The Codex Maya of Mexico (Codice Maya) Fully Explained, page-by-page. Formerly the Grolier Codex.

[@ConstantGardener-q9q]

My mind is blown. The more I learn about the Maya the more in awe I am. Thank you for this truly mind expanding explanation

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks for your great comment. The Maya are incredible. Spanning thousands of year, they were advanced on multiple levels. I hope to make more videos showing their greatness. Thanks again...

[@BootyToche-bc5qj]

the oldest celestial observatory in the world is mayan. And the mastered the making of 3 different types of rubber. Bouncy rubber for ball games, durable and wear resistant for sandles, and a type to adhere stones to wood.

[@pixels2u]

Yes, this is mindblowing on several levels! The deep scientific understanding the Maya had of the orbits of Venus juxtaposed against the seemingly bizarro and fierce worlds of their gods with all the granular symbolic significances! Wow! It seems the Maya religion and culture was intricately challenging, scary and violent. this video was extremely well-written, well-narrated, well-produced and wonderfully animated. Thanks!

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Yes.... the Maya were (are) truly incredible... I really think we've only scratched the surface of their multi leveled greatness... how you phrased their importance is very well put... And thanks much for your feedback... I spent a lot of time making these videos and I've learned a lot over the last few years how to make them as aesthetically visually pleasing as possible 🙏🏽🫶🏽🙌🏽👍🏽👊🏽✊🏽

[@oppenheimer-wz6ix]

Best video on youtube i have seen so far and by a professor of history. The art work in the maya book is amazing.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks so much.... I really appreciate it..... I put in a lot of work with my videos... and I think I'm finally getting the hang of it... Thanks again 🙌🏽🙏🏽👊🏽

[@satoshiarevalo6513]

Great Video Prof.Estrada ! Wish you make more videos soon.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks so much for watching and your kind words. I try my best to make my films as accurate and visually impressive as possible. Thanks again.... 🙌🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽

[@tbyles]

Thank you for bringing this out, and in such beautiful graphics, and exquisite context and understanding...... The Spanish genocide of burning all the Mexican books so breaks my heart!!! Thank you for persisting. .... Among other researches, I read Michael Coe's book on Breaking the Maya Code, which is also, like yours, an authentic truthful story about the Maya language.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks so much for watching and for your great comment ... Breaking the Maya Code is incredible. It's also a great documentary. Thanks again.... 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@myworld4257]

Maya books not Mexican

[@Rhino-Flea]

they were likely killing each other already... history's track record on the topic of forgiveness

[@c.elizarraga2488]

Great job with this video professor. A great visual mix of astrophysics, history, and anthropology!

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Many thanks! I appreciate it.... 🙌🏽🙏🏽

[@FTA4evr]

The best explanation of the Venus Cycle I've come across! I have a better understanding of Maya history and beliefs.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks.... I spent a lot of time working on this.... I'm glad you got something good out of it... thanks again 🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽

[@FacesintheStone]

Thank you for contributing to the research of citizens everywhere. Let someone else tell your history and they will control you. We are the ones we have to protect our own history. Love and light to you all.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks again for your comments... greatly appreciated.

[@pendaflux]

You got me pumped for my visit to the museum tomorrow. Thank you very much! I still dont get exactly how this represents 104 years? Does it skip several years while going through the cycle? I want to be able to read the dates on the side, so I will focus on that.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Have a great time tomorrow. Spoiler/Warning Alert: the codex is pretty small in size. So much of the dates have been destroyed. But the Maya tracking of Venus can be seen with other sources. Also, there appears to be 10 pages missing. There's a great pamphlet at the exhibit that will also help you maneuver through the codex. And if you really want to understand the codex, you really need to understand astronomy; I sure needed to brush up. But Venus us so integral to the Maya, you probably know more about the connection between Venus, the Synodic cycle, and the Maya than you think. Thanks again for watching and for your comments.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Also, be sure to pick up this book: shop.getty.edu/products/codice-maya-de-mexico-understanding-the-oldest-surviving-book-of-the-americas-978-1606067888 Exhibition Catalog Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas, edited by Andrew Turner. This is a very straight forwarded read that really breaks down the codex. Thanks again.

[@AndreaSzabo7171]

All new to me found this today. My aunty did have statue in this anyway very glad i found this today. . its new tattoo time also. Perfect. 🤩

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Hi.... thanks for commenting and thanks for watching. The book is amazing...

[@Chris-from-AZ]

Thank you for sharing this, very important info

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Glad it was helpful!... Thanks for watching.... 👍🏽🙌🏽✊🏽

[@sneezediamonds]

Thank you, Professor. 💜

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks for stopping by.... I hope you enjoyed it.

[@bujuminodstrom2076]

nicely produced

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks.... I appreciate it 🙏🏽

[@AGAMDV]

Amazing! Thank you

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thank You for watching....

[@blazingstar9638]

This is a masterpiece !

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks for your kind comment and thanks for watching. The research for this project was never ending.... Thanks again....

[@HVLLOW99]

It is said the Maya cried out louder when De Landa burned their books then anything else. More then the destruction of idols, and temples, & the torments and tortures. The reverance of their history and the mticulous nature in which they charted it. Millenia of history gone in just a few decades. I can only imagine what was lost forrever. I know the Maya were huge nerds so I assume it was glorious.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

The great unknown.... besides those which De Landa could get his hand, major Mesoamerican cities had libraries full of books... those were destroyed as well....

[@514Exc]

They didnt have idols, they had wealth in the eyes of the Europeans but, the Mayans didn't covet the objects they had, Mayans willingly offered much, as a gesture of good will but, the europeans wanted everything.

[@88_garnet8]

They knew too much. If people have too much accurate ancient information, then you can't control them well. So, they had to take it. btw. Ancient people always spoke in flowery and poetic language, but the truth is still in it

[@4everseekingwisdom690]

Great video i was wondering what your thoughts are in regards to how this fits in with Mayan spiritually? What was the religious significance of Venus to them? Was it that the calendar determines transformation??

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks... I spent a lot on this one. The easy answer is Venus is insanely important in their religion/astronomy (it's the brightest planet in the Sky, not including the moon). Although I think it's somewhat overblown, the Maya used Venus to influence when to war, plant, harvest, offerings, etc... Perhaps more to your point, the phases of Venus were interpreted with negative and positive connotations, so any events that happened on one of those negative or positive phases could have real life consequences...

[@4everseekingwisdom690]

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD I see my thought was that it might have be a parallel to lucifer.. not in the judeo Christiani interpretation of he being synonymous with "the devil" (how that association got started of beyond me) I mean as a being of illumination (Enlightenment) and it's association with venus as the morning star. I understand how it used biblically (context) but in esoteric circles , masonry being one fire is always associated with transformation and light with of course Enlightenment

[@wrenchofpower]

thank you

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thank you for watching .... 👍🏽🙏🏽

[@flighttours1092]

Tight! 🍻😎👍

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks.... I'm glad you liked it.

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

I found a Swift Creek design that shows Venus as the Morning Star and the Evening Star.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Cool.... 🙌🏽

[@Mayan.Embodiment]

This is utterly fantastic and super duper wonderful! Een Lak'esh, Ala K'een!

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks so much for your comments and for watching my video....

[@christopherellis2663]

Athena and Aphrodite are not that different. The both refer to Venus. 4:54

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

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[@icemantoby4392]

Cool video

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks...

[@FERLARA]

Awesome!

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks for watching.....

[@melissasalasblair5273]

🔖 Always learning, seeing, experiencing new clues 🌌💛💭

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks so much for your comment... and thanks for watching.

[@thespiderweb13oc]

Badasssssssss thank you

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Thanks for watching and for your comment.... 👍🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽👊🏽✊🏽

[@oliseovazquez6113]

The morning star!

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

The Four Phases of the Venus Cycle within the Maya Codex of Mexico (Codice Maya). kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4mZaquNo9Vrd6M

[@pachucotirili]

I didn't know this was housed at the Getty. Is that it's permanent home?

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

No. It's only at the Getty until mid January. Tell your friend and family now is the time. It goes back to Mexico 🇲🇽, but I'm not sure where it's housed. Probably their main museum at Chapultepec.

[@Mayan.Embodiment]

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD I sure wish the Dresden, Paris, and Madrid Codices would be returned to their rightful homes...

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

@@Mayan.Embodiment I agree.... some artifacts are slowly making their way back home..... so I'm not holding my breath, but I'm confident some of them might be returned some day.

[@HVLLOW99]

​@@ProfessorEstradaPhD I would NOT be transporting these codecies across the world. It only takes one accident to loose an already extremely rare & valuable artifact. Hecka scetchy.

[@lilianeizquierdo6175]

❤pourquoi pas une version en français ???

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

I wish I could have a French version... hopefully KZbin has a way to translate it to French...

[@88_garnet8]

They were on to the cosmology as well as the Sumerians, Europeans, the Egyptians. It looks like all the leaders of ancient world were on the same level worldwide. There is something they are not accurately explaining about the ancient world.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

As far as I can tell... most ancient societies looked up... the awed at the meaning of life and used the stars and visible planets to make sense of their world 🌎 With no night lights, the view must have been amazing..... every night.... 🌙 🌕 🌖 They even built their cities as a reflection of the cosmos universe

[@jeremyarroyo360]

This makes me upset all that information knowledge is gone that they burned. Besides that very good video.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

We'll never know the full extent of the loss, but libraries full of books were destroyed throughout Mesoamerica.... but m grateful for what information we do have, and there's still lots of data out there that remains to be uncovered

[@jeremyarroyo360]

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD wonder that the catholic church knows in there library?

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

That's interesting... I bet they might some more sources...

[@victorylittleking]

The animal depicted is an elephant on page 1.

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Certainly looks like it, but there are no elephants in Mexico 900 years ago.

[@victorylittleking]

@@ProfessorEstradaPhD I beg to defer. There have been excavations of mammoth elephants in the americas in the early 1900s. With all due respect.

[@mariourbina529]

Some of them have 3 fingers

[@ProfessorEstradaPhD]

Definitely appears so on several pages....