How Japan’s Emperors Convinced People They Were Gods | History of Japan 25 

Don't worry - I'm here bright and early and ready to strongly disagree with your comment at 3:18. ;)

I love the concept of RU-vid Premiere! One day, if I upload video, i'll set a release date for it.

Green Morning Dragon Productions disagree away =P

ShawnChua and send me a link that day =)

As long as its on my Friday nights to Saturday mornings Cool 😎

Then good for him :p

There probably exists some manga about that idea 🤣😂🤣

Japanese people say juice-juiccuu kick-kickku jim-jimmu

mind fuck that actually make sense XD

I can't believe that my younger brother that went back to the Yamato period Japan, became emperor and declared himself a God is this cute! Coming to a doujinshi circle now.

Yes, and I hope they open up all of the tombs for research someday

I didn't think it was an excavation with academics. I read they were doing only a small excavation on the outer part because the moat needs to be rebuilt one day. I don't think they will ever let the excavation of the actual tomb. I'd love to see what's inside that storehouse in Nara one day too. I read they found Roman glass in it, but they don't like putting many things on display.

I hope so. I'm not a fan of grave-robbing though. (I know, a terrible flaw for an anthropologist.) So hopefully they can either re-inter the dead and their grave goods as they were and only display replicas of the grave goods, photos, etc. I do not believe the bones of the dead deserve to be shut away in sterile, numbered drawers. At least, not permanently. Ideally, once all applicable research has been done, they should always be reburied in the original graves or a new place, like a grave monument made for that set of dead if the original site doesn't exist anymore.

Thailand's current King is a shitty brat

That's true of almost every monarchy. Kings are either gods, descendants of gods, or chosen by gods. You wouldn't want to overthrow them and anger the gods, right?

Woohoo glad you like em

Mhmm! Same here 😊🤙🏼

Sure :)

Western monarchy isn't solely reliant on ancestry, divine or otherwise - it also stems from Romano-Byzantine ideas of divine right which means whoever you are, and however lowly a class you may have been born into, if you're top dog, it's the will of god.

I'm aware, it explains both the Turkish Claim to the Roman Empire after the conquest of Constantinople, and the descendants of Romano-Byzantine Nobles attempting to reconquer Anatolia repeatedly until the Russian Civil War. My comment was to draw parallel examples of early examples of politically charged historical and theological revisionism, in a silly and easily understandable manner.

I like the one where King Arthur is Brutus, Caesar's son from 500 years earlier.

The British Monarchy are Releated to William the Conqueror

Indeed they are, along with several other nation's Royal lines, and, by some distance, the pre-Norman British ones. On a similar note, George V and Nicolas II of Russia were first cousins, and looked/acted similarly enough that when they wanted a laugh in overseas visits they would sometimes swap clothes and regalia, and see how long it took people to realize that something was off! :)

Glad you like ❤

Thanks a lot for watching, appreciate it =)

Thanks!

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Jesus never claimed to be God!

​@@Fx_Explains Neither did Tyler.

@@hektor6766 who is Tyler?

To be fair, with her, there is no place where the Sun don't shine.

One of the interesting things about many Animist traditions is that divine entities can be both pre-existing entities that create, as well as spontaneously generated entities that then go on to create, with Humans often being described as either/or both created or spontaneously generated entities, that go on to create more entities out of either personal/social reason, consequence, accident, or habit.

its also how gods become as real as something like currencies, its a real and tangible fictional force

Pilythest

God is Allah the one God whiteout parents and whiteout children who is strong doesn't eat and doesn't drink and doesn't have any need because he is strong but he want to create any thing he wants because he is Allah the one God genderless he create the man and the woman Allah the one God the first nd the last creator of this universe and no one. Is like him

Like how we have here in the Philippines a mythical sea water dragon creature that eats moon... And in the modern day its just Solar Eclipse

Dangggg you're right 😭

Ooh yes, that should be fun :)

Not familiar, sounds fun though

@@Linfamy you should check that out then... It's fun and interesting to watch

ISIS X and read

And then science explains everything. Science that they dont have before

@@goldranger5182 Except what it can't. There must still be a few mysteries even there.

@@goldranger5182 "That damned science, always messing with our power grabs!"

@@hitkid2456 Doesn't make somebody's made-up shit true.

it's because of aeneas. venus in rome was seen as a war deity as well as a love deity, probably took influence from ishtar in that respect

It sounds like it's more like a "spirit"

yeah, he covered it in an older video.

You culture see “god” in one way, doesn’t mean others also have to. I think it’s fair to compare kami to gods. While it’s useful to keep the difference in mind, unless we use shorthand like these, discussions can’t really go anywhere. Btw, are Eastern dragons dragons?

Minus the direct Alabama inbreeding (as in, from Linfamy's video about keeping royal blood pure, "just knock up your *half* sister". In Egypt it's straight up banging *full, direct* siblings) And also that explains Japan's fascination of cats to the point there are like 3 neko shima (cat islands)

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Egyptian Pharaohs married but never straight up bang their sisters. They mostly took concubines to produce an heir since its pretty obvious that incest kids are gross

Likely because I live in USA 😅

@@Linfamy I suppose it explains everything then xd

It took 25 videos? You are tough ;)

Haha thanks! Strong statement, even though I think there are better artists on RU-vid :p

No no, everybody always overreact to make their art top of the top, sometimes it’s nice to just lay back and in joy something simple jet great. Ps your funnier than them to. ;p

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You are one of my biggest inspirations

Aww I'm touched, honest. Thanks for watching the videos and commenting :)

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Good idea

@@Linfamy any videos on nepal?

thank you human

You're right, I must follow the laws of physics

Oh wow, RU-vid's notifying you already?

Yes my Lord Lin

haha sorry didn't know it would do that

Even I didn't my Lord 🤣

I still love you

Linfamy 😎 seppuku avoided.

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Oh really? Is that true or just a story? I'm assuming just a story. Yeah Buddhist chants can be trance-y

Just a story????? Ha!!! When did THAT ever happen in the religious sphere??? ;) There seems to be a meme though, with Esoteric temples in Eastern Japan, founded to house sacred statues fished from the water - Zenko-ji, Senjo-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo, and Kawasaki-daishi all have such foundation myths.Them chants certainly are trance-y when you're sitting there, sleep deprived at 4.30 a.m.

You're only allowed to TOUCH the statue in the DARK so you'll know it's there??? When I was very young I also wanted my GF to do this, but she never fell for that 😇😎

johnsamu /facepalm :D

Haha. Nah it's probably because I didn't explain it well

It's probably also because the characters don't have names familiar to non-Japanese ears, but that can't be helped.

Godhood renounced since 1945.

@@noxDOTevolvedDOTgmai yes my dude it's a huge blow to japans pride and stuff

Sure is :p

Yeah, but that's true with any history really

You should see the Shinto creation myth, Naruto references a lot of it

Linfamy already have man . I think it wakes quite a bit of sense ... more so to naruto than to japan

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高天原 就是 中國大陆

日本の文化が朝鮮半島や中国の影響で作られたけど。この世界の皆が、ひとりぼっちで何も作ることができない。原作ではない。もちろｎ、理論だけ。君の意見も同じだね。全く

Tyler lives. He really does, I saw him last week.

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aRE FaCTs Gei?

O.o

What's a Vadim?

It's a meme from the channel "Life of Boris" it's the catch-all name for "that guy"

Ah got it. They're actually patrons ;)

In the morning??

Linfamy sorry 11th. Yup I’m up

Linfamy Its Friday and only football tomorrow.

lol

Thanks for the kind words! I got the info in this video from Cambridge History of Japan and 2 academic papers. They're in English, though one of the papers was written by a Japanese professor.

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Might've been Trevor

Dr. ROFLCOPTER! Do you mean string theory is a hypothesis? Quantum physics has verified predictions and practical applications

Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you like the videos =). I hear you, it is not my intention to be rude, and of course I think the myths should remain. I don't want to ban them, not even sure how you would do that =P. At the same time, the divine descent story is a myth, it involves a supernatural kami. I know I'll get some hate, but I can't honestly say that divine descent is literally true, and neither do the scholars who write about the myth and how it evolved. I think shielding the myth from criticism and analysis does a disservice to the truth. Your mention of the prohibition on imperial tomb excavation is an example. I'm saddened that the knowledge in those tombs has been kept from the world for so long, even knowledge unrelated to Imperial descent. That said, the purpose of the video is NOT to point out that the myth is wrong, that's only a small part of it. The primary reason is to talk about the fascinating analyses on how the myth came about and what political/religious forces shaped it into its current form. I think we can appreciate the myths and their impact, regardless of whether or not they are true. I hope you can see where I am coming from too. This post turned out longer than expected. Cheers!

Me too

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Aitsu no shutten ga arimasu !

Duly noted :)

Then Wales, please!

Yeah that was a smart way to convert people

This seems to be a euphemism, but for what, I'm not sure..

Bit of a stretch, not gonna lie :-)