This city was home to the Teotihuacán people, which archaeologists really don't

時を刻むために デザインされた町

know a lot about. No one really knows where they went and how they were

この町はティオヒオカンの人たちの町だ 考古学者たちはあまり研究できていない

destroyed. They left this place totally abandoned. But they did leave us their

なぜこの地を捨てて、 どこに去ったのか、わからない

city and if you poke around the city and look at the configuration of this huge,

でもこの地は残っている

goes for 20 kilometers, city you start to see that they really prioritized keeping

この辺りを歩いてみると この大きな20kmに渡る町が、

track of time throughout the year. And the technology they used to do that was

一年中に渡って時間を計ることを 最優先の目的として作られていることが分かる

their huge pyramids that they constructed, and the sun, the stars, the

それを実現している技術が この大きなピラミッドだ

mountains. Their entire city was built in order to track the movement of the celestial bodies.

そして太陽や星、山…町全体を使って 天体全体の動きを記録している

This civilization was able to track time by

この町を作るとき、

keeping track of whenever the sun would rise at the peak of one of these

彼らは真北に向けませんでした

mountains. They aligned it so that the Sun and the mountains would be a

太陽の昇る 東を活用したんです

perfectly aligned clock for them to see what time of year it was.

これが彼らに 大変重要だったんです

Today, people come here to this ruin to celebrate the spring equinox, which is an important

この文明は太陽が山頂を通過する時を 記録することで時間を計りました

time for planting seeds and preparing for the fertility of the land. We don't

いくつかの山が並んでいるので、 どの山を通過するかで現在の時期を把握できました

know how important the spring equinox was for this ancient civilization, but they

今日では人々はこの遺跡に集まり 春分を祝います

did leave a few clues that suggests that it could have actually

種植えや土を耕す 重要な時期でした

been a really important day.

昔の文明にとってどれだけ春分が 大事だったかは分かりません

Tracking the celestial bodies wasn't just about agriculture, it was also about

しかし重要だったのだと推測できる 証拠が残されています

religious practices and ceremonies. Every year at the same time they would perform

太陽とピラミッドは 一列に並ぶ時があります

certain rituals that they would offer up to their gods. Sometimes that was

垂直方向に 完璧に並びます

terrible things like human sacrifices, animal sacrifices. And the celestial

するとピラミッドには 陰が全くできません

bodies helped them know when it was time to do that. This section is the top of

４面すべてが 直接 日に当たるのです

the city, the highest point in this whole valley. You see all these wide open

天体を記録することは 農業だけの為ではありません

plazas. And some people theorized that these were meant to be filled with water

宗教儀礼や式典の為でもあります 毎年同じ時に儀式を行い神に祈りをささげるのです

when it would rain, so that people could sit up on the surrounding buildings and look

人間や動物を生贄にするような 恐ろしいこともありました

down and see the reflection of the stars. And they would do this so that they

天体はいつ実行するかを 教えてくれたのです

could track the stars and study the constellations, some people theorize that

ここは町のトップで、 この谷で一番高い場所です

this is how they were able to understand the stars and construct their city based

ひろい広場が見えます

on constellations. We really don't know a lot about these people, like where they came

ある人はここに水が 張られるのだと考えています

from, what language they spoke, where they went in 600 AD, when they kind of just

雨が降った時に

disappeared off the archaeological map. But we do know that they cared about

そして周りの建物に座り、 星の反射を見るのです

tracking the sun and tracking the stars and their entire city was constructed

そうすることによって 星を記録し、星座を研究できます

and configured in order to be able to do that.

だから星を理解して 星座をもとに町を作れたのだと言うのです

The borders documentaries are

でもよく分かっていません

finally launching. Up until now I've been making these dispatches, just little

どこから来たのか、 何語で話していたのか、 西暦600年にどこへいったのか、 考古学的地図からいつ消えたのか…

videos while I've been traveling but all of this has been to build six

分かっているのは 太陽と星を記録していたこと

documentaries. I'm going to be publishing the first borders documentary on October 17th,

そして町全体が そのために設置されたということです

and then publishing weekly thereafter on Tuesdays. The videos are

"Borders"ドキュメンタリーは 完成しました

going to be publishing on Facebook and YouTube and if you don't want to miss

今はこの"DISPATCH"を作っています

the updates on when they publish you can sign up for the newsletter which I'm

旅の途中の短い動画です。 でも６つのドキュメンタリーがメインです

putting the link down in the description. Really excited to share these with you

最初のドキュメンタリーを10/17に 公開します

you should tune back October 17th, to watch the first one.

その後に毎週公開します