Christianity has conditioned us to fear nature.

Interesting… That’s the kind of reference that George might know of, absolutely

@@DavidLightbringer Sure, it's a well known and awesome story, and the imagery of the trees with entrails in their branches kind of sticks to the mind. The romans(according to themselves) feared the deep wild woods, but to the germanic tribes it was their homeland where their gods dwelled. There might be other historic or mythological references to similars traditions, but none I can remember on the top of my head right now. The trees do have a very important role in germanic and later norse mythology. Tacitus, if I don't misremember, wrote about germanic tribes far to the north keeping sacred ceremonial horses in sacred groves. Used for wagon-pulling ceremonies in honour of a godess Tacitus(if I'm remembering the right guy) called "Nerthus", who could be the sister-twin-wife of Njörd, and the mother of the twins Freyr and Freyja(who also hooks up with each other on at least one time, it's not only a Targaryen thing, but a Vanir thing too, lol).

I think people of Scandinavia made blood sacrifices, even humans by haning them in holy trees long before the vikings. Criminals was exicuted by hanging in gallows oaks even up until 18th-19th centuries.

@@jonhauge-evaldsson783 Totally agree with you. If we are to believe Adam of Bremen who visited the temple of Uppsala in the 11th century, some of the sacrificial practices included that nine males of "every living creature" were offered up for sacrifice. The corpses of the nine males were hung within the grove besides the temple. He says that the grove is considered extremely sacred to the "heathens", so much that each single tree "is considered to be divine", due to the death of those sacrificed or their rotting corpses hanging there, and that dogs and horses hang within the grove among the corpses of men. Adam also describes that near the temple stands this massive tree with far-spreading branches, which is evergreen both during summer and winter. At the tree there's a spring where sacrifices are held. According to Adam a custom existed where a man was thrown alive into the spring, and if he failed to return to the surface "the wish of the people would be fulfilled". And that was just during the very late viking age. The longer back we go the more brutal and often strange(at least in our modern eyes) our forefathers and foremothers rituals become. The old norse, germanic and indo-european ritual where a special horse was sacrificed and a priestess or the lady of the house/farm treated the dead horses penis as a god and sometimes even had sex with it, comes to mind. It must have been hard for Daenerys to eat that horses heart, but in light of our own worlds old horse rituals it could have been worse.

@@dirtygiraffe ...or better 😏

Delicious. The Hart tree in conflict with itself, lol

There is defenetly a fight for control of the magic heart trees -The fire of the gods, the burning bush, the blood drinking shamanic thunder horses!

@@jonhauge-evaldsson783 FROZEN faces, FIERY leaves. Im deadset that theres a fiery power entombed in ice somewhere. George uses the word legacy only once in AGOT, in reference to the NAME “Ice“. The implication being the original weapon of the Starks was ice itself. But their original weapon is likely “stuck in a tree somewhere“ holding something or someone fiery. Likely for love. To preserve love. George would do that.

@@lewdogsk8er Interesting!

you know I've remarked that Stannis' sigil is a hart within a heart, since a hart is a stag, but I failed to point out that Heart trees" are therefore "stag trees," derp

unintentional but beautiful

it does allow me to make a video much faster, so I might use it more going forward. Thank you!

This is what LML do. Patent Pending 2018 (2017?)

Me too! It’s really immersive :) Even better when you’re smokin a bowl while watching, ngl!

Yep this is the format

@@DavidLightbringer Hell yeah, I hope you do many more like this because you have so many interesting insights in your streams that would make for very interesting videos like this one. I truly, thoroughly enjoyed your scripted Great Empire of the Dawn videos. It peaked my curiosity intensely, what writer wouldn't be happy with that result lol. You're theories are a hell of a lot of fun but lets be honest, live streaming GoT theory crafting isn't as entertaining as presenting a well thought out theory, observation, prediction, etc.

LmL could have stretched the video out for hours if he let TreeBeard actually do the intro!

Love that theory! Kind of like a fishgarth!!

Every confirmed CotF we've see so far lives underground, and the reach of Children and other seemingly related species suggests a near-if-not-totally global network of tunnels connecting them. Of course, the moon meteors would have almost certainly caused massive cave-ins, so the global network likely no longer exists. So you are probably onto something. The next question is: what is the relationship between the disconnected soul-tree networks? Are they opposed to one another like the Maw hives in GRRM's short story Sandkings? Or do they cooperate, despite being separate? Or is cooperation between separate hives impossible, like among the Fyndii in his Thousand Worlds stories (see the backpage index of "Dying of the Light" for how this works)?

@@alexandergangaware429 I'm pretty sure the blueshades and weirwoods are incompatible. Like Humans and Ibbenese/Neanderthals: Sibling species with minor but key differences. Blue shade sap can open the mind on its own, without further involvement from the trees, whereas the Weirwoods are pretty much Eywa from Avatar and the Children its Na'vi.

Look up Pando the ashen tree. Very believable.

You too!! May You All be beloved ❤🌬

Oh the white harbor one? For sure

awwww sorry you're feeling the sads... but yes here's a bit of heart tree for your heart ❤️

That sucks! Well, take care and we are here in the Starry Host if you want to talk.

tell me what you think of the mixed on-camera / pictures format here, it enables me to work a bit faster.

@@DavidLightbringer Well, I mean the primary difference is how often we get to see those sweet horns, right? I'm glad to read that this production is faster, because it seems like you're enjoying the transition from narrator to actor. Your sense of humor always shines through your scripts, and by viewing the joke-teller, your audience can be more immersed in that, as well as anything better informed with body-language. I've seen you do a split-screen method during your more recent livestreams, but I think recording this and taking your audience through the full-screen images is a good stylistic choice. Your standing still in front of the camera isn't as crucial to the discussed material as the pictures are (as an imagination aide). I think you've got the best of both worlds, dude. Thank you for asking my opinion.

all of my horny love, from the bottom of my heart tree

ah well thanks very much and please enjoy the back catalog, should keep you buys for a hot second :)

Arbor Gold, is golden tree then? Arbor Red, red tree. 🤔

@@jonhauge-evaldsson783 Tree red and Tree gold* They are colors that belong to trees. Like 'mint green'.

Thank you! That’s partially due to my ADD, I can’t get by with a picture that doesn’t exactly match exactly what I’m talking about, So I have to seek out the perfect picture no matter how long it takes

They are so deeply ingrained into my brain that I could probably never not make the references

that's the spirit

@@DavidLightbringer hell yeah man keep it up. Always love what you put out. 4:20 for life!

I will definitely randomly burst into this song around the house hahaha

that was honestly very good translation!

@@DavidLightbringer so glad you were able to procure the rights to such a classic 💜 also - definitely enjoying the mashup between the live shots and the photos. Not like I didn't pay attention before 😅 but the switch makes me concentrate like we're in a stream.

@@DavidLightbringer years of practice have got me to this point

awesome, i made it myself

Awww thanks!!

yeah that one is killer, I used it a bunch in the Leng video as well. So glad that art is out there or it would be hard to make videos about this very obscure ASOIAF lore!

ah yes and what kind of trees have hearts? this chapter is just crammed with tree people ideas

So what I wanna know is how George got the idea to write this way, cos you're absolutely right, no one else does.

You are so welcome and thank you!

I’ve always used the humor to help offset the weightier stuff, it seems to work... AND NOW THAT YOU TOLD ME IM FUNNY, watch out

ah that's a great observation, yes

ravenous reader likes to make this point, that the readers are the greenseers :)

And it’s Old Nan who instilled our love of stories before we became greenseers

yes yes yes, I have to think so! Not just stone faces, but underground, just like the Old Ones... yes I'm very hopeful.

yeh, the azoh ahai is an i uni8verse myth that people try to play out, thats a story within a story if thats what you mean

be welcome

Ten.... feet that is!

totally, that's just the sort of mix-ups she has.

**nods approvingly**

or are they...

@@DavidLightbringer 🤔🤔🤔

The drowned old one.

oh thanks Matthew!

May they bless this bounty so it may be shared far and wide

By the gods!

just zap it up to them with lightening rods

Ay and this one too knave

Heh no I get it, different people intake information differently. For some a scripted read puts them to sleep and they prefer a live discussion.

We all look like strange, unleafy short people

teamwork! great job!

I think this is more like shamanic astral projection in animal form, such as you read about in Castaneda, but yeah it's very similar. Instead of stealing an animal's body you are transforming your own astral body into an animal.