why the Aztecs where so despised by their neighbors?
Andreas Widham
but the spanish were the bad because they conquered native americans...
@@ppg7373 And one of the reasons they managed to do that, was because everyone hated the Aztecs.
Same as the incas in south america
@@ppg7373 "conquered", might want to change that to attempted genocide, and successful in some cases. Also, people being murderous imperialist dicks doesn't give you free pass to also be one, or the world would be an even crappier place
Because the mexicas were abusive with the smaller tribes. They use to kidnap their people to sell them as slaves or use them as sacrifice for the gods. So when the spanish came they make an alliance to eliminate them.
People call what they did to the princess incomprehensible but I suspect there were very cynical political motives. The Aztec were probably divided between those who wanted war and empire and those who just wanted to assimilate and live in peace. So the war mongers decided to provoke a scandal so body-horror type horrific and violating that their nation would NEVER be able to come back from this, making the peace faction obsolete. Imagine if top military leaders in a neighboring country decided to go behind the official government and nuke your capital out of the blue. After that diplomacy would quickly be replaced by siege mentality and "us vs them" survival mode even if about half of the country later say they "disagree" with the nuking decision.
Now that the Aztec relationship to other nations had been reset, they were free to conquer. In the aftermath religion was used to justify the coup. That's what all this sounds like.
You dont have to do a what if, look at WWl and the faction who murdered Ferdinand, they did it to make sure war was inevitable
Exactly what I thought
Didn't something like that happen to get Japan into WW2?
Huitzilopochtli seems like a complicated god, leading his people to find their land while also causing them a lot of problems.
Shawn Heatherly it lowkey reminds me of the whole "40 years in the desert" from the old testament. I know its not the same but still.
Shawn Heatherly Yeah, that seems unusual- *reads Old Testament*- ... oh...
That's the problem when you follow a war god, he always want more war
He wanted war...
Well he his a God of War
For everyone watching this. Huitzilopochtli's eagle is still depicted in Mexico's flag.
Si
It is a pretty rock 'n' roll image.
I knew
Yep.
Totes
Damn, Even Kratos would look at Huitzilkpochtli and tell him "Bro you need to chill"
Pretty much
Kratos would kill him for sure
Hi. I am a Mexican living in Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). I am a bit confuse. Here in mexico we are teaching that the Aztecs were nomads walking around Mexico trying to found their promised land. They started their long walk in the mythical city of Aztlan. But I never heard about that princes being sacrificed. I read that in one of the most reliable sources of the Pre-Hispanic times: historia general de las cosas de la nueva españa from Bernardino de Sahagún. The book is super huge, like two bibles, but is very interesting, I recommend you that book guys.
do you know if there is an English translation of the book ?
@@LeBaron101 And in the process the Spanish wiped out the Aztec culture of mass human sacrifice. I say it is at minimum an even trade.
However, though Cortez wiped out the Aztec culture, I should note the Aztec people were not all killed. The Aztecs still have living descendants. Today they are called Mexicans and are mostly Catholic. And I would wager most Mexicans do not desire to return to the days of mass human sacrifice.
@@FinalLugiaGuardian They where different times, our folks back in Europe burned people and didn´t took showers at all. I think that we where like ancient Japan. Proud people and brave warriors. But that was removed from the Spanish. i al so noticed that almost every British Colonies is now successful (The common well), from the other hand, almost all the old Spanish colonies are pretty fuck up
@@LeBaron101 Yes, the Aztecs took the old religion model from another Pre-Hispanic cultures, such as the Olmecas, Toltecas and Tepanecas, they spoke different languages but they shared the same religion. What the Aztecs did with the religion was a controlling system. They sacrificed people because they believed that the sun was running with human blood. if they stooped doing that the world will end. But in the reality they sacrificed people to control the population of their enemies, like the Tlaxcaltecas.
@@m.j.vazquez4720 In deed there is and english version. Is divided in 12 books, the spanish version have the 12 books in one super huge one: www.amazon.com/dp/160781157X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=7a8f5654-37f5-4688-a266-a74309cad748&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0874800005&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=2HCWQE4RW21QX9E9WCD2&pf_rd_r=2HCWQE4RW21QX9E9WCD2&pf_rd_p=7a8f5654-37f5-4688-a266-a74309cad748
I don't need to be warned, I think I already know these myths well enough
*after watching the video*
Never mind the drawings were kinda scary
I was prepared to see that actually. I'm enthusiastic about Aztec civilization, religion and culture.
Good thing the Spaniards did what they did though. If the Aztecs still exist, human sacrifice would be a normal thing.
2:05 Dr. Strange would like to have a word with you.
The first Myth to have a disclaimer at the begining would be an Aztec one.
Yeah i studied Precolumbian history in college and it's like a meat grinder for a thousand years.
@@benjaminishere I love history of the Americas before 1492, idk why it's very vibed out and mysterious. Almost mystical.
It was either them, or a video about Phoenician mythology. It had to happen eventually, I guess.
wargriffin5 what up with Phoenician violence? Is it messed up as well?
man you weren't joking about that violence this is dark
Idk if anyone expected that
Im mexican and holy shit did not know the full story.
@Hoàng Nguyên Yhea am pretty sure the Spanish cutting the hands of the Tainos for hold and leaving them to bleed to death isn't. Or exterminating other tribes and imposing their religion by force isn't. I could go on. Tlaxcalans weren't really nice eather they helped the Spanish conquered other tribes that dint do anything to them. Seems like they became what they hated.
@Hoàng Nguyên Alot of Cultures were sadistic bro. Spanish use to torture people atleast the Aztecs drugged you so that you wouldn't feel pain. USA whipped out most of the native Americans in the same amount of time as the Aztec empire. Germany had Nazis , Vikings were pretty fucking crazy but get glorified by that. I could go on about Africans and Asians. Do you get my point. Usa, Spain wiped out and killed more Native Americans than the Aztecs in the same. amount of time.
It's always the shortest ones who gotta be the most badass.
"The people would abandon her? Her, Sorceress Supreme?"
There's a really messed-up Doctor Strange story in there somewhere.
The plot for the "Multiverse of Madness" confirmed?
Luckily there's ruins of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City so you can learn more about the Aztecs
Call it the Huey Teocalli.
I freaking love that place. I love learning about my heritage and its history. The bad thing is there is not enough time to take it all in or be there when they do special lectures. Right around the corner to the museum is Chapultepec Castle where you see how Spanish nobility lived.
I heard a large church was built in the place of the temple, I think I might be wrong. Never been to the District Federál.
@@redornament3248 i think your right
@@redornament3248 the Temple is actually next to the church they actually took pieces from the temple to build the church
My mom would always call my brother “Huitzilopochtli”, even though he was probably the most innocent in our family, and when we found out (when we were visiting family in DF, or CDMX, it was renamed recently) it was the god of war, I couldn’t stop laughing. Glad your focusing on Aztec! Love your channel and really like the new mythology part!!
i want to congratulate you. for not calling the mexicas "Aztecs"
As a Mexican I had been waiting for this for years...
Gracias por hacer este video chicos!
Hi am Nigeria n will love to have a Mexican friend
The aztecs were an empire, just like the Roman Empire and the British empire. The were cruel, explotative, and built a mighty civilization upon the corpses of the nations subjugated to their dominion. That's the reason so many native nations joined the Cortez and the spanish against the aztecs, dreaming with freedom. And of course, the spanish, being an empire themselves, betrayed them and subjugated them the same way the aztecs did before. That's how imperialism works.
I never thought if it like that. Wild. I feel a little more enlightened
Huitzilopochtli: "MY PEOPLE ARE TO RULE WITH WEAPONS! NOT WITCHCRAFT!"
Me: "Whatever you say, Khorne." XD
Blood for the blood God, Skulls for the skulls throne, Korn to the Korn flakes!
Wonder if the Aztecs had viewer discretion warnings for their kids.
Hah who am I kidding?
One of their gods is literally called The Flayed Man
The Aztecs were actually the first civilization to have compulsory public education for all citizens.
@Mullerornis but there's a difference. Grimms' stories were designed to be scary so children didn't go out to the forest...
In Mexico these stories were part of the "history"
@@weldonwinI´ll have you know Xipe-Totec flayed himself for our sins and corn! The nerve on some people, implying such an innocent deity could be anything but wholesome...
Taking your kid to mass-murder day at the temple was probably considered fun for the whole family
"Hey Tzolotl how did we found our empire again?"
"Well, it all started when we flayed a girl alive and made a boy wear her skin in front of her father..."
"..."
"What?"
"Are we the baddies?"
Of course not... we were just following command of the best god ever... how can that be bad?
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka That god is morbid, but hey, at least he kept his promise to his followers, he did grant them a land to build a empire.
*Me Before Video* Pfft, a warning for cartoon violence??
*Me After Video* Mom come pick me up in scared
No one:
Aztecs: *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!*
**tears your heart out**
HARRIERS FOR THE CUP
- a tribe of warriors
- loses every single battle.
Germanic tribes were repeatedly beaten by the Romans until the tide turned
That was before they became the triple allience. The Mexicas were actually a group of three tribes and managed to rule from the pacific to the atlantic in the center of Mexico. For context, continental Mexico is as big as western europe, some of the states in Mexico are bigger than european countries, the mexicas basically ruled over several different countries.
Its awesome seeing the myths of your culture on Extra Myths!
Just a recomendation: Ask for help regarding prinunciation
Chapultepec isn't pronounced "Kapultepek".
The "Ch" sounds the same as when you say "Chocolate".
more like the ch on "Chill"
Its like an x,my main language is portuguese so we have a lot of words like that too
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka That is the same Ch sound, like in Churro!
Or as in China
@@TomoyoYumemi or as in Chips!
Man alive, no wonder the Aztec's enemy's jumped at the chance to help Cortes.
Cortes at his height had over 100,000 men, mostly made up of natives, enemies of the Aztecs and even entire subjugated tribes which wanted to give the Aztecs and a damn good thrashing, which at the time would be a truly massive army, the only others who could pull in those numbers was the Ottoman Empire, and let me tell you, when the Aztecs finally surrendered at the end of the Siege of Tenochititlan, the natives did give them a damn good thrashing
@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 where do you get your numbers from?
@@farmfarming2275 I think thy come from the chronicles written by the priests that were with Cortez.
@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 How the turntables turn.
Also because their choice was die under the Aztecs or die under the Conquistadors, be certain that war was not a war of a social Revolution, that war was a war of attrition. They were trying to be spare.
you want a Chaotic Evil theocracy model? look no further, the Aztec pantheon is here
@Mullerornis Its unfair to judge religions only by their canon. Hindu scriptures contains violent stories (gods killing each other) but these stories do not reflect practice because they are allegories.
Latin (Roman Catholic) Christianity in late Medieval was violent not due to scriptures, but due the politics and infighting among Medieval clergy and nobility
@Mullerornis christian empires and theocracies would be lawful evil.
@Mullerornis LOL....
Well, Mexico got you demonitised for violence there, Extra Credits.
Actually, this is exactly how WE teach OUR myths, with extra violence
This is so light compared to our history books
@@tinajerosilvajoseluis5713 and if more people don't agree with you, make your own myth, with extra blackjack and hookers.😁
Actually, we modern Mexicans are light compared to Aztec. Imagine organizing wars (Flower Wars), just to capture prisoners for sacrifice...
There,complete with having burrito while wearing sombrero and watching Mask wrestling. Welcome to Mexican school.
And behold Mexico City. If I'm remembering my myths right.
yes, one of the biggest cities in the world, build literaly over a lake...
Yup and literally sinking at the moment due being build on a lake.
@@zorritoMk he... details... =P
@@zorritoMk yep. Looking back not a very good idea. Much like building New Orleans at sea level in a swamp. Good for a port, no so much for a town.
@Rafael Gonzalez actually is for mexican goverment descitiions.
"hey look , we have all this fresh water under us... sure we can consume it without any repercution right?" says goverment
actual engineers "but.. the city literaly floats on..." gets extra dirty money... "ok, bring the pumps"
No but for real. Aztecs were friggin metal. My family still has horror stories passed down to us from when the aztecs were in power
Any story?
tell the best one
@@luisflores5002 yeah
Wow
yeah... we were kings
That explains the design on the Mexican flag
Fun fact: That eagle eating the snake over the cactus is the national emblem of Mexico.
No way
And the flag
you didnt knew that?
Bottle flip challenge is such a millenial fashion
*Aztecs and Mayans that used to play with Baleros* : We are a joke to you?
And you can still find them in Mexico, alongside yo-yos and spinning tops we still love those things.
*Me hearing cartoon violence*: it can't be that bad
*after the video*: .......HOLY SH*T
Mexica: "We finally found a home with people who welcome us!"
Huitzilopochtli: "... the F**K is THIS?!"
I'm Filipino and is fascinated by the aztecs
Its documented that mexican indians (like the aztecs and tlaxcaletecas) and mexican mestizo made their way to the Philippines as soldiers, farmers etc. and stayed. You might be part aztec...
I’m Mexican and love the Philippines.
I'm Smedley Butler and I come here to wreck all of y'all's lives in the name of the greatest racket in history.
"That story went from Slayer levels of bloodshed all the way to Dream Theater-esque serenity", this sentence is enough to guarantee a like from me!
Thumbs up for this mythical story, one of the best so far, bloody but good
Kim and Chloe: "Name another iconic duo"
Aztec myths and gruesome violence: "hold my sacrificial blood"
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULL FOR THE SKULL THRONE!! AND KORN FOR THE "KHORNE"-FLAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOR KHORNE
LET THE GALAXY BURN
*TECHNO NEVA DIES*
HAHAHAHAHA
Extra History: This episode contains intense cartoon violence.
Me: Well it can't be that bad, I watched all the history videos!
Me at the end: I'm sorry for doubting you.
Not the god who has your own best interests at hearth
"best interests at heart" I see what you did there.
@Carlos Eduardo Canto Escamilla If were going down the polytheistic theory route for Yahweh in the Semetic pantheon, then he is probably the most successful war god in any mythos. Most war gods just fight and compel their followers to fight, Yahweh essentially annihilated his entire pantheon.
@@RAClaus3 Annihilated is too strong a word. "For I am a greedy god." It's not like he killed the other gods, he simply told his followers to ignore them. Up until the Muslim conquest there were still followers of the other gods and before Rome went Christian they were pretty mainstream (alongside the Jews and Christians) in the Eastern Med.
I think that he is rather interested on ripping it out.
You have surprised me, as many times before.
It was the most complete and detailed story of the founding of Mexico I've ever heard! Keep up the good work!
Huitzilopotchi: The Mexica Said you were Torturing them with Scorpions and spiders n' insects!
Malinalxochitl: No!
Both of them: *starts arguing while the battle commences*
Then God Appeared.
GOD: YOU TWO! STOP FIGHTING! Malinalxochitl! You Put Spiders Down a Man's Pants.
Cartoon Violence? Oh no I gotta get my parents
Uhh maybe you should’ve watched the video before commenting that...
@@abudgie6909 It really wasn't that bad
@@abudgie6909, but he got to get his parents first... He can't watch it without their permission.
;)
It's a joke guys...
Oh gosh... Extra Credits, I love your work so much, the art in this one is amazing, but the pronunciation... I can provide you with examples.
Also, "el águila en el nopal" is very important to us. Hutzilopochtli said that in that place, Méjico would be founded.
I'm pretty hyped that you're covering the place where I live! I want to see your depiction of quetzalcoatl, since he's the most important figure, culture-wise.
Oh, and I hope you can cover "La Malinche", and the screw up Moctezuma had. (They were Aztecs, Christopher Columbus came, and was mistook for a god that had returned. They gave the spanish gold, women and more in an attempt to please them)(Oh, or maybe you can talk about the Mayans, the piramids, Nahuatl, legends... Maybe our independence day, being September 16...)
If you need help or pointers on your research, be sure to contact me!
Ok so, you got the Christopher Columbus part wrong it was actually Hernan Cortes the one who was mistook as Quetzalcoatl, since he was white, and the prophecy of the return of Quetzalcoatl talked about that, and Christopher Columbus never made it to México, he only landed in the Caribbean islands, but yeah i agree with you its pretty cool they covered the mythology of our country.
They have the incas next on extra history
@@yollotl999 Shoot, you're right! Thanks for the tip!
0:00 oh well,farewell monetization
I'm really exctited to see the history of my country and my city! Just a minor detail.... The "Ch" in 'Chapultepec' is pronounced the same way as the "Ch" in 'Chest'. Great work you guys!!
Ok... how long did you have to train to get those names right?
Well... Some are mispronounced (like Chapultepec) but overall he did a great work!
and those were the "easy ones", you have the goddess of death Mictlāntēcutli, the god of the night sky Tezcatlipoca, the god of the morning star (venus) Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli ...
even we the Mexicans have trouble pronouncing some of them correctly...
@@mcrn2516 mictlantecuhtli is the God of dead the Goddes Will be mictecacihuatl
He didn't even bother trying to pronounce the 'tl' sound. I don't blame him. It's tricky.
Quetzalcoatl is the easiest by far lmao
Tenochtitlan: *Exists
Cortez: I am about to end this entire man's whole career
And the Aztecs had seemingly crafted him a way to destroy them
I am so hyped for the next extra history series
I discovered this channel recently and have binged watched the mythology episodes, you guys are so creative! there is so much content on your channel that i don't know where to begin.
So that’s what my ancestors did for a living!
Fun times
Or for an early grave.
Glad I'm American now.
If you want a full depth of the Aztecs go to Invicta channel
Since the Aztecs/Mexicas were almost completely massacred when the spanish conquistadors came (or died of old world illnesses) it is extremely probable your ancestry comes not from them, but one of the subjugated people they took prisoners and tribute from
"God of Amicable Relations" would have been a very different game. Mash "X" to calmly discuss your grievances with the minotaur!
Does Quetzalcoatl fill that niche? Does any God, aside from Jesus?
As a little kid I used to adore the Aztecs, but when I first heard this story and other equally bloody ones (like the one where they dismember the moon goddess and throw her parts down the pyramid steps) it traumatized me for a while. It wasn't until I reached my teens that I was able to appreciate the Aztecs once again despite how horrible some things are to us modern people.
Yup the same, I liked the Temples, agriculture and civilization but balked at the SHEER NUMBERS they sacrificed regularly and the level of cruelty that accompanied them. Their society on a whole was extremely desperate and dire if you weren’t of the ruling class. But for all of that what they accomplished, built and expanded on was extraordinary. They were as savage, ferocious and terrifying as they were learned, beautiful and intelligent.
Hey, Extra credits, I've been watching you for years, thanks for doing something about my culture, love it!
4:45 That's some evil horror movie stuff right there!
I actually know about the Aztec's history and rituals but not so much their myths so this was extra fun for me also I laughed at the warning but actually was kind of impressed with the level of violence you showed didn't think you would commit that hard props to the artist it isn't easy to draw well that level of violence
This is highly disturbing.
You must be new to human history.
Baryon Prime I’m not but its still messed up
@@FierceDeityBaryon This isn't new to human history, this is humanity at it's darkest.
Last time I was this early cortez hadn't yet came and smashed it.
that dancing thing was straight out some surrealist avant garde horror movie
2:20 I love how his face is like:
“O-okay mom, I Swear Revenge! . . . I guess.”
Well done. One of the best Aztec myths
¡Muchísimas gracias por hacer este video!
You know what I like about mythology? No matter what crazy story you will try to create, someone has done it way more weirder than you can imagine long ago
I can't imagine the mental scar the king probably had from witnessing that...
dont worry, you dont have to... that king was ulterly defeated and their people sacrificedd also
Very well put together. Nice presentation
What a good episode, congrats extra credits team.
great vid!!
>Extra Credits makes it's first Aztec-focused episode
>First Extra Credits video with a violence disclaimer
Me: Yep, that checks out
*MORE BLOOD FOR THE ANCESTORS!!!*
Have gooseflesh, as always. Keep doing this show pleeeeeeease
Yes!!! Thank you for more Aztec content~
As a Mexican I can say that the Aztec where actually nicer than they seem
Entre ellos na'más yo creo
How so? This is some pretty messed up stuff.
This is an intense story of faith that in some ways reminds me of Moses
Moses was a total psycho too? :-/
If Moses was a total psychopath
Yea, but in this tale the town of israel kills everyone cano style.
I was more thinking of Abraham and the commandment to sacrifice his son. As in, do this sacrifice to prove your loyalty to me. Only this time with God letting the sacrifice actually go through and not stopping it at the last moment.
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 yes, he told Joshua how he should level the Cannanite cities as an offering to god (totally not human sacrifice like those Moloch worshippers)
extra mythology is my favorite of all the extra topics
Amazing video! Thank you Extra Credits for talking about my Native Country these past few videos and please continue to do so, a few mispronounced names but hey, nobody's perfect. In any case, thank you and please keep it up. Of you guys read this, please talk about Mexico in Extra History
Yall these comments are giving me second thoughts about watching this video.
Edit: *OH GOD*
by GOD you are talking about Huizilopochtli right?
Are you guys thinking about doing an episode on Slavic myths?
Yeah would like that one too!
I would like to say, the artwork & coloring here is phenomenal! I don't know if this level of detail would fit all of your videos, but if you're covering Aztec/Inca/Maya-based or inspired culture, it fits the existing historical art wonderfully.
How about covering the Olmecs or Anasazi?
I loved it... As a Mexican history teacher, and as a Mexican National myself, I approve of this video. Thanks for accurately presenting the myth of the founding of Tenochtitlan. Best wishes to the team of Extra History from the US-Mexico border!
Por alguna razon me entretengo con esta clase de videos 👍👍 Saludos a nuestros hermanos de México 🇲🇽🇲🇽desde Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷❤
Fun fact: The FX-05 Xiuhcóatl (Fire Serpent in the Náhualt language) is the standard rifle of the Mexican army and has that name in honor of the snake-shaped sword of Huitzilopochtli
wait it aint a sword
literally a fire breathing snake
nvm
read wikipedia
We need a hextra history onf the conquest of Mexico and the seige of tenochtitlan. that was one good battle.
That were three battles, the battle in La calzada, some type of bridge, the battle in El Templo Mayor, when the tlatloani (emperor) was slayed with a rock in the head, and the siege of Tenochtitlan that took only three months (very short cause others siege take years)
Just make a couple videos about Cortez, he's a very interesting figure, greedy yes but incredibly intelligent and a shrewd operator, he left Spain with some 11 ships and 500 men and came back having conquered an entire empire
More like this, loved it
**CARTOON VIOLENCE INTENSIFIES**
The names for Aztec gods are what happens when my cat walks acroos the keyboard
First time you guys do a “viewer discretion is advised” message and it had to be the Aztecs to cause it lol Great video, nice animations!
Love the slayer and dream theater references
Huitzilopochtli - he will ruin your day and eat your heart.
Also, anyone else feeling bad for the king who had the trauma of seeing someone dance in his own daughter's skin?
EH:Founding of Mexico!
Me: Oh cool!
EH: Viewer discression is adviced...
Me: Hmmm yeah....sounds about right..
I need more of this 😱😱
Nicely told.