Miscellaneous Myths: The Book Of Invasions
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- The quintessential Irish mythological text, and… it's about getting steamrolled by invaders. Now that's what I call brand consistency!
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Red: Christianity, we gotta talk.
Christianity: Sorry, I don't speak _heretic._
I mean really, that's how we spread so quickly across europe, not exactly syncretism, but It's a lot easier to convince a guy of a religion if he doesn't have to make that many changes to his lifestyle.
Oh judging by how many denominations were initially labeled heresy by the catholics, A LOT of us actually do speak heresy.
@Nick Smith Well... yes, but you still have to actually convince those people of your faith.
@@rockyblacksmith Eh, most of thosr heretics died off, or we mended our problems with them, like we did the Nestorians and the Chaldeans.
Don't forget the MAJOR glow up Christendom had after with the plague. Thanks to the dark ages, Christianity was able to spread quickly and efficiently. It was one of the biggest unifying forces of the time. That is why the church was so powerful. Unfortunately, power brings power hungry men, which is why a group of people preaching that we shouldn't hate each other and just chill until the world ends started to light people on fire.
At this point, “it was Christianity all along” is the biggest trope in mythology.
And a disappointing amount of fantasy and even sci-fi.
"wait, its all just Christian?"
"always has been"
You thought it was a source of the true mythology
*BUT IT WAS I, CHRISTIANITY*
Celtic Hazelnut , Christianity: Aren’t the real myths the friends we made along the way?
Red: NO!
@@clarinethro1695
_Pull out bible_
*I reject your mythology, Jojo!*
Tolkien was so upset that English mythology was erased, he decided to write his own mythology.
relatable
That makes me love the books even more
Isaksons the Anglo-Saxons have a great history in the bible
U do realise there's no such thing as English mythology, mind you the crown in England is the nearest thing to mythology..
Tolkien used irish history as the base for his story's,he and his circle had a romantic view of Ireland, c Lewis etc
"Oh man, poor Ireland" - Our entire history in a nutshell
As if many of us could forget? *sighs heavily*
What country had worse luck: Ireland or Poland?
@@FortunateSon-mo9zi considering Poland got to not exist for a while, probably Poland
Too true
@@FortunateSon-mo9zi I mean, we’ve been rebelling on and off for 500 years and we still aren’t fully free from Britain. People tend to ignore Northern Ireland and pretend that because most of the island is free, let’s just forget about the part that is literally still part of the UK
"- manages to kill him with a sling stone to the face"
Me looking at David v Goliath: *HMMMMMM*
Not only that, the stone pierce through his head and his eye ball of destruction kills his army
@@Tricolossus Wow, hol up, really?! That guy must've had a CANNON for an arm!
@@woxof46 In the scrolls we have, Irish Heroes were fucking bonkers. Like, I think CuChulainn was written flinging apples from a sling so fast they were exploding the heads of people on the horizon. Granted if you're firing something fast enough that it has a fucking mach cone-
Yesss 69 likes yesss
To be fair Slings are very good Weapons.
Three things known about studying mythology:
Zeus can't keep it his pants
Odin is everywhere
Christianity makes non-england story cannon confusing
True
In all fairness they also annihilated what was left the "pagan" and spiritual beliefs that were around in England after Rome and the Anglo Saxons were done playing with it
I mean the only reason we know anything about Brythonic Celtic beliefs at all is because Roman Historians wrote about them, if we went off of native sources our knowledge of British myths would start with 'So there's a dude named Arthur and two other guys called Hengist and Horsa.'
Maybe not in person, but Óđinn's ravens Huginn and Munnin see most(If not all) of what goes around in Miđgarđr.
At the end of the day he stills gets all the news and gossip, though.
@@thomasrevill7723 you think their mythology got fucked up, wait till you try to read ANYTHING about native North American mythologies. Its mostly gone thanks to the rapid annihilation of the native people and their not wanting to write anything down.
Red: *rants about Norse Mythology not being written down despite the Nordic alphabet already being a thing*
Me: *side-eyes Catholic priests in colonial Mexico destroying Aztec records*
Me: You sure they didn't originally write it down?
Wait....
Historians: Can you not destroy precious historical records?
Priests: How about you Cathlick my balls?
@@d.n5287 Now that's how you burn a heretic!
Well the difference is that the Aztecs were violently subjugated and converted in a short span of time; whereas Scandinavia had it slowly spread through trade, eventually being instated as the state religion for political reasons among other things. It is entirely possible that a lot of works were destroyed after this point, but seeing how much of a slow burn it was, it would be odd for NONE of it to survive. So while I can't say for certain, I do think it was as simple as the Norse religion being an oral tradition.
@@theposhdinosaur7276 Mostly we know the kinds of things that were written down using runes so it is not at all odd that these myths wouldn't be written down. Runes were mostly used to document trade on wooden sticks or to glorify some person in rune stones. They were never really used to write down entire stories like this as they were probably just preserved orally. This can also be seen in how runes are designed, they're made for being carved into rocks or wood. And like imagine trying to carve out even a single one of the Norse myths in stone, let alone all of them, it's just not practically feasible. Like the Jelling stones are probably some of the most text heavy rune stones and even they only contain a brief description of what happened. It's very likely that the entire concept of books and writing on paper was introduced along with Christianity so that's why only Christian monks thought to write down these stories.
Blue: "The syncretism of Ireland is beautiful because it takes two different cultures along with their religions and melds them together into something reater than the sum of its parts!"
Red: "Thanks, I hate it."
It is absolutely NOT "greater" than the sum, it is a distinct *_downgrade._*
@@alastarmullen1072 No its not
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 It definitely is.
@@TheSuperRatt Only if you are ignorant
@@alastarmullen1072 Rude
Ireland: Well, this Christianity looks fun enough, it's got wine and literacy and stuff
Church: You have to get rid of your old gods
Ireland: Sure, no problem
Church: Are you sure you got rid of them all?
Ireland (nudging a stray Tuatha de Danann back under the coffee table): YUP! SURE! ALL GONE!
Try:
Church: You're christian now.
Ireland: But-
Church: You're christian or we tie you to this stick and set you on fire.
Ireland: ....
Church: Oh also you all work for the king and have to grow crops for the King's people.
Ireland: .......
Church: If you don't we'll tie you to a stick and set you on fire.
Questionable Object that’s the more accurate summary.
@@QuestionableObject Then, ~400 to 500 years later:
Nordwegr: You're Pagans now.
Ireland: Wait, wha-
Nordwegr: My wife is going to preform Seidr magic on top of this churches alter and you're going to use my harp as your symbol
Ireland: Go Fu-
Nordwegr: You're also going to take our city of Dyflin as your capital.
Ireland: FAUGH A BALLAGH!
Nordwegr: Oh, good! A fight!
And then they became friends and enslaved each other back and forth for 200 years before the Norsemen were Christianized and somehow the Green(field) and Gold(harp) became a symbol for the entirety of Ireland, despite the fact that it was the Norwegian invaders' thing.
@@dredlord47 I would at least think part of their bond building was based on hating the shit out of the chucklefucks across the water to the east
Ian The op’s version is actually much more accurate in Ireland’s case. Yeah, some areas of conversion were violent (looking at you, Charlemagne!) but not all
Christianity: “It’s Irish mythology?”
Red: “Always has been. 🔫”
Yup... ALWAYS
also love your profile picture
Mephostopheles, I think it would be the other way round. But still.
Zach Borgan tru
Jade Emperor of heaven I’m Filipino and yeah Christianity is great and all but would have been pretty nice if the people who introduced it to us didn’t trample on our native culture and history in the process
@Jade Emperor of heaven it moreso pisses me off cause I too have Irish heritage in me
The Book of Invasions is a fitting name for Irish history.
Or Poland.
Didn't Ireland get invaded by rome?
Not that I know of.
The Book of Invasions is a fitting name for Russian history.
Or Indian history...
"they battle the- heh- OKAY SO ITS SPELLED LIKE THIS!!" that SENT me
Sent you where
@@sethaquauis into hysteric laughter probably.
@@justafallperson2108 poor Jess, that's gotta be rough
@@sethaquauis My goodness y'all XD
same
Mythologists: wait, it's all Biblical?
Christian Monks: always has been.
Orwell: Hmmm, sorry, I'm just taking notes here....
I appreciate this post. XD
And don’t you think anything else *waves cross menacingly*
Me: So what state was here before we come?
Hungarians: We has been ALWAYS here! We have a more than 2500 year old history!
Me: Okay, but when that Always begin?
Hungarians: Hm... 899?
Me: Yeah, that isn't necessary prehistoric. Than what kind of gods worshiped by our ancestors?
Hungarians: Like... Assumption of Mary!
Me: Okay so let me this straight they was here for a century, there was pagan uprisings even after the official convert to Christianity and nobody writes down about the mythology?
Hungarians: We tried to reconstructing it from Fairy tales!
@@bencebotye3904 twas the dino people i tell you
Religion: *has anything*
Christians: Just slap a little Jesus on it.
Christianity: [slaps side of any religion or mythology] this bad boy can fit so much Jesus in it!
(Sips mythology soup)
Needs more holy water.
It’s getting a little cold,can we heat it up-
Christianity:
*burning heretics and “witches”*
*SURE*
Everything needs a bit of Jesus
I guess you could say jesus *nailed it* when it came to spreading all over the place like a pandemic
Fun fact: Ireland says things all different, depending on your region. "Even the irish don't understand the Irish"
Fun fact, the reason Nuada had a silver arm was because of Dian Cécht the god of medicine. He crafted the silver arm, but his son and daughter, Miach the god of surgery and Airmid the goddess of healing and herbs worked together to craft a whole new arm just like the one he lost but better. Dian Cécht was so pissed that they were better than him that he killed Miach in a fit of jealousy. Airmid went to his grave later and her tears watered the ground so that 365 varieties of healing herbs sprung from his grave. One for each of his sinews and joints. She collected them on her cloak and they then whispered each of their properties to Airmid. Her father came upon her with the herbs and he got all pissy again and scattered them to the wind. To this day Airmid is the only one with the knowledge of all of these herbs and how to use them all the achieve immortality.
In some versions I’ve seen it took Dian Cecht 4 tries to kill his son
That's pretty interesting... To bad the piece of writing with that story got destroyed by the christians...
It sucks that a lot of this information is so fragmentary, so Red probably can't do a full on video on this stuff, but I wish she could do more Celtic mythology
The fact that Dian killed his son out of jealousy for outdoing him is mentioned in the 2nd Edition D&D book, Legends & Lore. Despite that, he's still listed as Lawful Good, apparently because he's an indiscriminate healer.
@@jazermano If it did, how do we know about it?
“Look, we have to talk Christianity.”
Christians: _Deus Vult Music Stops_
*record skip*
I’m sorry I can’t hear over the destruction of pagans
IN THE NAME OF GOD!
@ it's not happened with Christians alone, it happened when a culture adopted a new religion for example Java in indonesia, while Java clearly had their own creation myth, it completely lost when hinduism came, and the origin of Java change with a new myth which Hindus gods move mahameru to Java island in order to stabilize it and now they still call the mountain semeru which quite ridiculous as mahameru still exist in India, and when Java became islamized the myth changing again, now all the javanese Hindu gods are just decendants of Adam, another ridiculous story as later the myth will tell the creation of javanese peoples by the gods
Some myths even change when a new culture swept and incorporated to a specific culture like Japan for instance, while Japan still retain shintoism, their myths clearly had altered with Chinese influence, so yeah it happened all the time
@@lutherlaoli1934 cool
"Fomoire" is actually pronounced "Jeff".
I thought it was pronounced "Steve"
@@Jtzkb which pronunciation of that, 'gif' or 'jif'?
@@phonetheory7056 gēf
I thought it was pronounced "Dave"
But... let us find a middle point.
Something we can all agree to.
Let us just call "Fomoire" for "Goldblum"
ah the origin of "my name is jeff"
I love that the moral to all irish mythology is "when things turn sideways, escape by sea"
even if you ran out of boat and have to become a fish to do it.
the reason there's so much conflict about how Irish words are pronounced online is bc there are multiple distinct dialects that each have their own technically valid but very different pronunciations
I need merch of the “definitely a human person” shirt
Yes!
This is a need
Corporations are people too (to change that we need to change some laws)
Yes
Definitely
Absolutely
ditto
Red: Christianity, we gotta talk.
Christianity: I sense *HERESY* !
*Starts burning Warhammer 40k books and game modules*
Ah, these will make a good bonfire.
We can do an historical re enactment event where we burn the heretic! ....If Red is down for it.
Dues Vult
H-to-O burn the heretics
Heresy is not the same as being a nonbeliever. Heretics do believe in the same god as you, but do it differently. Technically, the Chaos worshippers in 40k aren't heretics because they reject the Emperor.
I've had my "Extremely Human Person" sweatshirt since early September, and I have never loved a singular article of clothing more than that sweatshirt. 10/10 High Kings would recommend.
I already wanted it before, but I recently realized just how many different levels it works on, up to and including being able to draw a direct line from a select group of actual people today to those very totally-not-gods.
[EDIT] Just got it this christmas!
I actually got my "Extremely Human Person" shirt for Christmas last year, but because my brother's washer was so ass it destroyed most of the wording on it, so now what it says is very much incomprehensible. It is incredibly upsetting; I loved that shirt. I will insist on getting it again for this Christmas.
Christian: WHAT IS THAT?!?! pointing at a triquetra in horror
Ancient Ireland: It's a symbol to represent the trinity
Christian: Ah yes; the father, son, and holy spirit?
Ancient Ireland: ...sure...
Christian: Good stuff good stuff
wow
Ireland’s “Get Out of Jail” card is actually just turning into a salmon.
If I remember right, one of the people who turned into a fish became the salmon of knowledge
@@MrDinmaker Oh shoot, so that one guy, I think it was cu culain, who ate the salmon was actually eating a human? That's... interesting.
@@amberleckie4143 nah that was Fionn mac Cumhaill... But yeah that salmon might've been a dude
@@MrDinmaker ah, gotcha whoops. But you know, still a bit...interesting that he may have eaten a human
@@amberleckie4143 In fairness, he didn't eat the whole thing, he just tasted it off his finger after he popped a blister on its skin
“Oh man poor Ireland” summarizes the entire existence of the island
It's funny because it hurts
And don't forget the language is dying, the culture suppressed and Oliver Cromwell routinely wins the award for "greatest briton" despite being an Anglo Saxon and attempting to genocide the Irish.
Our history has never been summarised so beautifully
@@bagman4896 (Hears Cromwell's name) *Rages in Irish"
The Poland of the Sea
Definitely feel you about the Christianisation erasure of native myths! Slavic mythology is also very weird to conclude or even prove some deities existed. I'm from Serbia and our Christianity is basically Slavic (and older) paganism with makeup, but it's still hard to conclude where one begins and the other ends. Really frustrating!
Yeah! It's interesting that many folk tales where St. Sava is the central figure are most likely older, pre-christian tales, just polished up a bit, but with Sava dealing out divine punishment. Ireland often reminds me of us, with the molding of paganism and christian tradition. And hey, we got books and a shiny alphabet and learned scholars who helped us not go extinct! Isn't that neat
I know nothing about Slavic mythology (I think). Can you share any myth or source to read some of it?
Also, as a Mexican who still mourns the fall of Tenochtitlan, I feel you.
@@misteraskman3668 basically, byliny, as well as folk tales is everything there is
That contradiction at the end makes me think the book's writer tried to combine several legends which had already been Christianized in different ways.
Literally almost everyone: * Has their own beliefs and mythologies *
Christians: Wow, ya know what this needs? *J E S U S!*
😂
well, that's quite a good way to extend a religion if you ak me. Christianity didn't extend violently until the 15th century as befora it was all done by predication. Incorporating marks from the religion of that place was a good method to make people don't feel guilty for embracing a new religion in which they are interested. Example: in ancient Rome in the 4th century the Sun was the main divinity, but the poor and women especially were fond for christianity so they incorporated the Sol Invistus hollydays as Christmas and equiparated Jesus to the Sun. In Northen Europe, quite the same but making reunion houses into churches
20 thousand years later
Imperium of Man: Wow, ya know what this need? T H E G O D E M P E R O R!
Gabriel Díez Díez “Didn’t extend violently” I’m sorry, *what?*
They extended so violently that despite the fact that I am both Welsh and Irish I know next to none of the stories and feel depressingly disconnected from my ancestors.
Hahaha y e p
Me: oh neat, Irish folk tales!
The book: spends the first chapter going on about how fun folk tales can be but warning you to remember there is only one god
Me: ah. This shit again.
Seriously
🇮🇪 Ireland: Ah lads not again
Bro just gimme the cool stories I don't wanna deal with everything being Christian
The folk tales are far better than Big Important National Legends at showing the origins of things - so many gods became saints, for a start.
5:35
"Extremely Human Person."
Ah yes, I love these totally not gods.
".... with a neon-sign on it saying 'Obvious Hubris Test'" is clearly the best line to have accompanied by Atlantis music
Thank you Red
Interesting and cultural myths and legends: (exist)
Christianity: It’s free real estate
Edit: when your meme comment becomes a discourse about religion
Please don't this devolve into a religious flame war.
I mean, I think one of reason Christianity spread so quickly was because of the way they often incorporated local religious practices into Christianity. People could continue to essential practice their religion, but now it was in service to the Christian God and Christian elements were incorporated into already existing practices (except some practices that were obvious no-nos to Christians).
They were like "no, no, keep doing what you're doing, but did you know that all along it was GOD that was behind all this. Funny coincidence huh? Have a Bible."
Alien Z pretty sure they already did that
@@wandaberry4085 Catholicism is a Christian practice. If you are a Catholic you are also Christian, but a Christian is not necessarily a Catholic, they could instead be Protestant or Eastern Orthodox for example
Us now of days wanting to know their mythology
Christians:your myths are in another century they are now part of us now
Christians: *tastes a culture's mythological beliefs*
Christians: "good, but it's there's a hint of heresy and lacks some jesus, let us fix that for you"
And then they make heresy free mac and cheese when the original thing was more like a cheese cake
"My insults to the chef"
But also *clears throat* YOINK
Fir Bolg: _men of bags_
Me: BAGGINSES!
omfg... That makes too much sense. And i thought it as just Dn.d
I think the “malevolent army of doom to kinda evil in-laws” thing can be kinda smoothed over when you think of the Fomoire as the Ashuras/Titans of Celtic mythology.
Ireland: We have our origin story worked out
Church: Okay...
Ireland: So it all starts with an earth goddess...
Church: You mean Noah’s granddaughter?
Ireland: No...
Church: Yes...
Me: Christianity, can we get Irish Mythology?
Christianity: We have Irish Mythology at home.
Irish mythology at home:
@@nkyfong
Me: mom, I hate this household
Nathaniel Fong Cú Chulain: Yo!
@@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec, Cú Chulain seems to be the only one untouched.
2:49 as soon as you said "lakes burst into existence" karst formations came to my mind. Karst lakes are apparently a thing in Ireland as well and they are called turloughs
4:30 Cunning and brutal king Morc cunningly and brutally assaulted his enemies with a whole navy.
Holy heck, that's where 40k got its ork gods from...
Christianity: Hippity Hoppity, your religion is now our property.
More like Ding-dong, your religion is wrong!
yea and some of them have the nerve to say that they treat all religions with equal respect
@@Rie_Bot I don't, but if you want to point the gun at somebody try ancient Catholicism. This crap was their jazz and it drives me mad.
@@Rie_Bot I say that and I do that
@@sianni22 I'm talking about those who say that but don't do it. But I appreciate people like you :)
"Extremely human person" is definitely a shirt I would buy
Edit: and now I have, it's on their merch store in the description.
It arrived and it is awesome
gods me too
I would buy it to
Can they make that merch? Because I would wear that all the time.
I need that shirt
Same
As an Irish person, yes our language is very confusing and learning it so VERY confusing when you have to do exams and of course no one agrees on a god damn spelling 😂😂
imagine how intense spelling bees are
How do they even grade you in terms of spelling?
Do people even know how to speak Irish Gaelic?
@@MD.Akib_Al_AzadIrish people learn it from the age of 4 or so until 18. Most don't get fluent, and there's only 100k or so truly fluent speakers, but most people could have a simple conversation. One of my daughter's friends is a Polish immigrant to Ireland, and she speaks better Irish than I do...
Yo I can’t believe Ireland was ruled by the original Johnny Silverhand.
There's nothing more hilarious than the google translation of "surprise, bitch" into greek
4:44
You came to the wrong house, fool!
@Pxriwinkle.P is that a jojo reference?
@@pancakesstudios6351 Sounds like a Jarjar Binks reference to me.
I got 'surprised dog'
@@bryandiaz7013
Big Smoke, chill, it's me, Carl!
Ireland: [exists]
Literally everyone on earth: *"its free real estate"*
As an Irishman. Yeah pretty much. As long as they don’t kill anyone. We don’t care all to much
This meme could also be like this
Other countries: *exists*
England: *it's free real estate*
@@rugbydudedc4216 I did notice the cycle of violence ended with a group politely asking to live there.
@@mindofGOAT and we can modernize it with the USA
@@wenbluepirate3954 Eh, Moscow too
Well just learned where a lot of "hellboy: the golden army" got a ton of story points from.
As a Catholic, I’m also kinda sad about the loss of these wonderful stories. Narrow-mindedness is such a tragedy, if only we were more worried about preserving stories back then. It’s like we forgot how to be creative, and/or to appreciate other’s cultures, however it’s best phrased. (I’m really not good with putting my thoughts down sometimes)
Irish holy book, possible de-Christianization: "how we invaded and stole the land from our own gods".
And then turned them into Fairies.
@Jasta Two Thats interesting, Are there any sources you can share? As an Irish person, Id love to read more about what you talked about!
@@robertgronewold3326 I think you mean "and then only ever spoke of them euphemistically for fear that they might be listening."
Irish: Self care is drinking 3 pots of coffee and getting into a knife fight w/ god.
@@Silverwind87 I believe you meant to say "3 pots of tea and a fifth of Poitín"
"And oh man, poor Ireland"
Irish history in one sentence. =)
Ayuh. When I read "Book of Invasions", my first thought was "oh gods, which invasion *this* time?"
"Luck of the Irish" sounds like a curse if you know anything about Irish history.
@@lnsflare1 I say this all the time!
If I am having a particularly unlucky day I joke I have the luck of the Irish and people give me funny looks.
@@lnsflare1 there's a Cyanide and Happiness strip that directly references this. One of the people who makes the comic is Irish.
Meanwhile in Poland
4:30 Ah, yes, Morc. We all know that Morc is cunning, but brutal.
Ah, but Gorc is brutal, yet cunning!
I can relate to your frustration in the beginning. It's just recently that I learned that we Filipinos actually have our own mythologies. We Tagalogs even have a complete pantheon almost as numerous as the Greeks. But they aren't taught at schools because Christianity. Even a popular myth of ours, the sky and the sea fighting caused by a bird with the sky throwing rocks to form islands, were actually depaganized myths.
The sky, the sea, and bird were gods whose named was censored to not contradict Christianity.
I like how this sounds like a hastily thrown together Christian fanfic to transcribe the Tuatha de Danann into a more contemporary record, in the context of getting steamrolled by wave after wave of seafaring groups to face off against these Not Pagan Deities™ who keep cropping up being Just Normal Faeries and Powerful Normal Guys No Really™ while Noah's crackfic kids stomp around the place. It's like the Eddas with added trolling. 😄
Also, the credits tune being the Song of the Sea... mwah! 👌
An amazing movie, the song of the sea.
my favorite movie :D
I had suspected Red had seen The Song of the Sea, but now it is confirmed. :)
@@Chad_Eldridge yes and it's the title of the movie
Red: I just wanna learn man!
Christianity: I’m about to end this woman’s whole career.
Are you implying red is multiple People?
*Catholicism
Thank you for your understanding.
@@defensivekobra3873 no, they ment it possessively, it's her career.
@@netherwalker1762 No, just Christianity. The Lebor Gabála was written in the same century as the Schism of 1054 (although of course, Eastern and Western tensions predate 1054). And on top of that, from my understanding, Catholicism didn't really take hold until either the 11th (same century, again) or 12th century. Although I struggled to find anything solid, so I could be very wrong on that.
Early Christianity: A woman learning? She's a witch!
4:27 This is just the ancient mythological IRA.
This is why I say I’d pay anything to rent out the Wayback Machine from Mr. Peabody or go on any wacky adventure with Doctor Who so long as I can use the Tardis. I want to go back in time to learn what these original stories were.
Modern scholars: So this whole book has been Irish mythology all along?
Author: Always has been.
Would be cool to see more of the obscure mythologies such as Slavic, Finnish, Yoruba, Maya etc.
Red has done a few of those, look back in the channel's playlists, you'll find them.
Mayan mythology is hard to talk about because it was hardly ever written down and was only passed down orally so it's hard to track
Better let some South Americans to shine, make chachapoyas, paracas, nazca, wari, quimbaya
@@that_one_person5805 it was fully written down, but the Spanish burned them all. Most of what we know about Mayan mythology comes from the few surviving ones.
@@feddy11100 I didn't know about that. I guess it makes a lot of sense for his advanced they were
A large being killed by a sling-rock to the face?
And the killer is made king?
Hmmmm
David...
Damn it Christianity
@@ricochet4674 Well I think we need to put the blame on the Jews, because David is Old Testament but any excuse to kick Christianity in the ribs is good for me.
I mean slings are very common weapons through the world and killing giants is also super common
"...To kill Lugh as a baby to forestall a prophecy of doom and get him out of his air for good..."
I see Balor never heard of Laius and his son...Oedipus.
jeez, COVID has affected my self care more than I thought it had...I completely forgot about needing to learning "Salmon-form"...
I know right? It’s so easy to forget stuff like that these days. Salmon-form should clearly be advocated for more!
I don’t know, sounds like one of those fishy self help books to me...
I knew I was forgetting to do something!
@@Ajehy BA DUM
Have I found a Homestuck in the wild?
“Final wave of people to colonize Ireland, the Irish”
Uh... right
Thomas Walsh Anglo-Norman, Scottish and English settlers: am I a joke to you?
Dylan Rodrigues you forgot the nords swedes and danes
Englishmen: "Final? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."
@@dylanrodrigues Basically every Irish joke ever: Yes.
You have NO idea how happy I was to hear the Song of the Sea Lullaby in the credits. Gave me shivers and made my day, thank you.
Me: (watching Overly Sarcastic Productions)
Red: (mentions Firbolg)
Me who is a dnd player: gasp!
The real pronunciation of Fomoire were the friends we made along the way
Exactly!
JC Corbes *was
even though Fomoire is a plural, you’re just referring to it as a singular word so was
the very christian friends who are definitely christian and not gods normal humans normal person human friends no gods all christian jesus-approved
Frendswemadallongtheway is now the only acceptable pronunciation of Fomoire
im cr y ing what is this 😭😭
Everyone else: this is my mythology
Christianity: OUR MYTHOLOGY
yare yare daze
See, here's the problem with that.
Those people converted to Christianity. Therefore, it was STILL their mythology, they just...didn't put as much value in it anymore. The people who DID write it down were Christian monks who thought it was of some literary value.
Christianity did not eliminate these mythologies, their people abandoned them for Christianity.
Sooo Christianity is community?
*Sits back and waits for the comment war*
@Pecu Alex congratulations, they played themselves.
@@hannahvasby-burnie2477 congratulations, you played yourself
One of my favorite things about mythology is finding minor pieces of esoterica that the fiction of my youth decided to just nick without ever really explaining. Nuada Airgetlam? That second word is what Christopher Paolini, and author of the Eragon series (which is fantasy Star Wars) uses as his Elvish term for dragon riders, who, in that universe, get magic glowey hands for being Chosen Ones. In Paolini's elvish language "argetlam" means "silver palm" -- which is precisely what the term means in this archaic Irish dialect!! That's even more fascinating than how Paulini's elves are basically Japanese thanks to his secret weeabooness!!
I really love how our society is based largely around telling stories. Like the entire point of Hollywood and the film industry is to tell interesting stories. We’ll spend heaps of resources and money just for a good story.
stories are what make us human. We have scientific evidence that it says that if humans didn’t start telling stories to each other, we wouldn’t be as intelligent as we are today. And what is science if not a big story of how the world works?
Red's ever-increasing frustration with Irish pronunciation gives me life.
A literal god: *rolls in a storm*
Christianity: They're just magic
A literal god: *Molds the earth around them*
Christianity: They're just really good at magic
A literal god: I am a god
Christianity: HUBRIS!!
I've always thought the only difference between a god and a wizard is ego
yo how i learn all that magic, fam, could be real usefull
Ledabot I think the gods have a bigger ego, honestly. I mean, they have almost unlimited power and yet some of them (*cough* Aphrodite *cough*) are still insecure enough to kill off their mortal ‘competition’, who will be dead in a few years anyway.
@@Ledabot Difference between a god and a man is a dark soul
@@ravnemagne9598 Good reference.
3:06 The exact kind of energy and frustration to expect when you're an outsider trying to "properly" pronounce Irish words.
Irish is a very interesting language, because the issue with Fomoire applies to basically every word that contains two vowels next to each other, and or a letter combination containing an h. Basically the language got boned hard by multiple languages in such rapid succession that everybody basically chose different ways of submitting, so now the pronunciation is just all over the place. With the tiny amount of the pronunciation I've learned, I'd pronounce that "Fomiruh" more or less. That's one of many options.
noone:
Christians: hippity hoppity your religion is my property
I was going to leave comment... But I can never top that.
HELP MY!!! My muscles are too big! I am a big tall man and my muscles are even BIGGER! I use them to get views but they HURT so much!!! Because they are heavy. Do you have any advice, dear liwin
The Conversion of Kingdoms Europian in a nutshell.
Our school won’t let us learn about “some” gods bc of their ✨sexuality✨ like what’s stopping me
*Nothing, Pop Off Sis*
Same I wasn’t allow to talk about Apollo being bi while I was just talking to my friends
Gabriella Williams well so long as homophobia is publicly allowed it won’t be
The internet is a wonderful thing.
@Gabriella Williams or just teach it in regular history
Even though I believe the scientific explanation of the universe and etc, I still find the myths and legends of other religions to be incredibly fascinating.
Same! It's so entertaining to see how different people and different cultures interpreted how our world came to be. It's fascinating to see how the human mind works.
I really appreciate all the Two Steps from Hell music in the background of all your videos
So THAT'S what she's been using! I've been desperate to find out, because I love those musics. I thought it was Adrian von Ziegler for a hot minute, but then I realized it wasn't, and the thumbtacks and bulletin boards were scrapped.
There's also a lot from the Atlantis soundtrack.
Red: "It's spelled fomoire, there are conflicting pronunciations, I'm sorry I can't make everyone happy"
Also Red: pronounces ouroboros "aroobarose"
Regardless, Irish mythology is awesome and cheers to getting on trending!
Oh snap, you watch OSP too?
I think you'll find it's called "our rob, or ross".
Red Dwarf taught me that one.
I just asked an Irish friend of mine yesterday how it's pronounced and he said "Foh-moy-ruh"
[ɔːɹəbɔːɹəs] or [ɔːɹəbɔːɹɒs]
Ouroboros has two pronunciations. Red used the British one.
Christianity, we gotta talk
*Crusader music starts up real low in the background*
“FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD”
On a related note, CK3 is just over two weeks from release and I'm really excited. Though sadly I don't think I'll be able to stop anyone from bowdlerizing the cool pagan myths of Europe.
Timothy McLean
Just throw as many incest babies at them as possible.
Make your family tree into a family circle.
Please don't become aggressive.
@@sirapple589 I don't think that's possible without time travel. AFAIK, that feature isn't planned at this time.
This sounds like if Loveccraft was a Tolkien Charakter
7:55
I guess now we know where Fire Emblem: Three Houses got "Fodlan" from. Intelligent Systems does like their Celtic mythology references - multiple installments straight-up have the Gae Bolg in them.
Please let us have a “definitely a human person” shirt.
Seconded. I now deadly want this shirt.
Actually thirded, but nevermind that we have a cool shirt to focus on.
...it is so rare I want a shirt with a print that my desire for this is confusing.
YES
I mean, there is the "EXTREMELY HUMAN PERSON" shirt...
Please. I would buy it.
"HOLY PLOTHOLES BATMAN!" is my new favorite phrase for pointing out inconsistencies.
Version I heard about Nuada silver arm back to regular arm in order to rule was basically as a side bit for a jealous healer family (~totally not gods~ - although JDad is a god?) story... (Dad healed Nuada/made or helped make the silver arm that worked like a real arm. Later Nuada gets ousted bcoz not a real arm (Can't have a blemish to rule), Healer son is more awesome, makes a real arm, Nuada is king again. Jealous healer dad murders his son, out of whose grave grow herbs relating to healing the part of the body they grow from & his sister is meticulously collecting them when jealous dad knocks them out of her grasp/bag/skirts, & thats why we can't heal stuff & have to do trial & error to know what plant to use where....
Correction: the French expedition to Ireland in 1796 was not an invasion. They were asked by Irish Wolfe Tone to come to Ireland and assist in a rebellion against the British.
I'm Christian and even I get frustrated with it. Just... Let me read cool myths! Please!
Me too, dude! And now the reputation of our faith is still being affected by the works of a xenophobe from 1,000 years ago!
Same here, trust me.
A Christian here, too, trying to learn about Finnish mythology before Christianisation...
Same same
Mood
A shirt with a fish that says “it’s called self care: Look it up.” Would be incredible. I’d buy the shit outta that.
I would also wear the hell outa that!
I absolutely agree
I just love this channel’s content like the ✨flavor✨of the videos from red person and blue person but hands down the consistently best part is the anticipation of what song shawty finna bust out at the end
I was hoping you would do this... Thank you for being truly entertaining and accurate as all.
every time someone say "isn't it curious how many similarities those myths have with the bible" I think, yeah I WONDER WHY ?
True but the actual shit like this is cool like how every damn religion out of the Mesopotamian regions got at lest 1 flood story
James Wang cool I wasn’t saying it was exclusive though I’m just from the west and it’s the first one that came to mind.
Japan has a reversal on the prevalence of the flood myth: rather than X deity sent a flood to ruin everyone's day, the actual flooding of the Hii river was reimagined as Yamato-no-Orochi
@@the_demon_cat337 I mean, as major civilizations are usually by the riverside or coast, it makes sense most of them have a flood story.
666the_anime_cat666
Even the greeks have a flood story. Hell, the Native Americans also have a flood story.
"Lakes that spontaneously bloop out of existence"
You mean a lot of rain happens
Looks more like a geyser without a hole in the ground to come out of
A very localized whole lot of rain happens.
It's called a flashflood.
"into existence" But yes, that is a likely explanation. You might also get a very fast forming lake due to geologic activity opening new springs, particularly in an area with a really chock-full aquifer - which you'd often get if there was a lot of rain. Round and round...
@@timothymclean trust me that can happen here
i want a song of achilles style graphic novel of this book. NOW
Real late to this video but boy am I glad I watched it. Makes everything about S.M. Stirling's "Change" series make sense.
"Extremely human person"
Ngl I would wear that t-shirt...
NGL when I first read that shirt the first thing I thought of was THAT'S A HUMAN PERSON~
Gloomy Fish
That sounds like something a extremely not human person would say. You’re a pre-Christian god, aren’t you?!?
I would wear that shirt too 😁
A friend of mine, who´s facial structure is just a bit off and is incredibly pale, has a shirt that says "100% not an alien in disguise". Then he accidentally burnt off his eyebrows. He looked like out of a Area 51 comedy movie
Hello, fellow humans, human fellas. Yes, I too like to eat bread and start wars.
@@LucasDeziderio Let us complain about what other humans do and then do the same things ourself!
"And then he turned into a fish and survived. It's called self care. Look it up." New favorite phrase for any bizarre survival skills.
Aino from the Kalevala also goes by that health plan.
The Amazing Mr. Limpet.
As someone who doesnt know very much of their Irish heritage this was fascinating to watch. Definitely gonna have to look more into this!
“Wait, it’s all Christianity?”
“Always has been.”
Literally
"So then we lost to the invaders. Then they died because of plague." This sums up a surprising amount of Irish legends. Even in myths they just can't catch a break.
I mean, that's a good summary of history in general, so...
okay but we need an “extremely human person” shirt
Osbaldo Orozco-Mata there is now
I'd wear the hell outa that!
Yes!!😆
Considering how I like to greet people online and irl. I need it.
"Hello fellow humans"
Now with the story of Nuada I can get the absolute full context for Hellboy 2, thanks Red
I love everything about these videos I even enjoy the outro to the extent I usually let the entire video play before moving on.