An Ode To Earth - Baba Yetu: HD 

Also it was written an performed for a large media franchise, funded by a large corporation.

Cheaptastic Productions The Soweto Gospel Choir, who sang the lyrics, is also from South Africa.

Cheaptastic Productions the lyrics are in swahili, a language originating from eastern africa.........

its the greek prayer to the lord translated into swahili.

Hej

Now that's an idea !

It also looks like promotional videos for Travelling. Sorta like "Visit Earth 3028" promotional videos.

You don't be prostituting no earth! ya hear?!

Earth 2100! 😂

Yes, and let's extend it to convince them more to let us join the Interplanetary Nations

Absolutely! The Lords prayer would make a great anthem for the world!

I want to go and spread joy and enjoy my day and hope everyone else does regardless of what they believe in.

NinjaCakeAssassin : You are not alone, you are not. I am no Christian, and I am no speaker of Swahili, whether native or not. And yet, when I concentrate on the video while listening to the song, I just WANT to burst into tears. Just to celebrate the Universe and All that is in.

Am am kenya in german feel like huggin the world!!!

I understand why!

That statement is one of factors that defines Christianity!

You don't even have to leave the planet for that. Talk to anyone whose job it is to provide for humanity as a whole: military, police, firefighters, medical personnel (doctors, nurses, EMS, dentists, etc), teachers... I guarantee each one of them, at some point in their career, had a moment of clarity and realized all these dividing lines are arbitrary and foolish. One planet, one people.

@@RedT...TheOriginal.NotANumber Then that EMT got hit over the head and mugged by a black man for his sneakers. Imagine how stupified Edgar would have been had instead of looking back, he looked out and saw the universe itself. Probably would have just pulled out his oxygen tube at how insignificant and pointless it all is.

@@hohenzollern6025 Every once in a great while, yeah, people attack EMTs. But usually the staff and snake provide us some measure of protection.

@@hohenzollern6025 And that would've made him want to build a safer society instead of pointing fingers and crying about it like a manlet on the internet. There is a flow within people that pushes them on to deal with the status quo or to rise above it. Even without looking at this planet from the moon. Which will you live to tell you next of kin you are?

DisgruntledViewer I'm not sure that half the world wants to use "The Lord's Prayer" as their anthem.

Gavin Golden i think that half is whats wrong with the world.

Gavin Golden the half that doesnt lol. Just clarifying

Christian Saldana How incredibly closed minded of you.

Dynamiklol no its my open mindedness that allows me to see that.

Praise God

'The human is beautiful.' - have you seen James Corden?

its towards the top of languages i want to learn list

This video gives me goosebumps and like you said it is a good counterweight for cynicism.

Good sir/madam, if I may, I'd like to like to link you to something one of my friends wrote on DeviantArt that has a similar theme to it: imepsilon119.deviantart.com/art/On-Humankind-s-Ascent-to-the-Stars-479171103

EpsilonCrew It asks for my dream, my vision. I can't really look upon the world it supposes as beautiful, but I have no doubt that if we continue, a world very much like it shall exist. So many people, filling the sky of so many stars. Peace and tolerance, whatever those words mean, shall not be in abundance though. Indeed, if history is any teacher, we shall not be respected by many. We shall be looked down on and scorned. It shall not matter though, for as backwards as we may seem to them, we shall be those who they came from. Amid the same pain, anguish, and death that we experience now, they shall continue our hopes and our dreams. They will be, just as we are now, humans. So even through our hate, and also through our love, we shall continue. Thus a great saga will continue that has been ongoing for millennia.

You are a good and wise man

We need more people like you in the world.

let all put down the pain and hate of there comings and goings , and just for one moment , a simple tiny moment in time . have peace .

I couldn't agree more, + 1000 !

I wish other people saw it the same way as you D;

I know it's been 6 years, but this just shows how beautiful this video is that we can still come back to this whenever we feel we need it. Now my comment - Christopher Tin, the composer, actually responds to comments very responsively, and he said in one that he is actually advising the United Nations for music. I couldn't think of a better person for doing this. I don't think he was there when the current hymn was made, because that one while all music of course has its beauty, doesn't hit the right feels for a whole humanity hymn.

Brenda Luande Have a strenght and faith, I'm sending you much love from Poland!

StrzechaWlosow​ I appreciate your love and kindness and more so your prayers..God's blessings

*****​ thanks so much, God be with you too

Brenda Luande Unfortunately the concept of God is half the reason Africa and the Middle East are in perpetual turmoil.

Liam Smith knowledge inbound m8

I am now convinced that Swahili is God's language.

All human languages are God's language. Each language defines our uniqueness as humans and separates us from the beasts!

that is so amazingly witty . . did you think of that line yourself?

Brendan Feay except for you . .

just listen to civ vi song, this is civ iv theme song :)

Step 0. Everyone gets internet

if i had the money id be running around africa with a big projector playing this video in 10,000p id bring plenty of food too of course...

Matt Damon YOU'RE MATT DAMON. *HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE THE MONEY?!*

matt damon is poor as fuck

Partially :P

You are the funniest person here.

Ald Rhun not really i find both to be excellent uses (in equal standing) civ's use showcases the history, and rise of Human civilization while this one shows off the beauty of the earth itself

NerdLink not in civ 5 :(

It's not in Civ 5, that was the joke. I was complementing Arthus850's use of cynicism.

Ald Rhun Actually it was a legit mistake, but I guess it works as a joke to.

Lord's prayer!!!

Why would Gandhi use Buddhist monks to hide his nukes?

It was a joke.

Bradley McDaniel That too was just a joke.

Bradley McDaniel Nice

This flew right over the head of non-Civ fans

ich gaube da sind wir ale einer meinung

matt parenti Amen

👌👍

they already know the song

That is extraterrestrial being perceive wound in the same way as we do, which is unlikely. Same with watching that movie, or the whole existanse itself. Maybe they have more cords in their eyes, which means they can see colours we cannot even imagine. I'm sorry for being a dickhead.

Extraterrestrials will know this song, because Jesus would have taught them already.

It would be a great Tourism ad campaign.

Poor Drew, you have no idea how life works . . . too brainwashed by Disney movie endings . . .

Drew Henkhaus That crazy bitch, mother nature tried to kill us since day one! First by trying to starve us out, so we hopped off the trees started to walk on two legs, then by predators and we made spears to kill the critters, an Ice age happened but it was too late, we had already migrated throughout the globe and begun forging small primitive communities. Not even plagues nor natural disasters could remove us. Soon, there'll be a human on each and every one of those stars in the night sky.

Tarik360 ... Getting revenge on nature will only destroy us. As we are part of nature.

Heathco.MD Oh I did not say we should get our revenge, I simply stated that we should grow.

Tarik360 by calling Nature a horrible beast

....that's what I just wanted to say :D

Too bad we're ruining earth :P

Captain Kruk Yea ik

+Captain Kruk mm hmm

i love our planet but i wish humans didn't exist

the song is stolen from a game named sid meiers civilization 4

I know.

Can't tell whether serious, or troll looking for flame war.

BlizzardDoesn'tOwnSkeletons Baba Yetu is the Lords Prayer in Swahili. He has every right to associate the song with God. You see Mother Earth, we see the person the prayer was talking to.

Hmm, valid point.

MrFlamesFan12 While I might not share the same beliefs as you, we can both agree on how beautiful the universe is. :)

Official Fayde *tips fedora*

Is my best too

Do you know where i can find more information on this tribe?

***** Information is incredibly sparse as the general consensus amongst scientists and the government (I believe in Brasil, as it's in the Amazon) was to leave them alone.

Thedutchjelle Yeah, i found a little footage of the whole fligth footage thing and a little info, but not much.

justun chan its swahili right?

yes it is, an absolutely beautiful language

But you aren't, you're exploring assassin's creed =/

Get rekt lol

this world would be perfect without humanity. the continual destruction of everything in this world is a testimant to that. how many hundreds of species have we extinguished from the world and continue to do so in the name of living forever and greed. we are nature's only mistake.

Adam Ward But, imagine this, if we did not come to power then no doubt eventually some other species would and they would probably be the same way as us. Species just evolve to want more and more because they cannot suit themselves with what they have. Life is a mistake in itself, or, a great, complex system. It's your decision.

I agree that another species may have eventually evolved in the same way although I doubt they would be like us. Almost every other species in this would does not suffer from the same sense of expansion and greed as humanity does. Nature has a sense of balance in all things. More prey creates more food for predators which increases their numbers, once prey have reduced numbers predators have reduced numbers with reduced food. This has been the case for millions of years, a perfect balance. All species apart from humans do not actively destroy the environment around them. Human behaviour is more similar to that of a parasite rather than primate.

Adam Ward Nature has a sense of balance, a species as evolved as us does not abide by nature, yet we tend to make nature abide to our rules. This would most likely be what happens to any other species that becomes like us in a mental and technological sense. Though you make a good point.

+TheNerd I like the way you think, at least someone who isn't spitting on our specie!

those who played the game :)

Dragos Dimancea the games great.

Jean-Simon Culhane you DISRESPECTFUL POTATO

Samuel Goldie And 50% of that trailer consisted of murica.

Tlevids Yeah, which felt like a really disingenuous move to secure American interest in the game. Come on, guys! America isn't the only country in your game!

Aliums

The progression of the music doesn't fit with the video.

@@nathangamble125 wrong

civilization soundtrack in specific civilization 4

I masturbate while worshiping Satan to this song. :)

AlonePopTart As a Christian I laughed so hard at this :D

AlonePopTart Whether or not you do (you don't), it is still a Christian prayer set to song and sung in Swahili.

Nonamearisto He wasn't denying that it's a Christian prayer or that it's sung in Swahili. He merely stated what he does while listening to the song, in an effort to make a joke.

Nonamearisto Christian or not, it's an amazing song!

He'd probably like it, it's quite a powerful message.

Blaze MacArthur you misunderstand, he needs to watch this so he doesnt destroy the earth with his stupid coal factories

Billy Bob How would watching this make him change his policy on coal-generated power? I watched this, I liked it, but it isn't going to inspire someone to change their political beliefs in and of itself; *especially* in regards to the "global warming" issue.

Blaze MacArthur Donald trumpet definitely would not be changed by this, i am just saying it is amazing to see how beautiful this world is and how sad it is that we are destroying. My comment was basically saying that Donald trump isn't really helping that right now.

Billy Bob Well, I agree with you to a certain extent. Out of necessity, out of negligence or simply out of greed, the natural world has been eroded due to human meddling. It goes without saying that we need to preserve what we can while we can; I just don't see why we must politicize the issue, but as it involves a lot of emotions, I can see why it would lead to that. Right now, it's more economically beneficial to burn coal instead of implementing comparatively expensive and inefficient equipment. Trump has his own priorities in running the country and focusing on its own citizens. While your cause seems conceptually just and is one I can certainly agree with, I don't see how you expect Trump to put most of his focus into reducing carbon emissions at the moment. To be honest, I originally thought you were referring to the many different peoples displayed in the video and thought you were trying to suggest Trump should watch this to gain more respect for other cultures. This is what I was ready to respond to you regarding.