When the Druids give your most savage of warriors a potion made from black henbane and the psycodelics start to kick in. The horns start to play, you smear blue paint on your face and cover your hair in white lime dust, you evoke the power of the animal you represent and set off to slaughter whatevar stands in your way with 0 mercy
I once read a letter written home by a young British soldier serving in Up State New York when it was still a colony--early 18th Century. He described the cold and the snow and the threat of being scalped by Indians. He said one of the most frightening was the nightly roars and screams of some unseen animal. I can only imagine the fear this instrument engendered.
With great accordance. comes great respect. Listen to your father, mothers. Your ancestry. Heed my words or fall as a fool. Only once in your lifetime did you experience this great feeling of immeasurable announcement
Mist billowing up from the Rhine in the early morning sun. You're slowly waking up and putting on your armor. Then you hear this coming from forest and thousands of warriors beating their swords against their sheilds. Truly terrifying.
It should have been played with the intention for which it was created, for war, to terrify the enemy, and not to bore them, put them to sleep, or make them not take you seriously.
Dair horn is a war horn not carnyx Carnyx is shaped to be standing and the sound blasting over a stanging group or a group fighting in a enclosed area Dair horn was shaped spiral to fit on your shoulders for marching and specifically built for war
@@Dhdh-cf3mb Certainly. The war horn is that, literally constructed from the horn of an animal, a canir it is not a war *horn it is forged from bronze, serves as a poignant relic of Celtic warfare, intended not only to instill fear in adversaries but also to galvanize comrades into the throes of battle. As a certified Celtologist from the esteemed University of Galway, coupled with a degree in Celtic languages and literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, I must emphasize the cultural and ritualistic significance imbued within such a formidable instrument. To wield the carnix outside the context of war, such as at a wedding or festival, particularly in the atypical sequence of tones denoted as t,t,c, would not only be deemed sacrilegious but also inherently irrational, for it defies the solemnity and gravity intrinsic to its martial heritage.
@@peregrindudragonoir2783 Send your source that says carnyx wasn't used outside war or sacrilege as you call it You don't say Galway university you say the name of the study Also celtic literature is very small we did not write gauls were the most literate but adopted greek Most carnyx history come from romans documenting celtic tribes And one text in Latin states carnyx in war was only ever held by the chieftain
@@peregrindudragonoir2783 Look up Gundestrup cauldron The only real depiction of a carnyx we have today and it shows them being used in a ceremony we have very little writings on carnyx so little that we only know the gaulish translation carnyx is gaulish other celts called it other names but again we did not docum history
Ive seen a lot of comments saying how it incites fear in them. Maybe its something to do with DNA, but when I hear this I dont feel afraid, I feel courage
As a descendant of the britons. I totally agree. Its welcoming as if its calling to your soul. Then again, i also feel that way about the old bag pipes. Still, to hear the Carnyx at last, its emotional.
