Arguably, many if not the vast majority of the myths, the oldest myths all come from our longer history, its really our own fault for thinking ourselves so different despite carrying out many of the same rituals and practices to this day.

I was wondering the same thing. I thought of them being pastoralist and they were dependant on their cattle for a survival. So when one of the animals was killed, everything was used, not only the meat for food. Almost everything that allowed their lifestyle would come from the animal. That must have informed them that creating the Universe was the same, just on a larger scale. They projected their own actions from the everyday life, into an act of creation. That's my attempt of a hypothesis.

That version was probably a modern "interpretation" based on modern attitudes. For those who burn five or ten thousand calories a day, or live on a heavy muscle meat diet, it is a huge bonus to kill animal and eat liver, or brains or some of the other rich fatty organs other than muscle meat. My wife's very rich grandmother used to serve brains and egg sandwiches at elite parties. Something abhorrent to modern Americans.

I remember hearing the same thing, I wonder if the story would be in Hesiod's Theogony?

Thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed using the dinner analogy.

Very observant man, after reading through your post I recognize myself moving through the hierarchy to becoming the host every other year. I think alot of these ancient rituals are embedded into our lives

Thank you for your kind words.

The eyes may not be tasty, but they're almost pure fat, so they certainly have value from certain perspectives. Brains are extremely useful in tanning procedures, as well as nutritionally. That sort of thing. Are you from the American northwest? That's the region where the Potlatch seems to be most significant.

What?

@@aWomanFreed No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his friends.

@@jakeaurod these ppl eat murdered children, not grown adults who have willingly made some type of choice. Smh

@@aWomanFreed timestamp?

It's called suicide, and partly why it's illegal.

I do have a couple of other videos that talk about it, although not as in depth as the point of the ritual of sacrifice is acting out the cosmogonic story, which are where those videos focus.

Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words.

I find that the idea of human sacrifice to the gods is still active in government today. Consider a dangerous street junction. There is one near me, lacking crosswalk striping, there is a sign that indicates the presence of a left-turn lane where the center line ceases and the street retains the same width, nearby is an intersection with a state route with a traffic signal-- a smaller street with a two-way stop is twenty feet away from this. Traffic laws are being violated by motorists at a rate of 100 an hour here. The danger would be alleviate by appropriate road striping and a second traffic signal coordinated with the first. However, this would entail the expenditure of some amount of money. The city street department would spend that amount of money or even the state would provide money if someone were to die there. But until someone dies, no one cares about the danger present or the rectification of it. They simply demand a human sacrifice from the local populace and travelers to the gods of road casualties be made before any safety improvements will be made.

Agreed, it is a part of the human-kind hunting group that would come up with this idea, I think lions and other alpha predators allow the alpha lion or the alpha wolf and their immediate kin to eat first from a kill. It is very primitive and, alas unfortunately, has been reinforced and kept apparently through the generations.

Maybe when disaster hit, and animal sacrifices didn’t do the trick of ‘placating the gods’, people made the ultimate sacrifice: a human. Think of the jewish annual tradition of sacrificing a perfect goat and ritually burdening a similar one with all the sins of the people before sending it into the wilderness to die. This animal sacrifice only worked for one year. Then Jesus is (said to be) sacrificed at Pesach and another man, a sinner called Barabbas, which incidentally means ‘son of man’, a title also given to Jesus, is set free, and this sacrifice will save mankind forever, no animal sacrifice necessary anymore.

@@kellydalstok8900 several problems with what you say. Pesach has nothing to do with Yom Kippur; Bar Abbas means 'son of the father ' which, does apply uniquely to Christ in the Gospel of John, but "son of man/ son of Adam" means human. Any member of humankind. The goat that goes off into the wilderness is the one that carries the sin of the nation, not the goat sacrificed (to cover the sins of the presenting priest). Thousands of humans were killed by crucifixion by the Roman Empire, Jesus was executed, not sacrificed, and not ceremonially in the Temple or by the High Priest --- so why does his death end the need for sacrifice when thousands proceeded his? It's a very incongruous myth with that of the Judeans. Lastly, how is a son of man the ultimate object to sacrifice when there are sons of god and gods extant? Myself, I think Jesus became thought of as carrying away the sins of the world because he walked away alive. His story embodied the myths of the Apis bull and Osiris (Serapis) in the imagination of his disciples wishing to honor their master who never returned. As well as the pesach lamb, the story of Joseph, the story of Jonah, and Orion. Also became thought of as Second Adam, a second Elijah, and a second Moshe.

I must admit this is one of my most favorite videos, because it brings together so much and makes sense of it all. And thank you for your kind words, they are always appreciated.

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Or his newer and more sinister aspects such as Aborto, Socjust, and Transor. So much child sacrifice, but at least it keeps the ESG soma flowing.

Very nice!

Yes, please. The tribal beliefs have been buried under so many successive invasions. I'd love to hear more. 😊

There really is a dearth of good scholarship online about Celtic mythology. I understand that's partially because it's so fragmented, but I think the big traditions like the Scandinavian, the Egyptian, and the Greco-Roman just get a lot more love from academics because earlier historians have spent much more time on them. They have a history of history, so to speak. I'd love to see more Celtic content out there in the hopes that it would inspire more scholarship in the future.

Indeed. Yet sacrifice is in fact needed, a concept that seems to escape many adhering to today's 'you can have it all' greedy mentality...

Dionysius is often mentioned in terms of 'negativity' , as symbol of man's own contradictory and often conflicted nature. Through the ages this 'negativity' is seen as the antithesis of the thesis of the time, the contradiction or critique of power and systems of control, or simply the chaos in the order.

However, the Canaanite ancestor approach to human sacrifice may have significant differences to that of the Indo-Europeans. The later Jewish writings allude to the human sacrifices of their ancestors, and of course Carthage (which was founded by colonizers from the Levant) was accused of human sacrifices by Rome. And by the time Christianity was setting up its dogmas, the syncretism between Greek-thought and the Jewish-roots surely made the evolved Christian sacrament into something that neither the ancient Canaanites nor the ancient Indo-Europeans would have recognized.

@@TheDanEdwards thanks but not even close to my thought process lol i was just thinking about the whole symbolism "eat in remembrance of my body"

​@@hugespinner4890 Dr. Tabor has a video today which discusses that phrase, in his discussion of the apostle Paul with Paul Williams.

Maybe influenced by the Indian subcontinent?

Zoroastrianism sort of begun from a priest who led a reform that turned into eventually a revolution or rebellion against the inhumane old ways which kept the Kavis and Karapans in power. In comparison to Abrahamic religions it is supposed to have believed in literal cosmological dualism rather than being cosmologically monist + only ethically dualist. It introduced the rejection of alot of animal sacrifice and especially rejection of human sacrifice which came to be regarded as sins from what I heard, rejection of philosophies like people accepting 'might is right' rule and telling people to revolt against unjust hierarchies/authorities. e.g. In Zoroastrianism if a parent was evil or cruel then a child did not need to obey them and could think for themselves, they could be their own person with free will to choose good and etc with ostracisation of good being part of the struggle of Druj to suppress Asha and its agents, etc. It was pretty revolutionary according to historians. Divinities would be divided into good deities led by Ahura Mazda who wishes for bad to be completely removed from creation vs the demons that people regard as 'deities' and their religions or even ideologies and ways of thinking that basically insist life "needs bad". Divine forces of the cosmos or nature which are responsible for and reward evil would be regarded as daevas or demons hence for example Indra was regarded as a demon. Alot of neo-pagans I think tbh are unknowingly looking more so for something close to Zoroastrianism rather than the historical PIE Indo-European religions cause they allowed veneration of ancestors and divinities determined to be good by theologians/priests I think.

My guess is very little. As I thought that hardly anything is really known about the druids. Look at Ron Hutton's authoritative books if you're interested.

What we have of Celtic mythology is notable in that there is no creation myth as we would understand it. I'm a little spotty on Welsh stuff, but within Irish mythology, the world just exists with various waves of immigrations into Ireland starting with Ceasair and her people (who I suspect eventually become the Fomorians, though this is not explicitly stated--only that the Great Flood of the Bible takes them and with Fintan mac Bochra, Ceasair's husband surviving in the form of a salmon and becoming a witness to all of Irish history), followed by the Partholonians who have to deal with the seemingly indigenous Fomorians that weren't there when Ceasair showed up. They win against the Fomorians but then all die of a plague. Next are the Nemedians who also war with the Fomorians but lose and are driven from Ireland and then separate into two groups: The Fir Bolg who go south and the Tuatha De Danann (the gods, essentially) who go north where they learn magic. The Fir Bolg come back first and apparently coexist with the Fomorians, and they're the people who divide Ireland into 5 provinces and establish the High Kingship. Then the Tuatha De Danann return to Ireland, propose dividing it between the two groups, which the Fir Bolg say no to (the Tuatha De Danann want dominion over the sacred center of Ireland), they go to war, the TDD take most of Ireland and the Fir Bolg are allowed the province of Connacht when the war ends. Then the TDD go to war with the Fomorians when the half Fomorian king Bres is forced to abdicate due to his poor kingship leading to a curse from a poet and he runs to his dad for an army. TDD defeat the Fomorians, and then in a very Klingon twist, Gaels show up at some point and defeat the TDD (who again are obviously gods), the TDD withdraw to the Otherworld but still enter this one and interact and intermarry with the Gaels. Of course, there's a fair bit of separating and coalescing and unifying of peoples after bloodshed, so there's an echo of a creation myth there, but other than the Genesis narrative briefly being tacked onto it, Ireland just always kinda exists

Thank you.

Thank you, I agree, this is a very important video for those who want to know about sacrifice, I tried to make it so it would make sense to those practicing traditional religions.

Thank you.

Some of you are going to dine on martyrs to the freedom that I shall provide. If you're lucky, that is, otherwise you yourself will be the main course. Let's not mince about or dilute the ultimate truth behind it all. Shut up, keep your place, or else.

right it's a control mechanism of more ruthless people that once might have been originated in not understanding nature. "Maybe you're too influential to stay around, maybe you're too insignificant. We decide when it's time."

Good luck, I'd run too if I could.

I will try and get out and about next year, in the US and Europe, so who knows.

Yes, I have plans to do these and hopefully, later this year if all goes to plan.

@@Crecganford awesome! Their linguistic origins are also pretty interesting. I’ll be looking forward to it!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words.

A lot of mystery rites had "Eucharistic" rituals (like the Bacchic), incorporating the soul/divinity of the deity into their own being via consuming the physical body.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. There are some pronoun citations I am bound to not get right because I cover so many languages, and so I would imagine a linguistic professor trumps one in mythology in this case. As for the order of videos I am putting together as guide to help, and I will mention when it is available because I am aware I do jump around on topics quite a bit.

Liberty and yet servants of the Crown? What a crock of shit.

Which is hilarious.

@@quixotiq what 😂

One day I may, maybe next year when I do a bit of travelling and talking a bit more about life.

@@Crecganford Sounds great xD

Ooops I posted this before you credited him towards the end! Found his books spellbinding at uni in 1993, having discovered them by accident in the uni library.

This may well have happened in some cultures.

I wouldn't use it as an academic source, but it is worth a read, to know it is there and its arguments.

Theology > Ritual > Narrative > (then repeat and rinse as needed) This is why I think mythological themes are so enduring, because these three elements provide a feedback loop that is highly self-sustaining while also slowly evolving.

I find it unlikely that human sacrifice had a beginning after the beginning of Homo sapiens sapiens.

Quite.

Yes, it is a key sacrifice, as the bovine is considered a gift from god and an essential part of the cosmogony. I have made videos about it.

Btw, about the elements, maybe there is a connectin between the elements and the Izads of the Zorodostrian. Although Herodotus also said that Xerxes had a million soldiors and Acamenids were monogomous. So maybe the whole thing is dismissed.

I have made videos about the creation myth and its links, look for videos titled the Indo European Creation Myth.

I’m from London, but have lived in the various extremes of the United Kingdom.

I'm not an etymologist, but it would be fascinating to understand this.

Sort of, cleavage simply means the space between two points.

Same story of Zeus and Prometheus deciding on the portions that would be sacrificed in exchange for giving fire to humans.

Haha! Translations for subtitles will be uploaded soon (I'm a little behind on these for this one)

I touch on this on my videos about the Creation Myth of the Indo Europeans which are well worth a watch.

You know it's crazy but we could just literally give everyone a house. It's cheaper and more humane then any other alternative!

@@theangryholmesian4556 We could buy the homeless in Anchorage $30,000 homes in Arkansas and pay for the flight for less than they spend on them in two years.

@@algernoncalydon3430 Why are you so desperate to herd people like cattle? Where's your love for your fellow humans?