Academic videos about ancient mythology and religious history.
From Zeus to Zoroastrianism, the Vikings to the Vedas, and from Sacrifice to Spirituality, we explore the stories behind the stories in mythological and religious texts.
33:55 Maybe Babel was a story about bad construction techniques and dodgy builders and what happens when it all goes to shit. 'Bloody cocky builder thought he could build anything. Well when it fell over everyone got the hump and refused to speak to him again'. Cheers Bob.
People, understand for once that there are no Indo-Europeans and they can only become Euro-Indians because the cradle of the white race after the ice age is the Balkans or Helm as it was called until three hundred years ago when it was also called Old Europe. At the time of the Leoenski Vir culture 11,500 years ago, it was one of the rare places due to its microclimate, there was no ice and snow below 3 km, and migrations went from Helm to all four corners of the world after the melting of the ice cap.
I teach my dance students to sing and play, and I go every month to a hell of a work searching the song, writing the arrangements, finding the musicians, threatening the dancers to memorize the words and melodies, repeating the part in my cello and constantly defiing them to get their instruments and study and wondering if Ill have enough students to support the thing economically. This is my eigth or ninth year doing this hell of a job and when im doubting if I can stand it for more I think about the fact that I grew up singing and playing in the family and that was my playground, that's how I have fun and meaning in life. So I can't stop. To "play" in english means also to play a game, but in italian you say "suonare" (to produce sounds) and in Spanish you say "tocar" (to touch) and making music is about all thee, I think. Thanks for the video! Keep the good work!
Wonderful to learn something new about my country South Africa. It has also made me wonder if this could have influenced the tale of Adam, Eve and the snake. Thank you so much for these insights.
For millions of years, night was the watchman’s hours. On guard for the appearance of a terrifying apparition, were the night stalker assassins below. The brain wired to cancel the forest chorus, the cacophony of sounds, an evolution in nature twenty-five million years ago. Perhaps in the Oligocene, our self-awareness began a very long march. The hominin stares from a high perch and sees something meld up from the dark dirt of earth below. It saunters past, to sniff, mark a spot, to pause and listen, and with sylphlike disappearance dissolves in the shadow of the underworld. In a penthouse nest one ancestor, relieves a scratch on the rump. The stare below moves up with ears tuned, a release of flatulence, the position pinpointed. The ground hugs with patience, the black hair against the black night hides our ancestor in plain view yet invisible on this moonless night. The breath slows and the heart quiets, the brain sharpens, when the faintest snap is heard. The night tricks the brain, the card is played, the mind certain now waits and listens. Above, hearts relax but something waits below, much closer now. A mother cares for a fussing infant and nurses her to be still. Ill with incontinence, another fecal drop falls. The apparition picks up the scent, the freshness and species now certain. The paragon of the killer is its mastery of the hidden approach, and in the last moment, the silent grip of claws inch upwards, when a body odor is met, the vector recalculated and the moment arrives. A complete surprise from behind to terrible screams, bodies scramble over and across branches, a mass panic. Feces flee and urine, too. The death growl warns the others to stay away, the bite came through the skull. A grip is lost, the sound of tumbling, slapping strikes to limbs and body, and ends with a dull thump on the ground. The shrieking ruckus is over and in the huge mouth of the ghoul is a limp body hanging dead, the infant forty feet below. Carried with ease is the sinewy corpse of the mother. Better this way to see a loved one die than to be eaten by our nearest cousin. They pull us apart and devour us alive as we scream as though on fire. The dichotomy seen in life and nature began with a need for understanding by the brave, but there were those who sought quick explanation. Drugs were key to unlocking the question no one could answer. Why are we here? Religion started with drugs.
She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure. For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore Then I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells. ....and, I bet they're purple, and contain the 7 thunders. Maybe the syncrotism is simply because the chemistry doesn't work if you change it.
I'm no academic, but due to my Japanese heritage (half Japanese) a lifelong study of history, religion, folklore and culture is the source of my knowledge. Rather than being derived from Chinese standing armies. The method of combat, mounted archers with swords as sidearms developed from the Emishi indigenous tribal peoples of northern and western Japan. This the samurai copied adopted with their own technologies and beliefs. I was the concept creator, developer of the published Kaidan setting of Japanese Horror (PFRPG), and own the IP - a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game setting, supplements and adventures - a kind of extended treatise of my own lifetime of research on the subject.
Halloween and November 1st The Day of the Dead is in remembrance of the great flood. When else in history has so many people perished at one time in one event? It is now something far different. Blessings to you
In the Bible, Issa encourages us to dig the Earth and find the Ancient Relics of the Word, as they cry up from the dust. This practice clearly teaches us that God and truth are transcendant of this flowing natural reality, which can only be made record of, if not directly witnessed. There is that Self in us what is ever the Same; we needn't worry about the most assured unfoldment of Knowledge & Wisdom to meet us in the end; and ALL what God has said finding ABSOLUTE clarity. Those not believing in "the existence" of demi-gods, should observe Oregon, California and Washington; and that what lies east of them. There is nothing symbolic at all here.
There is a tribe in Iran that still follows Mithraism. It’s the Bakhtiari tribe in southwestern Iran. They claim to be Muslim but their symbolism says otherwise. There are many studies done on this group. They’re interesting.
You suggest a need for proof…in the infinity of perspective, the view of everyone holds truth. Everything is energy…seen and unseen. It is case of vibrational variance to whether a truth will resonate or irritate. Consider that many people can hold an object and gain knowledge. When many people sense the same knowledge is that proof? It is been reported there are individuals who when holding a (or ‘the’) Crystal Skull receive clear visions because they are energetically coded to receive that knowledge. Another individual may not be energetically coded to receive that knowledge and sense nothing but that does not lessen the truth of what occurred. Consider the quantum physics of spirituality….science and mathematics provide sacred structure. Consider at what point is something true? If you used sensory deprivation and psychometry along with techniques by Masaru Emoto (freezing images of the energy sensed) …wouldn’t it be interesting to see what those images convey. You would need many people to note their perspectives (both from holding the item and the images created through freezing water) but what if that provided a sense of ‘proof’ - to prove what we all know connects what is seen. Irrelevant of time or place….tune into what is unseen and you will remember what was true. Your perspective…not what is written by someone else. Your truth - that never needed to be proven.
Could the Missoula floods of 12000-15000 years ago in the Pacific NW of North America have been incorporated into & spread as a flood myth? There may also be a history of flooding in that area as far back as 1.5 mya.
They were written by Pelasgians, Greeks translated them and "adjusted them a bit", Achile the Pelasgian was a traitor to Ilioi and his people, the greeks made him greek...so you would get an idea.
Thank you Jon and Antony for this "toe to toe" comparison of the most legendary warriors and the cultures that produced them. Anytime you two want to do an even deeper dive into Bushido, Shinto, and Taoist origins you have at least one eager student waiting with a (Japanese) cup of tea (or saki) and Antony has one more new subscriber.
Hello John!!! I'm one of Antony's long time subscribers, I've been rocking with Antony since about 2009 if I remember correctly lol...just now subscribing to your channel thanks to Antony's link...really enjoyed that video you did on Antony's Tolkien book. Just finished seeing this documentary here on viking vs samurai. You both make excellent narrators. The art work from that web comic viking vs samurai is so well done, I will check them out too when I get a chance. If Viking vs Samurai turns out to be an anime it would be one I would definitely tune in to see just based off the art work. I look forward to seeing more collabs with you and Antony... I tell you man you both make great narrators, reminds me of David Attenborough. Your accents are mint!!!
Ich finde den schwarzen Drachen, der Drache des Nordens am besten, er bringt Veränderungen, ob es schlecht oder gut ist, ist Ansichtssache. In der westlichen Welt verkörpert er Chaos und Zerstörung in Asien hat er eine andere Bedeutung !👍🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷
