Aztecs

It's just boom, boom.

You seen that thing? You see the alien thing, but with the Aztecs and it's like,

when they get off their ship,

don't shoot, don't talk.

Even the Aztecs know what time it was.

War, chest, immediately.

No long talking.

It's a sim- similar frequency.

When we went to the ark for the first time, we went with a group of Aztec Indians from Mexico.

We went with, I think...

Yeah, it was Chinese and Russians, they were in the mission with us, and these Aztec Indians.

And we had a, a translator That came with these Aztec Mexicans because they spoke not Spanish, but they spoke a different dialect that we did not understand.

And somehow with a dance that they did and a frequency of their voice, they could activate certain things that we could not activate.

They started singing-

... a song called Akuriamate, and that's where Akuriamate comes from.

We are the first people, and really that species in the West, to not believe in the spiritual dimension.

Even the Aztecs believed in a spiritual dimension.

The Incans, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Indus River Valley.

We are the first generation of secular atheists.

Catastrophic flooding that nearly destroys civilization, narrow survival, and the need to completely rebuild society afterward.

cross the pacific to the americas and the flood stories keep coming the aztecs believed the world had been destroyed and recreated four times before the current age one of those destructions was by flood water covering everything transforming humans into fish the incas told of a flood that drowned everyone except a shepherd and his family who took refuge in a high mountain cave with their lamas when the waters receded they repopulated the earth native american tribes across north america preserve their own flood traditions the ojibway tell of a man warned by animals that a great flood was coming He built a raft and saved representatives of each animal species.

The Lakota speak of ancestors who survived a world-destroying flood by climbing to high peaks.

The Cree describe waters that covered the earth until a muskrat dove to the bottom and brought up mud to create new land.

doing.

So the Aztec pyramids are actually of a very different construction style, and so are the Maya.

The Egyptian pyramids are extremely heavily engineered.

They are some of the most incredible architectural designs.

Yeah, the internal rooms, but as well as just the

way they were structured.

Because what you have to understand is that Maya and Aztec pyramids, I don't know about the Indonesian ones, but the Maya and Aztec pyramids are not block on block on block on block.

It's a pile of rubble covered in blocks.

They were descendant now, not from the planet they were on, but from the god Yun Yuzhan, who had sacrificed parts of his body to make the universe and to make the lesser gods and to make the Yuzhan Vong themselves.

Now, this is not that different than, what do you call it, Aztec gods.

Yeah, I was going to say there's some definite echo of Mesoamerican myth going on there.

Now, as an honor to that export of Parthenogenesis, the Yuuzhan Vong sacrificed their body parts to the gods.

So anyway, that's their cosmology.

And if you're thinking, wow, that's pretty Mesoamerican, you're absolutely right.

The writers who came up with Yuuzhan Vong specifically were cribbing from Mayan and Aztec cosmology, but then they also added aspects of Dalit, Melanesian, Polynesian, Austronesian, and Choctaw cultures as starting points or as models.

okay um yeah the the wearing of skins like immediately twigged

On the Black Pearl Barbossa tells his hostage Elizabeth of the medallion she possessed and that it's no ordinary trinket.

While it is the last piece of the Aztec gold that will help end the pirates' curse, there's more to it.

The chest will also need the blood of those who took the gold, and since she told them her last name is Turner, her job here isn't done yet.

Jack follows his compass closely, having the interceptor gain on the pearl that heads for the coveted island.

Isla de Marta, the home of the Aztec gold chest.

Jack and Will scope out the island before the three heroes do and find the ritual of returning the gold and blood from Elizabeth has already begun.

Jack discourages Will from going in straight away and Will has had enough of Jack's mind games.

Oh.

Uh, you know, they had one of those Mayan, or it actually was a Aztec, uh, um, calendars.

Yeah.

Right

Who can forget? They're favored by 12.5 at home in Bob Chesney's first game at the Rose Bowl.

And Chesney has been taking the good-natured ribbing from Aztec's coach, Sean Lewis.

I don't know how good-natured.

I don't know.