Native American author Edgar Martin del Campo shares lessons from the indigenous religions, cultures, and languages of North to South America.
With personal experience, world travel, and academic research, Edgar brings a unique voice to his videos on spirituality and culture! He teaches as both ritual practitioner and amateur anthropologist.
Edgar is a descendant of Cora ancestors and shamanism from Nayarit, Mexico. He speaks English, Spanish, and Nahuatl (Aztec).
It was an exhibition about vampires ("Exposición Vampiros") at the Palacio de la Autonomía de la UNAM, just southeast from the Templo Mayor I saw the exhibition during my visit to Mexico City for the Days of the Dead 2022
So any evidence of paint on that or anyplace for a wig? I'm starting to realize that is a major difference between Mesoamerican and Amazonian art history. I haven't studied Incan or Muisca in depth to get another perspective.
I also noticed that there were few traces of paint among many of the stone and ceramic sculptures in Colombia, at least as I could see - it could just be from the figures' exposure to the weather, etc. I did find some beautiful polychrome ceramics, however, so I should post some of those as well. ...
Hello this is off topic but I was doing some reading about corn and when it was introduced to other continents it says china had corn long before 1492. How true is this? “A certain Chinese herbal book presented to the emperor in 1505 shows a drawing of maize under the caption of Yiyi-ren (Job's Tears). Also, a Chinese poem written around 1368 contains a term yumi, which indicates maize. These new findings offer clear evidence that maize existed in China in the pre-Columbian era, or before 1492” this is what I found. Wasn’t corn strictly used here in the Americas?
I am not familiar with any newer research on possible exchanges with East Asia prior to Conquest, but I do know that the archaeological community is widely skeptical of these claims. I would need to know the sources - where was this found? And does this position have peer-reviewed scientific publications?
@@EyeoftheSerpent I have the link but your channel won’t let me post it. Type in maize in pre-Columbian China on google it’ll be plenty of links about it. One website which is surprising is NIH Nation Institutes of Health.
I got the link, thank you. The NIH site also posts a disclaimer that it only lists these sources and does not inherently take a position on their respective validity. If the research is valid, I am surprised that it has received little conversation among Mesoamericanist / archaeological circles. Working from one or two edge cases instead of a statistically reliable set is a critical problem with these works, even within archaeology.
"Guardians of the Galaxy but with Aztecs", I would've loved to read that! lol. Also, thank you for answering my question. The info that you provide on this channel is invaluable, and I appreciate you teaching about these cultures without a sensationalist viewpoint. I found your channel while trying to research native tribes in the New Mexico & the North Mexican regions. Most of my recent ancestors were Mestizos from New Mexico, and I'm learning more about the tribes that inhabited these areas. Thank you so much for all that you do on this channel! 💜
There was some exchange between the Southwest and the Maya, but no evidence for a direct link between these areas. Physically, there are no genetic connections. Linguistically, I have not found any studies suggesting Mayan loanwords or even remains of their famous hieroglyphics in the Southwest. And culturally, the architecture and technology are too different to identify any commonalities.
@@Jose-db3hg That is new to me, it could just be a general statement about indigenous solidarity. I recommend the writings of Armin Geertz, an anthropologist who has studied how Hopi "prophecy" is a product of rereading modern situations into mythical narrative.
To a point - the word xocolatl ('bitter water') was coined in the Colonial period, so it was not used by the Mexica or other Aztecs prior to European contact.
@@EyeoftheSerpent Understandable. I actually have a question. Do we know what bison were called before European contact? I know there was one in the zoo of Mexihco-Tenochtitlan, but every translation I’ve seen involves cuacuahueh. To my understanding that means cow, which wasn’t in the region beforehand. Or does cuacuahueh also mean something else?
I have actually looked for this yet could not find an entry Cuacuahueh means 'has head horns,' which could apply to buffalo, yet I have not encountered any mention of them from early sources
@@spikyballoon6207 Lakotah word for bison is (Tatanka) Numunu word for bison is (Cuhtz) Di'ne word for bison is (Ivanbito) Paiute word for bison is (Kuts) Choctaw word for bison is (Yvnnash) Cherokee word for bison is (Yanasi) Blackfoot word for bison is (Iinnii) Ojibwe word for bison is (mashkode-bizhiki)
Hello, great vid. I had a question that doesn’t relate to this. How did Mexico deal with the Native Americans during the Wild West era? When Mexico became independent from Spain, did Spain still have control over what Mexico does? Did they still have power even thought Mexico got its independence? I found this online. all landowners were white Spaniard descendants, and the soldiers, minus the officers, were always central and southern Mexican Indigenous.
After independence from Spain, both the French and the US tried to take over at least parts of Mexico, with varying success. The fact that the US now has CA, NM, AZ, and other states illustrates this campaign. In my video on the Conquest I talk further about the impact of colonization on Native peoples in the western frontiers beyond the traditional "Mesoamerica" culture area: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f_GFRmnf0ls.html
I was thinking, do the Kachinas in the Zuni tribe have similarities with the images in the codices, I ask cause the zia sun symbol they use is also the same sun symbol of the chichimecas
M. Jane Young's work comparing Kachinas to the Mexica Teteoh focuses on the similarities between their respective mythical complexes, with a little reference to ornamentation. Her thesis is that the similarities do suggest diffusion, not from any specific culture but rather a wider exchange between the Southwest and Mesoamerica. So the extent of their similarities is about how well certain beings overlap on specific concepts, yet not the symbols associated with them. (The Chichimeca were on the outskirts of the Mesoamerican area, so they were not using codices as the larger civilizations were.)
@@EyeoftheSerpent I was wondering about the chichimecas and the Aztec cultura, the chichimecas don't have any like deity's, they were about energy and frequency right
@@Jose-db3hg Those are New Age interpretations that the indigenous peoples themselves would disagree with. A few books I recommend about the religion of the Chichimeca and their descendants include Karl Lumholtz's "Unknown Mexico" (available as a free e-book), "People of the Peyote," and the recently published "Dioses del Jalisco antiguo." I will post a link about the latter in the next comment.
@@Jose-db3hg This is the link to the new book about religion in ancient Jalisco: cuaad.udg.mx/?q=noticia/academico-del-cuaad-y-sems-crea-el-libro-ilustrado-dioses-del-jalisco-antiguo
Thank you for your fascinating work and channel.Great video.Yes dark Shamanism is in many different tribe secretive, it's hard to find a lot of information on it ,it's not impossible just hard .✨
Where would you recommend traveling to if one wanted to see the most of Mesoamerica in one single week trip? I find all of these fascinating, but time is never enough for all there's to do. Keep enlightening us with your knowledge and your findings. Thank you so much 👍
It would depend on what aspects of Mesoamerican culture you are looking for. If you are interested in the ancient civilizations, I could recommend this route: Start in Oaxaca (Monte Alban, Mitla, Oaxaca Cultures Regional Museum), then north to Puebla (Cholula, Puebla Regional Museum), then Mexico City (Tula, Teotihuacan, Teocalli, National Museum of Anthropology). If you have more time, also see Queretaro (El Cerrito, Queretaro Regional Museum).
@@EyeoftheSerpent I'm visiting Puebla city anyway so that works out for me. I'm interested more than anything in Mesoamerican art and that includes their writing system, which to me is art itself and by the way, the most beautiful writing system there is. Much appreciated 🙏
as an Inuktitut speaker, your pronunciation was really good! the only accent difference i notice is the fact that you seemed to pronounce the r sound with an english speaking accent whereas in Inuktitut, it's pronounced more at the back of the throat (similar to the french r sound) iqqanaijaattiavait/nice job!
From some short research, it looks like there are MANY different types of mushroom names. Nanacatl seems to mean one that specifically grows in fields. Xoletl seems to mean the long and thin ones. "Xochinanacatl" were the, er... the ones that give you "visions" lol. (edit. Another name for the "vision" mushroom is Teonanacatl! 😂) Those are the only mushroom names I found with specific definitions. There's like, four other names that are just listed as "a type of mushroom" @@EyeoftheSerpent
