Chavìn - Peru's enigmatic temple in the Andes

[@steveanton763]

I did the tour of this temple in 2007. The tour guide said the priest class could only go into the underworld of the temple while on San Pedro Cactus so they could see in the darkness. Also that the temple could be used as a flute to vibrate at different frequencies.

[@xXxXcrosbykidXxXx]

That's so interesting, the extreme dilation of the pupils when one is under the influence of strong psychadelic drugs certainly can and does allow better visual perception in the dark. I can only imagine what such an experience would have been like, truly mystical and otherworldly to them for sure.

[@prairiestategenetixseeds9726]

THIS WAS AWESOME!!! ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS I HAVE EVER SEEN 🙏💯

[@tigerpisces5506]

Disneyland of the Inca and other associated tribes. The labyrinth is obviously one way trip into the netherworld and sacrifice victims probably never returned?

[@rajichettiar8119]

Shivaya OmNamaha🚩

[@warrendourond7236]

Great Video! The Chavin are indeed a fascinating culture... unfortunately how these sites were used is mostly speculative. It’s hard to say how much human sacrifice and blood was used in ceremonies. It could have happened just the once, when the temple was completed and sanctified. Or once a year, month, week, day. But it is certainly common for us to paint these people as superstitious savages. Some of these events may have been as harmless or literal as Halloween or the day of the dead is in modern society.

[@edward3950]

While I'm all for speculating about the use of the site I always try to remember, in Peru, everything had to be placed and moved by hand. Meaning, someone or some idea had to compel enough people to come out and work the stones and build the site. It's hard to image organizing what could have been thousands of workers, to build something with little to no meaning. The day of the dead may seem meaningless in modern society, but in ancient times it was more significant than it is today. Just as Christmas and Easter have become hallmark holidays, so too were they once more significant than they are to modern society. We know for a fact from chroniclers like Bernabe Cobo that a culture such as the Inca were very religious and had various ceremonies each month based on their calendar, and that some of these dates meant more than others, I think it's safe to speculate that the same could be applied to other cultures throughout Peru, with some dates like solstices having more significance than others so the idea that ceremonies and rituals were conducted here does not imply savagery but rather a complex and well-organized religion and polity which points to intelligence. I don't think this intent of this video is to paint them as "superstitious savages", on the contrary, the video explains the complexity and sophistication that went into building the site and re-routing the nearby river, all of which would have required intelligence, in addition to the ability to organize large labour forces as I mentioned above.

[@safronfield]

Chavin is Shiva. The sunken plazas would hold water. What they poured over the main deity was not blood, but milk. The light, of course, fell on the main image perhaps at the time of the equinoxes and solstices. Chavi in Sanskrit also means 'ray of light'; or 'splendour'. Its not about blood and death. The sound systems are for chanting mantras, for invoking Shiva by offering milk and honey. The two colours of granite in the construction reflect the feminine and masculine energy. Shiva is the god of animals too. Hence the animal engravings. The strange faces are just the yakshas, Shiva's entourage. The temple's location at a confluence of two rivers is also very common in the Indic-Vedic world, or for that matter anywhere in the ancient world. This is place of mantras and oracles. The names of the rivers include Waucheska, or the Sanskrit vachas which mans oracle or a centre for chanting mantras. Shiva and Somrasa go together, somarasa is the Sanskrit name for ayahuasca.

[@burusho8488]

Came here after watching Eric von Danikens video on Ezekiel.

[@MeetimeHolidays]

Me too.. to say some 900 bc ppl with prehistoric hunter gather tools made this is unbelievably stupid!!

[@mrjrgerald]

One of the best I've seen,,,,maybe the best

[@walterfernandezccorihuaman6624]

REALMENTE MARAVILLOSO

[@carolelerman9686]

Wonderful !

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

I don't think that the Archaeologist have the Stars that this site is aligned too correctly. Most ceremonies were performed at night.

[@bosse641]

A place where man connects with the spiritual realm, the unseen realm.

[@walterhmelevsky8227]

Seems to me that outside of Machu Pichu every second pre spanish building is proclaimed a temple

[@warrendourond7236]

That’s because if it wasn’t really really important, it wasn’t made of stone. All the houses and other domestic structures were waddle and daub, and have eroded and rotted away.

[@walterhmelevsky8227]

@@warrendourond7236 Yes, I got that, what I was pointing out was that just because a building is made of stone, that doesn't automatically make it a palace or a temple, there must've been other public buildings important enough to be built of stone. It's like when archeologists find an artifact they can't identify is automaticaly classified as " religious " or " ceremonial ". It smacks of lazy thinking to me.

[@NishaFullPerms]

@@walterhmelevsky8227 Because the line between goverment and religion was pretty blury back then.

[@domingodeanda233]

Wow! That was pretty damn good.

[@sterling54]

9:20 nah that's not a feline, that is serpentine

[@basteagui]

it's a dragon IMO. man becomes dragon. but there's a middle phase that looks sort of jaguar-like. a jaguar like monster is the peruvian version of an oni or an ork

[@NishaFullPerms]

One is a Snake and the other is a Jaguar, those were their gods.

[@jeffvoss7062]

its both

[@jeffvoss7062]

this is so amazing lol

[@kenbash2951]

This really looks more like an industrial site, with all of its subterranean water works, than a temple of worship. Why go to all of the trouble to build massive, underground waterworks in a church?

[@kavitagurappaji1427]

THIS IS WHERE THE SPACE POD CARRYING EZEKIEL LANDED.

[@TxDuallyNation]

There's absolutely no way this humans 900 BC build it please. Only a fool would buy that story

[@russellmillar7132]

What time line do you have worked out? Who really built this? What methods of dating do you consider reliable? Please share.

[@peyotegardens]

Yes, only a fool would use the available facts to understand the world when there are make believe fantasies to believe in

[@jesusberrocal2556]

Tu eres arqueolo o historiados dime aaa habla mejor cuando sepas k te molesta a ti aaa

[@chriswallace4751]

What about the story of Ezekiel in the Bible where he mentions being transferred in a UFO to a place described as this one?

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

That's great, just great! Drag your childish superstitions into another cultures history.

[@warrendourond7236]

What about it? We’re watching a video about history, not mythology.

[@marselshtylla]

this is not childish superstitions . you should learn more about history since this is not their culture and yes ezekiel also was describing this place. i dont want to hear that all humans all over the world have forgoten to build piramyds and such hard big block buildings but rather they never did in the first place

[@Thewhitewolf23]

Aliens

[@kenbash2951]

We have no real idea how these stones were cut or erected. It certainly wasn't by the local Indian population who knew nothing of technology and were basically living a stone age existence 5,000 years ago.

[@edward3950]

The ignorance in this comment just hurts.

[@kenbash2951]

@@edward3950 Do your homework on the Inca and get back to me:) They had no written language, had no knowledge of math or science. They had no metal working knowledge. They had rope and wood- those are the only tools the Inca possessed.

[@edward3950]

@@kenbash2951 lmao bud I think you're the one who needs to do some homework here... literally every single Spanish Chronicler (Cieza De Leon) talk about their gold. That is metal working... dipishit. I won't even bother with the rest of your points as you clearly didn't bother to research any of the. Give reading just a try sometimes instead of the bullshit youtube videos you've clearly been ingesting.

[@kenbash2951]

@@edward3950 Chris I feel bad for you. Pls take the time to read Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru- written in the14th Century by an Inca Indian who had learned Spanish, he noted Incas had no knowledge of math, science, written language or the working of metals. He went on to say their main tools were rope and wood- sorry pal for the reality check. I truly feel sorry for your ignorance:(

[@edward3950]

@@kenbash2951 whoa dude, no need to feel bad for me. I'm not the complete idiot here. You know there are more than one account written at the time. Spaniards, including Bernabe Cobo and Jose De Acosta say otherwise. Maybe stop limiting your knowledge of the Inca to a single source? Acosta literally has a chapter titled " How the opinion of those who believe the Indians lack understanding is false" Sorry dude, but you're just wrong. The physical evidence is also available by simply looking at sites like the Coricancha in Cuzco. This single building would have required a strong political structure, metal working, mathematics and architectural skills, all of which require intelligence.