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Brother. I have a story about the ancient Maya's sacrifice rituals
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Hopefully, we don't wake up the gods while I'm telling
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no. So a new study examined the DNA of more than
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60 sacrificed Maya Children dating back between 500 to 900.
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what is ce I think it's the same thing as we continue
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Their bones were found in a trung or underground chamber near
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Chichen Itza. I been there.
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Yeah, we, we've all been there.
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it's cool. It's really nice.
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Anyway, sorry, go ahead.
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And their DNA revealed why the Maya probably sacrificed them in the
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first place. The study found that all the Children were boys
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most between 3 to 4 years old.
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Many of them were brothers and cousins and some were identical twins
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we only boys. I'm getting OK.
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This connects to the Maya's sacred text,
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Bool V and the story of the hero twins.
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Wait. What was the hero,
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the hero twins? What's the hero twins?
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That's all, I'm sorry.
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The hero twins. What the story with the hero twins is
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we got Hun Au and Chouki.
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I, I think I'm butchering their names,
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We're mythological twin boys with supernatural powers that conquered the underworld and
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were sacrificed and resurrected.
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So the maya may have sacrificed young boys as a tribute to
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the hero twins and to ensure a good harvest,
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this means getting sacrificed may not have been a punishment.
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It may have been an honor reserved for only a few families
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And this kind of reminds me of apocalypto.
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Will they also get sacrificed in that movie?
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You've never seen Apocalypse though?
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I mean, I know I've seen,
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you've never seen Apocalypse?
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No. Are you serious?
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And you're Mexican? It's a Mexican movie.
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Well, brother Jesus Christ,
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brother, I'm so disappointed.
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It's such a beautiful movie.
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Well, not a beautiful movie.
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Well, it's such a great movie but it's really gruesome.
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But basically they sacrifice people chop off their heads and get them
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by the little hair that they have and they just toss them
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down the stairs. That sounds beautiful.
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Beautiful Brother. It was not beautiful,
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but it is a great movie and it's kind of based on
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but that's not an honor.
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That's so crazy though.
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I mean, young twin boys,
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Primo's brothers being sacrificed for the hero,
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a yes, you don't have a twin,
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do. I don't think so.
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