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Chichen Itza

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Sep 13, 2026

Billy CarsonHOST
37:49
Go work over there in, uh, in the Americas, in Mesoamerica, and kickstart a new civilization over there." So Thoth took, according to the Sumerian tablets, Africans, the Olmecs.
Billy CarsonHOST
38:01
He took the Olmecs with him, and he went over to Teotihuacan long before Christopher Columbus was even born, [laughs] we're talking about thousands of years ago, and he built the Teotihuacan civilization in Mesoamerica, all up through Teotihuacan down into Tulum and, and Tula, and all the way down into Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Billy CarsonHOST
38:26
And the evidence of this is that the Teotihuacan pyramids are an exact identical copy and orientation of the Great Pyramids at Giza.
Billy CarsonHOST
38:38
Even, even the Pyramid of the Sun, which represents the Great Pyramid in Teotihuacan, the base of the pyramid is the exact same dimensions of the pyramid that Thoth built in Egypt.
Billy CarsonHOST
42:17
He was known as Lord Pakal, Viracocha.
Billy CarsonHOST
42:19
A person that had many, many names.
Billy CarsonHOST
42:21
He was Quetzalcoatl, right? Down in the Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Billy CarsonHOST
42:27
All the same person.
Michael J.S. CarterGUEST
6:38
We went to Mexico in 1989, December 1989.
Michael J.S. CarterGUEST
6:43
Uh, uh, we were in Cancun, and we went to see the pyramids at Chichen Itza and S- and Tulum on the Yucatan right there.
Michael J.S. CarterGUEST
6:52
I was on my path, you know? I, I was not Baptist [laughs] anymore.
Michael J.S. CarterGUEST
6:57
Uh, even though I guess I was still trying to fit some of it in.
Cliff DunningHOST
6:41
But I have to tell you, in the reconstruction of the observatory, this is the largest building of its kind in the entire Maya world.
Cliff DunningHOST
6:52
And the elders who I spoke to years ago said to me that Chichen Itza, where the observatory is located, was a university, was a Maya university.
Cliff DunningHOST
7:05
And I was like, well, what does that mean? Well, they actually taught people how to observe the heavens, prepare for the seasons.
Cliff DunningHOST
7:12
You prepare for the equinox, spring equinox, summer solstice.

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Jason WildGUEST
47:04
I mean, you know, they generalize, you know, like, you know, masonry or, you know, temple building or canal building or aqueducts, you know, very general.
Cliff DunningHOST
47:17
So we're talking about Awanis.
Cliff DunningHOST
47:19
Does he leave documents or are there references to him? I ask this because if we look at the observatory at Chichen Itza of the Maya, There is a Dresden Codex, which apparently was copied from technical manuals, on how to observe other planets, how to understand the equinoxes and the solstices and things like that.
Jason WildGUEST
47:45
I mean, people were obsessed with the night sky.
Steve QuayleGUEST
57:31
Now, I'm not saying he came to Jesus, but I'm saying he could not explain how something that could be contained in the realm of physics and basically would borders around it, borders being, I use the word fences or a framework, and then the entities that's a good word that they're seeing uh representing and manifesting themselves how is it that they're using ancient symbols legends and myths and also pre-adamic writings when i sent my film crews to mexico and for three years we're digging up you know alien artifacts showing dna flying flying saucers but what was the most interesting was egyptian pyramids and the testimony of a lot of the pyramids.
Steve QuayleGUEST
58:19
People say, well, where did the pyramids come from in like Mexico City? Where do they come from in Chichen Itza? Where do they come from all these different places? And the answer is the same fallen angels built them that built these.
Steve QuayleGUEST
58:32
When you're talking about fallen angels and you're talking about electrogravitics, that's ancient technology that basically says electrical fields can offset electricity.
Steve QuayleGUEST
58:43
heavyweight and the knowledge that that came along it's a lot easier to build that thing if you're a 18 or 36 foot giant so I don't know you know where we go from here except to say this When the appearance of Antichrist comes, and we'll know who he is, because he'll be the man that brings peace.
speaker_0NARRATOR
24:38
The Maya tracked lunar eclipses, calculated the synodic periods of Mars and Jupiter, and built architectural alignments that corresponded to celestial events.
speaker_0NARRATOR
24:51
The observatory at Uxmal and possibly the round tower at Chichen Itza, known as the Karakul, appear to have been designed with windows aligned to specific points on the horizon where Venus rises and sets at its extremes.
speaker_0NARRATOR
25:09
How they achieved this precision, without telescopes, without metal instruments, without any of the technological apparatus that European astronomers would later consider essential, is a question that research has not fully resolved.
speaker_0NARRATOR
25:28
The answer almost certainly involves generations of priests recording nightly observations from the summits of pyramids, datasets accumulated over lifetimes, refined and corrected with each generation, producing accuracy through duration rather than technology.

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speaker_0NARRATOR
38:24
By the mid-ninth century, most of these cities had been largely abandoned.
speaker_0NARRATOR
38:30
But cities further north, in the Puuk hills, in the northern plains, continued building and thriving.
speaker_0NARRATOR
38:39
Chichen Itza rose to prominence precisely during the period when southern cities were failing.
speaker_0NARRATOR
38:46
The collapse was not uniform, and no single explanation accounts for every city's trajectory.
Marshall ExlerGUEST
45:52
And the reason it's so special is because it ties back to Faye.
Marshall ExlerGUEST
45:55
Um, and we saw, uh, I saw my first one with her in Mexico, um, Chichen Itza, I think the day after I proposed to her.
Calum GoddardHOST
46:03
Mm-hmm.
Marshall ExlerGUEST
46:04
Um, and I kinda made a promise to her at that time that I will go and see all the others.
SawyerHOST
15:17
Yes, Cancun has beautiful Caribbean beaches, but Mexico has way more to see.
ElijahHOST
15:23
Chichen Itza is an ancient Maya city in the Yucatan with the enormous pyramid called El Castillo.
PhoenixHOST
15:29
Mexico City has museums, parks, ancient ruins, and is one of the biggest cities in the world.
ElijahHOST
15:37
Oaxaca is famous for indigenous cultures, foods, markets, crafts, and celebrations.
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0:50
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speaker_2NARRATOR
1:01
Now legendary across the world, it was the last great Mayan city, Chichen Itza.
speaker_2NARRATOR
1:11
Located in the southeastern state of Yucatan in Mexico, this sprawling, cosmopolitan city attracted thousands of men and women in its heyday, as much as Paris at the time.
speaker_3GUEST
1:23
It has opportunities.
speaker_2NARRATOR
2:31
This city-state was brutally ruled by a powerful military guild that never thought twice about spilling blood.
speaker_3GUEST
2:39
literally you could stand here and count the number of human sacrifices probably in this case there would have been hundreds if not a thousand or more skulls here
speaker_2NARRATOR
2:51
from human sacrifices to ingenious architecture experts are about to take you deep within this incredible city-state which marked both the zenith and the downfall of one of history's greatest civilizations By the 11th century AD in Southeast Mexico, Chichen Itza had reached its apex.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:52
It is the most powerful Mayan city in all of Mesoamerica.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
26:54
on the thirteenth of august fifteen twenty one the conquest of tenochtitlan was achieved and the spirit of a warlike people forever broken the valley of mexico having been taken numerous expeditions were sent out to subdue the more distant provinces and to establish colonies alvarado invaded the south and by fifteen twenty four he had captured utatlan and other native strongholds on the highlands of guatemala and had invaded salvador Cortes himself undertook a wonderful march from Veracruz to the Gulf of Honduras to punish an unruly subordinate.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
27:33
his course laid through the swamps and jungles of the uzumacinta basin thence across the savannas of southern yucatan to lake peten and finally over the mountains to lake izabal and the motagua river even to-day much of his route would be called impassable for an army porto cortes on the northern coast of honduras was founded at the conclusion of this expedition the exploitation of yucatan and tabasco was granted to francisco montejo who began the conquest of this low-lying territory in fifteen twenty seven the first campaigns were disastrous and heartbreaking several short-lived salamancas were founded one of them at chichen itza but the odds were too great and by fifteen thirty five all the spaniards had been killed or expelled the son of montejo renewed the struggle in fifteen forty can was founded and early in fifteen forty two the city of merida was established upon the site of an earlier mayan town Progress was also rapid in the north.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
28:40
Nuño de Guzmán departed in 1529 on a mission to conquer Michoacán and the great northern province known as New Galicia.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
28:49
His rule was marred by many acts of cruelty.

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Mario PinedaNARRATOR
120:15
Still, another evidence of architectural sequence is seen in structures that have been enlarged by the addition of wings or by the enclosing of the old parts under new masonry books of chilambalam we now turn to a very different kind of history the digests of ancient chronicles in the mayan language but in spanish script which manage to survive in these so-called books of chilambalam along with other texts ceremonial and medical there are five chronicles the two longest covering sixty-eight catoons before the coming of the spaniards since fifteen seventeen we now know that these catoons were time units consisting of seven thousand two hundred days or nearly twenty years and that they were designated by their final day which was always a day called a hall associated with the number one and thirteen in a peculiar sequence a catun with the same designation returns in thirteen times seven thousand two hundred days or about two hundred and fifty six years such a completion counted especially from a catun eight a haw was called the doubling back of the catuns or as we would say the completion of a cycle The count of the Catoons used in the Chronicles was really part and parcel of a fuller count just as the year 22 implies a position in one of the centuries of our Christian era.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
121:47
The Chronicles unfortunately give few names of chieftains and cities and few outstanding events.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
121:54
Chichen Itza is the city most fully concerned and an early occupation is recorded, then an abandonment for some two and a half centuries.
Mario PinedaNARRATOR
122:04
After its re-establishment, the Toltecs entered Yucatan and captured this capital.
Timothy HoganGUEST
63:55
And they're all a couple hours apart from each other.
Timothy HoganGUEST
63:59
And then Chichen Itza is kind of in that region too.
Timothy HoganGUEST
64:02
Right, right.
Timothy HoganGUEST
64:03
But as well as a number of other great sites.

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