“The grim reaper is so creepy” The grim reaper: *literally just accompanying you to the afterlife so you won’t have to go alone or not know where to go*
@@SamuelGalvan_ Obviously, death, but death itself isn't inherently evil. It's natural. All who were born eventually meet an end, and the Grim Reaper is there to help guide souls to their afterlife
I Just inmagine him near a korean dying person with his laptop or book like "COME ON COME ON I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY! I'M ALREADY LATE LEAVE THE PREMISE NOW!"
That's because humans have a flawed perception of death as some non-religious people believe that nothing happens after you die and you just cease to exist, some religions would have you believe that you'll either go to heaven or hell... Basically just misinformation. None of these things listed above happen. Science actually explains the afterlife quite perfectly. As the law of thermodynamics tells us, there is absolutely no way that the energy residing in our bodies could simply disappear, let alone our consciousness. Something to think about here mate 👍 The after life may actually be the start of something even greater than life, but for some reason almost all cultures plant a very irrational fear of death on people since a very young age.
@@J.R.Swish1 there's nothing after death, we simply cease to exist. Our conciousness is just a product of our brain activities, when it stops "we" stop with it. There's no afterlife nor was there proof of an afterlife existing.
I love your videos, very interesting . Only if I may point out that the volume of the sound particularly when you are talking, is very weak. The opening music (hochelaga) is loud and then I have to pump out the volume to listen to your voice.
As a dutchman, i can tell you that the 'Magere Hein' is weird to explain in english. Magere means skinny, as in bony stature. And Hein is just a name, quite common in dutch history. We might call it Skinny Steve from now. Yeah, i like that. Watch out grandma Skinny Steve is coming for you!
@@marnixdebaat1733 honest. I believe they’re the exact same being. Magere Hein is probably just some name of someone wayyyy back when, which stuck in people mind and eventually was given to the grim reaper.
Your editing and script is well made and polished! Your voice is also quite pleasant to listen to. I hope you keep making more videos on interesting topics and that you grow. :D
In Norway the Black Death produced the character ‘Pesta’, an old woman who travelled from farm to farm personifying the plague. If she came holding a broom, all inhabitants would be ‘swept away’, but if she came holding a rake some would survive. The artist Theodor Kittelsen has some of the creepiest and most widely recognised depictions of her.
I'd like to add something: The roman god of harvests, Saturn, had a scythe as his symbol. The Romans identified him with the greek Kronos, because in mythology, his weapon was again a scythe. But the Orphic cults identified this deity with Chronos (the ch is pronounced like a strong H), the god of time. And so, classicists from the 14th century onward would unite this Saturn/Kronos/Chronos figure with the popular depictions of Death to express the passage of time and life.
@@corruptangel6793 we don't know exactly WHAT Kronos was the god of. The roman equivalent and the connection with the scythe suggest a harvest god, though you have to remember that the Olympians overthrowing the Titans is read by many as the new greek worship replacing an older one, so he may have been the greek harvest god BEFORE the Greeks worshipped Demeter.
@@corruptangel6793 Kronos is more of a Titan than a god, if I remember correctly - like Gaea. The Primordial beings that came before and and/or birthed the gods such as Zeus and Poseidon. They are generally the generation that comes before them, and the gods that came after usually took over their job, like how Apollo took over for Helios.
@@justanawkwardnerd i know all that, I just never thought of how the origin of that story (the war between the gods and the titans and all that) might've come from a religious upheaval. Also, Gaia is Kronos and the other Titan's mother. It's Gaia's generation who're the primoridal beings. At least in the version I know.
When I imagine death for some reason I think of a black horse that comes when you die. You climb onto it's back and it carries you to the afterlife leaving your body behind.
"When you dance with you friend the reaper,everything may be sweeter,but when you look within those eyes,you become quite surprised,the skeleton within the robe,looking like an ugly toad,you stop your prancing and dancing,and land on the floor."
I remember having a vivid dream which was at first a nightmare in which the Grim Reaper came to me and gave off a loving energy. He than took his scythe and struck through me but there was no pain and I became a ghost. After that the dream became very peaceful and I was happy. When I tried to thank him he had already vanished.
A cool one is the German version, the “Dengelgeist”, dengeln being the act of sharpening a scythe by light hammering, the dengelgeist is literally the scythe sharpening ghost- who sits in the graveyard preparing to reap. So much more ominous than just a skeletal reaper
When it comes to Greek Mythology, they actually have multiple deities for death. All of whom handle a different aspect of it. Atropos was the one that did the actually reaping, by means of cutting the string of someones life. Thanatos dealt with those who had a peaceful death. The Keres dealt with those whose death was violent. Hermes helped direct lost souls to Hades by escorting them there. Charon ferried souls into Hades via his boat. Hades and Persephone judge the souls that arrive, punish or award them fairly, then watch over them.
Not in the bible - the other three horsement are given descriptions, but Death alone gets an explicit name drop in the text. Names given to the other horesemen come from subsequent analysis of the orignal text, or other works using the same characters. Side note, pestilence isn't even a horseman - the concept seems to be tied in with the famine horesman, likely because disease in crops leads to famine for pre-industrial societies lacking long-term food storage and transport infrastructure. The first horseman is something along the lines of "conquest", who I would suspect gets ignored because he's a royal figure dressed in white, and is thus very much not in line with most interpretations of the horsemen and bringers of destruction.
No. Jesus is the morning Star. Satan was the Morning Star. You need to forget Jesus and embrace Muhammad if you want eternity in Heaven. Muhammad is the only way to a seat by God's throne. Repent infidel and worship your almighty god.
i think the closest to norwegian grim reaper, would be the Norn sisters of the norse mythos, or are you thinking of the valkery that ferry you to valhalla?
hochelaga , great video, as usual, but something you ought to be aware of: At 1:26 , you made the classic westerner's faux pas of calling something "Chinese" when it's actually _Tibetan._ The distinction may not matter to most westerners but to Tibetans it's an extremely sore spot and something you ought to know about if you're making informative videos.
In Chinese culture, there is King Yan, who is the equivalent to Hades. The equivalent to the collector of souls is Ox head and horse face, who bring the souls to the underworld.
"Japan has King Enma" The Japanese equivalent to the Grim Reaper is the Shinigami. King Enma is closer to what Hades is for the Greeks or Osirus for the Egyptians. (Edit: ok so since this thread is getting out of hand, I'm going to clarify by saying that I'm wrong about the Shinigami. Although i knew they are an actual part of Japanese culture *outside of anime* I didn't know they were a recent addition to the folklore from the last couple hundred years or so and not part of proper Japanese mythology. My mistake.)
In hungary there's a folk tale about an old woman who didn't want to die, so when death came for her she asked for just one more day, and death signed a paper that said "I will come back tomorrow" and from then on everytime death came she just showed him the paper he signed and told him to come back the next day. After like a year or so death got bored of the status quo and tried to take her but she smacked him on the head with a pickle jar and then everyone lived forever
The Anjou was also said to be the last person to die in a year, who would be tasked with shuttling the souls of the dead until the end of the following year. A seminal film known as "The Phantom Carriage" links in with this myth somewhat.
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Hey, yes I take recommendations. Always happy to hear. Did you see my video on the Copiale Cipher? It involves the work of a secret society: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CVHVZjaXzH8.html
FYI The Bible is full of symbolism. Many story’s and other representations holding messages will come up a lot. This is one thing for people not knowing get really confused by.
In a lot of paintings from the medieval period onwards, there is a "memento mori," or reminder of death. These were symbols associated with death, usually skulls, that were put in paintings as a reminder of the inevitability of death. I'm not sure, but they may have something to do with the common depiction of the Grim Reaper in art.
Is the Grim Reaper god? He comes off as a mythological farmer. One who reaps death which comes from the seed of life. He's got a skeleton too and god supposedly made people in his image. Probably not but, thought it was kind of interesting how the representation of death just turns out to be some moving bones.
most representations of death/gods of death/afterlife, predate christianity by a long time :/ I should add, that mostof the religions known of nowdays are quite new in a historical sence
"A mysterious disease had arrived from Asia" Boy does that sound familiar Listen, before anyone comes at me, just know im not trying to spread asian hate im asian myself
I love this explanation about Death's origin! You have a very calming voice and go into much detail! I'd like to hear some African examples. Maybe from the Ashanti or Zimbabwean mythology since you touched on Native American examples.
The grim reaper kept me from getting runover by a selfish gluttoned driver in a gas station by touching my shoulder. I felt the cold waft of air and I about seen my demise.
also gotta respect his pronunciation of the hebrew bible verses in the lucifer video, though I wouldn't call it accurate it was pretty fun and endearing
''Mid 14th around 1346 a mysterious disease had arrived to europe from Asia and people were becoming infected by millions... and becoming one of the worst pandemics'' Bruh. We are at it again.
Corona has been horrible, and killed a horrific amount...but while it's affected *lifestyle* and more importantly *mental health* considerably for everyone, for sure, I do doubt though that it's worth comparing in terms of sheer body horror, death toll, seeming unending nature, and oppression as the Black Death, though it has been *_six centuries since_* of course so it's hard to imagine and we can't _ask_ any of the survivors.
i like to think of the grim reaper as more of a kind, warm-hearted janitor, who stalks the hallways of life, bringing the withered and misfortunate to a warm place beyond their suffering.
@@fryderykchopin3974 I mean the dutch borrow so many English words that this wouldn't be the first thing having 2 words. Especially not considering the media the grim reaper is actually used in. The grim reaper is a historical fiction tale after all, always has been always will. Actually grim reaper doesnt work with dutch grammar now i think about it so it had to have been a borrowed word. (Ik leef ook in Nederland XD)
Well in Lithuania we have Grim Reaper as Giltinė. "The list of Lithuanian gods is reconstructed based on scarce written sources and late folklore. Giltinė - goddess of death, also The Reaper. Other names include Kaulinyčia, Maras (black death or the Plague), Maro mergos, Kolera, Pavietrė, Kapinių žmogus. Her sacred bird is the owl. Sometimes she was considered to be a sister of Laima (luck)."
Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to👉🏾him that 👉🏾sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy 👉🏾sickle, and 👉🏾reap: for the time is come for thee to 👉🏾reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Revelation 14:16 And 👉🏾he that sat on the cloud 👉🏾thrust in 👉🏾his 👉🏾sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. To make a long story short, the grim reaper comes from the Bible. Specifically a “him” riding on a cloud, which throughout the Bible was also known as a chariot or what we know today as a UAP(Ezekiel’s Wheel)…this is describing the savior coming back as the death Angel/ roaring lion. There are many many other scriptures that link to this throughout the Torah, and Tanakh.
Eight years ago I was riding my bike around my driveway. It was in the late afternoon and I stopped and stood staring at the road for some reason. I really can't remember why. All I can remember is seeing a figure. It had no legs to be seen and floated, wearing a white cloak and it's skeletal hands outstretched with chains hanging from its wrists. It flew by so quickly I almost couldn't register what it was. I tried, really tried, to come up with some explanation for what it could have been but settled on it being supernatural. So i brought it up with my mom and not two days before I saw the figure flying down the hill.. a neighbor at the bottom of the hill had died! I'm now absolutely convinced I saw death that day. I wasn't afraid and I'm still not. Spooky as he sounds.. I felt at ease as he was near. I don't think it was a mistake on deaths part, I think he meant for me to see him that day and for that I call him my friend. /HE/ won't kill me. Time will. But if I was correct in who I saw, I'll greet him like a good friend when I'm dead. I don't fear death, I never have. Dying maybe but never death itself nor the angel. He's kind enough to escort me to where I belong where he could so easily leave me by myself. I'm thankful to him already and I won't be dying any time soon... I hope lol. I've unfortunately seen a lot of things related to death, even a few close calls myself. Seeing him once is a coincidence. Running into him several times, now THAT isn't a coincidence. Oh and no... I'm not Christian lol 🖤☠🥀⚰
So, did Cain become *'The Ankou'* after murdering his younger brother, Abel, or was *'The Ankou'* the lost, unknown, older brother of Cain and the true eldest and firstborn son of Adam and Eve? Can somebody please help me out here and tell me?
yeah! i´ve been a fan of lord death since ae 5. hope when i die he shows up in full reper disguise (reaper sigma from megaman x4 is a second good choice)
My favorite depiction of Death is the Irish myth of the Dullahan. A fearie of death that Carrie’s it’s head by its side riding a two wheeled carriage pulled by a headless horse and a scythe as it’s primary weapon. Whom visits the people of Ireland before they die, and if you stumble upon her path she drenches you in blood. It’s probably where they myth of the the headless horseman comes from but I’m not too sure.
True story, Grim Repear came to see me when I was younger, I woke up and seen the skeleton and the black cowl hood...I felt calm but also afraid...I turned my head away slowly, hoping that it wouldn't notice I seen it. then I went to sleep...woke up the next morning thankfully.
@Da gorrilaa it’s called dreaming I saw one last night it was sitting calmly with his head down his weapon to the left and today I woke up and where he was it’s all white flowersb
