The Guanches People and Native Plants of Tenerife (Canary Islands History, Medicinal plants) 

I am from Puerto Rico. My 23 and me said my ancestors trace back to the Canary Islands. I had never heard of these islands until I read into it. It’s crazy how far the diaspora truly travels.

I did my ancestry and it basically told me I’m 83% Guanche Tenerife of the Canary Islands to I’m here 😬 but I also have so Scottish in there as well so I think it’s great that you delivered this informative message

My Mom’s Scottish and my Dad’s family is from the Canary Islands, this video was made for me :)

You’re like a Scottish Steve Irwin

Greetings from Andaluz 🇪🇸 Excellent on the plants Tales of Lands across the Sea 🌊

Thanks for taking us with you, Excellent and informative Vid :) ATB

Thank you !! I've been spontaneously volunteering at tenerife horse rescue for almost three weeks and came straight here. We are by la Jaca which is a very dry area and I haven't seen that much of the island yet. Much more motivated now 🙏❤️

Really interesting,never been there,more scenic than I thought.

Yes Tristan's photography was incredible I will check out the link that island is also such a beautiful place seems to have quite a lot of different landscapes thank you so much for the video

Great video Tom! And really good production values.

Thanks! I had never heard of the Guanches people. I will look more in to that.

It’s really nice to see where I came from. Thank you for sharing

Great video and great timing as i am watching from a neighbouring island Lanzarote on holiday👍 back on sunday to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

you're awesome! This was so fun to watch.

Thanks for all the great info.

Thank you for this video. Magnificent islands and people.

Great video👍 I love guanches , im from algeria , im from the indigenous people of north Africa (Berbers) , just like the guanches , thats cool 😉

Great video man keep up the good work

I'm actually guanche I love love to live there with a nice log cabin.

cool stuff man thx! I read a book about the Guanches some years ago...your video tickled my imagination

Great video ,thanks very informative.

thx for sharing your view of the islands so interesting to see the different ways nature evolves!

You wouldn't believe it, but the Guanches have a language that is part of the Berber (Tamazight) branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Super educational. You can hear all the women weep after you said “I’m here on vacation with my girlfriend” 😂 Safe journey man 👍🏽

Nice!! I liked this video!

Looks like a nice vacation!

Great video, thanks

That's such a beautiful place to live.

just found your channel! cool stuff!

Check out the Anaga mountain range (also on Tenerife). It has a different biome (lorbeer Wälder in german) which is only found on Canaries and the Azores I believe.

I really enjoyed the vid, I've read up a wee bit about the Guanches, a fascinating history, and great to get a rundown on the local flora , I hope there's more !! ( Hi to your lovely girlfriend )

Great video 👍 thanks

Very mice video. Thank you. I have been to Tenerife in September 2019. El Teide is beautiful.

fascinating

Cool video!

cool video, never even heard of these people

great video. i am there right know. and now know more

The guanches in Canaryislands are ethnical Amazighs , who was forced by the Roman's back in the day to convert or die. We are one people Tamazgha United

Well my comment is that I just read a more than interesting article that says, with accuracy of details as to the direction to find the place based on the original story's author, that Atlantis could have been a massive island whose mountains are now Madeira and Canary islands. Too bad RU-vid does not allow to paste a website address here. The name of the site is Answers in Genesis. That aboriginal statue in the thumb looks pretty much Greek to me. Plato says "All that is left of Atlantis are some islands as 'skeleton' of what once was, but the soft and good land has fallen". I am looking here and there to see if undersea explorations have been done between these islands.

You went to the Canary Island and you didn't invite me! Thanks LOL *GREAT VIDEO*

Thank you for sharing our ancient history.

Fascinating. Please more about the Guanches. Has any DNA studies been done? LAnguage? Alphabet? Cant get enough about these people.

I was there just few days ago. I also love herbs.

Fandabi Dozi: Would you mind explaining & showing how to do some of the stuff from the book "Born Fighting"? I remember one with the Picts supposedly being able to go all day on something the size of a bean & I think that has to do with that plant you showed that was used as an appetite suppressant. There seems to have been training to handle the weather & water of the area, too.

Beautiful raw island and like the rest of the native North Africans the Guanches have been opressed and slaughtered by their colonizers to then be forgotten. ⵜⵉⵔⴻⵍⵉ ⵉ ⵎⴰⵔⴰ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⴻⵏ Thirelli i mara Imazighen

Very interesting as I recently found my mitochondrial dna links me to the haplogroup H1cf which I found was related to the Guanches. All my g-grandmothers on this line were French Canadian. I also have farmed lavender for the farmers market for many years.

The children of Maroc, having blood ties to the Amazigh. Power to the indigenous people.

Good video. Just to mention it - In Güímar (south Tenerife) are six pyramids.

I can’t believe you didn’t try the shepherds leap! It would be a grand skill for anyone with a good stick with them

Guanches were Vikings settlements. Blue eyes, blond hair :) Vikings thousands of years ago reached very distant places....

Wonderful video!! i travelled around Tenerife several times and learnt that the sap of the dragon tree (a.k.a Dragons blood) is a really good astringent when applied to the skin, a natural preservative, used a lot in aromatherapy . Its toxic if eaten though. There are also several small Pyramids dotted around Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma. The most famous being at the town of Güímar in Tenerife. Their worth seeing. There's alot of debate as to who built them and why but a society as ancient and mysterious as the Guanches were more then capable, still great vid!!

Hope someone will finally make a true and thrilling movie about the magic history of the guanches, beginning with the Atlantis cataclysm in the Younger Dryas period!

Great video! absolutely love how you portrayed the history of the guanches. The Canary islands at nowadays are still seen through a colonial lense, being mass tourism the latest form of erasing past history. One very interesting fact of the old Canarians is that they moved up and down mountains using long spears with which they could jump from 30 metres: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WpAj_WFOJng.html&ab_channel=NationalGeographic

I found out I'm a 4 generation los Islenos from ST Bernard from my dad side from Gomera and my mum is from Glasgow Scotland met my dad on the plane to America for him returning from visiting family her moving to America met my dad on the plane ride over

Im puerto rican. Wild we have common ancestors. Islanders unite.

Took a dna test and ot said I'm a decendant of these ppl. Very interesting.

The actor Anthony Ramos Martinez just discovered on finding my roots on PBS he is a descendant of a king from the island

amzigh 🙌

where i come from tom you would be called TAM ,atb from glasgow

was that an aquifer you were walking on?

Entertaining and very informative. You should introduce your girlfriend and include her more in your videos.

I like watching these videos of rare cultures of Africa especially of white or Caucasoid like skin and features. fascinates me like the Egyptians.

The Canaries used to be connected to mainland Africa until the end of the last ice age and rise of the sea level separated the land into an archipelago

What is the connection of a Canary Islands to the continent of Atlantis?

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Dude- I really like your video, I have not looked at any other of your stuff but I will - the quality and succinct manner were excellent. Of course I am biased .... I am Scottish living in canaries for 2 years and I am never out of the Barrancos and what hey hold.. I was just spending last night in the Barrancos and the amount of knowledge and lore in them is something. There are also a lot of mushrooms in La Palma I recommend going here to Barrancos like Fagundo where you can see many Guaunches housing... however there they are called another name beginning with A- sounds like Agua.... Go to La Palma Followed and dontated

Do you live in Scotland?

The real name of the island is Zen Zen ("resonance.") Guanche is the spanish deform of "wa-n zen": the (person) that´s is from Zen. in Tamazight.The people of Canary islands were indigenous not Aborigins because its certaicn that thee come to the islands from north africa, like american natives it´s know come throw the Bering Pass from Asia. Tenerife means in bereber lenguage "desert or wasteland of Snow": Tenere-idfel. from the visión of the naturals of the La Palma island over the sea of clouds. The great volcano, arrased land and, in the winters, snowed. Teide come of "Taidit:" female dog (of inferno) and the demon who inhabit in in her entrails was called "Guayota". in Tamazigh the verbe ut- ot wut is hit or kick someone o some thing. the traducción is: wa-wiut (the (demon) that´s hit. surely by volcanic tremors and earthquakes.

Dna shows these people are from north africa and are amazigh people as a moroccan its nice to see sadly the spanish whiped them out

i was wondering when it got to the part where someone came in and killed them all.. i don't see many people in you video its only 3:50 into the video we will wait and see

Small percentage of my DNA is from the Guanches. Not sure which parentage.

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Amazigh people...

I wish the Guanches people flourished and survived through colonialism with their culture. I am fascinated in these Atlantic Islanders. Most islanders like this today live Pacific side

Dear Tom, the Canary Islands are not a Spanish colony! The Canary Islands are an autonomous region of Spain with their own parlament and the people of the Canary Islands are Spanish and have the same the Spanish people of the peninsular. I would as you, is Gibraltar a colony of UK? Still, good video!

A hypothesis of the origin of the native population of the Canary Islands. The guanches. The Phoenicians have an older history of their existence in navigation in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Phoenicians were looking for lands and populations with which to trade, they were not fighting for conquest. They built ports where they came periodically to exchange goods with the native populations. When they circumnavigated Africa, the journey took a long time, they landed on a fertile shore and planted wheat, leaving after the harvest. Trade in unknown areas was done by leaving on the shore what they had in exchange and receiving with them the native goods being at a distance. Only if they agreed with the parity did they take the goods, otherwise they waited for the quantities or goods to change. That means they were peaceful and fair. So it seems that discovering the Canary Islands most likely populated them with people to meet their trade and supply needs for their long journeys in the area. So they taught them to grow wheat, to salt fish, to produce garum, which was very expensive, to produce purple. The people of that time had embalming techniques, built pyramids, so they were in contact with Egyptian civilization. They could also come from the slave trade in the Mediterranean basin. Why is this hypothesis very plausible? Because it was later found that these people did not know how to navigate (they were brought by good Phoenician navigators), caves were discovered by the ocean used as grain depots, had the technique of mummification, built pyramids, terraced the islands for agriculture, had the science of irrigation. After the destruction of Carthage by the Romans, the islands were visited by the Greeks and then by the Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the islands were forgotten and returned to the primitive stage, when they were conquered by the Spaniards after more than 1000 years of isolation.

It's not pronounced the way you named that mountain. It's a volcanic area, and it's call El Tei-de. I hyphenated the word so you can pronounce it correctly. It doesn't have an "A" sound at the end.

Very interesting! How about living viking life in Sweden? Contact me.

3000 years, no, the estimate is about 2000 years or shortly before

6:30 blown down or cut down by Christian zealots?

Did a DNA test & I share DNA with the discovered mummies

bet that sanchus is a opioid or opiate like and a pain aid like wild lettuce

Hi thank you for your comment quote ( because Africa is a continent not a colour ) However I was talking about the original Guanches, who came from Africa before invaders. If the Spanish were the first Europeans to invade the canary’s, why do the Guanches look like Europeans. However I realise you don’t make the pictures, and did enjoy your video.

I was there this past winter and was surprised to find that the "Canary" name is from Canus, Latin for dog, not the bird.

These guanches look so much like this were german tribes members. For me there are only 3 possibilities, why they look so: 1. they are survivors of Atlantis cataclysm in the Younger Dryas period, where the sealevel was up to 160 m deeper, before the comet debris smashed into the earth crust and released all the water stored in it. 2. they are descendants from the seapeople of the northsea, that fled from the famine caused by the islandic volcano Hekla into the mediterranean sea about 1200 bc. The fenicians and philisters are also their descendants. 3. both possibilities. The first refugees mixed with the later refugees, but all from Hyperborean, Atlantean or Aryan genetic origin.

Ild imagine that the original islanders may have arrived during an ice age, no boats were needed then although why they didnt develop later is a bit odd.

The Canarian Islands are no colony of Spain! It is autonomous and integral part of Spain

Hi Fandabi Dozi .I would like to give you some observations regarding the information you've provided in your introduction as a Native from Tenerife. First, the Canary Islands are 13 years short (1833) to have become a Province of Spain 200 years ago. Although the Berbers are the closest identifiable relatives of the Guanches, it is deduced that important human movements (e.g., the Islamic-Arabic conquest of the Berbers) have reshaped Northwest Africa after the migratory wave to the Canary Islands" and the "results support, from a maternal perspective, the supposition that since the end of the 16th century, at least, two-thirds of the Canarian population had an indigenous substrate, as a missing genoma not present in the Continental side regarding a mtDNA haplogroup U subclade U6b1 is Canarian-specific and is the most common mtDNA haplogroup found in aboriginal Guanche archaeological burial sites. Plus on Tenerife and La Palma aborigines found the majority of mt-DNA haplogroups belonging to the Eurasian clades such as H/HV/U*/R. on Tenerife Aborigines used a total sample of 71 aborigines and found that the frequency of the Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS) which belongs to the European haplogroup H2a2 was between 21.12% and 30.98%. Berber tribes ended up with marriage practices that were present in the Canary Island by XV century. Women could have several husbands which was a common practice among Guanches to keep the genepool fresh.

you use the word aborigine the way we use the word native when i hear it i think australia .. learn somthing everyday if your lucky

Omgosh. I've just found out that my Archeogentics are from here...mind blown. I have aboriginal DNA?

*inserte foto de ignatius*

It's not a "colony" it's officially a part of Spain so the term colony doesn't work

This is so interesting I did my dna and I have am 93% from Canary island 5 American Indian and rest from Africa. I have the same genegroup of the mummies they have exhumed. Not happy about them digging up my Ancestors and displaying them. I guess i don’t have any control over it or rights to them.

Guanche are Real inhabitant of North African they are Atlantis people

They are island Berbers

They probably also brought weapons and tools from Africa.

So they came over by boats but forgot how to build boats after time? The Spanish love their aboriginal bashing don't they?

I have Guanche DNA, via Jamaica.

Sorry mate , we're no a spanish colony, we are a Spanish region, maybe Scotland is an English colony, but we're not..

Canary islands, melilla and cetua Are ethnical Amazigh's...