Universal History: Anglo-Saxon Myths and the Origin of Fairies | with Richard Rohlin
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- This is the first episode of a series of videos on Anglo-Saxon myths and their role in the Universal History.
Books mentioned:
Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius: An Alexandrian World Chronicle (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library): www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Ale...
Syriac work called The Cave of Treasures, translated by Sebastian Brock (Early Christian/late Jewish traditions preserved in Syrian. Gives a good framework for reading St. Ephrem the Syrian)
Richard Rohlin’s work:
- Finding the Golden Key book project: findingthegoldenkey.com/?page...
- Darkly Bright Press - Akboritha: darklybrightpress.com/akboritha/
- Amboria: Roleplaying in the World Under Starlight: strangeowlgames.com/amboria/
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Coming up next...
00:00:42 - Intro music
00:01:07 - Introduction
00:02:57 - The Old North
00:04:14 - The 4th son of Noah
00:07:56 - Flooding and new beginnings
00:09:30 - The 4th son of Noah goes East
00:11:05 - The connection with Anglo-Saxon Christianity
00:12:45 - The Irish connection
00:15:45 - The origin of faeries
00:18:34 - The Djin tradition in Islam
00:19:24 - The third theory of where fairies come from
00:20:03 - Not mutually exclusive theories
00:20:49 - Julian the Apostate
00:23:01 - Back to it not being mutually exclusive
00:23:43 - Anglo-saxon literature
00:24:02 - St. Theodore of Tarsus
00:27:12 - Anglo-saxon homilies
00:29:20 - The Beowulf poem
00:34:39 - Alfred's Boethius
00:37:24 - Tangent about names
00:39:18 - Genealogy
00:42:49 - Connecting the Book of Enoch and Beowulf
00:44:24 - The importance of Beowulf
00:48:24 - The notion of fairies
00:50:18 - St Isaac the Syrian
00:51:07 - Summary
00:52:58 - The Universal History lineup
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Pageau + Rohlin should be a weekly thing. These discussions are always insanely informative!
100%!
You can tell they could do about 6 hours in one go if they wanted to. Love it!
My thoughts exactly
Agreed
Pleeeeeease do more Anglo-Saxon history. This was fascinating.
Ruth Lehmann in her 1988 translation of Beowulf was (my linguistics prof at Baylor told me) one of the first people to assert strongly that Beowulf was in fact a largely Christian poem with a pagan veneer-and my prof agreed with her assessment. I’m sure the issue may already have had ardent defenders on both sides, but when I encountered this translation shortly after its publication, it seemed at the time the first scholarly edition to bring this idea to a (relatively) wider audience. So this idea has actually been a widely acknowledged possibility for at least 40 years.
I bought the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius and wow it is something else. I opened it up and immediately realized I was not intellectually prepared to contemplate what I was reading, but still it is a pretty awesome book.
In terms of fairies, neutral/ambiguous beings etc. it's always worth mentioning St. Anthony's encounter with the centaur and the satyr, the second of which believed in Christ.
Woah, what?! Really?
This was great! Most of the time I watch Johnatan's videos with guests only to listen to his answers, but now I consider you Richard (if you happen to read this) as equaly interesting speaker and it's amazing how you can tie do many different informations into one incredible story! Universal history will now become my favorite series.
This was absolutely fascinating, and the kind of stuff that I subscribe to this channel for. This is Christianity that I can discuss, whether I practice or "believe" in it or not. I absolutely love it.
But the discussions, debates or arguments I find myself in with "Christians" ALWAYS center on this materialist, empirical reading of scripture that's framed by this ridiculous war with modern science. And I've been on BOTH sides of that war, and I simply cannot entertain it anymore. It's content like this that helps me understand the way I look at the world, even if I don't dogmatically or doctrinally agree with everything.
Thank you.
Love the Old English tales we have, being covered, they're greatly neglected here in England.
Totally agreed! Tolkien would be ashamed of us
This was great! I asked for a copy of Tolkien's translation of Beowulf for Christmas. Can't wait to hear the rest.
I work as a jail chaplain and when one of the pagan inmates asks for the Eddas, I bring them Tokien"s translation of Beowulf! 🙃
@@RevTJSmith That's fire 😂
>Sees anyother Universal History episode in the sub feed
*THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! THAT'S WHY HE'S THE MVP! THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT, THE G-O-A-T*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jonathan:
To use your symbol of a mountain as one’s path from the bottom to the top as a movement from the particular to the universal, I see the role of the faerie, jinn, & the angels (that did not take a sides) to be the accounting for the ambiguous. These phenomena/experiences neither aid in the decent nor the accent of the journey from the particular to the universal, but rather seemingly are ambiguous to the journey. They defy our dual understanding of the world and thus the faerie or jinn represent this experience as confounding, confusing, tricky, or even capricious (without reason). I think this makes sense that in a dual understanding of the universe there would be a hierarchy of three sets of angels not just two. There is Good, Evil, and something in between which we inherently experience as a part of life and spirituality. Riffing here, great podcast series.
Can't wait for the Native American episodes of this series
This is the greatest convergence. I love the ideas of Jacques Vallee and his theories of alien encounters/fairies/djinn and some kind of consciousness interacting with us using a kind of dream logic or metalogic. Great to see these concepts being explored here too.
Hello,
I think your comment is very interesting! May I ask if you are an Orthodox Christian? I'm intrigued, since you seem to mention alien encounters as analogous to encounters with fairies and djinns. What I've seen in Orthodox discourse (e.g. Fr. Seraphim Rose, Fr. Spyridon Bailey) is that alien encounters are interpreted as demonic apparitions. Is there a reason you assume them to be actually inherently neutral, rather than demonic? I am vaguely familiar with Jaques Vallée's views from summaries which I've read online, but I have not read his books.
Thank you for your time and best regards!
@@user-lk4nj4qg2d Your question is too big to answer in a CZcams comment. Firstly, I am not an Orthodox Christian, no. I do not know if these entities are demonic and we would have to first identify what that means. As with all interesting discussions, most of the time is spent agreeing our definitions and there is no space to do that here. After researching the topic for a number of years though, I come to the conclusion that these entities are not truly physical, they exist in a grey area between matter and consciousness and can flit between the two. They also seem to bring both good and bad to those that encounter them and are usually mischievous in nature. Fairy tales provide the essence of what are real encounters in which the individual is tested in some way. Depending on how the individual responds, they may appear as what you might call demons and terrorise and mislead the person, but equally they can refocus a person with them focussing on more spiritual matters. I believe that these beings act as a mirror for the soul and the visitation often has deeply symbolic meaning for the soul. What the individual takes from the encounter depends on them rather than the beings themselves.
I don't know if this answers the question. Is it possible that some of these beings are demonic and evil? Yes, but I am not sure if it is intrinsic to them or it is, much like a dream, a projection or mirror that has clear implications for the individual who experiences it/them. I don't think the encounters are meant for anyone other than those who have them as they entwined with that particular consciousness. If one of these beings appeared in front of us, what we experienced would be different. This is often the case when you look into these encounters closely, everyone saw something slightly different and the message was directed at them personally in some way.
I have said enough.
@@GGTutor1 Thank you for the extensive answer! I appreciate it!
this is true.. they live in the young minds of children. its not outside of us but interwoven in the fabric of our psyche.
once tapped and personified, the mind becomes humorous and childlike
George MacDonald, whom both C.S.Lewis and Tolkien claimed as mentor, wrote of faeries as being quite real. He said some of them are more Christian than people are.
Love your discussions of ancient/universal history.
Fascinating and informative, with a very good conversational chemistry.
Your talks with Richard are the most interesting and my favorites.
I love this series and this is by far my favorite! I cannot wait for the Beowulf video. Thanks for all of your great work!
The neutral angels are also in the Voyage of St Brendan.
Love these interviews w/ Richard! He has a wealth of information concerning esoteric history. 👍
I'm curious if either of you are familiar with the YT channel "Survive the Jive"? He does a lot of stuff on Anglo-Saxon mythology and paganism and I think a lot of the "Universal History" stuff would be a good fit for a discussion.
Rohlin is a great guest! Thanks for an amazing informative video, Jonathan!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE YES! A FOCUS on BEOWULF! And soon! I am about to write a play for grade 7 students on Beowolf and want to get at this history! So much GRADITUDE for this! Thank you! ❤
Thank you both for this, and thank you Jonathan Pageau for this channel. I've learned a lot from this channel
Universal History series is my favorite. Keep it coming!
Wow this was a crazy, amazing video. Now I can't wait until the next episode! Super, super helpful. Yes, a lot of people say "You need to talk to Richard" which I'm sure will happen at some point, but for me it's like a 12 year old being faced with a brothel. I don't know where to begin and I know that I'm hopelessly outclassed. :)
You'd better not start anywhere with a brothel, Paul.....
Have you been To a brothel Paul ? XD
@PaulVanderKlay I talked to @RichardRohlin in Oct and he said he’d love to talk to his favorite Calvinist. I told him I’d keep bugging you both until it happens
These Podcasts should be reheld live and without constraints on time. Epic stuff.
Excellent! I can't wait for the next episodes.
this was utterly awesome. total mind candy...
Ooooh I can’t wait. You two should do a multi video read through of Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf.
Solid video! Could you do a video on the Sagas or scandinavian folklore? 👍🏻
"Fairies are real you gotta believe me" - Ozzy
And they wear boots 😊
@@nickoftime5759 wellybobs
Son, son you’ve gone too far.
"I saw it I saw it I tell ya no lies. Yeah fairies wear boots and ya gotta believe me. Yeaaaahhhh"
"So I went to the doctor see what he could give me, he said son son you've gone too far. Cause smokin and drinking is all that you do. Yeaaaaahhhhh"
@@raven5875 song: Fairies Wear Boots. Album: Paranoid.
great chat!
Great episode! Its difficult to contain my exitement when listening you guys talk... anyway... im Looking forward to your episode on the viking-age!
Greetings from Norway! 🇳🇴☦️ God bless!
This is gonna be interesting.
My favorite Pageauian Series!
Cool to hear a bit more about Alfred! He's my 33rd great grandfather!
Every European from before the year 1000 whose line of descent has continued to today is the ancestor of everyone with European heritage who is living today. Pretty cool!
That doesn’t make any sense. Example: Iceland was settled around year 870 and stayed mostly genetically isolated. They are not the ancestors of the modern Greeks.
Well done, this was great
Fanastic! So informative!
Thank you for that brief cruise down the Withywindle.
Yay! I’ve missed these.
Definitely my favorite work on Pagaues channel besides the fairy tales
I love Beowulf so much! Please do a talk about it!
Interesting talk!
HALLELUJAH! More Universal History!
Great talk thank you.
I think Jackson Crowford would be interested to watch a video about the Beowulf :)
recently during pandemic period, my mother told me that when i was still too young and didnt know how to talk yet, i used to look out of the window, stayed there for minutes on end, and would laugh. she said, i would just blurt out words like fairies, and say in our native language, 'tao' meaning 'im seeing people' which my mother couldnt see.
this used to scare the hell out of her because our place was still so untouched by civilization.
but i couldnt remember this memory. im 34 now and if she didnt mention it, i wouldnt have known.
whats more interesting to note about the authenticity of the story is because there wasnt any electricity yet in our place nor a colored television or even books whence i might have gotten the information if it had been derived from outside stimulus. so...
I'm a simple man, I see Universal History, I click.
Looking forward to Beowulf, that would be a blast for sure.
I am hyped!
I would be very interested to hear Pageau’s thoughts on Paul Kingsnorth’s short story “The Basilisk.” I think it would relate to this conversation.
Amazing how this drops right when I start watching the last kingdom on Netflix
I’d love for Richard to interact with Jamie from the British History Podcast (haven’t listened to it in quite a while).
42:53
Mind blown! And makes a lot of sense!
What’s the spelling of the Irish Book containing the origin of Faeries?
Saltair na Rann
Dear Santa, all I ask for this Christmas is a reading list form Richard Rohlin. Please 🙏
Is the the apocrypha of anglo saxon homiletic tradition book you were discussing the ‘Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England’ by Brandon W. Hawk?
Related to the Beowulf talk I'd just like to recommend people read John Gardner's Grendel.
Wow 😳😲
They sent him back
😊
Classic
I like it
I don't know much more
But I like it
Guys
Hi Jonathan! I had a strange realization today that I thought might be of interest to you:
Why is it that gamers spend so much time and money building their perfect gaming PCs? Why do they spend literally thousands of dollars on components far more capable than any game could ever utilize, and days of their time researching and perfecting every last detail?
Because a PC is a temple. You put everything in it's place, then it becomes beautiful and perfect. Then you use it commune with "heaven," or the world of ideas and abstract thought, aka the internet.
I just thought those two things together were particularly uncanny, so I thought I'd mention it to you. Perhaps there is more uncanniness to discover? Hope you are well!
EDIT: perhaps there's a tie-in with car and motorcycle enthusiasts...
I agree as both a tech (gaming, software engineering, hardware engineering) enthusiast and a car enthusiast. They’re certainly temple-esque and everything that comes with that, in other words, they’re built to be participated in/with, they’re outlets of participation in other temple/spiritual-esque activities. But uncanny as it may seem, I don’t think this should be in any way a surprising conclusion
@@notaboutit3565 Indeed! I think what’s uncanny is how the PC has transformed into such a thing, with no one giving it a second thought. “Of course he treats his PC like a temple!” It’s just human nature, in a way so profound we don’t even see it.
@@ficklebar absolutely
Looking forward to seeing these guys confirmed for LoScon next year. (🤞)
LoScon?
So cool
I’m so dumb to underestimate you at the beginning of every video you do even though you just crush it! When will I learn?
What is the best translation of Beowulf to read?
Hmm, from my study on the tradition of the flood I have found a better explanation that also expends with a great explanation into the origin of the different races, I have found that that 4th son was not Noah`s directly but he was the son of Ham. And by the way of things worked he was also called the son of Noah just like many generations were called sons of Cain(or sons of man, referring to Cain). reference: - Evolution to Creator - Prof. Dr. Ing. Gheorghe Sandu ( later known as Father/Monk Grigorie) and Hexameron- St. Vasilis the Great
I could try to explain better here what I mean but it would be a long explanation that I am not sure can be very well accepted by a modern general audience that does not have a relative understanding of the context of the history so I will not go further into this here but I encourage people to look into it. This 4th son connects so much about everything. From the greek gods to how the different races left to populate the world after the tower of Babel events.
#hyped
Please share the homilies of St Isaac the Syrian that deal with the old gods, and intermediate spirits that are "neutral".
YES!!!
This stuff is the best!!…
Soo interesting
Wow 😳
Interesting Guy
You will matter
Matter will like you
The matter in your being
What it's wants
I always wondered how communication was handled when it came to guiding the animals to the ark…
Have you read the book about fairies and the ufo connection?
Does anyone know which homily of St. Isaac the Syrian Richard was referencing? I'd like to check it out.
Yes! Do Beowulf!!!
How do you spell the name of the Irish Psalter that Richard is talking about??
but are there nordic texts from before the nordic people conversion to christianity?
Theoretically, couldn't a lower-level angel (or positive principality) also be seen as "neutral?" After all, so long as the angel is doing its job and pointing humans to God, isn't that being fulfilling its role? Who's to say you couldn't reduce the rank or job title of an angel low enough to the point where it would act as something like a fairy?
He paused.
🤔
Didn't remove
Is that what he did
To connect
Emphasize
By the way
Important..
Importance of you
Just be
Who you meant to be
13:39 Here Mr. Rohlin mentions an Irish book of universal history that's called something like the Saltair Narain. Does anyone know about this book and how to spell the title properly? I've tried searching Saltair Narain in google but I don't get anything.
My five minute Google search yields nothing close to a psalter/psaltair with a name like that... Though I did learn that there is a Cashel psaltair which is the town in Tipperary where my father's people are from!
It's the Saltair na Rann.
@@callunaherissonne662 Ah, wonderful! thank you.
Given the outsized influence on Anglo Saxon culture on what became England, then Britain, then the Anglosphere, it's staggering there isn't more attention paid to it. Great great talk.
Hi Jonathan,
This is unrelated to this video but some of your die-hard fans in Africa would like to request a big favor regarding the God's Dog comic. Can you make a digital version we can pay the $30 to download? Buying the physical copy with shipping costs all together approach $200. To check duplication/proliferation perhaps check the geolocation of the buyer?🙏
And I just bought another book
Interesting edit at 23:00... I wonder why.
Verboten
Alright so because we all know that the Symbolic World is the same as The Lord of Spirits, and that the Lord of Spirits is the same as Amon Sul, therefore this is the Amon Sul podcast, I have a Tolkien question (probably mostly unanswerable):
In his early writings found in the Lost Tales, Tolkien takes a hilariously Tolkienian jab at the Irish by saying that they have no true fairy tales, only the English do. Obviously this didn't make it into his later writings because there was no place for it once middle earth was made almost wholly separate from our world. But given what was said about the Irish preserving Apocryphal traditions, and being earlier to the true faith than the Anglo-Saxons, I wonder if a) this was well known in Tolkien's time as a scholar, and if so b) did he change his opinion on the Irish during his life and were these facts part of that change? Though I suppose you could see it the other way where the Anglo-Saxons have the true, liminal stories for the very fact that they held onto the liminal and pagan for longer... The world may never know, but I wonder...
I need advice, please.. I feel a pull to pursue the life of a Saint. I'm 36 with a rollercoaster life story and don't feel worthy to be a Saint, but my Spidey senses have been tingling to figure out my place in the vertical structure of reality and what that looks like on the horizontal level. I'm pretty sure my life is aligning with the Daniel archetype. Both the Prophet and the Saints. If you understand what I'm experiencing, can you help guide me, please? 🙏
@William Braddell No offense, but it sounds like you are projecting fear of pride onto me by assuming it's a goal for me to be a Saint. I said I feel a pull to pursue the life of a Saint.. Also, I mentioned I don't feel worthy of that life anyway. It's interesting that you chose this moment to lecture instead of helping to lift me up. Thanks for the warning, tho..
@William Braddell everything I’ve learned from religious leaders encourages us all to believe we are capable of becoming saints, and as it means just achieving the life God wants us all to have, it’s not a prideful pursuit at all. One of the virtues you have to be willing to learn and live is humility, so you’re thinking of it wrong if you think of it as something Christians shouldn’t pray for and work toward daily. It’s an attainable goal even for sinners, but it involves more trust in God and willingness to sacrifice than most start out willing to display. It’s only little by little that most people come to see the value of what God wants for us. Fr Columba isn’t orthodox, he’s Roman, but he offers some great advice on how to strive toward this worthy goal, little by little.
The book the mothman prophecies really are about fairy folk but for the modern day
WAIT! When you say you are Richard are doing something on "The Golden Key" do you mean MacDonald's "The Golden Key?"
Grendel
Grendal
🤔
Who
I heard
🤔
Rosey stone ❤️
🤔
Rosetta
.........
Oh shit I love this
Can’t believe you guys spent almost an hour on this and never even mentioned Tolkien 😆
They do in previous episode(s) I believe
Gaelic people are Irish Scottish and Manx. Romans never got to most these parts
One very important, though perhaps unanswerable, question is whether or not the supposed phenomenon of Fairies, in all of their complex array, are only some kinds of mythologized cultural meme or misrepresented telling of some kind of experience of other tribes or cultures or whatnot, or if they are indeed some actually supernatural experience or entities which are not accounted in either orthodox Christianity or orthodox science. Or the other possibility which is that they are made from whole cloth. Another interesting question is to what extent, if any, these apocryphal stories actually contain bits of actual history of any sort or are they also purely fictions created for who knows what intentions. Certainly, there are those among us who regard them as truer than what is known to be true and think all manner of convoluted conspiracies about angels and demons and hidden secrets and so forth, often intersecting with notions which are racist, and every other uncharitable disorder.
Most people never talk about it but Nephilim is a transliteration, the translation of that word means "Fallen Ones". This is a twist on what a lot of people think because the Nephilim are not the offspring but are the angels themselves. There is almost nothing explicit about the offspring themselves.
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How do you spell the Old Gaelic Psalter?
Saltair na Rann
@@e.j.3335thank you!
On Julian the Apostate’s criticisms being “very Protestant”:
I highly recommend the channel “Truth Unites” with Gavin Ortlund to correct these kinds of typical Protestant caricatures.
Protestants affirm the title of “Theotokos” for Mary.
To not call Mary the “Mother of God” would be to split Christ’s divine and human nature.
Protestants may be hesitant to use the term because its meaning could be misconstrued, especially in light of how far other traditions’ veneration of Mary has gone. But they have affirmed the title since Luther.
Typical Ortlund damage control
Wow. From now on, if people around me resort to violence over some conflict, I am going to intercede with the remark-"whatever your dispute, it's not as important as the dating of Beowulf." okay, no. I am not going to do that. But I wish I could.
Worth a try.
First fight
They didn't take the bread 🍞 and wine 🍷
Far out dude 😎