Guachimontones en Teuchitlan, Jalisco 🇲🇽! Fiesta 🪅 + Family trip exploring the Pyramids

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]Hi guys, welcome back to another video.

[00:00:02]My name is Bri. This is Skyland Sage and come see Mexico through our views. Today we are in Toatchan. We are here to see the Wamui Montoones pyramids and they are very rare circular pyramids. So we're super excited to see them. We've been wanting to actually come here for several years. So let's go check them out. We can't wait to take you guys with us.

[00:00:25]Look at this beautiful old adobe building right here.

[00:00:35]And they've got some awa meal. So, let's go see if they have any available, >> guys. It's also a tax store. Our favorite. Look at >> those really nice posters.

[00:00:56]>> And they have our green We have to have you. Okay. We are the train.

[00:01:48]Chicken Monday.

[00:02:20]Look at that.

[00:02:41]Seech.

[00:03:12]michelada gordo pandra tortilla. foreign.

[00:03:57]Then I guess in the oven.

[00:04:19]We're definitely getting some gordas.

[00:04:25]No.

[00:04:46]You stay.

[00:05:20]I What do you think, Sage? Do you like the place here?

[00:05:30]>> Yeah.

[00:05:31]>> Yeah. You guys, >> I love it.

[00:05:33]>> We're about to get a couple gordas here in Chulada.

[00:06:10]So, you want to come try it?

[00:06:13]>> Oh, it's super fresh.

[00:06:21]Bueno.

[00:06:23]>> Mhm.

[00:06:23]>> You want to try it, S?

[00:06:25]>> Good.

[00:06:26]>> Let's try it.

[00:06:27]>> It's fresh. It's like a donut.

[00:06:33]Mhm.

[00:06:44]>> Said it last like a month.

[00:06:46]>> Oh, >> if you cover it. Nice.

[00:06:48]>> That's pretty good, huh?

[00:06:49]>> It's so warm. It's so good.

[00:06:50]>> It's really good. Super fresh.

[00:06:55]>> It's really good.

[00:07:09]Why not?

[00:07:51]I don't know.

[00:07:54]See, Bonita.

[00:08:32]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:08:43]Oh yes, the Nebraska pero boss.

[00:09:18]Okay.

[00:09:42]Gordon.

[00:09:50]>> [applause] [snorts] [laughter] >> Mm. Mhm.

[00:10:20]Uhhuh.

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[00:11:43]See? Okay.

[00:11:55]foreign.

[00:11:59][applause] Oh no.

[00:12:34]Seeigos.

[00:12:52]Okay, got my aqua meal.

[00:13:01]>> It's really good.

[00:13:02]>> Really refreshing. Yeah, guys, it was super good. Perfect for a hot day.

[00:13:06]>> Yeah, it was probably the best I've had.

[00:13:08]What do you think?

[00:13:10]>> It's really good.

[00:13:11]>> Okay, guys. Here's our bread. They've already started eating it. So, it's really good, guys. I really recommend coming here to get some. Check out this building.

[00:13:24]All right, now to the pyramids.

[00:13:27]Let's go.

[00:13:55]You like so cute. Look at his his ears are good.

[00:14:01]>> He's so little and cute.

[00:14:03]>> You would be perfect for Sage.

[00:14:06]Quanto, >> love you.

[00:14:12]Heat up here. Heat. Heat.

[00:15:13]There's something left.

[00:15:15]>> Here's the map.

[00:15:17]So, >> we're going to go to the museum first and then we'll check them out.

[00:15:23]>> Dang, this is so nice and cool.

[00:15:29]>> We're going to learn about it a little bit and then we'll go explore them.

[00:15:35]watching.

[00:15:38]Look at that.

[00:15:42]We have a little dragon.

[00:16:10]Watch.

[00:16:19]>> Oh, that's sick.

[00:16:23]I believe we're here >> way over here.

[00:16:29]>> So cool.

[00:16:32]>> This is a big view of this room. I'll explain more about Okay. Also, this video kind of >> it's really just the museum about it.

[00:17:04]>> Are you ready?

[00:17:06]Go.

[00:17:13]>> What is this?

[00:17:15]>> Oh my gosh, that's so cool.

[00:17:21]to stop for chicken.

[00:17:43]>> Oh, this is so crazy.

[00:17:49]Oh, this is the man I was using so far.

[00:18:00]>> What is this?

[00:18:14]>> We should go wash the So cute.

[00:18:20]>> Oh, this is what they like. That's what they used to play with.

[00:18:28]>> Oh, it's clay.

[00:18:29]>> Yeah, that's so cool. Oh, look. It looks like Lex.

[00:19:03]back.

[00:19:14]And that's the moment.

[00:19:28]Look at these rocks. See, look. These are really rock.

[00:19:44]How did you do that? How do you do it?

[00:19:49]That is so cool.

[00:19:53]>> We're going to go check out outside cuz this view looks so good.

[00:20:24]This house my house.

[00:20:59]Oh, these are the non This is so cute.

[00:21:33]Guys, look how cool.

[00:21:36]This is a comparison of the knives we use today compared to the rocks they used before.

[00:21:42]>> Cool. Yeah. A pocketk knife would be these little knives.

[00:21:49]And then these big spears would be these big ones.

[00:21:54]with >> that is so cool.

[00:21:57]>> And then this little one would be this transparent one.

[00:22:03]>> Okay guys, we're coming to watch a movie.

[00:22:06]>> Socially accepted means of resolving the dispute was to consult [music] the designs of the gods.

[00:22:14]Based on an analogy with games played today in the state of Sinoa, [music] we know that this ritual could last from morning to night and the division between daytime and nighttime.

[00:22:29]While playing, participants would touch the ball only with their hips.

[00:22:35][music] If any other part of divided contact, extra points were awarded to the other side.

[00:22:44]Unlike ball courts in central Mexico with their characteristic rings on the side walls, here points were scored by creasing the ball in a corner of the opponent's zone.

[00:22:56]Once the ball was put into play, the game could be in 2008. Excavations began on ball court 2.

[00:23:09]Slowly the complete form of that edifice was uncovered revealing the shape of a capital letter I.

[00:23:18]It was completely enclosed and built in just one stage. the first ballpoint in western middle America with these characteristics.

[00:23:36][music] Over the past 40 years, the scientific initiatives of numerous archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians have uncovered only a small part of this reality.

[00:23:49]So many questions [music] remain shrouded in interpretation and hypothesis.

[00:24:01][music] What remains to be investigated will require the work of many generations.

[00:24:13]Each discovery, each new vein of information brings a new thrill.

[00:24:18]Clearly, the architectural layout of the Hatchimon site was deliberately arranged to draw people's attention to the central pyramid. [music] Inside that structure, excavators found four earlier edififices, one built at top the other. In the center, there was a pit with a post embedded to one side that served to stage the flying ritual.

[00:24:46]This is one of a small number of archaeological discoveries that suggest an antiquity for this ceremony of over 2,000 years.

[00:25:00]The flying ritual is well known worldwide. [music] >> [music] >> In some cases, the flying ritual was associated with another called the chain dance.

[00:25:27][music] His [music] golden epic construction lasted from around 350 BC to 350 AD.

[00:25:49]Symbolically, the Tigan tradition focused on those circular edes.

[00:26:01]The pyramid of the Awana clearly shows this pattern of concentric circles.

[00:26:07]Its central altar forms one.

[00:26:10]The exterior border of the patio defines another while a final ring follows the contour of the outer edge of the base.

[00:26:21]10 platforms have been located on that base and drawings from burials in Nay and Halisco show the probable form of the temples that were erected on those platforms in ancient times.

[00:26:35]It is probable that each temple was dedicated to a specific deity or to the ancestor cult of a powerful lineage.

[00:26:42]Archaeologists believe that the more temples found in a particular However, recent archaeological discoveries demonstrate that an ancient civilization did emerge in this region.

[00:27:04]Research since the 1970s by the anthropologist Phil Wayan and Aselia Garcia, an art historian, has brought to light the existence of a society distinguished by the style of ceremonial architecture. manifested in series of concentric circles.

[00:27:21]To date, over 2,000 Greek Hispanic sites belonging to this culture have been identified, including some 430 ceremonial centers distributed mainly in the state of Palisco, but with a limited presence in the modern states of Sinoa, Nay, Kima, Sakas, Guato, [music] Mituakan, and Kito.

[00:27:45]The most important ceremonial center is located just 28 miles from the city of Gualahara in the municipality of Teuchi land.

[00:27:56]In 1999, the collean and the ministry of culture began extensive excavations at the Gui Monton archaeological site.

[00:28:08]The Deian tradition began perhaps as early as 1,000 years before Christ in an initial phase typified by sha burials.

[00:28:29]We go up that way or 1991.

[00:28:47]So yeah, a little break.

[00:28:57]>> So, how you guys feeling?

[00:28:59]>> We needed a water break to look at the view, but we're almost there.

[00:29:12]There's something else, >> guys. This is the the I the ball pit.

[00:29:21]>> The letter I.

[00:29:40]So they said that this is where people would handle their disputes.

[00:29:45]Kind of like the court of law in this ball pit here could last all day. Maybe fighting to death. Oh my.

[00:29:54]It sounds intense.

[00:29:56]>> Very intense. Imagine not quite sure what this one is. I think they had like houses or temples on these square.

[00:30:29]Made it to the top. There it is. A very rare circular pyramid.

[00:30:38]Okay, let's go check them out then.

[00:30:47]Uh-huh.

[00:30:52]>> Okay.

[00:31:21]Okay.

[00:31:33]Okay.

[00:31:38]Oh, okay.

[00:31:52]>> Oh my gosh, there's so many trees.

[00:31:55]>> Okay, you guys see this square here?

[00:31:58]They are going to dig this one out over here to make it look just like this one.

[00:32:06]They're still working on digging all these out. So, this is a square here.

[00:32:10]There's a couple over there that they still need to take out. The same with this. This is just like the pyramid that's way over there.

[00:32:25]They need to dig it out.

[00:32:31]Look at this big pyramid. I can't wait to see when they get it all uncovered.

[00:32:49]forito.

[00:33:18]So So they said that either houses or temples were here that um people would worship certain gods on all these squares.

[00:34:15]Oh, this is so cool.

[00:34:18]You can see they've already started right there.

[00:34:50]That's awesome.

[00:35:17]Okay. So they say that this was built in 300 BC till about 300 AD civilization lived here.

[00:35:28]They say that the pyramid is about 60 ft tall and there's 52 steps to the top.

[00:36:14]Look at this view.

[00:36:24]But look the cars look so like a plane movie herosa guys that's not like Chapala but it looks like it from up here.

[00:36:45]Okay guys, we're heading out now. I am so grateful we got to experience this here in Haliscoco. It's so amazing.

[00:36:54]What'd you find, L?

[00:36:55]>> A cicada shell, guys. It's kind of gross, but when I was little, I used to put them on my my shirts.

[00:37:00]>> Show them how you used to put them on.

[00:37:02]>> I just like went like this.

[00:37:05]Ew. [laughter] It's really gross now thinking about it.

[00:37:08]>> But yeah.

[00:37:09]>> Say, do you want it?

[00:37:10]>> No. [laughter] >> I haven't done that since I was really little, though. It's cuz I haven't found any.

[00:37:15]>> I used to play with them when I was little, too.

[00:37:16]>> Yeah.

[00:37:18]Okay, guys. We're walking back to the car now. What was your favorite part?

[00:37:23]>> Probably the big one.

[00:37:25]>> The big one.

[00:37:26]>> Mhm.

[00:37:27]>> Yeah. My favorite part was definitely seeing the comparison of how it actually is and how they're cleaning it up. I think that was really interesting to see how much stuff can change on its own.

[00:37:35]>> Yeah, I agree. That was so cool. I really liked the the ball pit, too. The first one we we saw.

[00:37:44]>> Yeah, that's cool.

[00:37:46]You guys, look how the tree has grown in between these two boulders.

[00:37:50]>> Oh, that's really cool. All these trees here were so interesting.

[00:37:55]>> That is awesome.

[00:38:34]I had to come out to show you guys this.

[00:38:36]Look, that is so cool. This is a big tree.

[00:38:44]Oh my.

[00:38:49]I wonder how old this tree is and how long this fence has been here.

[00:38:57]See all the rocks in the roots.

[00:39:15]The horses are getting ready. I guess they're having a fiesta here in town.

[00:39:20]Okay, you guys, let's go check out the plaza here in Teu Chiplan. Guys, by the looks of it, it looks so colorful and so nice. We're so excited. And like we always say, there's always something to do in Mexico here. And it just so happens, they're having some fiestas here right now. And you guys know we love it. And I especially love seeing the horses.

[00:39:47]>> They've cut the little pyramid there.

[00:40:14]Now they get to stand on the pyramid.

[00:40:21]You did it.

[00:40:44]Okay. Ready? Put your arms up.

[00:40:48]My big butterfly.

[00:41:07]I wonder if this is famous for their chimino.

[00:41:12]>> They make it here.

[00:41:13]>> Oh, nice. Well, we need to try it then.

[00:41:35]You're going to These are so cool. Everywhere which one you want.

[00:42:13]Yeah.

[00:42:36]I don't know.

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[00:43:32]>> Say, should I get the rose or the unicorn?

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[00:57:18][music] [music] >> [music] >> Hope you enjoyed today's video and we will see you in the next one. Adios.

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