the mysterious cities of gold - the olmecs music

The video with music from The Mysterious Cities of Gold. This time focus is on the Olmecs.

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• mysterious
• cities
• of
• gold
• esteban
• zia
• tao
• olmecs

[sillyblob]

from what I understand, tMCoG was a complete co-production; the french and japanese versions were made together, therefore both are as 'canon' as each other (as one version was not 'made' from the other) the differences spring from what the respective teams wanted for their audience. So if you watched the j version, they were aliens, if not, they weren't. Both are right. The french didn't just dub the show out of the blue- it was theirs too.

[Yana25fromDA]

From the two dub versions I think the more "canon" is the Japanese. I read somewhere that somebody pointed out how the opening starts with the camera zooming on the univese, then our galaxy, then the Earth. Whatever the French version says, I think Olmecs are aliens who after arriving to Earth settled down in an abandoned power station of the Hiva people which they added their technology to.

[700gsteak]

menator*

[700gsteak]

I feel sorry for nenator. he only wanted to help his people.

[darkangel2347]

In the Japanese version, the Olmecs are aliens from outer space and are clearly stated as such. But the French dubbers removed this element from the dialog to have them a race of people on planet earth all along. Every other dub uses translation s from the French dub so this convention is used in every other dub ever.

[Trianuss1]

@UOForums . The Olmecs DID create their advanced technology, their weaponry is totally different to the technology of the Hiva people. Not just the flying machine but also the cryogenic chambers where the bodies are frozen. Those chambers were not made by the Hiva, as is revealed, the Olmecs made those chambers themselves when their people began to die out. The Olmecs may actually be Aliens, their physical appearance and clothing are completely different to all other cultures.

[darkangel2347]

Hiva replaced Mu for the English dub of this series. Mu was used in the French/Japanese versions. I don't know the reason why the name change happened. I guess that Mu could be confused for "Moo" or "Mew". For similar reasons, they changed Piccu (the annoying green talking parrot, Tao's pet parrot) to Kokapetl. I guess here that "Piccu" might of sounded like "Pick You" or "Pee you".

[Cathain78]

@Lusitanus

Like I said, just because they look different does mean they are from outer space.

Extra Terristrials are never mentioned once in the entire series. But the Olmecs were cloning themselves, we see that much. So I think it more likely they look odd because they are mutated, rather than space creatures.

[Cathain78]

@Lusitanus

The Empire of Hiva does appear in the cartoon. In the penultimate episode the High Priest tells them of the Hivans and how they created the Cities of Gold. These are the people Tao refers to when he talks about his ancestors. The Hivans built the cities of gold, built the Golden Condor and the ship, Solaris, found under Tao's island home. Watch that episode and you will see a flashback showing you their society.

[Lusitanus]

@Cathain78 then why you refer to Hivan technology if that civilization doesnt appear in this cartoons? if you see everyone tribes or civilizations in the cartoons are all different from olmecs...which gives them a non-terrestrial aspect.

by the way I think this cartoons were the BEST version of El Dorado, much better than the Disney,including the music too....