That's all really fascinating... the place is amazing. A couple thoughts... 1). The "snakes" on the first pillar. When the picture came up, before I was paying attention to what you were saying about it, my literal first thought was, "Oh cool... they hunted with [weighted] nets!". Even after hearing snakes - which I don't see at all - it still looks like a net being thrown over the animal below. 2). I think you are right about most of the animals being dead. Which is probably just what a bunch of H&Gs like in an animal. (Live critters ain't dinner.) 3). I'm not sure about the auroch with his tongue out being dead. Maybe he's pining for the fields. 😉

at 26:32, you reminded me of the fairy tale about the kelpie and the water bull

If you leave out goddesses you have not completed your research or addressed the earliest religions - Patriarchy is not the default

Crecgan, as an academic you're just straight-up impressive. As a presenter-storyteller, perfectly beguiling! And as a package, Crecganford is memorable. I remember your name. That's something. Keep at it, big man.

implied not inferred in this context

Žemina (Žeminėle), and Saulė, (beloved) Earth and Sun are still well remembered pre indoeuropean goddesses in Lithuania and Latvia.

The South African "dragon" in the underwater spirit realm reminds me of the serpent entity seen a lot in psychedelic tribal rituals like Ayahuasca. I wonder if ancient shamans were already seeing this serpent entity in ritual visions thousands of years ago....

i love your videos so much!

Now I'm loving the new scholars who are finding out that Moses never existed there never was a mass Exodus from Egypt and there is absolutely no proof at all that in Jesus even ever existed

Yep in the late sixties and early seventies this is what we were saying about people 40,000 years ago is that they told the stories through the Stars to use for a calendar and that this is where all the myth and magic came from in the Bible and I've always believed that and that's how I always made my atheist arguments

I just found you channel. Thank you for all the great content. I’ve been binge watching while crocheting my Christmas projects.

Where did the belief that humans and other creatures have souls come from?

Can you boil lentils in a skull? 🤔

Wow! I listened to this while cleaning a house. What a gift you have at telling and describing the story and to follow the story line through cultures and time.

I’d love it if you spoke of some of the myths in Australia . They are pretty old

Nah, no man would ever allow a woman to perform fellatio if he were worried about teeth.

I can only speculate what rhythms with hunt 🤔 I understand you perfectly well. Hi 👋 new subscriber.

What I ponder on, on the first line of Genesis , where did the water come from?

Just bacause you mentioned Callisto i can tell you all it happened at 24/12 midnight !

These bent legged foxes could be depicted as pouncing, in exactly the way foxes (and dogs) do.

There was a time I thought you were going to make a connection between the earth diver myth and genesis. Now I’m at the point where you are making a connection between dragon myths and genesis. The evolution of myths is truly fascinating

To me, listening to your lectures is the verbal equivalent of reading the Golden Bough for the first time, absolutely gripping and magical and wise stuff in your voice. Thank you. * At the risk of sounding like a wingnut, Jon, have you seen the videos of the bottom halves of the Moai on Easter Island that are carved with symbols, animals, belts and even, in some cases, the hands so reminiscent of Gobekli Tepe? If I had to make an informed guess I would say the iconography and pillars and reliefs at Gobekli Tepe comprise a kind of horizontal totem-pole with tribal animal totems and other symbols representing hunting magic, coming-of-age magic, sex magic, nature magic, death magic, etc., a kind of stations-of-the-cross for neolothic hunter-gatherers making the transition to a farming, herding society. Just tossing around ideas.

Fascinating

I'm wondering how your database prioritizes the incorporation of multiple themes in a single story. The example you offered, "The Cosmic Hunt," seems to contain the story of encountering a parent unrecognized in adulthood, as in the Oedipus story, and the transformation of a human into an animal, frequently found in myth. Why would you call it "The Cosmic Hunt" rather than an "Oedipus Story" or a "Transformation Story"?

New head cannon, the universe was birth from the cosmic cunt 😹

I hope you read this comment Crecganford, because I have a question I want to ask, I am curious about. I find your work stimulating and qualified, I follow it with interest. Your work on the dragon and world serpent myths impressed me a lot. The duality of death and life is a very basic concept in ancient Egyptian mythology. Like Osiris, Isis and Seth, Ra and Apep are a similar theme. In both themes, the Nile is again very important, the place of the land of the dead is always related to the flow of the Nile. Many paintings, frescoes, etc. depicting the war between Ra and Apep caught my attention. Apep/Apophis is called "Lord of Chaos". However, this monster is depicted as if it were the Nile River itself. Although it is stated that the reason for this is that the snake is very large. In addition, this snake is the oldest dark entity according to belief, older than Ra. My question is: Can we reach the older foundations of ancient Egyptian belief? Could Apophis/Apep originally be the Nile River itself in an earlier period? Indeed, later they associated the Nile with gods and goddesses such as Hapi, Nephthys, Khnum, Satet, Sobek (crocodile form), Anuket. Do you have a video that touches on this subject?

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amazing video as always <3

could you do a deep dive video on the aztec mythology and how it informed their culture?

How does anybody know anything about what these people thought this far back in time?

Wow; Great job.

The diving creation myth is the one i heard. The slavic version. It was said to be Svarog (i think, or Svarozhits, i never tell them apart) and Veles both on a boat. Essentially they got bored and wanted to sleep on land so Svarog (i think) dove and threw the mud and made land. Long story short, Veles was jealous so he tried drowning Svarog in his sleep by dragging him off the bed, from the house and into the sea but new land was being created from sea as he dragged him. Eventually Svarog woke up at dawn realizing what had happened and they fought. Both had a supporting animal, Veles had a dragon i think, about Svarog i dont remember. Veles got defeated and thrown into the underworld to rule over it and Svarog rose to the skies to rule over the world above. Humans were made to be the medium world inhabitants, or were born from mud without any help of gods, depending on who answers the question. The dragon of veles was chained down in the depths of earth and each year its chains get loose so the god has to get from skies back to the underworld to get it new chains. It corelates with winter and if it escapes there will be an eternal winter. Spring appears when the chains get fixed. Im not too sure, that is what i was told, i forgot most of it. But we got a diver!

I think the flood myth needs to be looked at separately from other creation myths, mainly because most beliefs that include the flood myth have it happen AFTER creation and not as their creation. Even tho it may incorporate similar elements to the earth diver and "land coming from sea" myths, the fact that so many cultures distinctly have it happen after creation is an important element that shouldn't be ignored. And it's not a "sea surrounding land" idea but a "sea COVERING existing land" idea, another distinction that should be viewed as important. Plus personally i believe the flood myth is an incorporation of and retelling of an actual event witnessed and experienced by several cultures brought into existing creation myths.

Alors les dragons chinois sont des personnages prométhéins! Woaw! C'est tellement émouvant!

Fascinating. And the bear's role in judgement prompts a few queries in my mind - about scalping, and animals: King Arthur - whose name means "bear" - was judged by the giant Rein to be arrogant, so he challenged him. Arthur slew him, took his beard-pelt AND the giant's mantle, itself made from the beard-pelts of Rein's defeated foes. But in another story (mentioned in How Cilhwch Won Olwen), Rein heard that two brothers - kings - had gone to war against each other. He took it upon bimself to punish them, conquered them, bearded them, turned them into oxen and yoked them together to plough the land (for Arthur). It seems they were turned back to human, because one of them was King Peipiau The Dribbler (although his dribbling was also attributed to leprosy). Oh... and Rein also lived on to become a saint, but hey, celtic myths... So were bearding and scalping judgemental remnants of hunting rituals? Minos was a king and a judge in the underworld, and we have the sacrifice of his illegitimate son in bull form, the Minotaur, but the latter was born out of Pasiphae's union.with Posiedon in the guise of a bull, and his bestial countenance was out of judgement for that union. And the tribute of Theseus was also a punishment, for the murder of Minos' son. So... when did judgement enter into myths, is scalping part of a hunting origin and a punishment, and were cattle and bears interchangeable? Anyway I'd be interest to.know when Judgement of the Dead became a theme of myths.

Why the 3 minute intro ??

Thank you. This is full. 😊

Great thanks

If I had been alive way way back in time to hear this creation myth, I would have definitely been that one kid who asked what the mud from the bottom of the sea was being put on😅

Do you have any videos that focus specifically on Lithuanian mythology? (Loving ur channel so far btw)

I thought that while mammoths and human existed at the same time they were never at the same place. Mammoths went extinct by the time humans got to that area. I don't remember where I heard that; is that not true?

@Crecganford I found you when you created the Dragon Cave Ritual video, and have hyper linked your video in my research paper. In the study of Metaphysics we lack words and examples to define the many layers of spirit. Just to define the types of men who turn to the explanation of flesh being the only mode of communication we use the Greek word hylic. A common reference on the New Testament, an early church phrase, flesh (babies). Have you ever encountered an old man who only has one story (myth) and that’s the only story he tells? What do you suppose the other modes of transferring information across the Great Forge are? I was recently giving an example of doppelganger. And you are a prime example of one I encounter in Scranton. I was renting an apartment and a new resident moved in and was always found in the designated smoking area. The first time I encountered him I had to do a double take, because I had just found your KZbin channel. Eventually I had to ask him where is he from, and showed him your channel and he couldn’t believe it, it was like looking into a mirror, your exact appearance in every way. Father Scorpio ~

Naw. Ad every 5 minutes sucks. Sorry dude, sounded interesting in the first 7 minutes, but im over it.

Dude one minute in and im getting slapped by an ad. Not looking promising.....

I've read a few things that say both the Greek Epics and the Mahabharata are similar retellings of Zoroastrian stories/myth's, such as that of the Tale/Epic of Gilgamesh. Also, there is significant evidence that the Bering Straight wasn't the only crossing point into the America's as there is significant similarities between the DNA of the Polynesians and South American people's as the Polynesians were great seafarers, underwater cities across the world dating back to, roughly, 12-18,000 years ago that suggest water levels were significantly lower at that time making sea and land movement far easier than today and similarities in DNA between the Natives of America and the Siberian Natives and the Eskimos and Inuit's. It's fascinating to look into.

Howbdoes phylogenetics account for the potential for simultaneous invention? That within a similar period of time two separate peoples/cultures come up with the same idea without contacts. Also, why bother appeasing the "out of Africa debunkers" ?? Homo sapiens did come from Africa, lol

i can't imagine anyone believing the christian version simply for the wellknown fact that aurelius and pretty much most of the emperors up until constantine were very anti-christian. it was seen as a zealous and supersticious cult, and even as atheistic.

Witches don’t know nothing. There are some evidence that it is still a hoaxes. Sacrifice to get what already was. A curse but a blessings breaks it upon constant prayers. What language? English or Latin? Don’t pronounce any of it or read. That is all. Burning 🔥 it won’t do anything but sacrifice animals neither. Avoid consuming flesh and repent of sinful life. Shalom Amen 🙏.

Deeply ironic that at sayburç we see not only the first relief narrative but the first relief narrative of a 'Relief' narrative ;)