This is the national anthropological museum
Big a** Mexican flag
Uh, and then
I don't know if you can see that, but this
The monogram, of some sort,
That's on the Mexican flag
And that is an Aztec symbol!
It is an eagle
on a cactus
that is growing from some rocks in a lake
and that is the myth about how the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was founded
Let's go inside
[just talking nonsense]
This is the inner courtyard of the Anthropological museum
So this is nice, but it's not what I wanted to see
So I wasn't supposed to go upstairs, that was later
So that's why I couldn't find what I was looking for, but now
I'm going to Sala Teotihuacan [trying my best to pronounce it like the Aztecs, but failing a bit]
Let's go to this side
I'm wondering what this is
Something death
[whispers] SOMETHING DEATH
So this is the pyramid of the sun. And as we turn around
This is the pyramid of the moon
which is a smaller one
*sights with excitement*
This is Teotihuacan and that is the temple of Quetzalcoatl and la Ciudadela
This is the pyramid of the sun, this is pyramid of the moon, and this is the avenue of the dead
This is the temple of Quetzalcoatl
Well.. Quetzalcoatl means "feathered serpent" [in nahuatl, the language of the aztecs]
So this is a God that's at least similar to Quetzalcoatl because it is a feathered serpent
That's really intricate
I think what we see right in front of us here is
the temple of the feathered serpent
Quetzalcoatl and then la ciudadela
Let's go around
Big pyramid here in the center [is the pyramid of the sun]
I think this is the ciudadela
and then these are something
This big one is the temple of the sun
That one at the end is the temple of the moon
Of course they weren't called the temple of the sun and the moon
When people lived here
That was just what the Aztecs called them. Because they thought that they were so huge and big that
Gods must have made them
Then they [the Aztecs] named the city Teotihuacan which means "the place of the Godd" or "the city of the Gods"
And then they named the two biggest pyramids "pyramid of the sun" and "pyramid of the moon" and then
The street that goes from teh pyramid of the moon and down to the ciudadela is called the Avenue of the dead
But I don't know why
I love that everything was painted in really bold colors
I try to think of
the ruins of aztecs, romans and the greeks
as just white marble, but really they were painted in bright bright colors
this one is also really bright colors
I think that's a bit sad
Oh my god! This is the Mexica
Sala Mexica. [whispers] I AM SO EXITED
There's so much stuff here
[says something about this is Tenochtitlan and the religious precinct and Templo Mayor]
[still something about religious precinct. Reconstruction here from the map above]
[Templo Mayor, Templo Mayor, something about this is Templo Mayor]
[something exicting abour Aztec hot chocolate]
Looks good!
Oh man! Look at that queue
Ok. I guess I've come this far so I have to go inside
Oh man
So I guess two o'clock on a Saturday isn't the best time to go to a museum
I'm gonna try again later
This is the market, I think, of something [of Coyoacan]
And on Saturdays apparently
This park, that is just beside it has a lot of art
oh my god they are piñatas
They are so cute!
[something was 5 pesos]
I'm gonna make an attempt to see
how long the queue at the Frida Kahlo museum is now
and if it's not to long, I'll go
I'll probably go anyways
There it is. Bright blue house
Enchiladas
flutas
tacos with insects
and some other stuff with insects
and larvas
things didn't go quite after plan
