Chavin De Huantar and the Religious Revolution

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[@AncientAmericas]

Goods as advertised.

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They need to be a BIG channel, so good!

[@nicholaswolff615]

The grammatically correct statement is “This one the FEW small channels …..”. To say “ one of the only” just doesn’t make sense.

[@hademvids]

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[@TeethToothman]

​@@nicholaswolff615 super inappropriate, Nick. This isn't English Class and that's jerk behavior.

[@corygingras1030]

This is honestly the best channel for precolumbian America documentaries. Keep up the good work 👍

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@celdur4635]

I'd like to give you props! as a Peruvian i'm very happy there is going to be content about our ancient civilizations in English! One important thing i wish you had mentioned was how they diverted the river after it flooded their valley, and they took the opportunity to build underground canals to create noises and awe visitors.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! The books I read (if I'm remembering correctly that is) said that the canals moved rain water and water that they poured in there. I wasn't aware that the river was diverted into it or maybe I just missed it, but that certainly would make sense. I appreciate you pointing that out!

[@celdur4635]

@@AncientAmericas When i visited there a few years ago there was an archeological expedition from several universities, including some from the USA, that were investigating the canals. Apparently the Chavin diverted the river that went through their valley to avoid floods and part of it was redirected through underground canals underneath their whole temple complex, some of the canals where worked to the point of being able to create sound and the Chavin priests would be able to manipulate the sound with their instruments. In fact there was a ritual where a person or group of people were surrounded by dozens of priests each with their own instrument and they would play sounds to them. They also told us that, by their calculations, if a lot of those were redirected to a person it would be fatal. And due to the size of the ritual ground it most likely was used in that way from time to time. I'm sure it was an awesome display of power to be able to harm someone at a distance without using a blunt instrument. Power of the gods. I also remember they told us that the goal of the mission was to restore at least some of the canals so they could hear and understand what kind of sounds they used back then.

[@AncientAmericas]

@@celdur4635 Very interesting! I did come across a lot of research that had been done on the acoustics of the interior of the temple but ultimately, I left it out of the script. Maybe someday I can make a follow up.

[@victoriousmax75]

I guess i'm not the only one interested in ancient history but it's 'my' ancient history lol. why is he making videos of our ancient cultures?... i guess cause he's as passionate about ancient history as us, you have a weird name by the by, and he made a video about it before me. Oh well. I can't be mad at that. It's my fault for not making a video before him.

[@gaemr_o5147]

@@celdur4635 Death by sound, holy cow. Are there examples of that happening anywhere else on earth?

[@BronzeAgeMan1350]

Discovered this channel yesterday night, binged watched/learned everything!

[@AncientAmericas]

Awesome! I'm glad you liked it!

[@brendonuc]

this is great thanks, I really enjoyed it. There are a few things to be aware of here. One is that the nasal excretion is actually the result of Yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina) powder insufflation. Yopo acts as a powerful hallucinogen that contains Bufotenin, Dimethyltryptamine and 5-MeO-DMT. Mescaline cactus species of the region have never been recorded to have been insulfated but are almost always prepared via some kind of liquid boiling extraction and ingestion. Also, some sources describe the 'axis mundi' totem in the temple as having been part of trials that even 'commoners' may have had access to on certain occasions or in shamanic 'trials'. There is an account and references to primary sources in 'The Dawn of Everything.' Of coruse noone can know whether or not this is the case, its just an interesting twist on the typical story. Thanks for doing these and hope to see many more.

[@AncientAmericas]

Good stuff! Thank you!

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

I don't think Yopo would have been used this far west, as the Cebil tree (A. colubrina) is both native to the area and much more abundant in psychoactives like bufotenin. I also believe the DNA evidence found on ancient snuff trays point to Cebil being used in this area much more frequently than A. peregrina.

[@etchalaco9971]

chavin de Huatar reveals, megalithic work, hydraulic engineering, underground galleries, theatrical devices, acoustic science, building codes, ritualistic use of hallucinogens, monolithic art, Shamanism,

[@whyease4864]

i found you via my homescool teacher and i loved your way of teaching i truly dont understand how you are mot as big as channels like crash course keep it up and i hope you gain recognition

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Its a truly satisfying compliment to hear that teachers are showing these to students and that students are actually liking them! In time, the channel will grow but for now, I just like making these videos. I'm glad you're enjoying them!

[@cabwaylingo_]

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[@v.e.7236]

Just recently hooked into your channel and have, so far, thoroughly enjoyed the content. History has been a passion of mine since the age of 8 years old, when I found a stash of arrow heads and other stone tools, while walking through the woods behind our house. A representative from the Smithsonian came and purchased what I had dug up (I was offered a hundred dollars, big money for an eight year old), as well as sending a team of archeologists to excavate the site. Oddly, I never persued my interests in archeology or geology, but have a huge collection of arrow heads and other stone/obsidian pieces.

[@mauricio9564]

Much love,your channel is a hidden gem,keep the good work.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you sir!

[@zam6877]

It's incredible to delve into totally unknown cultures/societies...in a way it's like discovering new worlds I can't express the gratitude to you offering this experience to me and all the viewers Thank you 😊

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying it!

[@mojavefry2617]

Great video, dude. I love studying Andean cultures, and you made a great summary. I hate to be “that guy”, but you mispronounced some words. Quinoa is pronounced “keen-wa” usually and the l in soldering is silent. Keep up the good work!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Don't worry about being "that guy". I'm not going to improve if I don't know what I'm messing up.

[@dianeweiss4562]

I was going to mention solder, but please look up “bas relief”, also.

[@axelmurphy2397]

the L is soldering is not silent, americans just say it wrong lmao

[@adamseward4713]

Also the ch in Chavin is a hard fricative, as in Charles

[@annepoitrineau5650]

True...but as we do not know how these people called themselves, whatever name we give them is wrong. :)@@adamseward4713

[@tamarab5751]

One of the best channels I've ever binged. And I've binged a lot of them!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@leesenger3094]

I honestly appreciate greatly your dedication to in depth analysis of these fascinating Culture's Histories and Arts! Gratitude!!!

[@electroflame6188]

Seeing as you spoke of the Amazon this episode, will you be doing a video on the Amazon Basin civilization in the future?

[@AncientAmericas]

Yes! We'll be hitting the Amazon before the summer is out.

[@HVLLOW99]

@@AncientAmericas Awesome!

[@foxhound963]

Awesome

[@rqc4243]

Wow I really appreciate the high quality of this video, it is just so clear and easy to understand! Thank you so much, it helps a lot.

[@AncientAmericas]

You're welcome!

[@Varrivale]

Hey! One of my archeology friends once told me that he entered accidentally one of the passages in the old temple and almost got lost. He claimed to have heard a lot of weird stuff from everywhere in the temple in pitch darkness, creepiest thing he's ever experienced apparently.

[@AncientAmericas]

I totally believe that. I didn't discuss this in the video but there's been a lot of studies done on the acoustics of the temple and how they work. Apparently they can channel sounds very well and I'd expect and any little sound would be carried through there.

[@adamseward4713]

Happened to me too, edge of panic. Not the sounds though. Others have experienced the sophisticated (and eerie) acoustic anomolies

[@annepoitrineau5650]

yes, this is because the acoustics of these passages (used in initiation ceremonies) were designed to facilitate noises etc to impress fear on the person going through initiation.

[@jesusberrocal2556]

​@@adamseward4713soy peruano y si es verdad sobre lo que dice asustan ai en la catedral de lima abajo hay miles de calaveras asu si vaz asu no duermes te digo de experiencia soy peruano de lima

[@trevorkincaid5059]

You have great videos, thank you for them. You have been invaluable in helping me understand ancient American civilizations as inspiration for my fantasy world.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! If you don't mind me asking, is this a fantasy world for a story, DND, a game or something else? I enjoy world building discussions.

[@bird2793]

Wow...this video really brought me back to high school. This one art teacher was really good at summarizing what different cultures valued in their work. That's how "IT'S THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO RIVERS!" became a meme among people who took art history. He also wanted to recreate the stele in his backyard.

[@AncientAmericas]

Dang. Did he ever recreate one?

[@bird2793]

@@AncientAmericas Probably not; He was full of these big project ideas. A hot tub heated like a Roman bath, a pair of Assyrian lamassus for his front door...but he recently opened an escape room in my hometown with his best friend (the European History teacher), so he was able to finish something! His main mojo is ceramics, so that is what took up the most space in his heart. (I think his biggest dream was to someday make his pots 'sing' when tapped, like ancient Chinese porcelain...)

[@miketacos9034]

The Early Horizon Period is the kind of historical terms we need more of.

[@RowdyBoy82]

I can't believe a video as incredible as this has less than 1,000 likes. More people need to take interest in ancient world cultures that aren't Eurocentric. We have endless lessons in school, "world history", that only focus on Greek, Roman, Anglican, German, and British history when there are advanced and respectable cultures throughout the rest of the world that I haven't even heard of till I was in my late 30's. It's a disserevice to multiculturalism.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Don't sweat the number of likes. Some flowers just bloom later than others.

[@thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888]

Heck separate Bronze Age and Ancient Greece from the concept of "Western Civilization" as that concept honestly hinders the study of Ancient Greece.

[@kurtmill9080]

I love watching these videos of yours. Sometimes I find these ancient history videos so resonant and I wonder if I was there. Who knows.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Very interesting. Some of what you mention here made me think of Göbekli Tepe, which also spread miniature local imitations in the villages around it, for instance, and which may well have been a hub for cultural exchange under a pilgrimage pretext for all the Fertile Crescent in the Mesolithic and earliest Neolithic period.

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Gobekli tepe is a model of the Zodiac, that same zodiac is expressed in the dual staff welding character, the fanged god is a perfect facsimile of Ashura, or Medusa, the hundred headed God. The 7 headed leviathan appears to be the constellation of Hydra. For whatever reason we are seeing cultures on opposite sides of the globe practicing the same interpretation of the Celestial order

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@uncannyvalley2350 - I looked at it that way and I don't see it apparent: the circles of symbols are not yet "complete" in the 12-signs sequence or anything that clearly resembles it, the number of pillars varies from temple to temple... most icons seem unrelated.

[@uncannyvalley2350]

@@LuisAldamiz well it was made 12,000 years ago, but it does demonstrate alignments with the Soltices and features animal motifs that we still use today, signs like Scorpio, and Pleiades, the bird. That's what all the Megaliths were for, how else do they know when to plant and harvest crops, or to go down to the sea to collect shellfish, there are cave paintings and Venus carvings 25,000 years old that demonstrate the same 13 lunation cycle of the Moon, something Women have known about since before the last Ice Age, if you catch my drift

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Look at it this way, 12 X 3 is 36, times ten is 360, and each one of those stones has three bags inscribed along the top, 3 arcs of ten minutes, 72 years each, 216 years total. 10 of those is 2160 the length of an astrological age, and also the sum of the interior angles of a cube

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Oh, and then there's the Altai carvings from Malt'a in Siberia, that's at least 15,000 years old, same metonic calendar too. They worshipped the Swan, aka Cygnus, whose tail Deneb used to be the Pole Star, Swans also stop off at New Grange on their migration south, I'm sure it's just coincidence

[@Jimmydb]

I use to guide tourists to this temple! I live in the western valley of Callejón de Huaylas, the Chavin temple is located in the Callejón de Conchucos in Peru.

[@AncientAmericas]

Sounds like a sweet job!

[@annalisette5897]

You mention textiles. There are embroidered textiles from these geographic areas (Paracas?) which are very interesting. It is said cactus thorns were used as needles. The stitches are quite elaborate and I wondered why they used such complex stitches. I have created and sold a lot of embroidery and needlework and can make needle lace. I think the reason such time consuming stitches were used is because they had such difficult needles from the spines of cactus. Considering that, it is amazing they could do what they did.

[@warrendourond7236]

Hi Anna, perhaps there is something to your idea, I don’t know anything about embroidery. However something that is often not explained about Peruvian cultures is that they had no currency. What gave things their value was how much work went into making or attaining them. For this reason prestigious Peruvian products were not made by taking the easy route, often to the contrary, they would choose the most elaborate and labour intensive method of production. So the textiles you saw using the most complex stitching were likely solely for the highest ranking members of society, or were used for religious ceremonies.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

I would think that, as is the case in other cultures, it might also be that embroideries ell stories or are a sort of language, or tell of somebody's family history. Also, American pre-Columbian art is very intricate, I do not see why embroidery would have been different. Also, we always forget that in fact, our ancestors were ok with creating time consuming art, with tools which we consider a little inedequate (pyramids, Stonehenge etc). Their relationship with time was not the same as ours. We in the west are the only ones who are obsessed with being fast and making money. Time is money,..and the English verbs for time and money are the same: spend/give/gain/lose/make.

[@sarahwatts7152]

Want to feel like Indian Jones without all the snakes? Chavin de Huantar! When I went, I took a tour out of Huaraz (with an incredibly misogynistic tour guide), but even the guide couldn't dim the power of the place. Highly recommend.

[@huascar66]

I am enjoying these documentaries about pre-European civilizations in the Americas. Very interesting, informative and very well-done. Thank you.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

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Love this channel, please keep making content

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@adolfobriceno1635]

Awesome. Well done. I love this video. Thanks

[@jackn9296]

This video was incredible, thanks so much!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

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Really love this channel! Just found it and I’m so glad

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@-MONTEZUMA]

I'm waiting for new videos about Caral Supé and the origin of the Andeans, and also videos about the races of Brazil, despite the herculean effort to get good material about it I expect something wonderful coming from this channel. Congratulations on the great work.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@libertyblueskyes2564]

Always fascinating content.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@MH-ms1dg]

5:25 it's even theorized the channels inside had water run through them to produce a roaring acoustic marvel at the height of ceremony!

[@felipeandrusco6478]

Hey! I love your channel, I work on shamanism and I have been to Chavin, and I wanted to add a detail: the mucus on some of the cabezas lanzas doesn't belong to the use of san pedro (or wachuma, in its native language) which wasn´t snuffed but both cooked or turned into flour and mixed with water. The detail of the mucus corresponds to another, and I have to say, one of many, many, sacred plants that are also depicted in some of the art but their traditions have kept secret. The plant Im talking about was called wilka, and comes from ground seeds of the sebil tree. Thanks again for all your videos, Im a fan

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you for the insight! Very appreciated!

[@vazak11]

Great work, thanks!

[@setmymindinmotion]

Now that you mentioned Pachacamac, please do a video on this subject🙏🏽🗿

[@AncientAmericas]

Someday!

[@aleksandrakaczmarska]

Yet another amazing material. Thank you. Would you mind sharing the name of the intro music? It's absolutely mesmerizing, I can't get it out of my head.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Check the sources and bibliography in the video description. The song will be list there.

[@bosse641]

A place where man connects with the spiritual realm, the unseen realm. Modern materialistic man has been stripped of all that.

[@eric1scooby]

I did an archaeology field school here during my undergrad!! Amazing place!

[@AncientAmericas]

Awesome! Were you excavating somewhere in particular at the site?

[@eric1scooby]

@@AncientAmericas yeah! I was there the summer of 2015 as a student from the University of South Dakota. Our professors were Matthew Sayre and John Rick. John Rick and his students excavated the temple while my group excavated a nearby farm. We where there for a month so we did quite a bit of work. (Articulation of human remains, identification of ceramics and stone tools, and we found lots of llama bones). In years prior some worked whale bones were found where we were excavating from hundreds of miles away. I could go on and on! Ha but thanks for the video! I sent it to some of the people I did the field school with! Great content!

[@enamishalive]

OMG THIS HELPED MY ART HOMEWORK SO MUCHHHHH

[@AncientAmericas]

Glad I could help!

[@AKNeal81]

This place just goes to prove that our collective attention is and has been fleeting. Since the very beginning!

[@AncientAmericas]

The world is always looking for something new.

[@AKNeal81]

@@AncientAmericas for instance, the next Ancient Americas video 😉

[@AncientAmericas]

Coming in the next 2 weeks I hope!

[@dan_asd]

20:04 The Triangle Moves.

[@GroovyQueen]

this video is EXCELLENT

[@AncientAmericas]

I'm glad you think so!

[@tomlidot4871]

600 years, not so brief. I have always been fascinated by the art and the mystery of the temples.

[@cmataira]

Taking San Pedro up the nose sounds absolutely horrific, since the powdered plant is very fluffy, you would really run the risk of choking. Taking Willka up the nose is common, and also rapay and tobacco. San Pedro is usually taken cooked in a sort of gelatinous drink, chased with lemonade. The statues with the runny noses would more likely indicate what I already mentioned. It is administered in a small pipe or bone, inserted in the nose and despached with a quick puff of air (by somebody else like e.g. the shaman). Anyway, thank you much for your work!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thanks! I'm certainly no San Pedro expert so I have no idea what the best method of taking it would be. Snorting anything up my nose sounds about as pleasant as walking on broken glass barefoot.

[@cmataira]

Exactly! Also in my latest vid on my button.

[@cmataira]

@@AncientAmericasnormally some shaman administers it to your nose with a special hollow bone pipe. I had willca that way a few times but never again! 🤪

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thank you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@maquinavoladora2289]

this episode made me remember of San Agustin sculpture

[@pofoto1950]

I sure wish I could get my hands on some of that mescaline cactus! I haven't had any since the late sixties. I know it grows in New Mexico...I am micro dosing magic mushrooms now for severe depression...I don't feel the high at all but I feel better now after several months...

[@AncientAmericas]

Best of luck with that!

[@themisvdsp9360]

thank you, perfect for my exam tomorrow, super clear!

[@AncientAmericas]

Good luck!

[@someguy8732]

Consistently pick the most interesting topics

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! There is no shortage of interesting topics.

[@MrScientifictutor]

I love the art style

[@AncientAmericas]

Before I started working on this episode, I was somewhat apathetic to chavin art but I really came away with a respect for it after this episode.

[@lhadzyan7300]

Seems that the Amazonian connections were very important on the ancient Andean cultures specially on the earliest development stages both considering praisings to the biodiversity of the nearby region or also some cultural traits and beliefs as the trophee heads.

[@AncientAmericas]

Agreed! It's something that I don't think get's talked about as much as it should.

[@lhadzyan7300]

@@AncientAmericas there seems it was kinda a higher cultural connection between both the higher complex civilization areas at the Americas and the areas with more simple cultures neverthless. However it´s seldomly addressed because the colonial invaders kinda view the whole area as lower-developed in contrast with them so in all that contempts the native civilizations are very looked-down on their own achievements and goals, and so much idisrespected that even today thats how pseudohistorical and wierd theories addresing outer influences either ETs or early Old Wolrd unknown travelers to rise the evolution of their people as if they couldn´t do on their own.

[@igor-yp1xv]

How do you know so much about ancient Americas? :O

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

I don't think the San Pedro cactus was snuffed. It takes about a two foot chuck of the cactus for a solid trip and from what I understand, the method used would have been to brew a drink out of it. I think it's more likely the seeds of the Cebil tree were snuffed. This is reflected by the Concentric circle motif, which is likely a motif of both the jaguar spot and the seeds of the tree.

[@AncientAmericas]

I'm no expert on San Pedro cactus but I've only read about it being snuffed. There may be many other ways to ingest it that I'm just not aware of.

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

@@AncientAmericas Thanks for the reply and I really enjoy your content. I can almost guarantee San Pedro cactus was not snuffed. The way they would have prepared that (and still do) would be to slice a long section of the cactus up into little star shaped chunks and boil them down until you have a fairly think green syrup which is drunk. The amount of powdered cactus it would take to make a snuff is on the order of about 300-500 grams per dose. The cactus is very popular nowadays as an alternative to peyote since it grows much faster. The seeds of the Cebil tree (Anadenanthera colubrina) were the components of the snuffs used. About 5-10 seeds would be heated on a cooking surface until they pop like popcorn, after which the skins would be removed and they would be ground up and powdered, usually with sea shells or lime. DNA evidence found in snuff trays puts its use in the altiplano and the pacific coast back at least 4,000 years, and it is still used today be shamans, albeit more rarely now than historically. The active compound in this is a tryptamine called bufotenin, a close analogue to DMT. An interesting side note is that a close relative of the Cebil tree is also used in the eastern regions and in the Amazon, called Yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina). I think there were some other snuffs used, but by far the most common would have been Yopo and Cebil, particularly Cebil in the altiplano and western Peru/Chile. Again, I don't want to be nitpicky, as I really like your videos and I've been binge watching them for the past week or so haha. .

[@AncientAmericas]

@@mackenlyparmelee5440 appreciate the feedback! That's very interesting!

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

@@AncientAmericas Like I said, I love your channel, and I subscribed for notifications whenever something new comes out. Much respect, brother!

[@dokuza_]

Very informative and beautifully designed! Actually it is not San Pedro/Huachuma but Vilca (Bufetin and 5-Meo-DMT). Very strobg snuff- The nasal juices come out. Presumably they used both in Chavin. They found some tubes filled with rest of it....

[@chriscosby9873]

The snuff was not Trichocereus. The plant was Andenanthera colubrina, or vilca, and the toasted crushed seeds were the source of the snuff.

[@AncientAmericas]

Interesting! So the seeds contain the hallucinagenic agent?

[@chriscosby9873]

@@AncientAmericas yes. there is quite a bit or research out there now

[@AncientAmericas]

@@chriscosby9873 Thanks for letting me know! Always appreciate this kind of feedback!

[@chriscosby9873]

@@AncientAmericas Sure. Thanks for a great video! Doug Sharon's work is very informative and describes the tobacco juice that is often taken through the nose using shells and such, as well.

[@darktyrannosaurus22]

Please, tell me could you speak about the Tupy-Guarani expansion? And make a video about the Sambaqui shell mounds of Coastal Brazil? Love your channel!

[@melis6294]

Hi, I'm from Peru, the right pronunciation of the ch for Chavin is like when say the word Chapstick and not like the ch when you say Chicago.

[@AncientAmericas]

That's my mistake. I've only ever heard it pronounced with a soft -ch. I need to do a better job with pronunciation.

[@sigmaminus3296]

@@AncientAmericas Hey there! I'm by no means an expert, but as an armchair linguist, I happen to have a hobby of collecting info on phonological systems of different languages, especially indigenous languages of the Americas. If you like, I'd be glad to help you out with pronunciations of different words in Nahuatl, Classical Maya, Quechua, Spanish, etc. for future videos! Definitely let me know if you're interested.

[@grovermartin6874]

All so fascinating, thank you! Well organised, well unified presentation. Your master plan for these videos shows. It's helpful how you refer back to other videos on the topic, very instructive. It all flows. One question about the pronunciation of Chavin. Is the "sh" initial sound correct? My [Mexican] Spanish would have a "ch" sound, as in "church" for the initial sound, as their alphabet had A, B, C, CH, D... (The CH has since been omitted, with other modernisations.) Or was that a Gallic adoption?

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! I've heard it both ways but I'm thinking that the ch as in church is probably correct.

[@The_rosen_fenrir]

@@AncientAmericas Peruvian here, we use Ch as in church, it's a strong quechua sound that has a strong presence in our vocabulary. Great video :)

[@jeromemaiquez3108]

love ur content my dude... hope d sub count ticks up n u keep making amazing content :))

[@AncientAmericas]

I can't speak to the sub count, but I can say that the amazing content will keep coming! Thank you!

[@eldraque4556]

relly good, thank you, I like your oracle theory

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! It's not my theory so I can't take credit for it but I'm glad you like it!

[@shrais]

I love your videos, minor nag: Quinoa is pronounced 'keen-waa'

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! I have much to learn. I'm guaranteed to butcher something in each episode.

[@milekrizman]

Unfortunately conquistadores forbade use of quinoa because of it's usage among Incas in their religious ceremonies. Same goes for Amaranth among Aztecs in precolumbian Mexico.

[@ricardodavid6800]

Yes I like your. " Reading" about chavin. De. Huantar,,its waa a first teological goberment in. Peru

[@matthewneidiffer2222]

What a beautiful culture

[@MMasterDE]

At 0:08:37 ... the deity with two sticks, upside down it looks like a dragon (with a crocodile mouth) blowing hot air.

[@AncientAmericas]

It kinda does!

[@heinzhinrichs9409]

Great video but we need to reassess the current timelines, clearly older in my opinion.

[@L.P.1987]

11:01 And what if they weren't amazonian animals, but highlands animals instead? "Jaguar" ---- Puma "Harpy Eagle" ---- Andean condor, corenquenque, falcon or others "Snake" ---- Andean snake (there are species of highland snakes like Tachymenis peruviana) "Caiman" ---- Tumbes crocodile (I know I'm kind of cheating this time because this is from the coast, but still, why it couldn't be?

[@AncientAmericas]

All very fair points!

[@feleslucis-emanueldearaujo6237]

I would like to see a video on how to read the deciphered Mayan glyphs. Do you plan to make it in the future?

[@AncientAmericas]

I would definitely like to someday. I even have a book on how to read them but it would require a lot of time to figure it out.

[@feleslucis-emanueldearaujo6237]

@@AncientAmericas I'll look forward to when or if it happens!

[@jdwest34]

Thanks

[@AncientAmericas]

You're welcome!

[@deepgardening]

Pronunciation: Chavin is not Sha-Veen! but Chah'veen. Quinua (Quinoa) is Keen-u-a not Kwin oh-a. Been there, and the white granite relief of the priest wears regalia of Condor (world above) Jaguar (middle world) and rattlesnake world below. Chavin isn't in the highlands but on the trail east of the Pacific crest to the Amazon basin. I don't know about the North-South connections, but it was reasonably easy to get there from Huaraz to the north, which sits looking at the highest tropical mountain range in the world, the Cordillera Blanca (time was it was always covered in snow, -don't know about now!)

[@constantinsiepermann]

I've heard of some theories from the 80s that put Chavín in relation to the Olmecs. This should also explain the pantheon (especially the jaguar cult), whose animal deities, with the exception of the condor, are not native to the Chavín area. However, while I have found numerous articles and works that point to the similarities between the two civilizations and also consider a commercial relationship, I was unable to find out anything about a link between the two. Are there theories about a relationship or even a descent of the Chavin to the Olmecs, or are these just clumsy explanations?

[@AncientAmericas]

It's possible I guess but I don't think it's that surprising that the jaguar is a commonly depicted in art in many cultures. It's a powerful and awesome animal. Lions and tigers appear in the art of many cultures in Africa, Europe and Asia because they were fearsome and powerful predators, not necessarily because they were all in close contact.

[@JKTCGMV13]

I’ve snuff San Pedro and a “runny nose” is an understatement of the body’s response

[@monkeytherapycentre7364]

Mescaline containing cacti are not ever used as a snuff. They are consumed as a tea and it would be impossible to get effects from taking it nasally. The snuffs used are various DMT containing snuffs made from the seeds or bark of various Anadenanthera trees.

[@AncientAmericas]

I'm sure there are multiple ways to ingest it but I've actually seen pictures of modern indigenous people snuffing it.

[@Error_-qz2zr]

maybe the Chavin culture was a hybrid one with both people from the coast and amazon coming together we think of civilizations sometimes from a one colored view also to add you dont snuff the cactus you eat or make a tea out of it they probably snuffed other things like yopo seeds that are psychedelic as well

[@AncientAmericas]

I've actually suspected this even before I ever made this episode. There certainly seems to be an Amazonian influence.

[@Error_-qz2zr]

@@AncientAmericas can i ask you did you have a video on Taino culture and it got removed or im just not remembering right

[@AncientAmericas]

Nope, I've never covered the Taino. I do have a video on the settlement of the Caribbean and perhaps that's the video you're thinking of.

[@Zambukaneer]

A similar example of this would be the domestication of horses by Proto-Indoeuropean people. Horses allowed them to trade and migrate over such huge distances, that today many old world languages, from India to Iceland, have roots in the language spoken by those people.

[@djpenton779]

Another top notch video. Fascinating, and all new to me. I'm no expert, but if "Chavin" is given a Spanish pronunciation the initial "ch" would be hard like "chocolate". Buit I may be off base here; maybe it's not a Spanish word but from a native language? Great video anyway.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! I've heard it pronounced many ways so I could easily be wrong.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

pottery on the cheap...I think it is an anachronistic remark: in pottery, once a pattern is observed and remembered, it is easy for a potter to copy/be inspired. The same applies to sculptures. It is done locally for logistical reasons: potteries and sculptures are dodgy to transport: breakable and heavy.

[@matthewmann8969]

Lots of rituals, sacrifices, sayances, chants, and pleadings

[@dennysmanuelbulnescampos3557]

“Chavi” en lenguaje Caribe significa “tigre” y la variación “Chavinave” sería “hijos de tigre con lanza”. Mi apellido es Chaviguri y coincide con la zona geografica ...

[@hector5851]

¿y entonces quién es Bulnes Campos?

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

What were the tools the Obsidian was being made into? I have seen the Obsidian tools of Mexico but not Peru.

[@AncientAmericas]

Ooof. I'd have to check my notes and see. I don't remember off the top of my head.

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

@@AncientAmericas In Mexico obsidian was made into prismatic blades, eccentrics and biracial blades and some unifacial blades. I have never seen Peruvian worked obsidian.

[@AncientAmericas]

@@ThomasSmith-os4zc I'd have to check. I could easily be mistaken.

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

@@AncientAmericas I saw a program yesterday that is one year old that talked about a smashed obsidian artifact at Chavin. The program was Media something HD. So they found obsidian at Chavin I go to Mexico once a year for my wife to visit our grand babies and her family but for one day she and I go over to a famous Mexican Archaeologist house and he and I talk about glyphs, iconography and sites for five and a half hours, then we sit down for a nice Mexican dinner then he calls us a cab and we tell he and his wife goodbye.

[@Viva_la_constitucion-1993]

MetaI tooIs in Perú.

[@sunnysideup5826]

What do you think about chavin de huantar and the prophet Ezekiel?

[@AncientAmericas]

I've seen no evidence that they are connected. Is there something I should know?

[@justbecky5167]

@@AncientAmericas i think you should check out about the book of Enoch. Theres super instresting thing hidden on the plain sight it seems.

[@AncientAmericas]

@@justbecky5167 anything in particular I should keep an eye out for?

[@stanlee2200]

pre-ceramic? is there a pre-tupperware? circa 1981

[@AncientAmericas]

Don't see why not.

[@TonyTrupp]

Never heard of huachuma being snuffed before. People drink it. You need to consume about a pint, so snuffing it wouldn’t work. The snuff trays were likely for other snorted hallucinogens/drugs, such as rapé (tobacco), yopo (DMT), vilka(yopo relative, used by the Inca).

[@nandobritto]

Someone loves to say Chavin de Huantar. I I love to hear.

[@bruciferburton5246]

Quiñoa is pronounced keen-wa. Dipthong at the end.

[@AncientAmericas]

Yup, I botched that pretty bad.

[@bruciferburton5246]

@@AncientAmericas foreign language is difficult.

[@bruciferburton5246]

It means you learned something from reading and that will never be wrong. Your content is awesome.

[@AncientAmericas]

@@bruciferburton5246 why thank you!

[@jordinagel1184]

13:20 “A mushroom! Maybe it’s friendly?”

[@speedwagon1824]

I wonder if the people of Chavin de Huantar had contact with the people of the Amazonian civilisation that has been recently discovered.

[@AncientAmericas]

That depends on the dating but I think its safe to say that they did have contact with Amazonian peoples.

[@everythingis2495]

I actually have a clone of a cactus that was taken, with permission from the ceremonial site. It was planted there by the ancients and also used by the ancients. To try the same cactus the ancients used.. Now thats a trip.

[@AncientAmericas]

I can only imagine!

[@Dank-gb6jn]

I’d like to bring up a difference of opinion on Shamanism. You mention hallucinogens; but I believe the correct term that many ethnobotanists are using is Entheogen, rather than hallucinogen. The connotations of the words are different, and as such, the perceptions laymen develop are also different.

[@AncientAmericas]

I never knew that word existed and after consulting the dictionary, I agree that it's much better than hallucinogen. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@AncientAmericas you’re quite welcome! I was not aware of it until last year abouts.

[@MM-mx2zt]

Cant wait for the Nazcas

[@AncientAmericas]

Hoping to get to them sooner rather later but we'll see how it shakes out.

[@TheNaFun]

I'm disappointed you didn't delve into the paleoacoustic work that has been done on this site, and the amazing acoustic qualities it had.

[@Oklahomie_Friendly]

I just wish we knew more it’s so sad that we will never know the true theology of Chavin

[@Jagdtyger2A]

I do wonder, just what would be so important as a trade item that anyone would want to travel to the Amazon to get it?? Or was there an important civilized people there who had something important to share

[@AncientAmericas]

That's a million dollar question right there.

[@joshuabarnhart9028]

Umm. They definitely didn't snuff ground up San Pedro. You'd literally be snorting 100 to 300 dried grams. It was likely Yopo snuff which contains dmt rather than mescaline, however, if Yopo is not present around that area, it would have been nicotina rustica snuff. Not trying to be rude, wherever you got your information about that is wrong because from my personal experience I've tried to consume this cactus 3 or 4 times and boiling stew made from pounds and pounds of cactus has never got me in an entheogenic state. So that means I have to take more. Just to put things in perspective, if 60 dried grams consumed orally didn't do anything, then insnuffilating 60 grams isn't going to do anything either. 500 milligrams is alot for one person to insnuffuate.

[@AncientAmericas]

That's just what I've read but you clearly have practical experience that I lack so I'll take your word for it. Perhaps it was ingested another way.

[@meoloveyou1196]

Can not snuff cactus, you are wrong on your explanation of the statues. They sniffed tobacco liquid before taking the cactus. They would take alittle to cleanse themselves, usually in a seashell, which was infused in water then inhaled through the nostril.

[@AncientAmericas]

Good to know!

[@ПарамонСевастьянов]

А то что в Чавин де Уантаре использованы вперемешку крупные высокотехнологичные блоки и крупные же, но грубо обработанные видно не беспокоит официальных учёных. Хотя тут явно наличие вторичного использования блоков древней более высокоразвитой цивилизации.

[@henkstersmacro-world]

👍👍👍

[@maxdaly8185]

Perhaps this was built by Shang dynasty explorers or exiles? They buried sacrifices in the walls of their structures and records show a group of Shang leaving China around 1,100bc.

[@AncientAmericas]

That'd be something.

[@maxdaly8185]

@@AncientAmericas Have you seen the 3 headed serpent iconography from the Shimao site in China c.2200bc, and the Mayan serpent king relief in Holmul, Guatemala, c.600ad? The both have a central face with a crown of feathers, and East/West facing serpents in profile.

[@greenhorn6582]

I like expecially Caballo Muerto as a place name :)

[@AncientAmericas]

It's pretty memorable.

[@Elsuper68]

Under the sand of the Peruvian cost line there are a more older civilization to be discovery which will change the book of history that we were completely wrong about it

[@AncientAmericas]

You mean caral and secchin?

[@babyyoda0U812]

Sorry i was late to the party lol but thanks for the info...brudda !!!

[@AncientAmericas]

Don't worry baby Yoda, you're just fashionably late.