Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World
Vložit
- čas přidán 29. 09. 2014
- "What really went on at the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi, how did it get its awesome reputation and why is it still influential today?
"Michael Scott of Cambridge University uncovers the secrets of the most famous oracle in the ancient world. A vital force in ancient history for a thousand years, it is now one of Greece's most beautiful tourist sites, but in its time it has been a gateway into the supernatural, a cockpit of political conflict, and a beacon for internationalism. And at its heart was the famous inscription which still inspires visitors today - 'Know Thyself'.
A couple of years ago I was lucky on two successive mornings to have the place entirely to myself. Not another soul apart from entrance staff. Totally still except the bells of goat herds in the distance. Amazing spot. Something very special.
Wow. That’s cool. I’d like to see it
When I visited Delphi, I think what struck me most was the feeling of power and spiritual serenity .....It was so strong you could almost cut it with a knife...standing there amongst the clouds with the cool breezes. It left me with a very strong memory.
@@kd5txo I definitely agree. I have been to many well known religious sites around the world, like Jerusalem, but they all pale in comparison to the atmosphere at Delphi. Its the geography in part, and in part connection to just to myth but to real history -- knowing of how many key figures from antiquity made their way to Delphi over the centuries, and how critical it was to the classical world. You feel connected to both time and space.
The sun god Apollo really watches from the hot still stones
Just visited Delphi yesterday (4/21/2022). Due to little background knowledge, I did not understand every piece of “ stones”, “statues”and “walls”. This well done video gave me great amount of knowledge and help me a lot to understand the old world and new ones. Thank you very much! 👍
It is sad you went to visit Delfi without previously getting informed where you were going. I am sorry, but have to ask this, why did you go there in the first place, then, if you didn't have a clue what that place, or any other, is.
@@grofne99do you always type nonsense like this?
I watched this documentary several times before visiting Delphi last October. It enhanced my experience tremendously. I have since sought out other films by Michael Scott. His series on theater in Greece is equally good.
Andrewatlanta I’ve seen that and I concur totally, it was great.
it’s a michael scott joint
Several times is a lot. Hope you enjoyed your holiday, I would like to go there. Fantastic history.
and here i stand, knowing that after the end of this delightful journey that has filled me with vast knowledge and wisdom that i will need to assemble a 300 word essay
pff only 300 try 2000
@@Sunnyjimbov2 legit
I’d thoroughly enjoy writing an essay on this
@@Sunnyjimbov2 pft 2000, try 10,000
Book recommendation for anyone interested in this subject matter: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from dreams, death, the afterlife, time travel, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years.
There should be a 'love' button to click - this is an excellent documentary.
I am an undergraduate student learning about the ancient Mediterranean world. Delphi is the one place I’m most excited to visit one day, and the more I learn about it, the more I yearn to stand where the two eagles landed.
Wow, this was so well done, and moving. I really liked the Presenter: Dr Scott; and would like to watch more of his work. Delphi was much more beautiful than I imagined: greener, more scenic,.. and there was more of it left than I had thought. Greece looks gorgeous.
Thank you for telling this important human history in an authentic and serene way.
«Μηδένα προ του τέλους μακάριζε». Σόλων ... Call no one happy until you see his end!
Paraphrasing this ancient Greek wisdom one may say: " Call no empire invisible before you see its end"!
Amazing done documentary with great enthusiasm and honesty.
Thanks a lot Dr Michael Scott!
"Call no man happy till he's dead." I vaguely remember a discussion of this in Aristotle. I thought it simply meant: you can't really accurately evaluate someone's life before it's over, because something really bad might happen between now and his death. You say it means "Call no empire invisible before you see its end". Not sure I understand that. But thanks for providing the original Greek.
i have watched a few documentaries by this guy Michael Scott and i think he fantastic.
Excellent. I love Michael Scott's documentaries on Ancient Greece.
Wonderful! I have studied Greece for a few years and this brought so much more understanding and scholarship to what I knew about Delphi and the Greeks. Thank you!
Thanks for uploading such a wonderful documentary!!!
one of the best on delphi i have seen!
excellent documentary, one of the few to make justice to this fascinating subject
Simply amazing..............it tell so much about what we are today.
Thanks for the upload!!
Thanks for this great documentary. Over all I learnt english and french watching documentaries like this. The meaning and sense of Delphi is showed beautifully in te document and expressed masterfully at the end with "know thyself" and "nothing in excess", making reference to these stupid and difficult times where the beast drives the chariot and the men pull from it. Thanks to you and to Michael and farewell.
ENLIGHTENMENTING ...where the beast drives the chariot and the men pull from it. How apt to describe our world today!
Thanks.
Thank you Michael for your amazing documentary and your beautiful French:) my name is "Delphine ' and i have been wishing for all my life to visit Delphi. You re-ignited this wish:) Delphine from Brussels
Excellent documentary. Know Thy Self. Not in comparison to others. It means exactly what is says Know Thy Self.
Very Interesting! Thank you for sharing!
Great documentary with very interesting and unusual points of view!
Thank you for sharing!!!
OMG...i visited delphi 1982 for amazing 6 days...stayed in sybilla hotel..i enjoyed every ms,i lost all adresses of my friends there by 1989,i wish thay r now ok ,thank u for good video
That was fantastic, Dr. Michael Scott, I just loved how Delphi was filmed, especially from the adjacent mountain, it gave me a much better understanding of the site. I know what that statue at 33:28 and the end would say : "Everyone is missing the whole concept.". It is all about a large comet that dropped among the inner solar system and destroyed the world three times blocking out the Sun and sky for long periods of time bringing death and destruction and when the Impact Winters dissipated the Sun rose triumphantly and life began once again. The breakup of this comet and dispersal of debris formed the Taurid Stream that we still commemorate today as The Festival of the Dead, the victims of bombardment from above, dressed up as the dead when we cross this most dangerous meteor stream during its pre-perihelion going door to door asking if we will die by the Trickster or will it be a genial climate Treat while the Taurids or Halloween Fireballs fall. This story in universal in mythology such as Typhon and Apollo which is the Comet vs. the Sun, it is even depicted in Gobekli Tepe at Enclosure D with the Sun holding the Dragon, such as Gilgamesh holding a lion in one arm, and standing domineeringly on the row of seven avians, representing the Pleiades, where said stream has its radiant, and the adversary next to it with the bull on its chest representing the constellation of Taurus. In the remaining adulterated Sibylline Oracles it is clearly stated that the knowledge of past destructions are spin-doctored into prognostications of the future. The Mesoamericans had the same concept of sacrificing to keep the Sun from disappearing due to the actions of the Feathered Serpent from the Pleiades! Everyone should read my 144,890 word work and join the paradigm shift.
About 75 years ago when a student at Cambridge, I visited Delphi, had read up about it and to a fair extent knew of the historic side which Dr Michael Scott so ably and thoroughly explains.. Being not a follower of any Abrahamic Faith but of a Vedic one which was in many ways resembled the religion of the ancient Greeks, I entered the Temple with a feeling of reverence and felt a "religious spirit" and knew that the aura of the divine still survived there. I am a native of Guyana, regarded as a Caribbean country. Great gratitude to Dr Scott for his inimitable tour! ("Know thyself" is a usual term used in Vedic Faiths to enjoin one to follow the path to Moksha or Nirvana)
Damn how old are you?
Yes it a very special place….great documentary!
Thank you. Well presented.
roughly 20 years ago I visited Delphi. it was a dream come true, and it's a beautiful place. the guide was quite good but I would love to visit again with Dr. Scott as the archaeological historian. Does anyone know if he has a video of the monasteries in Meteora? throughout my travels in Greece I ate some of the most wonderful fruits and other produce, breads were heartier than those in France.
Extremely well done!
Very good documentary
VERY GOOD! THANK YOU!
Excellent doco. Dr Scott's book on Delphi is equally good.
Been to Delphi was an amazing trip
Looks to me, like you're quite a good artist. I liked what you drew.
the best video document on the omphalus recorded
nothing like a little visit to delphi for some answers
Oh.. wait... I already commented prior to the last part of this video. And for me the most impressive element here was this remaining part of the original Platea Victory bronze column made of three entwined snakes standing in that kind of dug out pit in the middlej of modern day Istanbul. This is "magical" and such a good news for me to have learned thanks to you about its preservation. At least in this partialy remaining condition. If I would be wealthy I'd like to make a replica of it in 1:1 size and offer it to Delphi as a gift for all visitors there to see it once again. Because it doesn't matter that it would be just a copy. Emotions are also created by vision and when people can see on site the incarnation of the ancient Hellene's pride they will feel the same since ideas and feelings can be transmitted just by words and the vision of art. Maybe there is somebody having a bit of his change to spare for such a project?
GREECE YOU GOTTA LOVE HER ,IS ANYONE ELSE IMAGINING THEM SELF'S BEING THERE AND THE TIME IT WAS A BUSTLING PLACE FULL OF MURMUR AND FILLED WITH MULTIPLE SOUND AND SENSES THAT GIVE A FEELING OF FULLNESS OF LIVING?
Yes, I should have made my comment clearer: I love this documentary and didn’t mean to criticize it.
It didn't have the wealth of swiss banks, but Delphi had a lot of wealth for ancient times, spirit world price & respectable. It was one of the greatest religionous centre of the ancient world. It was famous & well known in ancient times.
Thank you for posting this. Also he kind of sounds like Tom Hiddleston
I wrote a shortstory about a time-voyage in the ancient Delphi 20 years ago! I called it "the robe of the pythia..."
Is there a way i can read it ? any link ?
Learned a few things from assassin's creed odyssey as well but great video
As I almost always do with archeology I find my self falling through the gaps in what we actually know or can know about them, for example understanding the possibly physiological mechanisms in terms of modern biochemistry, (I was once told the visions arose from her chewing laurel leaves,) which may have affected the priestess actually adds nothing useful whatsoever to our understanding of what was happening at the oracle and yet leaves us with a misleading conviction that somehow we know more than we do.
The Greek civilization of the classical period and later although still endlessly fascinating, (due in part to their own extensive but very far from comprehensive written accounts which have survived them,) always remain somewhat elusive and the closer we look a them through modern eyes the stranger and more alien they seem to become.
The purpose of oracles in ancient Greece was not to predict the future. They were not considered psychics. That's why Croesus' question was considered strange. He was basically asking her to predict what would happen, and that's not her function. That's why she told Greeks things like "pray to the winds, they will be strong allies," before storms wrecked the enemy fleet, and "your salvation rests behind wooden walls," referring to the Greek navy that turned out to be the key in beating Persia. The wisdom of Apollon and her own were there to counsel people, not foresee outcomes. And she was incredibly accurate. Apollon likes to give people things to figure out, because it expands the human mind and the human experience, which constitutes life. He doesn't attempt to live people's lives for them. People some times think otherwise, which is why they misunderstand the role of the oracle.
Bravo
I’m from a village just to the west of Delphi in the prefecture of Doris.
Mycenean remains are found in the area .
Perhaps it had preserved informations and memories of colonization from the Minoan-Mycenean era.
Delphi was the center of Geopolitics during Archaic era.
Amphictionia had the main task of protecting the autonomy and independence of the oracle of Delphi.
Its political and ethnogenetic value was a consequence.
Amphictionia named after the mythical king of Athens, Amphiction (Αμφικτύων), brother of Hellen (Έλλην).
The emperor Hadrian renamed Amphictionia in Centro Panellenico.
I have a favorite grand auntie named Delphi, she's 99 years old now. I've always loved her name. I can imagine her as a little girl, the center of the world!
The Oracle of Delphi has respectable.
How many of questions and answers are recorded?
Delphi was the Greek world's notice board
Statues were not just stone, they lived, they breathed, they responded
A storyboard of mutual hostility
A place to watch but also to be seen
And their empire crumbled, and all that was left
Were the stones some workmen found
On my bucket list if the money comes to go there
no one ever speaks of the megalithic history of Delphi it's right in your face
"Know thyself" was attributed to Thales and "Nothing in excess" to Solon. Was the oracle intentionally invoking these two (of the seven) sages of ancient Greece as pillars of thought? Thales was a philosopher and mathematician, Solon an advocate of democracy and morality. Were they the templates the oracle wanted us all to follow?
I visited Delphi several years ago. I remember there and at the acropolis the stone steps and in the ground were so old and worn, they were slick. I fell a few times 😂 what a majestic sight. Was worth the bruises on my bum! 🤣
I gonna be the first to say it. It looks like Michael Scott left the Dunder Mifflin paper company to travel the world and study ancient history.
Wow
In the year 657 B.C. city of Bazantion was founded by the Greeks and then almost a millennium later in 330 A.D. this sophisticated and wealthy metropolis became known as Constantinople.It was only with the foundation of modern Turkey after the Great War when the city name was officially changed to Istanbul.
Question: During the process of removing residents, living on the sight of Delphi, did authorities exercise the premise Might Is Right? Might Is Right is eminent domain?
Love your work, Dr. Scott!
I sure wish classicists, historians, and mythologists could take on this theory! Symbols & such, are explained so powerfully! An absolutely stunning mixture of science & myth!
On YT
SYMBOLS OF AN ALIEN SKY
The past may be far more fascinating than we could ever imagine! What are Dragons, serpents, etc.? PLASMA DISCHARGES, seen in the skies, and remembered!
The snake column was taken by Constantine the Great in 324 AD and moved to Constantinople, where it remains today. The snake heads are gone and the city was renamed Istanbul in 1930, but the column is still there.
The Greeks don't make a fuss about that do they, it's in a dirty pit 👈😑
What’s the book of Plutarch he’s reading?
Is there any indication that Delphi's ancient name was -->Korine
The Oracle of Delphi had respectable.
👏👏👏👏👏
Awre inspiring. Them brits love their R
28:45 “Did you Find what you were looking for”
Yes we have forgotten these elemental gods and they are not happy.
When I visited Delphi 20 years ago, it was over-run with tourists jumping all over the ruins...very disrespectful. How did you manage to get there at a time when it was practically empty (or was it?)
That's a sick cave
Yes!!
From that, or those, vantage points I wonder if anyone is allowed, or has tried, to dive off with a hang glider or flying suit? What would you be able to discern? I can't understand the language. French? Or Italian?
Dr Scott reminds me of a smart Bradley Cooper.
Bruce Robertson
Every history documentary I watch on CZcams has a comment section of people who think of themselves as history experts, far more knowledgeable than any of the certified expert in the documentaries themselves. We are truly living in the age of the delusional.
...and once they dug through those 'centuries of legend' the hard work was done, I guess.
maybe get a version thats in focus
Unfortunately, the omphalos is not shown - translated the buzzing pillar, the beehive. Unfortunately, the matriarchal beginning of Delphi with female priestesses called Melissae - the bees - is also not discussed. Traditions tell that Delphi was the sanctuary of the earth goddess Gaya, who was worshipped in the cave shown and later in a predecessor temple. Delphi represents the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy through the construction of the temple of Apollo and the victory of Typhon over the serpent Python.
This video put spell on me making me fall me love with Greek gods
"There are no coincidences"
Ομφαλό της Γης ονόμαζαν τους Δελφούς οι Αρχαίοι Έλληνες . Αυτοί κάτι ήξεραν περισσότερα από εμάς !!
Alithos!
When the last delphic prophecy done there? 12 BC?
😊😊😊😊
It's about time for us Humans to recognize the prevalence of mass adults behaving as Adolescents, i.e., "living through the Lower Mind aka Ego Mind, reacting, and Observably expressing the energies that reside in the Lower Mind: fear, judgemental, jealousy, envy, prejudices, insecurities, etc.
Mature Thought and Behavior require "Conscious in Thoughts" + "Applying Higher Mind".
War is blatant Lower/Ego Mind actions and we are intelligent enough to know, it is wholly about Money, Power, Control.
Unacceptable in the 21st Century.
That's gobbledygook 👈😑
I thought the eagles met in Pittsburg
h
Some of the earliest priestesses/priests of Delphi were Minoans or taught by them ("the double axe men")---whose world center was Knossos, from 3600-1450 BCE the core, like later Delphi, of its spiritual world. And "Knossos Matters" because it was The West's first, longest-thriving, most advanced and successful phase still on record---centered on nature and women, and without kings (instead their executive powers were ruled by a lunar/solar 8-year cycle). They gave us indoor plumbing, international law, egalitarian social forms, proto-Olympic games and the calendar that still rules them. Even after Crete was conquered by Mycenaean war-culture, post-Minoan peoples from Cyprus to Palestine kept in touch with Delphi through their common Mother Goddess, named Pyto-Gayah. Explore in detail at Ancientlights dot o-r-g. PEACE
Efaristo, I am looking at the site. Already reminds me of The Chalice and The Blade. Secrets of Knossos...and beyond
why is he whispering inside the cave? 13:28
Acoustics.
Out of respect.
crickets wow
Dark isle Piper: Siubhail (Original)🌸
There's a foreigner woman priest in Linga Bhairavi temple at Isha Yoga Center, India, who chants mantras in Opera style.. i tried to guess is it Sanskrit or Greek(she looks Greek).. sometimes it looked Sanskrit and sometimes a European language.. but it doesn't matter.. Mantras are not actually language specific.. only thing matter in mantras are sounds to which gods(specific energies/souls in Universe, not the God of western religions) are connected to. These sounds invokes particular gods to which it's connected. I feel Sadhguru even knows sounds/mantras of even Greek gods. And it could be possible that Linga Bhairvi is not new goddess, but the ancient Greek goddess installed here.. otherwise why would someone sing a Greek chant for her.. anything is possible.
Also there's a video in which Sadhguru visits and explain the ancient temples of Delphi in Greece are actually Chakra based temples. Even there's a photo of OSHO sitting on rocks of same temple.
czcams.com/video/awx7izTX5jQ/video.html
Abhinav Singh very interesting approach
Love your comment Abhinav! and thanks for the link to Sadhguru's video!
Such an important video and is least popular. This is irony of human intelligence. 🔱
"agia sofia" does not mean "holy wisdom" but "sofia" is just the name of saint sophie .en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Faith,_Hope_and_Charity
looks like i saw ND in here.... or it just me...
polygonal walls...?
...'Know Thyself', based upon my research & my own resulting general theory, mostly refers to one acknowledging & knowing ones own inner innate Divinity; The God within onesself, in reference to intuition & gut-feelings being a shared human trait/aspect, like the mind& intelligence & imagination & other nonmaterialistic intangibilities...mind, body, spirit, trinity of self&trinityofGod...yaddabladda etcetera so on & so forth & such of the like & some not of the like & other things mixed with same things...🙏🙏🙏
The only certain (secular) outcome, in my opinion, that we can draw is that, centuries later, we as humanity (including the ancient Greeks, themselves), have not managed to obtain and to execute properly the 'Know thyself' advice, and to adhere to 'Nothing in excess'.
Only to prove to the mankind history, that we were, we are, and we shall remain as prehistoric beats in our very cores...
The thing that we became 'civilised' beasts, makes it even worse due to the lies we everyday feed (mostly) ourselves and others, since the beast has became unpredictable, hippocritical, and thus - much more dangerous. Nowadays, for example, we are (once again) direct to another collapse of civilizations..
Thankfully, there is a way out. But to the expense of the very existence to our beasty selves.
And this is something it is impossible to be done exclusively by ourselves.
Well, I hope the Delphic villagers were actually paid for their homes. If I lived there back then, I would dig myself
Alexa:…the door?
PLEASE keep your hands on your stirring wheel! ( says the oracle of the street police )
This is such a challenge for the apostle Paul!
The woman possessed of the spirit of divination must have been from the Oracle of Delphi!
[Acts 16:16 KJV]
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divinationG4436 (pythōn) met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
pythōn From Putho (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located)