A couple of years ago I was lucky on two successive mornings to have the place entirely to myself. Not another soul apart from entrance staff. Totally still except the bells of goat herds in the distance. Amazing spot. Something very special.
When I visited Delphi, I think what struck me most was the feeling of power and spiritual serenity .....It was so strong you could almost cut it with a knife...standing there amongst the clouds with the cool breezes. It left me with a very strong memory.
@@kd5txo I definitely agree. I have been to many well known religious sites around the world, like Jerusalem, but they all pale in comparison to the atmosphere at Delphi. Its the geography in part, and in part connection to just to myth but to real history -- knowing of how many key figures from antiquity made their way to Delphi over the centuries, and how critical it was to the classical world. You feel connected to both time and space.
I watched this documentary several times before visiting Delphi last October. It enhanced my experience tremendously. I have since sought out other films by Michael Scott. His series on theater in Greece is equally good.
I am an undergraduate student learning about the ancient Mediterranean world. Delphi is the one place I’m most excited to visit one day, and the more I learn about it, the more I yearn to stand where the two eagles landed.
Just visited Delphi yesterday (4/21/2022). Due to little background knowledge, I did not understand every piece of “ stones”, “statues”and “walls”. This well done video gave me great amount of knowledge and help me a lot to understand the old world and new ones. Thank you very much! 👍
It is sad you went to visit Delfi without previously getting informed where you were going. I am sorry, but have to ask this, why did you go there in the first place, then, if you didn't have a clue what that place, or any other, is.
and here i stand, knowing that after the end of this delightful journey that has filled me with vast knowledge and wisdom that i will need to assemble a 300 word essay
Book recommendation for anyone interested in this subject matter: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from dreams, death, the afterlife, time travel, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years.
«Μηδένα προ του τέλους μακάριζε». Σόλων ... Call no one happy until you see his end! Paraphrasing this ancient Greek wisdom one may say: " Call no empire invisible before you see its end"! Amazing done documentary with great enthusiasm and honesty. Thanks a lot Dr Michael Scott!
"Call no man happy till he's dead." I vaguely remember a discussion of this in Aristotle. I thought it simply meant: you can't really accurately evaluate someone's life before it's over, because something really bad might happen between now and his death. You say it means "Call no empire invisible before you see its end". Not sure I understand that. But thanks for providing the original Greek.
Wow, this was so well done, and moving. I really liked the Presenter: Dr Scott; and would like to watch more of his work. Delphi was much more beautiful than I imagined: greener, more scenic,.. and there was more of it left than I had thought. Greece looks gorgeous.
About 75 years ago when a student at Cambridge, I visited Delphi, had read up about it and to a fair extent knew of the historic side which Dr Michael Scott so ably and thoroughly explains.. Being not a follower of any Abrahamic Faith but of a Vedic one which was in many ways resembled the religion of the ancient Greeks, I entered the Temple with a feeling of reverence and felt a "religious spirit" and knew that the aura of the divine still survived there. I am a native of Guyana, regarded as a Caribbean country. Great gratitude to Dr Scott for his inimitable tour! ("Know thyself" is a usual term used in Vedic Faiths to enjoin one to follow the path to Moksha or Nirvana)
That was fantastic, Dr. Michael Scott, I just loved how Delphi was filmed, especially from the adjacent mountain, it gave me a much better understanding of the site. I know what that statue at 33:28 and the end would say : "Everyone is missing the whole concept.". It is all about a large comet that dropped among the inner solar system and destroyed the world three times blocking out the Sun and sky for long periods of time bringing death and destruction and when the Impact Winters dissipated the Sun rose triumphantly and life began once again. The breakup of this comet and dispersal of debris formed the Taurid Stream that we still commemorate today as The Festival of the Dead, the victims of bombardment from above, dressed up as the dead when we cross this most dangerous meteor stream during its pre-perihelion going door to door asking if we will die by the Trickster or will it be a genial climate Treat while the Taurids or Halloween Fireballs fall. This story in universal in mythology such as Typhon and Apollo which is the Comet vs. the Sun, it is even depicted in Gobekli Tepe at Enclosure D with the Sun holding the Dragon, such as Gilgamesh holding a lion in one arm, and standing domineeringly on the row of seven avians, representing the Pleiades, where said stream has its radiant, and the adversary next to it with the bull on its chest representing the constellation of Taurus. In the remaining adulterated Sibylline Oracles it is clearly stated that the knowledge of past destructions are spin-doctored into prognostications of the future. The Mesoamericans had the same concept of sacrificing to keep the Sun from disappearing due to the actions of the Feathered Serpent from the Pleiades! Everyone should read my 144,890 word work and join the paradigm shift.
roughly 20 years ago I visited Delphi. it was a dream come true, and it's a beautiful place. the guide was quite good but I would love to visit again with Dr. Scott as the archaeological historian. Does anyone know if he has a video of the monasteries in Meteora? throughout my travels in Greece I ate some of the most wonderful fruits and other produce, breads were heartier than those in France.
Thanks for this great documentary. Over all I learnt english and french watching documentaries like this. The meaning and sense of Delphi is showed beautifully in te document and expressed masterfully at the end with "know thyself" and "nothing in excess", making reference to these stupid and difficult times where the beast drives the chariot and the men pull from it. Thanks to you and to Michael and farewell.
Thank you Michael for your amazing documentary and your beautiful French:) my name is "Delphine ' and i have been wishing for all my life to visit Delphi. You re-ignited this wish:) Delphine from Brussels
Wonderful! I have studied Greece for a few years and this brought so much more understanding and scholarship to what I knew about Delphi and the Greeks. Thank you!
Oh.. wait... I already commented prior to the last part of this video. And for me the most impressive element here was this remaining part of the original Platea Victory bronze column made of three entwined snakes standing in that kind of dug out pit in the middlej of modern day Istanbul. This is "magical" and such a good news for me to have learned thanks to you about its preservation. At least in this partialy remaining condition. If I would be wealthy I'd like to make a replica of it in 1:1 size and offer it to Delphi as a gift for all visitors there to see it once again. Because it doesn't matter that it would be just a copy. Emotions are also created by vision and when people can see on site the incarnation of the ancient Hellene's pride they will feel the same since ideas and feelings can be transmitted just by words and the vision of art. Maybe there is somebody having a bit of his change to spare for such a project?
"Know thyself" was attributed to Thales and "Nothing in excess" to Solon. Was the oracle intentionally invoking these two (of the seven) sages of ancient Greece as pillars of thought? Thales was a philosopher and mathematician, Solon an advocate of democracy and morality. Were they the templates the oracle wanted us all to follow?
OMG...i visited delphi 1982 for amazing 6 days...stayed in sybilla hotel..i enjoyed every ms,i lost all adresses of my friends there by 1989,i wish thay r now ok ,thank u for good video
GREECE YOU GOTTA LOVE HER ,IS ANYONE ELSE IMAGINING THEM SELF'S BEING THERE AND THE TIME IT WAS A BUSTLING PLACE FULL OF MURMUR AND FILLED WITH MULTIPLE SOUND AND SENSES THAT GIVE A FEELING OF FULLNESS OF LIVING?
It didn't have the wealth of swiss banks, but Delphi had a lot of wealth for ancient times, spirit world price & respectable. It was one of the greatest religionous centre of the ancient world. It was famous & well known in ancient times.
The purpose of oracles in ancient Greece was not to predict the future. They were not considered psychics. That's why Croesus' question was considered strange. He was basically asking her to predict what would happen, and that's not her function. That's why she told Greeks things like "pray to the winds, they will be strong allies," before storms wrecked the enemy fleet, and "your salvation rests behind wooden walls," referring to the Greek navy that turned out to be the key in beating Persia. The wisdom of Apollon and her own were there to counsel people, not foresee outcomes. And she was incredibly accurate. Apollon likes to give people things to figure out, because it expands the human mind and the human experience, which constitutes life. He doesn't attempt to live people's lives for them. People some times think otherwise, which is why they misunderstand the role of the oracle.
There's a foreigner woman priest in Linga Bhairavi temple at Isha Yoga Center, India, who chants mantras in Opera style.. i tried to guess is it Sanskrit or Greek(she looks Greek).. sometimes it looked Sanskrit and sometimes a European language.. but it doesn't matter.. Mantras are not actually language specific.. only thing matter in mantras are sounds to which gods(specific energies/souls in Universe, not the God of western religions) are connected to. These sounds invokes particular gods to which it's connected. I feel Sadhguru even knows sounds/mantras of even Greek gods. And it could be possible that Linga Bhairvi is not new goddess, but the ancient Greek goddess installed here.. otherwise why would someone sing a Greek chant for her.. anything is possible. Also there's a video in which Sadhguru visits and explain the ancient temples of Delphi in Greece are actually Chakra based temples. Even there's a photo of OSHO sitting on rocks of same temple. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-awx7izTX5jQ.html
Mycenean remains are found in the area . Perhaps it had preserved informations and memories of colonization from the Minoan-Mycenean era. Delphi was the center of Geopolitics during Archaic era. Amphictionia had the main task of protecting the autonomy and independence of the oracle of Delphi. Its political and ethnogenetic value was a consequence. Amphictionia named after the mythical king of Athens, Amphiction (Αμφικτύων), brother of Hellen (Έλλην). The emperor Hadrian renamed Amphictionia in Centro Panellenico.
As I almost always do with archeology I find my self falling through the gaps in what we actually know or can know about them, for example understanding the possibly physiological mechanisms in terms of modern biochemistry, (I was once told the visions arose from her chewing laurel leaves,) which may have affected the priestess actually adds nothing useful whatsoever to our understanding of what was happening at the oracle and yet leaves us with a misleading conviction that somehow we know more than we do. The Greek civilization of the classical period and later although still endlessly fascinating, (due in part to their own extensive but very far from comprehensive written accounts which have survived them,) always remain somewhat elusive and the closer we look a them through modern eyes the stranger and more alien they seem to become.
I have a favorite grand auntie named Delphi, she's 99 years old now. I've always loved her name. I can imagine her as a little girl, the center of the world!
The snake column was taken by Constantine the Great in 324 AD and moved to Constantinople, where it remains today. The snake heads are gone and the city was renamed Istanbul in 1930, but the column is still there.
I visited Delphi several years ago. I remember there and at the acropolis the stone steps and in the ground were so old and worn, they were slick. I fell a few times 😂 what a majestic sight. Was worth the bruises on my bum! 🤣
Delphi was the Greek world's notice board Statues were not just stone, they lived, they breathed, they responded A storyboard of mutual hostility A place to watch but also to be seen
Some of the earliest priestesses/priests of Delphi were Minoans or taught by them ("the double axe men")---whose world center was Knossos, from 3600-1450 BCE the core, like later Delphi, of its spiritual world. And "Knossos Matters" because it was The West's first, longest-thriving, most advanced and successful phase still on record---centered on nature and women, and without kings (instead their executive powers were ruled by a lunar/solar 8-year cycle). They gave us indoor plumbing, international law, egalitarian social forms, proto-Olympic games and the calendar that still rules them. Even after Crete was conquered by Mycenaean war-culture, post-Minoan peoples from Cyprus to Palestine kept in touch with Delphi through their common Mother Goddess, named Pyto-Gayah. Explore in detail at Ancientlights dot o-r-g. PEACE
When I visited Delphi 20 years ago, it was over-run with tourists jumping all over the ruins...very disrespectful. How did you manage to get there at a time when it was practically empty (or was it?)
Every history documentary I watch on RU-vid has a comment section of people who think of themselves as history experts, far more knowledgeable than any of the certified expert in the documentaries themselves. We are truly living in the age of the delusional.
Question: During the process of removing residents, living on the sight of Delphi, did authorities exercise the premise Might Is Right? Might Is Right is eminent domain?
In the year 657 B.C. city of Bazantion was founded by the Greeks and then almost a millennium later in 330 A.D. this sophisticated and wealthy metropolis became known as Constantinople.It was only with the foundation of modern Turkey after the Great War when the city name was officially changed to Istanbul.
Love your work, Dr. Scott! I sure wish classicists, historians, and mythologists could take on this theory! Symbols & such, are explained so powerfully! An absolutely stunning mixture of science & myth! On YT SYMBOLS OF AN ALIEN SKY The past may be far more fascinating than we could ever imagine! What are Dragons, serpents, etc.? PLASMA DISCHARGES, seen in the skies, and remembered!
It's about time for us Humans to recognize the prevalence of mass adults behaving as Adolescents, i.e., "living through the Lower Mind aka Ego Mind, reacting, and Observably expressing the energies that reside in the Lower Mind: fear, judgemental, jealousy, envy, prejudices, insecurities, etc. Mature Thought and Behavior require "Conscious in Thoughts" + "Applying Higher Mind". War is blatant Lower/Ego Mind actions and we are intelligent enough to know, it is wholly about Money, Power, Control. Unacceptable in the 21st Century.
Unfortunately, the omphalos is not shown - translated the buzzing pillar, the beehive. Unfortunately, the matriarchal beginning of Delphi with female priestesses called Melissae - the bees - is also not discussed. Traditions tell that Delphi was the sanctuary of the earth goddess Gaya, who was worshipped in the cave shown and later in a predecessor temple. Delphi represents the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy through the construction of the temple of Apollo and the victory of Typhon over the serpent Python.
😊Apollo, with the Silent Brotherhood of Greece, was sitting in a Delphian grove. The Oracle had spoken loud and long. 2 The priests were in the sanctuary and as they looked the Oracle became a blaze of light; it seemed to be on fire, and all consumed. 3 The priests were filled with fear. They said, A great disaster is to come; our gods are mad; they have destroyed our Oracle. 4 But when the flames had spent themselves, a man stood on the orac pedestal and said; 5. God speaks to man, not by an oracle of wood and gold, but by the voice of man. 6 The gods have spoken to the Greeks, and kindred tongues, through images made by man; but God, the One, now speaks to man through Christ the only son, who was, and is and evermore will be. 7 This Oracle shall fail; the Living Oracle of God, the One, will never fail. 8 Apollo knew the man who spoke; he knew it was the Nazarene who once had taught the wise men in the Acropolis and had rebuked the idol worshippers upon the Athen’s beach; 9 And in a moment Jesus stood before Apollo and the Silent Brotherhood, and said, 10 Behold, for I have risen from the dead with gifts for men. I bring to you the title of your vast estate. 11 All power in heaven and earth is mine; to you I give all power in heaven and earth. 12 Go forth and teach the nations of the earth the gospel of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal life through Christ, the love of God made manifest to men. 13 And then he clasped Apollo’s hand and said, My human flesh was changed to higher form by love divine and I can manifest in flesh, or in the higher planes of life, at will. 14 What I can do all men can do. Go preach the gospel of the omnipotence of man. 15 Then Jesus disappeared; but Greece and Crete and all the nations heard
From that, or those, vantage points I wonder if anyone is allowed, or has tried, to dive off with a hang glider or flying suit? What would you be able to discern? I can't understand the language. French? Or Italian?
The clichés about Christianity bear no resemblance to the reality because as always they are derived from its many distortions. If the faith were really so dreary and coercive it would hardly have persisted for 2000 years!
I think Lucia's point is directed primarily at certain commentators in this forum and not on the documentary itself. Although it has been a while since I last watched it, I don't remember it as having a distorting, anti-Christian bias.
Makes you realize how much the world lost when the fanaticism of christianity destroyed the ancient cultures and replaced them with repression and dreary patriarchal dogma.
If anything the Greeks conquered the Romans--from a cultural and intellectual standpoint. Romans of "good birth" prided themselves on their knowledge of the Greek language, Greek culture, and Greek philosophy.
Ancients christians cared only about the afterlife and they were eager to screw up their mortal life in order to go to heaven. That's why a lot of them became monks or hermits. Some of them whipped themselves all day. Others decided to live all their life standing. Others lived on top of pillars. Christians praised poverty and abhorred wealth. Luxury was considered to be a deadly sin. They encouraged people to do nothing but pray. How can a society like this produce anything? Of course, Christianity destroyed civilisation. Civilisation re-appeared when people started to break free from the Church.
The only certain (secular) outcome, in my opinion, that we can draw is that, centuries later, we as humanity (including the ancient Greeks, themselves), have not managed to obtain and to execute properly the 'Know thyself' advice, and to adhere to 'Nothing in excess'. Only to prove to the mankind history, that we were, we are, and we shall remain as prehistoric beats in our very cores... The thing that we became 'civilised' beasts, makes it even worse due to the lies we everyday feed (mostly) ourselves and others, since the beast has became unpredictable, hippocritical, and thus - much more dangerous. Nowadays, for example, we are (once again) direct to another collapse of civilizations.. Thankfully, there is a way out. But to the expense of the very existence to our beasty selves. And this is something it is impossible to be done exclusively by ourselves.
It was the original Jerusalem thought of the text .... Then came to me one of the seven angels with the seven bowls filled with the seven last strikes, and spoke to me saying: Come, I will show you the bride the woman of the Lamb 10 And he carried me by the Spirit into a great high mountain, and the great city showed me the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven from God 11 It has the glory of God, and its brightness is like the most precious stone, like the stone of Jasper, crystalline 12 And she had a great and high wall, and she had twelve gates, and at the gates were twelve angels, and written names were the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 13 There are three gates to the east, three gates to the north, three to the south, and three gates to the west 14 And the wall of the city was essentially twelve, and it bore the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb 15 And he who spoke with me had a golden rod with him to measure the city, its gates, and its wall 16 And the city was set square, as long as the width. And the city measured the ark by twelve thousand gallows. Height, width and height are equal 17 And he measured his wall: a hundred and forty and four cubits, the arm of a man, any angel 18 And the building of its wall was of Jasper, and the city was pure gold, like pure glass 19 And the foundations of the city wall are adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation is Jasper. The second is sapphire blue. Third white agate. The fourth emerald flies 20 The fifth was my fear. Red Agate. The seventh aquamarine. The Eighth Emerald. The ninth sapphire is yellow. X Green Agate. The 11th is blue. XII Amethyst 21 And the twelve pillars were twelve pearls; each one of the doors was of one pearl. The city market is pure gold as transparent glass 22 And I saw no temple therein, for the LORD God Almighty, is the Lamb and its structure 23 And the city does not need the sun or the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God has illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp 24 And the peoples of the faithful walk by their light, and the kings of the earth come in their glory and honor to them 25 And her gates shall not be shut in the day; for there shall not be there at night 26 And they shall bring the glory of the nations and their honor to them 27 And nothing shall enter it into uncleanness, neither shall it make an abomination and a lie, unless it is written in the book of the life of the Lamb
This is such a challenge for the apostle Paul! The woman possessed of the spirit of divination must have been from the Oracle of Delphi! [Acts 16:16 KJV] And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divinationG4436 (pythōn) met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: pythōn From Putho (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located)
I was a philosophy student in school..I was told the fumes came from burning marijuana..my teacher was very conservative and mainstream...I don`t know if it was true..that`s just what he said..he was an experienced archeologist my guess is he knew something of what he was talking about
Recent update on this..I finally visited the site...the town was cool...most of the tourist rubbed me the wrong way..difficult to take pictures as everyone and I do mean everyone was intent on taking selfies..by the time I got to the museum I had pretty much given up on getting any decent shots...was much worse in Athens at the Acropolis however..I will never understand why anyone would travel half way around the world to take a picture of theirselves and leave 15 minutes later..the locals were nice..they seemed to agree that it was a decent place to live when the tourist weren`t around..I guess that makes myself and them cynical
