Miscellaneous Myths: The Journey Of Ra 

Egyptian father:Don't worry,boi. Down there,you got twelve mamas,and Isis,the big mama. All of 'em gonna keep those snakes away.... They'll have to make some,though,so get over it!

@@alyseleem2692 I used the snakes to destroy the snakes

@@OjamaIndigoNice work!

They will probably go on a journey of learning to no longer fear snakes and it will be terribly wholesome and have several mediocre anime adaptations.

@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel which direction would you guess this journey goes?

GLAUBIM 2 ra sounds like a good politician

They also entered a snake one way and came out the other

Boooo

Booo

Tabatha Jordan-Richards •_•

Random Person *Snakes...* Is...is that it? Look man you can fill the gaps but it’s just a fucking shit ton of snakes

What song plays at the end

@@the_exodusrex3385 Death Cab for Cutie - I Follow You Into the Dark

After every line in the story, he takes a hit of the ancient snake drugs.

sorry for mashing the like button repeatedly i was the 1100th like : )

HERESY !

Lunacy!

We don’t know anything about it so I like to think there are snakes everywhere, but we cannot see them

@@_something64_59 If what you say is true, we may not need to burst out the embalmment tools after all.

Somethingamy

Omg thank u for the likes

Which snake there where 36

@@CommunistSubRex yeah cmon @Jason Low, please elaborate for us

I thought the snake would've said it like ssssssssssave meee

*snek

Ahhhhhh... so so sooo true

Too true

*Cries in consistently having to wake up at 4:30

It really isn’t that bad for me, I wake up at 4:00 daily and I’m a okay with it

In awake at 5.... But wut?

Yeah like maybe they are the true gods orchastrating everything

Ok but hidden is probably the coolest one Just the name is chilling

@@seankock7649 so gods in Egypt are pretty mortal, it's possible that they aren't true gods in that they're truer, but older. Ra is the eldest of the gods, generally speaking (Geb's dad may be the same generation but idk), so it's possible that the Egyptians believed there were older gods of previous civilizations (conquered ones maybe?) And those gods died and await Ra and his rebirth along the banks of the river of night. Ps: also like Rick Riordan depicted a place for old/forgotten gods when he portrayed the river of night in the Kane Chronicles. The gods were senile and many of them were there because the world had forgotten their names.

@@fangsabre i also wonder how much of this did the egyptions actualy write, theres allot of cultures that when working or under the control of another culture, they will have lines like, but besides all our gods there this group or this one god whos even cooler then everyone here, (like the norse bassically have a line setting them up for jesus etc,cause cristians be quirky)

@@fangsabre you have any sources I can look at cause that's really interesting

No, I noticed it too

Now that you mention it...

Yeah I noticed a bit of a theme too

I think you might be on to something …

Nah, it’s but our wishful thinking that snakes are cool.

It'd be like that tunnel scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on steroids.

Logan Epp but you can sleep through most of it somehow

Can someone make that in minecraft..?

But HELLA complicated

A Dumbo Octopus I can maybe

So what's with the giant lion?

eh, they though a giant lion statue would liven up the place. It didn't.

Oohh...the retirement home

@@devisankhla4788 Kane Chronicles?

@@leventemucsi9547 exactly

PLEASE YES

Horde mode unlocked

Ivana T *insert laugh track*

More like a full day routine. God in Heaven, that HAS to be the most annoying thing to deal with: having to die, travel your corpse through the underworld WITHOUT getting destroyed, resurrect because of a bug, Go through the day, die again, repeat Ad Nauseam

Best post so far

Moony [HIATUS] Ra’s journey is like ragdoll physics in video games: corpses tend to go on journeys.

There needs to be a Ra version of the Kira Yoshikage copypasta.

Indiana Jones: why . . .

BB HONG birds and jackals too

Snek

@@jonathanswavely7259 Egyptians: Why not?

Mia Mafalda Ra: IM SICK AND TIRED OF THE MONKEY FIGHTING SNAKES ON THIS MONDAY TA FRIDAY BOAT!!!

Better idea, make them travel through that after the party was TPKed.

Stealing both this ideas

@@minkeyandzomble6206 stealing your idea of stealing the other ideas

Get ready to fight TONS of snakes.

Only at night. They should get teleported when the sun lowers and they need to get through one layer a night and if they don’t they have to somehow escape a snake pit that gets worse each layer (besides like the good kingdoms of night layers) and then they have to restart that layer the next night

Agreed

Me too

Most definitely

that would be amazing

Yes please.

First off: no miia

fun fact: some snakes are hermaphroditic. makes some parts of that show a lot more...interesting :}

peter despacito no DANGER NODDLES

No step on snek!

J1428753 *sneks

Also "prince of egypt"

I noticed that too, what a great ear!!

Literally got flashbacks to going through Duat and fighting Apep now

Thank God I am not the only one that has the ac origins theme imprinted in his mind

or is Dante's inferno a version of Ra's Journey on de-snake-ing salts? (though there is the circle for thieves being a magical pit of snakes so the salts mostly worked)

I thought Dante's Paradiso was the one where everything gets high as shit.

Let's not give the video-game industry ideas for yet another mythos to abuse in the name of hack-and-slash-action-adventure games...

@@redwitch12 Well there is Titan Quest

@@redwitch12 Honestly, this seems like it would make a pretty good action game. "The twelve goddesses of the night barque got kidnapped, and now it falls to your plucky hero to accompany Ra for an entire night, braving a bunch of trials to ensure the Sun raises again" seems like it could make for some pretty good stuff in the vein of Dad of Boy.

Quezaquatull: *lands on to the ground* don’t worry We came to help

Apophis: I kinda have your job covered, dude.

@@CJCroen1393 Look, Apophis is cool and all but maybe, just maybe he always lose cause he is alone against all other gods so...with Jormi's help he might have a better chance in getting his job done for once...

@@shadowprincess9817 actually he some times succeeds at devouring Ra then Ra emerges out of his stomach and defeats him which represents a solar eclipse

Dat's true, i mean he IS a giant snake-

Yup

I looked it up and you're not even joking

6:40 even Red gets it 7:10 here too

I had the same thought.

7.8 too much ... non-snake

I agree

I agree

I agree

And that’s why I like Usir

Who’s Usir

@@moobloom155 Your mom

@@gmuffin4543 bad joke

@@moobloom155 Usir is the proper, Egyptian name for Osiris.

What do you do when you're reading a word you don't know the pronunciation of? I assume native speakers can usually predict what the correct vowels are but it must've happened when you were learning to read at least? Like, the spelling and pronunciation of the word for camera in my native language doesn't match the same way other words do so when I read it for the first time as a kid I had no idea what it meant and completely botched the pronunciation.

@@char1211 Luckily, there are usually very clear "blueprints" for verbs, adjectives, and a lot of objects. They do change depending on the "root" of the word, but it does have a fairly solid inner logic. You can sort of extrapolate how to pronounce something. A lot of words are also "hebrewfied", usually from English nowadays but ocassionaly from Arabic or Russian as well. It sort of bastradizes the original pronounciation, so that's self explanatpry. Worst case scenario, you guess and if you guessed wrong someone will make sure to correct you 😂

@@valeryasteel4167 Oh cool! I'm really fascinated by languages that omit vowels in writing but it does make sense if they're easily extrapolated. In Swedish, my native language, vowels are very important to distinguish words from one another so the concept is quite foreign to me; "kar", "kir", "kor", "kur", "kår" and "kör" all have completely different meanings but without the vowel they'd look and sound the same. Technically you could add "kär" and "kör" to the list as well but their 'k' is soft (like the 'g' in badge)

@@char1211 there are vowels, but sometimes they're ommited and then you need to extrapolate based on the meaning/knowing the word/educated guess - and sometimes they are there. But almost never all the vowels you'd expect for a specific words, meaning there's at least 1 vowel that's not written but is pronounced. O and u (oo) are usually written, but not always. E/I sometimes. A/e almost never. In all the cases I can think about of words being written the same way but pronounces differently, it's possible to extrapolate from the meaning in the sentence. I assume there are other cases, but in all I can think of its pretty clear based on whether the word in question is an adjective a verb, an object, etc. They might have the same root and therefor be written in the same way and have a somewhat related meaning - but they play different roles. You can tell how they're pronounced because in most cases verbs/adjectives/objects have clear "blueprints" and the root of the word is inserted in it. You absolutely can have a whole sentence containing only 2-3 words that are written the same and would sorta make sense. I've always been curious - how's the a/o with dots pronounces?

@@valeryasteel4167 I assume the vowels that tend to be included are the ones most important to understanding/distinguishing the word? Cuz that makes sense to me. Also, I think the word you're looking for when saying "blueprint" is conjugation/declension; I've studied linguistics so idk if people generally know those words but they're useful! Conjugation is for verbs and declension is for pretty much all other grammatical groups (nouns, adjectives etc) and it's a way of describing a group of words that change in the same way. Like, "girl" and "boy" are in the same declension because it's girl/girls/girl's/girls' and boy/boys/boy's/boys'. But are you saying there could be a sentence with three different words written identically? Is the word order in Hebrew very ridgid then so that it's easy to understand which one's which? For example, in English you can only say "a cute cat" and not "a cat cute" so you know an adjective will always be followed by a noun. I hope that explanation makes sense. The å/ä/ö in Swedish are treated as their own letters so they're not just a variation of a/o. The little circle represents an o and the two dots started out as a lowercase e that's been simplified over the years so you can think of them as a combination of those letters. The e is more obvious in Norwegian and Danish where Ä/ä is Æ/æ. Å sounds a bit like the "o" in bored or the "oa" in board but it's a bit deeper. Ä sounds like the "a" bad or land but also like the "e" in ten or the "ie" in friend. Ö is usually very difficult for English speakers but it's similar to the "a" in an and the "e" in her. It has the deepest sound of all our vowels. But this is just in standard Swedish! The pronunciation of these letters on there own is pretty much the same all over the country but in longer words they vary a lot depending on your dialect. In many my dialect the ö often sounds more like a u and the ä sounds more like an e (not the English u/e)

This is the generally accepted myth, but Egypt was really big. Each region had their own spin on certain aspects.

Also, that was what that little interruption was about, in case you didn't get the chance to pause it in time.

In some myths, all the others gods who protect Ra during his journey are hypnotized by the sna/ke; but not Set. So he is the only one who fights. We must understand that most of Ancient Egypt didn't have a "good vs evil," dichotomy but rather an "order vs chaos" one. Ma'at (order) and Isfunt (chaos) are constantly at war; all of the Gods, including Set, are supposed to, first and foremost, uphold Ma'at and fight Isfunt. Set acts as Ma'at deems it so; he is the controlled fire. When firefighters set a piece of land ablaze to weaken and suffocate a raging wildfire, that is Set. Ancient Egypt had both dozens of city-states and literal millennia of history, trade, religion, and conquest.

Brian Le Wolfhunt maybe that’s why the giant evil snake hasn’t starved to death yet

Psychotic Muffin it wants to eat Ra. Nobody said the Ra in question had to be ALIVE. Besides, the preparation of the body is for travel to the underworld, and Ra’s already there, so...

They show respect to Ra's body for as long as he's dead, but what's the point once he's alive again?

@@timothymclean makes sense.

THe other gods: you...sure you jsut wanna dump the body? Ra: c'mon, its hilarious!

H I D D E N

The Abyss of Waters and Sarcophagus of the Gods are the best

A band should do an album where all the songs are named after the underworld kingdoms

​@@sadie1606sounds like a power metal album idea where the album name is "Journey of Ra" and each song is, as you say, named after each kingdom of the night

In which part ?

:P

not ISIS, Isis... one is an Acronym and the other is a Name

The terrorist group of today is ISIL. Not ISIS. The western news fucked that up.

IceQueen975 doesn’t ISIS as the acronym stand for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria? Sounds pretty accurate to me, given their base of operations and what they want

+icequeen975 copy pasted what it says here i think it can be either: As al-Shām is a region often compared with the Levant or Greater Syria, the group's name has been variously translated as "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham", "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (both abbreviated as ISIS), or "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (abbreviated as ISIL). ... Dāʿish (داعش‎), or Daesh.

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cuz they are creepy as hell

Indiana Jones' hell basically

Ra is so old he really belongs into a museum

Because ancient Egyptians loved and where terrified of snakes

Totally a Yugioh reference!

Dojee time stamp!!

5:56

It's time to ddddddd-duel

I can't believe I didn't realize it sooner XD

I've been serceing for this coment

I've pulled several all-nighters after an unhealthy binge of Pokemon Conquest.

Oh god that's so true, 5 am is miserable if you're getting up and if you're going to sleep

True

DIEGhostfish Set, as I see it, is essentially the dude who stirs the pot, keeps life from stagnating. If that means "chuck somebody into a raging sandstorm out of sheer boredom" then... *shrug* Basically, the necessary chaos that gives order a reason to exist, as well as the lesser of two evils.

@@Alphapkmn The only constant in life is death...Let's be as inconsistent as possible!

Well in earlier myths Set was a trickster god but he wasn't necessarily evil, defending Ra was pretty in character for him, he was however the god of foreigners, and after Egypt had a bad experience with foreigners, they demonized the hell out of him. A lot of the stuff he did previously was basically just seen as standard moral dissonance that comes with being a god, but they made it out to be straight up evil later.

@@doesntmatter2467 Yeah It's easy to forget that "Ancient Egypt"' existed for thousands of years and that things, including their religion and myths changed a lot throughout that time and weren't even uniform between regions and dynasties. Even after Set had already been demonized there were still regions and dynasties that held him in high regard and several Pharaohs named after him.

Bastet also keeps atop his at bay so he could be useless

The only person to attack the sun is me… I haven’t done it yet but I’m working on it

well, that's cause Set was never meant to be totally evil. He wasn't a hero, but he knew his duties.

Can anyone here tell me the song in the apophis part?

I love the old gods so much more than Yahweh. The stories are so much more imaginative.

*Ew?*

@@fandomcringebucket Only when you think about it harder than you truly need too.

Well, still better than sailing into a snakes bum each evening

wait why is it red? Does she pee blood???

She protecc She attacc But most importantly Red is bacc

Is it a Killer But on your profile?

HURRAH

My reaction

And with snakes!

Journey to the East?

Journy to the center of the earth?

The journey of the snake

Snarrator

i read this in the stanley parable voice. very fitting, in my opinion.

Yes, yes, yes!

Oh, yes please! That sounds awesome!

That should be an app for phones

If anyone finds something like this send it to me plz XD

Yessss

Patrick Cross "Don't insult Ammut. He will eat you with his Crocodile face" #YugiohAbridged

And cats. Don't forget cats.

Patrick Cross interesting

Local Flora and Fauna always inspires ritualistic depictions. We Westerners have lions and eagles in pretty much the same role in the modern era (and specifically in America, SEALS), and medieval heraldry is full of flowers and animals.

Jasper van Heycop There’s a reason Ammit the Devourer has a crocodile head...

The aliens who got contracted for the pyramids must've told them.

*Tries to contain Steven Universe reference*

Was it the dragon dance?

And they didn't even need Polymerization. I guess they invented Contact Fusion. Also, i wonder what cards were sacrificed

Bro, all the cards. The Egyptian Gods were like Glad Beasts: anything can fuse

Oh my gosh, this is beautiful to imagine.

Indiana Jones and the River of Ra, somebody make this happen.

I smell a SEQAL!

Mine too tbh

Indiana Jones and the Frantic Panicking for 12 Hours.

☀

Hm… needs more mongoose.

How about both. Oh wait...

Agree.

Ravenous o

You mean fluffly girly

he is anubis brother in the mythogly or half brother since wepwawet is the son of set

They will fuck up

@Bright cloud Always. As will eargasm. 😂

@@ecthelionalfa Probably. Already one movie of Egyptian gods I haven't heard many good things about... But I'd like one with quality SFX, accurate representation and decent storyline, at least.

Ya

The movie: Snakes

@ Darth Parallax it's actually my theory that the English language is slowly turning into a hieroglyphic language and it'll actually be made official in like a couple hundred years or so.

@@DanielSmith-mp4le so... we'll go full circle written-language wise? nifty~ can't wait for the inevitable deciphering of the arcane symbols where people can't figure out why so many characters are used for things like 'computer' and 'politics'

@@kallistiravenhurst5232 Language constantly evolved and changes it's an inevitable thing just try and understand something written in Old English and you'll see what I mean.

Don't forget the cats~! :3

(Whispers) Shhh! Not so loud! We don’t want them to hear

Yep.

I believe the fabulous pharaoh with multicoloured hair can be spotted at 4:51 ;)

Brileaf ツ haha I did not see that one coming xD

Dude, are you trying to kill people?

Maybe :3

How to die alone 101

Andrew S. Challenge accepted. Just going to call some friends first and a few shot glasses.

TNTGUARDIAN 64 Omg 😂 Please tell me how it went 😂

snakeception

Cherub vore.

Snakes: 100

@@jamesharrison658 *yes*

Yo, dawg, I hear you like snakes, so I put a snake inside a snake and wrapped a snake around it.

Boooo

Black-Op345Gaming Oh my god!!!!!!!

Gotta sacrifice three gods to summon Horahkti

I literally don't pay attention to these dialogues...

he's on the side at 4:55

There are a lot of Yugioh references here too!

Nico from PJO maybe?😉😶

WiNgeD drugen of reeeeeeeeeeeeee

Kaiba why are you burning those cards? They belong to Joey Wheeler. It had to be done. Its the little things Yugi.

They didn't write down short vowels

@@markmayonnaise1163 They didn't write down -any- vowels until the Coptic Alphabet came around.

Happens that they registered that names first. And to name a god "Re777" is awfull

Almost all semitic languages don't have vowels in their alphabet like Arabic and Hebrew. These languages adopted some sort of movements in the modern time to help foreigners speak correctly the words. Phonetically speaking these languages do have vowels but people don't write them down. The logic being is people can assume how the word is pronounced from context. This was the case for ancient Egypt and that's why only the gods whose names were written in Greek during the time of hellenized Egypt are the ones which we know how to pronouce their names aka Osiris, Isis, Horus. Minor Gods like Sekhmet we only got to know the consonants making up their names and historians just added e's as they believes it was the most probable vowel. This has always been a problem studying semitic old civilizations in the middle east like Phoenicians because outside of the roman or greek records we wouldn't know anything about how they called things or their gods.

@@kuzzam6626 small correction, ancient egyptian isn't semitic, but related to semitic as a part of the afroasiatic language family

smallishkae They also knew a year was 365 days (technically 360 plus the five created to produce Osiris, Isis, Set, Nepthys and Horus)

Alphapkmn that’s pretty awesome.

smallishkae Yup! Nut was essentially given a similar treatment to Apollo and Artemis' mom, only worse: Ra said she couldn't give birth on any of the then-360 days of the year. Her solution? Go to either Thoth or Khonsu (which ever one is pulling lunar god duty) and play Senet until she won enough moonlight to make five extra days. Each of those days, she gave birth to one of those gods.

smallishkae it's not like the hour was some universal constant. They divided the day into 24 portions and called them hours, or the ancient Egyptian equivalent. So an hour was 1/24 of a day by a definition they invented.

Mark Antill Exactly! The Chinese and Japanese lunar calendar has 12 hour days where each hour corresponds to one of the zodiac signs, but a single hour in that system is equivalent to two hours of standard time. However, it depends on who you ask if (for example) the Hour of the Ox is 12am-2am or 1am-3am.

John Sears yeah me too

Sneks***

Aidan Hsieh Yes I've been waiting forever for it to continue

but every day *is* the journey west for Ra!

Agreed

and every night a journey to the east

Please

Same👍🏼

Red's the funniest of the two, though Blue's pretty damn funny too.

Kelley Choo I agree

Just Some Guy with a Mustache YOU ARE EVERYWHERE.

Just Some Guy with a Mustache Because it's not Ra himself lol. It's the *Winged Dragon* of Ra.

The most powerful thing in the universe: Merchandising!!

Through a snake. Duh.

YOU LIKE MYTHOLOGY TOO?!? I WANT YOU TI BW MY FRIEND

he declared himself dead for tax purposes.

I enjoyed those books but I found this channel by accident