Coyolxauhqui Stone

Coyolxauhqui Monolith (Aztec), c. 1500, volcanic stone, found Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan, excavated 1978 (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris.

[@shuminka5944]

This brings me mayor flashback to my childhood ❤I loved reading and learning the leyend behind this beautiful stone. I need to look for and get my hands in that old book. My kids would enjoy listening to this amazing leyends.

[@moonravenstone5368]

despite the subject matter, you are doing a great service to my people. resolutely the red and white feathered serpent.

[@luckap79]

You guys are amazing! Great video

[@jon-marcyaden6265]

Very interesting! Great job sharing this information in just a few minutes!

[@aundrabattles7716]

My granddaughter learned this today and she told me about it.My granddaughter is in 5th grade now.

[@guillermoarchundia3730]

A great story told by American people, there are thousand of Mexicans who don't have any idea about this marvelous Aztec myth. But just to add some info. This myth talks about the creations of the Sun ( Huitzilopochtli ) who defeats the night and the moon represented by Coyolxauqui. On the other hand she was not alone in the task to kill Coatlique, the tzenzohuisnahuas tried to help Coyolxauqui and Huitzilopochtli killed them all who turned into stars. Thus, the myth tells the story of the creation of the moon, the stars. And most important the sun always been over them.

[@annieb7509]

Thanku

[@alfredojarillo3146]

Sad but true

[@lalaNomada]

There are even more thousands of Americans that do not know anything of this or even their own history. Funny to use any possible chance to be rasist... By the way the Mexican archaologist made a bit part of the archaeolgical and scientific research

[@kevinkant6817]

Why don’t they know? Lack of intelligence?

[@mariaejose4437]

@@kevinkant6817 Do you now what your are not taught about? Do you know how to drive a rocket to land on the moon? Lack of intelligence?

[@alfredojarillo3146]

Good job 👏🏼

[@EdgarLopez-kj5yc]

Great vids

[@Sasha0927]

The view of the Templo Mayor was amazing. I wonder if I'll ever get to visit ruins and what that would be like. I take for granted how decidedly modern my life is when I see images like this... Dr. Kilroy-Ewbank slayed me with her "pretty close" and no attempt at correction. 😂💀 Decapitated and dismembered women aren't typically my thing, but the monolith is amazing. I can't decide if I prefer it with color or without, but it's really striking either way. I appreciated the integrity of giving her a mom bod, but her fate is what she gets for being a hater.

[@abelsincain]

Great description

[@greenergrass4060]

I thought coyolxauqui is the moon goddess

[@covidsstuff]

Ramieverse ! Hi, she is after being dismembered she was thrown into the sky where she either became the moon or was trapped in the moon

[@issacnewton7059]

she is the moon. the dismemberment means the phases of the moon. full moon, fisrt qt, waxing cresent, new, third qt, are the limbs, the sun dismember the moon with its rays.

[@guillermoarchundia3730]

You right, the creation of the moon and the star is this myth about it.

[@Nellybaz-]

And then when she becomes the moon she forever fights the sun (her brother ) every night and the sun wins each time which is why it rises each day . I may be wrong

[@AxisMundiAlpha]

@@issacnewton7059 no mr.Newton, did you forget your study on an ancient moon-temple in egypt? The Earth is the Body, The Moon is the Head. You studied Golgatha where "Heaven" and Earth was once connected.

[@27ephesus]

Don’t judge mexica, when other religious stories include a man being nailed to a cross and made wear a crown of thorns

[@mariaejose4437]

@27ephesus And also included innocent people to be savagely tortured and then burnt alive in the fires of Inquisition in the name of God. And those were real practices, not just stories! Every human culture has its own darkness. No one is entitled to judge better than the others.

[@justin36004]

One actually happened, the other is pure myth.

[@justin36004]

@@mariaejose4437search up Leyenda Negra myth. What you think about the Inquisition is actually false.

[@mlilof84]

Nudity was problematic to Christians 😎

[@LS-kg6my]

These myths are metaphors that speak to the Astec’s deep connection to the cosmos and their calendars. She and her 400 siblings represent the moon and the stars; they “attack” the earth (their mother) at night as they rise in the east, hover over her and then set in the sky in the west. The sun (the son) destroys the moon and the stars when he rises up in the sky in the east, fully formed - seemingly from out of mother earth. In this sense, the earth “gives birth” to the sun. The moon is also cut into different pieces over the course of the month when the earth passed between the moon and the sun. Conversely, the moon sometimes “attacks” the sun during a solar eclipse and is therefore seen as dangerous. The monthly sacrifice symbolizes that monthly celestial occurrence

[@AxisMundiAlpha]

"These myths are metaphors" No, its more. Many cultures have the same origin story of the moon like the aztects. " 400 siblings represent the moon and the stars" the 400 is mostly connected about the end of the world when the Moon falls down to earth at the end of an aeon. the greeks believed phaeton's fall was the first eclipse, when Neptun rised Pheaton's Head (again the head symbolic) its evidence of an unknown and very old world-religion.

[@gabrielsanchez7085]

puts great perspective on the Apocalypto scene where they are decapitating the villagers.

[@Ivan-Manzo]

Apocalypto really isn't a historically acurate film at all, the bodies would have been decapitated once they had been droped from the pyramid if at all for once, and most mayan sacrificial victims were simply droped into a cenote, some were indeed decapitated but not like in the movie, and it mixes a LOT of maya factoids that didn't even happen in the same millenia (they lasted over 2000 years) also, this is talking about mexica (aztec) sacrificial practices, which are much different to those of the tipical mayan city-state, whith some exceptions like Chichen-Itza which had a lof on influence from central mexico, but even that was centuries before the Aztecs were doing their own thing.

[@astrazenica7783]

And if that doesn't put u off religion and remind us of mankind's folly, nothing will

[@Texasmade74]

Where is the logic in your comment?

[@nekroneschwartz2013]

@@Texasmade74 Seeing how the op's post is from 6 years ago he probably won't respond so I will try to answer for him. Chopping people up and throwing their body parts down stairs for religious purposes is what's probably considered by the OP as "mankind's folly"

[@Texasmade74]

@@nekroneschwartz2013 that's another folly in itself

[@TheSololobo]

@@Texasmade74 Explain?

[@mariaejose4437]

@@Texasmade74 But humans are folly and cruel. They keep doing things even worst in modern wars.