Searching for “Aztec death whistle” on TikTok brings up hundreds of hits, including things like “I’m scaring my mom with this scary Aztec whistle” and “this terrifying beep sounds like a human scream.” One user, who simply calls himself the “King of the Death Whistle” and has well over 300,000 followers, dedicates his channel exclusively to this instrument. In pictures and videos on the Internet, whistles are usually skull-shaped. In one video, a street vendor in the ancient Aztec ruin city of Teotihuacan sells such a whistle to a tourist who blows it, and the vendor comments, “Imagine…when that sounds and warriors come rushing at you in the jungle!”
These so-called “Aztec death whistles” are not authentic at all, they can be considered toys, but behind the replicas lies a truth that is even more strange than the myths circulating on TikTok.
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There was only one case where archaeologists found “death whistles” in an Aztec excavation: in 1999, the remains of a man who had been ritually sacrificed centuries ago, at the age of 20, were unearthed in Tlatelolco, now part of Mexico City, in front of the temple of Ehekatl, the god of the wind. According to archaeologists, the death’s head motifs on the small clay flutes in his hands represent Miktlántekutli, the Aztec god of the Underworld and death, who was closely related to the wind god. In one of the illustrations of the pre-Columbian manuscript called the Borgia Codex, for example, the two gods are shown together, with their backs to each other.
Arnd Adje Both music historian and archaeologist, he was the first to reconstruct the sound of the whistles found in Tlatelolco in 2000, after making a copy of the finds using computer tomography screening. Each whistle makes a slightly different sound, but none of them sound like a scream, more like the roar of the wind. There is also no evidence that it was used in battle to intimidate the enemy, but this does not mean that it was not suitable for other special purposes.
An expert on ancient Mesoamerican resonators and wind instruments, Roberto Velazquez Cabrera discovered that when whistles are played simultaneously, they produce extremely deep sounds that can induce altered states of consciousness.
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2024-10-14 02:10:00