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I criticized an earlier presentation on the indigenous peoples of North America. You were quick to reply, and you put together these fantastic videos. You sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. Well done!

Great video, I'm glad i found your channel! I have never heard this interpretation, but it makes a lot of sense to me given what we know and what has survived. The burning beach is a helluva image, like something from D-Day, and it occurs to me that maybe they were raising their arms to also connect to the air itself, and on a burning beach thats a liminal space for all four. This video also made me wonder about the Druids passivity, and if that was somehow connected to their belief in reincarnation, similar to how Buddhists and Jains believe in nonviolence. Great stuff, bud.

Don't believe this. I believe in Odin

The idea of Proto-indo Europeans is complete fiction, there is no evidence for any such thing. This idea was created by modern European racialist nationalism. It was created to discredit the out of Africa paradigm and as a way of creating a separate and fictional origin of "white" people. The problem for this fiction is that the gene for "whiteness" is approximately only about 6,000 years old.

That’s where I draw the line regarding any worship… Human Sacrifice. Africa was guilty of this for the longest time. And we African Christians today still don’t let them off…

Why he looks like Hank from Breaking Bad?

The rope that rested at the bottom of the sea. The red devil that helped create earth from under the sea. The names of the highest peaks from the earths core. The highest mountain peaks. I find it all so interesting. Do you know that Facebook wouldn't let me post a photo of the woman in the mountain on my account? 🤔

Sacrifice of people is pure evil. If you were God, would you need a human sacrifice? "What does a God have need for a starship?"

Speculative? Yes. Fascinating? Absolutely! Thank you.

The latest research is suggesting there were no Druids in Britain. There was a religious class in Britain and Ireland, as in most cultures at the time but Druidism was specifically limited to the continent. None of the practices that we see carried out in Europe have been witnessed or documented in any parts of the British Isles. There may not even be a link between any of the religious classes of the British tribes..

Sh.t Talking sh.t

There is a source that claims the Druids who survived in Ireland eventually did write but that Saint Patrick burnt their books, most likely any works from that century I think would be scrolls. If any survive where would they likely be found? The same for maybe any public religious information written in Greek by Gaulish druids if they did do it?

I remember being shown in the early 2000s how the stars were more apparent and the 7th more distinct when you weren't looking at them directly. I figure that, along with the motion across the sky, and a good chunk of that myth writes itself.

Very little known it is lost really . Th battle in Anglesey is very interesting and when I went camping there I relayed the story to my friend we experienced that night the biggest mini storm Ive ever been in. Anyway its all lost unfortunately, no real info on what they thought magically. They did integrate with the church but as revered magicians as recorded in 3-4 texts but no real info, unfortunately all lost, or maybe?

Let's all remember that they were human just as the priest of today. Some are bad, most were probably "decent". For every saint there is a Jim Jones in any faith.

There is more academic research into the Romans ,who where only here for a short period of time However the celts where here for thousands of years. We need to focus our attention on the indigenous people of this land and not the foreign invaders who supposedly civilised us, The propaganda of the imperialism and empire. Have we not all heard that old chestnut before.

a new myth in the making perhaps, when complete the seventh star will shine? In the nic of time. 'How good can it get?'

Hindu creation cosmology is 311.04 trillion years per life of brahma and i know 3.5 different brahmas btw

Okay this story is repeated in the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. With the genders reversed. To one female following seven males.

Depending on where you pull your information from humans worldwide are 98 to 99% identical in terms of genetics. In terms of genetics people worldwide are identical twins.

This really nothing compared to the Sumerians knowing that Pluto existed and was only a moon that was pulled from it's home planetary orbit. I think it wasn't until the 1800s that modern man discovered the existence of Pluto.

Allegorical stories to preserve the knowledge of the stars and how they travel across the universe. The stories would be more likely to be told amongst the people than the astrology science would be.

So does your comment mean you’ll do a video on Boudica? I’m curious what you’d have to say. I used to work at a rape crisis centre and I think her anger is relatable to many women (and others too, but primarily women). I don’t know how accurate the common version of the story is or if there’s other important details that are often missed? It’d be good to know more about what the reality most likely was

Whats the source of the south African dragon myth? Im searching and can only find people talking about the myth. What was thing.. a site? Trinket? Who what where when south Africa dragon?

Interesting vid. I suppose the most frustrating aspect of Celtic history is its most fascinating; they left no written records. The etymology of the word Druid is no exception. The accepted word in modern Welsh is Derwydd, which is an agglutination of Der=Oak and wydd=knowledge (or sometimes presence). So an accepted explanation for the etymology of Druid is oak-knower, although other etymologies shouldn’t be discounted. Not to be ignored is the enigmatic way the Celts named (or rather didn’t name) their natural environment. The very etymology of oak in the Celtic languages deserves attention: In Welsh oak is Derw while we see the obvious cognomate of Dair in Irish. However, PIE hypothesis offers Daru as an ancient word meaning tree, the root of which can be seen in modern European languages (compare Dereva in Ukrainian, derevo in Russian). Could it be then that the ancients held the oak in such high regards that they simply called it ‘tree’? We know that there were caveats around their system of nomenclature and it’s also apparent they held philosophically mystic beliefs. We must postulate also that the name Druid might not have anything to do with oak in its etymology. In modern Welsh the word drûd means expensive or dear, but it’s original meaning differed; it carried the meaning of elite or exalted etc. we see this meaning fossilised in the name Cerrigydrudion (cerrig y drudion) in County Conwy, North Wales. The meaning is the Stones of the Exalted Ones which is pertinent as excavations of a barrow there unearthed pieces of a golden crown. So we might conclude the word Druid to mean an elite of some description. The one thing that makes the second explanation problematic is the element ‘uid’ in the word Druid, as it almost certainly carries the meaning of know or knowledge, so the Brythonic Derwydd may be the correct meaning. Who knows!

Nice interpretation!

10:00 A much more common name for "Elyon" is "El". It sometimes appears as "El Elyon" (e.g. Genesis 14). Elyon ("the most high") is actually a rare honorific adjective rather than the name. "El" might be confusing because in biblical Hebrew and ancient Canaanite it also means any "god" (illu in Akkadian, alla in Arabic) . But it is also the proper name of The Creator God in the ancient Canaanite religion. He is very well known from Ugaritic myth (which to my knowledge never calls him Elyon) in 15th century BC. He is already depicted there as ancient and peacefully retiring in favor of his son Baal. The citation you show from Deuteronomy is one indication that Yahweh like Baal was originally considered one of the many sons of El. This is also the El in many biblical names like Israel, Michael, Gabriel, Rafael, Elijah, etc. But NOT in "Elyon" because this is written with a different letter (על meaning "over" or "higher" rather than אל meaning "a god"). Edit: 12:38 you mention El as a Mesopotamian god but I never heard that he was. To my knowledge he was a Canaanite and ancient Isralistic god.

The Druids tricking the Romans into committing psychological warfare on themselves is the one of most conniving and brilliant things I've ever heard

When i was about 7 years old my grandmother put me on her lap, gave me a hot cup of chocolate a big warm hug and looked me straight in the eye and with all the love in her voice leaned in and whispered in my ear, "its all a bunch of bullshit mate"

Makes sense, they weren't military trained and most older males. What other choice did they have.

Excellent video. The Mexica (Aztec) concept of human sacrifice was very similar. It was the ultimate expression of thanks to tye cosmos. It was also not practiced as much as the Imperial Spanish asserted.

"Human sacrifice" is the loss of the few to benefit the many.

Do you have a video on the topic of maize/corn mythology? And if so can you please link it to this comment. Thank you so much

Fascinating video thank you!

THAT AUSTRALIAN DRAGON MYTH BLEW MY MIND

Would you be willing to comment on Riane Eisler's theory about those figurines?

In one part of the video you were explaining the underworld myth motifs in different parts of the world, and you've said, that the Greek myth of OEDIPUS is similar to some North American stories. Don't you mean probably ORPHEUS? I like your channel, I'm glad, that I found it recently.

I recently had a long conversation with ChatGPT4.o about the similarities between the Mongolian culture of the past and the Yamnaya culture, and we went down a rabbit hole that seemed incredibly interesting. They appear to be profoundly similar to a point where I couldn't help but think there was some kind of relationship. Do you know anything about the ancient Mongolians and their relationship to the proto-europeans? I'd love a video on this.

I said id be nice, but how ridiculous are these tales.