@@despinasgarden.4100 Or, if you're of the German persuasion, Wilhelm. It seems that at least since the fall of the Roman Empire, nobility has a strange tendency of being rather uncreative with the naming schema.
@bthsr7113Ай бұрын
Wilhelm is another that got repeated a fair bit.
@purplehaze2358Ай бұрын
"I support women's rights, _and_ women's wrongs!" "Is it too much to ask for a little girl boss mommy?" These two quotes back to back aren't what I expected to hear this Halloween, but boy am I glad I heard them.
@NABITO700Ай бұрын
Fucking PREACH!
@ensorceledd2080Ай бұрын
They're not what we asked for but what we needed
@kittyshippercavegirlАй бұрын
Based and hell yes
@KonigDesTodesАй бұрын
So much yes.
@5peciesunkn0wnАй бұрын
We totally need more girl boss mummies
@lucideandreАй бұрын
I do love how the newer Mummy film is “mummy wakes up and becomes undead monster trying to kill the good guys”, while the old one is “mummy wakes up and does what any of us would do in his place: becomes a famous Egyptologist”
@whafflete6721Ай бұрын
I mean he also tries to murder people but that's another story
@marocat4749Ай бұрын
Too bad there wasnt i, me and inhutep romcom, when there were that many romcoms made. It could even just be an extreme rim van winckling. Or a female archiologist, get told, you tdistrurbed my rest, the curse deands you be part of me. Oh no, ..., You can just hang around, i mean, the curse, i didnt make it, maybe ther eis a way to stop it but you got to stay around and we gots see each other enough. Sorry. I am sick of all that dead curious people. So you can come with me to my parents, Are you sure, yeah we gotta tell a story. XD
@infiniteds9353Ай бұрын
I always absolutely loved the fact that "hot mummy" and "cool mummy" tropes are actually *older* than "horror mummy" one
@kylajensen1957Ай бұрын
More than that, sympathetic mummies are older than the pure evil ones. Although I am annoyed neither of them mentioned Yu-Gi-Oh once. Yu-Gi-Oh's early manga had a whole "Pharaohs curse" bit before it was retconned and Atem himself is a thinly veiled expy of King Tut, being a teenage Pharaoh who died mysteriously and young, whose tomb was discovered intact in the modern day after being "lost" for millennia.
@nickmalachai2227Ай бұрын
Also "Comedic modern social commentary mummy", which I think is a currently underutilized trope
@PhilipK-xk4byАй бұрын
“Yeah, mummies are spooky…. but what would it be like to date one?”
@FireFog44Ай бұрын
They're the inverse vampires!
@kylajensen1957Ай бұрын
@infiniteds9353 i actually have a story revolving around the "ancient Egyptian ruler falls for the reincarnation of their ancient lover after being revived" trope in one of my Yu-Gi-Oh fics, with a side of Thackery Binx. Mana/Dark Magician Girl dies taking a death blow meant for Atem, and Atem is cursed to turn into an immortal cat with a fraction of his magic power and forced to guard the object sealing his power. Worse, unlike Binx, Atem can't talk in cat form, so by the time Mana's reincarnation unseals him by accident and partially breaks the curse, he's in a very precarious mental state. He flips back and forth between pushing the girl away and clinging to her as the first and only human he can talk to in millennia, because the curse has a second catch: he's doomed to fall in love with Mana's reincarnation just like he fell in love with the original, and once he falls in love with her, he's cursed to watch her die all over again. And have I mentioned Renee, the incarnation in question, is from the 18th century, and witch hunts are kicking into high gear in her village?
@@PatrickCervantez Doctor, if you could concentrate.
@bigboi2014Ай бұрын
Freudian slip
@copperpirate5096Ай бұрын
Lol
@JCdentalАй бұрын
The Pharos curse is too good for you
@jaxonhepworth7294Ай бұрын
Fun fact, houdini was offended that lovecraft made him faint several times. I don't know ow the exact quote but he basically said something like, "I wouldn't faint. I don't faint."
@mavenheavrin7357Ай бұрын
(Houdini reading an X Reader fic that was inspired by him) I would *NOT* fucking say that.
@Mutant198817 күн бұрын
Houdini actually reacting to situations of extreme stress with fainting would have made his whole escape artist career terminally short I feel.
@danny_decheeto830010 күн бұрын
lmao
@gabrote423 күн бұрын
Fair, given his line of work. I read one if his books too
@GriffinPilgrimАй бұрын
Zombies are the common undead, vampires are the aristocratic undead, mummies are the royal undead.
@badassbillybАй бұрын
That is a genuinely a good way of looking at it
@JackieNoleАй бұрын
I'll accept that hierarchy.
@readyeddy1631Ай бұрын
And liches are goth undead
@lt.swampfox7339Ай бұрын
I see it more as Humanity's decreasing deification of Death over time, with Mummies being the oldest and most sacred, then Vampires representing aristocrats and their wealth to afford tombs, and then the common modern Zombie, who gets a simple grave.
@GidonamorАй бұрын
Such is the power of Nagash
@peepopopo7140Ай бұрын
If I had infinite guesses, I wouldn't have guessed "Houdini-sponsored Houdini fanfiction by HP Lovecraft."
@shrimpisdeliciousАй бұрын
That's the kind of thing even 1,000 monkeys typing away on 1,000 typewriters for 1,000 years would never type up.
@HandofOmegaАй бұрын
Does anyone remember that short lived tv show, about Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up to solve mysteries? If not, then maybe I fever dreamed it...
@VarangianGuard13Ай бұрын
@HandofOmega I remember watching a couple of episodes, but, I admittedly do not remember the series very well.
@williwiebeАй бұрын
I watched every episode of that show (I think) on my phone whilst sitting in random dark hallways in the basements of my university. 'Twas great ambiance.
@mimikat8985Ай бұрын
@@williwiebe what was it called?
@adamgrogoryАй бұрын
"Mummy on the Orient Express" from Doctor Who always really stuck out to me. A soldier, wounded in a forgotten war from thousands of years ago forced to act as an unwilling executioner. Never being able to rest before the war was over. It was beautiful
@palecaptainwolfkayls84993 күн бұрын
That one was a good story, _And_ in retrospect, a very fun spin on the mummy monster tropes.
@Galimeer5Ай бұрын
It feels weird having both Blue _and_ Red in a video. Like, they share the channel, but it still has the vibe of a collab.
@DragonbIaze052Ай бұрын
Detail Diatribes?
@blacksage2375Ай бұрын
Now they just have to Fusion Dance into Purple one video.
@GeekOfArabiaАй бұрын
@@DragonbIaze052 DD has more of a podcast vibe though
@VickyHong1879Ай бұрын
Detail diatribe is also a collab
@threebadgersinatrenchcoat7957Ай бұрын
Holy shit! OSP crossed over with OSP!!
@pierreseneclauze8085Ай бұрын
I absolutely love that format where Red and Blue pingpong between historical context and how the culture followed. I really want that to be more common. Thanks for that video.
@pagemasterartemisАй бұрын
For real tho!
@guggelguggel7491Ай бұрын
alas, twice the wonderful collabaration of the vid, twice the work for the both of them. Still hoping they'll do more of these co-op projects, but it will probably not be common unless they cut down on other videos. Then again, Red did say she was getting bored with the miscallaneous myths series...? What Im implying is thusly, I, too, would love these to become a mutlple times a year thing, but barring such demands, I still wish they start doing something like one of these once a year.
@owenshield9077Ай бұрын
yes so true!
@silentspirit8923Ай бұрын
I really like this format. History on one end and cultural explanation on the other.
@PhantomObserverАй бұрын
They sorta did it for King Arthur. Any time you’ve got a character archetype that has a documented historical evolution, there’s a good chance Red will get Blue to do some historical background if it’s fascinating enough
@cherechesalexdaniel811Ай бұрын
20:38 Bram Stoker was vary good at doing research for the books he made. I can only comment on Dracula (Partially because i read it and also because i am a tranylvanian). Stoker describes the languages, geography, foods, superstitions and history perfectly to the point that it really warms my heart to see my culture represented so well in the work that is still responsible for making it moderately known to this day.
@moonlight4665Ай бұрын
That's actually really cool
@cherechesalexdaniel811Ай бұрын
@@moonlight4665 What is also really cool is how Dracula can be read as an allegory for “the immigrant”. As he has existed in Transylvania for centuries but its people whisening up presents a danger to his ability to hunt and survive (which is why he looks old). He doesn’t necessarily want ot leave his home but circumstances are slowly forcing him to. However he is also genuinely fascinated with england, its culture, its costumes which is why he asks Jonathan to help him batter adjust. Dracula is also obsessed with appearing as english like as possible (to the point where he learned to speak with no accent) not only to remove suspicion from himself but because he knows he would be looked down upon as an immigrant by anyone who notices his differences. There is so much depth to this character and this novel that is simply not gotten from reading it with a western perspective.
@borkabrakАй бұрын
I'm American, and actual Transylvanian people sounds almost like a myth to me. The error is, of course, entirely my own. I'm charmed to see this comment.
@cherechesalexdaniel811Ай бұрын
@@borkabrak No problem. I know someone who once told a british person they were from transylvania and the british person was like “Haha im from Narnia but where are you from actually?” BTW im not only Transylvanian but i am actually part of the exact same ethnic group Dracula claimed to be a part of. And yes the forests and mountains are as beautiful here as they were described in the book (including the mountian with a flat top called “The Seat of God”). If you’re interested in anything or want to ask a question about the place or people i’de be happy to answer.
@saphii_the_firstАй бұрын
Do the movies’ Transylvania actually look like the real life Transylvania? I almost feel like they’re missing something. I’m just curious
@bravefencermusashiden9235Ай бұрын
Something I feel modern depictions of The Mummy monster have forgotten about; is the thing that makes it unique from the other undead monsters, The Curse. Unlike zombies or vampires, the mummy is not just going after random people. Its specifically targeting the people who broke into his resting place, took all his stuff, and basically kidnapped his dead body to another nation. The Horror has a karmic undertone to the whole thing. "If you had just mindes your own business and respected the dead. You would not be dying in terror right now"
@clayxros576Ай бұрын
If anything, Scooby Doo of all things even respects that part better. In the OG series you get a dude in mummy outfit, but he's "animated" to get "his" stuff back, and is explicitly targeting the guys that opened the tomb. (On the form of replacing them with stone statues) It's so wild.
@sullivan108Ай бұрын
"Return the slab....."
@EarthenfistАй бұрын
The funniest thing is that "The Curse" was sort of REAL. It was just... really old mold and bacteria and diseases that the first people to go into the tomb got, before it was properly aired out.
@KasumiRINAАй бұрын
Another nation? Most mummies are in Egypt. And grave robbers, even if foreign, are often dying in these films before anything can get moved out of country.
@Raiden4019Ай бұрын
"Curse the fiends, their children too... and THEIR children, forever, true..."
@divinerocАй бұрын
Ok so, I think this format is cool. The back and forth of Red and Blue talking about the different aspects of the same topic is fun, kinda like Detail Diatribe, but more focused and less focused at the same time. It's hard to explain, still, I like it.
@Giruga905Ай бұрын
For sure i really like the dynamic of talking history and then folklore/media and adding historical context in general to the developing mythos surrounding the mummy
@IronSightsonBigGunsАй бұрын
The venn diagram gets closer to a circle
@kingturboturtlednoc5722Ай бұрын
If they wanna use this for other video structures I wouldn't be complaining
@Jiyle293464Ай бұрын
This is kinda the vibe i was getting from the back to back gilgamish & pyramids of ur videos. I hope they do more like this I really liked hearing abt the historical context
@Scarshadow666Ай бұрын
Same for me too! What's great is how the historical contexts help make the folklore parts clarify things better, and vice-versa. I've noticed that when there's some movies/shows that are set in Britain over certain time periods, the Egyptomania of the time often gets told - but this video shows that the rabbit-hole goes down real deep.
@ronanmcdonald6386Ай бұрын
Imhotep's plan in that 1932 movie is really "put that soul back in, take that soul back out, put that soul back in, and turn it all about"
@dallasgrey424728 күн бұрын
This comment is underrated. That is almost exactly what happens.
@kingkarnage1315Ай бұрын
20:13 “Jewels of the Seven Stars” convinced me that ”Dracula” wasn’t just a fluke, and Bram Stoker was really into monster girls. The man would be THRIVING if he lived today.
@thechangamire3495Ай бұрын
Truly one of us fr
@samuelbarber6177Ай бұрын
And he may or may not have been in love with Oscar Wilde. A man ahead of his time.
@HandofOmegaАй бұрын
Ever see "Lair of the White Worm"? Not sure how close it is to the book, but there's a heck of a monster gal in the movie (which also stars a very young Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant)!
@nicolasnamedАй бұрын
@@samuelbarber6177 I MUST KNOW MORE RIGHT NOW
@ASquared544Ай бұрын
And he (at least compared to the standards of his time, which is not much by today’s standards) did his GODDAMNED RESEARCH! He would be ADORED on AO3 if he was alive todsy
@jacobbabson6786Ай бұрын
Blue wasn't joking when he said the British devoured the material
@AnnoyedSonicАй бұрын
Because nothing sounds more appetizing than 3,000 year old dead person
@nthequation5677Ай бұрын
@@AnnoyedSonic Right? I get that rich aristocrats are wierd but just because the corpse was foriegn/exotic doesn't change the fact they were eating corpses. Truly bizzare
@Logan55689Ай бұрын
@@nthequation5677They didn't actually do a lot of that stuff, you know? Like that old story about using mummies as fuel for example? It was entirely apocryphal, there wasn't any actual documented source or evidence that it actually happened. A lot of things like that or the "eating mummies" or " unwrapping parties" and all that other old colonial guilt stuff was made up after the fact when the people in Egypt in later times (who actually genetically resemble the muslim invaders of egypt, rather than it's actual ancient people, but that's another matter) didn't quite know that much about actual archeology. So they just guessed at a lot of the strange things that these foreign peoples wanted to do with all this stuff they dug up.
@merrittanimation7721Ай бұрын
The British: I can’t believe these savages would eat human corpses like that! Don’t they know they have to age for several millennia first?
@jacthing1Ай бұрын
@@AnnoyedSonicI admit I'm almost morbidly curious what they tasted like. Not that I'd ever even want to try it myself. But I can't imagine it tasted very good, probably very leathery and maybe incredibly salty.
@metarcee2483Ай бұрын
I love that the Egyptians had a reason why you sometimes get in arguements with your own brain. Also, such a funny coincidence that this monster has a "Handbook for the Recently Deceased."
@johannesschnauber4880Ай бұрын
A lot of cultures actually have a concept of the soul/spirit that's not entirely synonymous with the self but seems to be sometimes its own agent sometimes getting in conflict with the self
@metarcee2483Ай бұрын
@johannesschnauber4880 I didn't know that. Most cultures I'm familiar with have the soul be an integral part of the self.
@tristinlaflame2115Ай бұрын
i did not realize that Egypt had so much influence on 1920s fashion
@metarcee2483Ай бұрын
I did. Granted, I have two modern dresses ripped from that specific 1920s craze.
@anomaneesАй бұрын
*western/american fashion
@cam4636Ай бұрын
@@anomanees Wait 'til you find out the fashion trends in North Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America.
@chrisrose375Ай бұрын
Same
@sarahpatterson7458Ай бұрын
Me too! I'm never going to be able to unsee it! I don't know how I didn't notice before!
@Glace_cakesАй бұрын
20:21 “is it too much to ask for a little girlboss mummy murder action?” And so a finger curls on the monkeys paw, Tom Cruise’s the mummy (2017) answers your cry
@DDlambchop43Ай бұрын
ugh, we don't mention THAT movie.
@brookerickettson4950Ай бұрын
Came here to say this.
@ToaArcanАй бұрын
I think you mean THE UMM!
@LKMNOPАй бұрын
And it stank. Like most movies that has him in him
@DragonbIaze052Ай бұрын
@@LKMNOP Any good movie with Tom Cruise in it is good in spite of him, not because of him.
@thecakecraft7724Ай бұрын
Raising my hand for a deeper exploration of the Egyptian concept of the soul, their funeral rituals, and maybe just a general look at the book of the dead as a whole. That's absolutely fascinating.
@cycloneabsol9405Ай бұрын
You will not believe how much I cheered at a callback to the amontillado bit And that's secondary to how hard u cheered upon hearing "TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!!!"
@silentspirit8923Ай бұрын
TRUELY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!
@bigdumbsleeplessidiot4467Ай бұрын
Same I did the hardest double take at blues escape
@astoroidea6502Ай бұрын
So glad he got some time outta the basement, it’s good enrichment
@3katfoxАй бұрын
Same I've been subbed for years so seeing them reference their old videos is always hilarious
@alucard347Ай бұрын
where is the victory for the fources of justice from? I remember the basement, but don't remember that reference.
@theemperorprotectsАй бұрын
I was thoroughly unprepared for Osiris' pin to be him in the stock family guy death pose. Actually had me laugh out loud
@Archgeek0Ай бұрын
I'm half surprised it wasn't the Yamcha death pose.
@PoputrashАй бұрын
@@Archgeek0 that could be a variant of the pin. Good idea
@josephivenegasАй бұрын
Suddenly realizing just how justified Rick Riordan's attempts at including Egyptian Mythology in his stories really is.
@WateverWatever04Ай бұрын
As a Black woman who's ancestors are from Punt (historically traded extensively with Egypt) and who's best friends growing up were Black Egyptians, we were always told growing up that our people had died out. And it was always _very funny_ to say _Hello! I am here! ^ᴗ^_ *So I'd like to thank u OSP for this very respectful & thoughtful video!*
@phastinemoonАй бұрын
Unrelated, but it’s always amused me that there’s an actual place called “Punt”, which is a word we use to mean “kick really hard, to make it go far”
@phastinemoonАй бұрын
Unrelated, but it’s always amused me that there’s an actual place called “Punt”, which is a word we use to mean “kick really hard, to make it go far”
@nonexistendworm3449Ай бұрын
Guess you guys are the never wrapped mummies. I guess never being in a tomb and "discovered" is why we don't hear about this 3rd type who are the living thought dead.
@HandofOmegaАй бұрын
@@nonexistendworm3449 Richard Pryor had a very funny Egyptology skit about this!🤣
@summerbreeze9576Ай бұрын
Are u Somali
@krazyfan1489Ай бұрын
i just read a neat tumblr post that said that Mummies should be really strong against vampires. "A mummy is a corpse that’s been consecrated and transformed into a holy object through a sacred religious process, and if it’s up and walking around it’s probably because of the divine powers of the real actual gods. To a vampire, a mummy is a man made of plutonium"
@sarahcole9661Ай бұрын
Also no blood for the vampire to steal and draw power from!
@sinfulnitwit7647Ай бұрын
basically warhammer fantasy with the Tomb Kings and Vampire Courts. They fucking hate each other
@melodiesblueАй бұрын
46:55 "AMV" - Animated Mummy Video
@LucreciaCrescentIsBestGirlАй бұрын
This reminded me of a story that my partner retold me recently. He loves Ancient Egyptian mythology and has since he was little. At one point, he had a school project that he had to do an essay or something on (I can’t remember the specifics). He decided to write a detailed description of the mummification process. His teachers were so horrified that they scheduled a counseling session with him and his mom to make sure everything was alright at home (which it was). He’s still salty about that over a decade later. Also, the fact that the statement “mummies are rare because people ate them” is true is more than a little upsetting.
@samovarsa2640Ай бұрын
It... always struck me as hilarious that one of the major justifications/tropes behind colonialism was to work against 'cannibalistic savages' considering the fact that medicinal cannibalism was a done thing in Europe, and I don't just mean the mummy powder stuff. Executed criminals often had parts of them removed or eaten for medical purposes.
@LucreciaCrescentIsBestGirlАй бұрын
@ Methinks the lady doth protest too much. But yeah, the irony is real.
@timothymcleanАй бұрын
To be fair, we desecrated mummies in a lot of other ways too.
@sarascarpati887Ай бұрын
The fuck?
@derekskelton4187Ай бұрын
Some of them were turned into makeup
@PlzinsertnameplzАй бұрын
Mummies are like the mirror version of vampires. Live in an overly sunny and hot climate. Surrounded by bright yellows. Sleep in a big corpse container (sarcophagus) direct connections to gods. Wonder if there's any shows or media depicting them as rivals
@SingingSealRianaАй бұрын
Damn it you are right!!!
@marcoarcangeli200Ай бұрын
i can think of two, the older world of darkness lore (TTRPG), and Warhammer fantasy (old world, games and books)
@tommarsdon5644Ай бұрын
I'd argue that the mirror version of vampires are spirits, since they are often invisible
@HandofOmegaАй бұрын
IIRC, The Mummy was going to be the main antagonist of Dracula after "Dracula Untold" if the Universal Monsterverse had worked...There's also some hints of this in the first season of Penny Dreadful, where the main female character is strongly implied to be an incarnation of an Egyptian goddess, but it never goes anywhere (great series, tho, check it out!)
@matthewwilson2637Ай бұрын
The world of darkness universe occasionally does. They're famous for vampire the masquerade and werewolf the apocalypse!
@nicky8770Ай бұрын
44:45 this is a great example of why it’s total BS when ppl say that old-timey folks “didn’t know better” when it comes to exploitative and bigoted cultural practices. They did know better. A lot of the socially conscious discussions we have in the modern day absolutely happened back then as well, they were just overshadowed by the popular attitudes of the time period and lost due to lack of preservation or lack of attention. Unlike now, where we live in an age of democratized communication, where almost everyone’s voice can be heard at any time, and that voice can be preserved much more easily. In conclusion, don’t make excuses for racist, imperialist dipshits who have been dead for ages. Acknowledge their wrongdoings and rectify them.
@grantstratton4629Ай бұрын
Speaking of HP Lovecraft, I always considered the story "Cold Air" to be a kind of Mummy story. Just the method of preservation after death is refrigeration and sorcery instead of embalming and sorcery.
@Stray7Ай бұрын
It's also fun because the big scary Science that being played with is...air conditioning.
@daviddaugherty281621 күн бұрын
@@Stray7 Yeah, as an HVAC tech, that had me laughing out loud when I read it.
@billywarren007Ай бұрын
NO OSP!!!!! YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!!!! For anyone who wants to learn more about the Egyptian concept of the soul, mummification or Egyptomania let me know and I’ll get you the sources I used to help out 😁 There is plenty to cover and I can go more in-depth for those who want to get more detail!
@auroraofclanborealisАй бұрын
I'm always here for an infodump
@St.EllachickАй бұрын
I want to learn more about Egyptian concept of a soul and mummification
@dandelion_16Ай бұрын
Oh please yes!
@aaronthomson3639Ай бұрын
I understood that reference! Nice!
@averongodoffire8098Ай бұрын
Oh sir YES PLEASE
@M00nsh0tАй бұрын
Man it's ironic that the one pharaoh who suffered a lot in life yet still tried to be nice to everyone, even going as far to revert the religion his own father started just for his people ended up having the one tomb that was undisturbed & actually respected. It's as if divinity intervened just because the dude was actually nice to his subjects & family despite his short reign & constant suffering. Makes me want to give him a salute just for being a true man, showing goodwill & determination despite unending hardships & pain.
@samapedemantis3248Ай бұрын
Define respected...
@M00nsh0t29 күн бұрын
@@samapedemantis3248 Not robbed or defiled. Accidental though probably.
@asummer6dbzАй бұрын
So I was 6 years old, and ancient Egypt was my favorite thing in the world. I was also in a very fortunate situation where my dad made some pretty decent money. For my 7th birthday he took me to Chicago to see the King Tut exhibit that had been coming through. That day I learned two things. 1) Museums, particularly that exhibit, have a very strong, recognizable, and not exactly pleasant scent. 2) Adults suck. I was barely tall enough to see anything and people kept blocking my view and I heard more than once that "a kid shouldn't be here". This video gave me the same excitement that I felt when I was that age. So thank you.
@AldoHachaАй бұрын
Kids should be very often in museums, it's what turns them into cultured adults
@liamannegarner8083Ай бұрын
Native Chicagoan. We all agree the Field Museum smells like mothballs and century old birds. (Fun fact, some of those birds were acquired by Nathan Leopold, one of the guys "Rope" was based on, look up Leopold and Loeb, it's great.)
@KasumiRINAАй бұрын
This is insane, the only reason adults I know even went to museums was to take kids out, and we went with our school class too, education IS FOR KIDS, literally!
@Chordata7Ай бұрын
Ironically the mummy is less scary than the people who decided to turn the mummy into food seasoning.
@MartyMango0Ай бұрын
Abby Cox did a video earlier this month on how that whole thing happened! Tl;dr awful translation ability likely played a significant part in conflating mummy flesh with a component used in the mummification process which was claimed to have health benefits & people just kinda didn't question it too much for a bit there
@sourdropАй бұрын
@@MartyMango0 I wonder if the increased difficulty of fact-checking in the past made people more accepting of the whole "Mummy dust of good for you" thing. Nowadays, we have search engines and an overwhelming collection of information(all with varying degrees of accuracy and such) to use to discern whether claims are true or not. Now, the internet has also shortened our attention spans, so actually taking the time to fact check stuff is a whole other question.
@KasumiRINAАй бұрын
@@sourdrop yeah no way nowadays with all information on our fingertips a guy who suggested injecting bleach and horse dewormer against viruses would be in a CLOSE RUN IN ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE RICHEST COUNTRY AMIRITE?!
@samapedemantis3248Ай бұрын
@sourdrop I dunno bud, we have tide-pod challenge, ivermectine, and subway surfers. The wealth of knowledge means nothing if it isn't used 😂
@anna_in_aotearoa3166Ай бұрын
The line of 'logic' that led to Europeans using mumia as a drug for centuries isn't miles away from a recent "can we just use bleach internally to kill covid" debacle... The more people change, and all that! 😬
@fridgmanfrustle4376Ай бұрын
I am absolutely in love with the format of this video, jumping back and forth between the history and the media influenced by said history I love it
@RainaRamsayАй бұрын
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@PangolinMontanariАй бұрын
I love the double-whammy of aligning myth and folklore with the historical context! It's a natural fit for this wonderful channel.
@RainaRamsayАй бұрын
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@codybarnes1531Ай бұрын
14:00 Egyptologist: You're not even a real fan. Name three pharaohs. Victorian Englishwoman: Ramses Egyptologist: Fine then, name two more Victorian Englishwoman: "blinks" I Did. Egyptologist: ... Touché
@randomcommenter9759Ай бұрын
"That's on me, I set the bar too low"
@pathfindersavant3988Ай бұрын
I think you mean "Car-touche"
@noblemileАй бұрын
"Ptolomy"
@codybarnes1531Ай бұрын
I see what you did there.@@pathfindersavant3988
@Ranked_JourneyАй бұрын
@@noblemile That's the bootleg Greek pharaohs.
@Star-Commander-VongАй бұрын
46:24 ...Okay so when are we getting the full acoustic cover of Wake Me Up, Red? Because like... CHILLS.
@misteraskman36689 күн бұрын
ngl I think it is better than the original. And I love the original. Also, with Mummies as the contex for the song, it is heartbreaking. We need to crowdfund that covers album!
@HostileHostelryАй бұрын
This is the first time I’ve ever been interested in the mummy as a “monster” trope and I really have to thank you guys for that. Now excuse me while I put the world’s chillest yet disgruntled mummy into my DND campaign.
@HostileHostelryАй бұрын
Sorry buddy, you shouldn’t have made such a hatable character from a mummy’s perspective.
@FralexionАй бұрын
The concept of an RPG dungeon you explore can also be traced back to Egyptmania, so it fits well.
@HostileHostelryАй бұрын
@ Indeed, the location it’s set in is a private island that’s pretty much a glorified retirement home for the extremely rich and famous in a 1930’s type setting, and one of the locations was already going to be a gigantic mega museum, lots of fun to be had.
@starmaker75Ай бұрын
The idea of a mummy being basically a grumpy old man that seen everything is pretty fitting.
@jacthing1Ай бұрын
@@starmaker75Especially since they tend to basically want the young whippersnappers to get off their lawn/out of their tomb. Unless one of them is the reincarnation of their lost love or something.
@LadyNieskeАй бұрын
"Name three pharaoh's!" Easy, I can name at least 15: Ptolemy
@COOLERthenUАй бұрын
My ass would go "I can do 19, ptolemy, ramses, tut"
@sydhenderson6753Ай бұрын
@@COOLERthenU That's 27.
@COOLERthenUАй бұрын
@@sydhenderson6753 I'm bad at math but i sure know my Pharoahs
@AlasdairGRАй бұрын
That's on me, I set the bar too low
@pappanalabАй бұрын
“The power of *give people instant heart attacks whenever he wants*” Huh, I didn’t realize Imhotep was Kira
@doggozwei281Ай бұрын
Scrolling through, looking for this comment lol
@marebear107Ай бұрын
Are we not going to acknowledge the absolute *drive by* of "General Nappity-Bappity"?
@sophierobinson2738Ай бұрын
😁
@slwrabbitsАй бұрын
That's what makes it so awesome.
@mjsteward8747Ай бұрын
I like the idea that the bandaged mummies aren’t a different “subspecies” of mummy, for lack of a better term, from the rehydrated ones. And instead that those with sorcery and magic just have a higher chance of retaining their sense of self and being able to repair their vessels where as others don’t have that same level of spiritual “awakedness” to do so. It would handily explain why all of the rehydrates mummies seem for have at least cursory magic powers or effects about them.
@vivianeallen3334Ай бұрын
YES!!! THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW THAT I'VE GUESSED THE HALLOWEEN VIDEO CORRECTLY!!! I'VE STUDIED UP!
@shadowscribeАй бұрын
Ooo, whispering the shouty rock lines of "Wake me up" makes it SO GD haunting! Never knew it was the Halloween song I needed.
@redwitch12Ай бұрын
That's one of the coolest freaking covers she's done!
@joemason6319Ай бұрын
After so many references to the ending song in the comments, for some reason I expected a whispery version of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". 🤷
@EnragedTurkeyАй бұрын
I gotta say, I REALLY like the dynamic of Blue going through the timeline describing what's going on in the world and Red jumping in with what was happening culturally in the stories being told at the time. Would be cool to see you guys do other cultural regions and the evolution of their effects on culture over time.
@RainaRamsayАй бұрын
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@amanofnoreputation2164Ай бұрын
You've forgotten what I would argue is the best interpretation of all: The Mummy as a metaphor for the essential Self as depicted in YU GI OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH! In this iteration of the mummy trope, the tresspass that make their world and the one of the protagonist's collide is _a metaphor for the opening of Pandora's box and the coming of evil into the world_ with the completion of the Millenium Puzzle. An ancient relic that just so happens to be in the form of an upside down Egyptian tomb I.E a pyramid. Though not quite the point of the series, Yugi's character arc revolves around finding out who the spirit of the pharoh now residing within him (and whom he just so happens to very obviously be a reincarnation of) actually is and how to lay him to rest. For all intents and purposes, all of the original elements of the mummy have been abstracted from their roots: If we treat Yugi and Yami Yugi as two parts of the same character (and where on earth would we ever get an idea like that just by lookign at them) the Pharoh isn't _the_ mummy anymore, but his spirit. Which would actually make _Yugi_ the mummy since he acts as Atem's physical form. Laying the pharoh to rest to rest involves fighting bad guys, saving the world, playing children's card games, proving one's worth in ancient rituals and blah blah blah -- but the _emotional core_ of it all is that, at the end, for the pharoh's spirit to be laid to rest, Yugi and Atem must go their seperate ways. The soul leaving he body so that each can seek their own destinty and proper place in the cosmos. The path of the soul to the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion is conceptualized as a journey not unlike the one depicted in the Rider-White Tarot deck, of which is also an article of Egyptomania under the umbrella of English hermeticism. (Hermes Trismegistus and Thoth are taken to be the same entity in esoteric circles. Hermes Trismegistus = Thoth = The Dark Magician.) Not only is this that journey, but our setting is essentially takes that and uses it to interpret ancient Egypt as the battleground of fiercly competative neckbeards who are so high up in their own league of Magic The Gathering that they play cardgames with _real monsters_ sealed within giant stone tablets of which the contemporary hologram-based children's cardgames inspired by Maximillion Pegasus' Egyptomania are but a pale imitation. I don't remember the series clearly enough to vouch for exactly how much research and care Kazuki Takahashi put into depicting ancient Egypt, but many of the concepts of the Egyptian afterlife are integrel parts of the setting and plot and the figurative mummy in the equation is in some ways a more comprehensive phenomenological depiction of what it means to be human than any ordinary character since the duality of the character is fully expanded upon. Waking the pharaoh is a treacherous act. We see the pharoah struggle with his sense of purpose in an unfamiliar world. And when it's all over, yugi performs the equivalent of putting the mummy right back into it's tomb by laying his soul to rest. By most accounts, this goofey anime about dark magician girls with a history of even goofier bad localizations wipes the floor with any of the mummy stories cited in this video.
@Mech299Ай бұрын
"I'm just happy I got out of the Amontillado Cellar!" That is a beautiful and DEEP reference to their OG works and I love it xD
@lukelcs8934Ай бұрын
Which hilariously I watched not too long ago Got a damn good laugh out of that XD
@RainaRamsayАй бұрын
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@lupuszero9879Ай бұрын
And so, another year has passed in the dungeons of Chateou d'If, Edmond Dantes is still plotting his revenge on Red for denying him that Count of Monte Cristo review. A few more years and fated 14 years will pass...
@kelseymeade5891Ай бұрын
The Count of Monte Cristo mention!
@m-edesharnais5409Ай бұрын
To be fair, The Count of Monte Cristo is a STEP UP STOOL of a book! I read it in original version (French being my first language), and that specific edition has managed to keep the physical book to reasonable size by printing on terribly thin, dictionary-like paper... I joked that I could read two pages ahead of the page I was on! 😂
@metarcee2483Ай бұрын
I've been reading an abridged version, and it's as thick as the dictionary. And you can't forget that, unlike Les Mis, the subplots all count.
@svenkleinplarre9461Ай бұрын
Sun Wukong is acting as the Chateau guard and making sure Red doesn't start another multi year proyect untill she finishes journey to the west.
@eddiedoesstuff872Ай бұрын
PLEEEASSSEE I NEED THE MONTE CRISTO REVIEW
@danig2847Ай бұрын
I LOVE seeing both of you do a video like this where you both collaborate so much to build a narrative! I think that it's so interesting to see how the art and evolving historical knowledge of ancient Egypt interacted to create the modern understanding of mummies in media
@FralexionАй бұрын
Egyptomania (and especially Tutmania) is also the precursor to dungeon-crawling! The idea of a dangerous subterranean adventure environment full of treasure and monsters took shape in their wake.
@evandillАй бұрын
This whole video also made me realize that the D&D interpretation of liches borrow from the pop-culture understanding of mummies/mummification. Neat.
@FralexionАй бұрын
@evandill liches actually come from the Russian folktale character of Koschei the Deathless, a mage that hid the key to his immortality away so he couldn't be killed.
@ajdynonАй бұрын
And in fact, there’s a classic D&D module called Pharaoh, which was remade for 5e in the recent Quests From the Infinite Staircase book.
@intergalactic92Ай бұрын
@@evandillyou are forgetting that mummies are a separate monster in D&D. By all accounts the Mummy Lord is a cleric based version of a lich, (where a lich is a wizard that used a magical ritual to give themselves undeath a Mummy Lord uses a religious one.)
@lozm4835Ай бұрын
@@intergalactic92 Not the OP, but that's a later addition to the DnD roster - Liches as intelligent undead show up right from ADnD, but mummies only gain a version that isn't just a particularly dangerous shambling undead in 2nd edition with the Greater Mummy - though so far as I can tell, they're noted to be Ravenloft-exclusive there. Furthermore, the actual Lich comparison of persistently coming back from the dead until an artefact is destroyed only seems to appear in 5e - at least in so far as the core stats are concerned. That being said, I'm pretty sure Fralexion is correct when Koschei the Deathless is the Lich inspiration.
@Dr.StarboundАй бұрын
Dang it, another year of waiting for Count of Monte Christo In all honesty, this video looks awesome and can't wait for how it goes!
@laggyexplosions7560Ай бұрын
12 more years until the book gets its revenge!
@meganlewis2377Ай бұрын
OverlySarcasticProductions We need you to make Count of Monte Christo and Ars Goetia next Halloween!
@EpicNerdsWithCamerasАй бұрын
Well you know what you need to do about it: Plan out an elaborate revenge scheme for this injustice!
@Logan_but_notАй бұрын
Honestly this has become one of my favorite videos one this channel. The way you two cover both the history and literature of the mummies is not only just incredibly, but it's structured and paced in an incredible manner. And the fact that it's essentially an OSP all star episode with so many old figures from previous videos popping up, makes it so cool. I know this likely took months or even longer to make, but I would honestly love more of these long form, joint effort videos.
@williamjones5334Ай бұрын
27:50 For some reason, I think Lovecraft looks really like Zuckerberg in this image, which is simultaneously perfect and horrendously cursed.
@backlogpanicАй бұрын
Delighted to find out that 'The Jewel of Seven Stars' being written by Stoker, being that interesting, and being the original-ish story of the Mummy movies. Never knew it existed.
@willmfrankАй бұрын
There's a very loose film adaptation called "The Awakening." Worth a look, if you can find it.
@daviddaugherty281621 күн бұрын
Yeah, my first reaction was, "Welp, adding _that_ to the ol' reading list."
@Hiddensecret9Ай бұрын
It wasn’t until the early 20th century that mummies took on a creepier, more sinister vibe, thanks to horror films and the "curse of the pharaoh" tales. This evolution shows how cultural anxieties and interests shape the way we interpret myths-what was once exotic and alluring became terrifying as societies changed. So, yes, the “hot mummy” and “cool mummy” were strutting their stuff long before they started haunting us from the shadows
@martinsto8190Ай бұрын
Finally! this is the only reason i know that Halloween exists these days, unique folk lore analysis.
@WhapadoodleАй бұрын
This is the best part of Halloween
@enoughothisАй бұрын
Fun fact, the salt they used to mummify dead bodies is the same thing people use as a saline rinse to clean out their sinuses. It's a naturally occurring compound of baking soda and table salt.
@DelmworksАй бұрын
Good to know I’m slowly mummifying my sinuses in preparation for burial
@CREDLACEАй бұрын
15:27 Reds daintiest, gentlest, Victorian cough made me laugh more than it should. Who knew Red of all people could muster a kitten cough? (Was expecting it from Blue tbh)
@kerricaineАй бұрын
I find it interesting that around the 90s there was a distinct shift from mummies as scary to something heroic. "Mummies alive" "Yu-Gi-Oh " and even power rangers borrowed Egyptian styling and mythology for their heroes, and i feel theres other shows im forgetting lol
@DragonbIaze052Ай бұрын
Tutenstein was 2003, but I think it counts.
@kylajensen1957Ай бұрын
@@kerricaine I'm annoyed they never mentioned Yu-Gi-Oh tbh. That anime was my gateway drug to Egyptian mythology.
@MeepChangelingАй бұрын
Stargate SG-1 has Ancient Egypt being the only reason all of humanity isn't enslaved. Though the mummies they revive are both alien overlords.
@GiftedContractorАй бұрын
TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE! That callback made me so happy.
@lilyinthedark3159Ай бұрын
Jewel of Seven Stars is on Project Guttenberg 😁 Im definitely going to read it P.S. Project Guttenberg has all sorts of books that have entered public domain, completely free for download or online reading
@Burred11Ай бұрын
Blue's spooky background just being Red's spooky background flipped and with a different color filter on it is exactly what I would have expected from OSP.
@The.Mountain.FlowerАй бұрын
"Never use one word when fifteen will do" Me, autistic: yeah that makes perfect sense lol
@seraphi3387Ай бұрын
There are too many cool words out there that are criminally underused. So I'll fully enjoy the beauty of hearing cool words I may or may not have heard before. 😊
@greenhydra10Ай бұрын
Guilty as charged.
@OriginalCreatorSamaАй бұрын
No for real tho, sometimes what i mean is a little to the left of the word for the thing so i gotta clarify that in case it's important information to the listening party!
@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369Ай бұрын
Theres so many different flavors tho, some examples "The ramble", just so many thing going on and on and on... "The amalgam", as i write multiple versions of the same sentence and of what i wanna say will mix combine like such as this "The essence of though", my default as a child, where its a thing ive thought about so much ive distilled it into a few words that you would need a philosophy student to unpack the denseness of connections And yeah the one right above too
@thirdcoinedgeАй бұрын
As a fellow long sentence user, I endorse this message.
@zenfrodoАй бұрын
36:27 ahhhh, to quote Across The Spiderverse: "And THIS is where the British stole all of our stuff!!"
@daviddaugherty281621 күн бұрын
Blink-and-you'll-miss-it fun fact: he's not pointing in that scene. He's flipping the building off.
@jamthebraveАй бұрын
bro there are SO MANY fingers on that hand at 21:42
@OverlySarcasticProductionsАй бұрын
Queen Tera has seven fingers on one hand (to fit the Seven Stars theme I guess) and it is SO awkward to draw -R
@luckycreep8617Ай бұрын
Ooohh! I didn't notice that!
@HandofOmegaАй бұрын
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Was wondering about that! For a moment, I thought the dreadful spectre of AI was at work...😉
@DarkenedAuras7653Ай бұрын
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Big respect for the attention to detail to draw that
@sejenahope2045Ай бұрын
@@OverlySarcasticProductions oh when I counted them and found that there were 7 later in the video I thought it was a literary reference you faithfully recreated due to the 7 parts of the soul.
@pallavipramod4628Ай бұрын
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR OUR OSP SPECIAL!!!!!!!
@hazbin_helluvaedits2644Ай бұрын
Sameeeeee
@nica7049Ай бұрын
Oh heck yes! I always wondered why mummies were less scary zombies As soon as Red started describing the The Mummy from the 1930s, I thought “Hey, wait a minute. This sounds an awful lot like The Mummy from 1999.” I was hoping and genuinely surprised that the 1999 version made its into the video. My week has been made. Also, the time period and Evie being British makes so much more sense now.
@OriginalCreatorSamaАй бұрын
Has anyone else noticed that the shots Red chose from the 30's version of The Mummy are also the most iconic scenes that were reshot in the Brendan Frasier version? I love that! It really shows how heavily influencing that 30's film was, which underlines the things Red is saying to that effect over these clips. I see you, video editor. A+ job!
@blacksage2375Ай бұрын
I'm shocked at how similar the actors are.
@ternovnik257Ай бұрын
19:52 "That is a naked woman." "An absolute dead ringer for my daughter." ... That made me exhale very fast through my nose
@astrallunaАй бұрын
oh i adored the throwback vibes of this video. the victory for the forces of justice, the ardeth bae-joke, lovecraft being Here, and the reference to the poe video with the amontillado at the end! amazing work, both of you, this was so well put together.
@andromeda331Ай бұрын
I didn't know so many famous writers wrote stories on Mummies. Poe, Alcott and Doyle? That's awesome!
@guardianerisАй бұрын
and Stoker and Lovecraft, like wow the whole gang's there
@xmascritter2383Ай бұрын
The new halloween special is both talking about the stories of the mummy but also the historical context that its based in? TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!!! (I was so delighted when you brought that bit back)
@denaxfriАй бұрын
It's also awesome to see Egypt's influence in Sci-Fi and Space Opera's/fantasies, like the Ancient Sith Emipre of the Star Wars franchise and the Necrons of the Wh40k Universe.
@ShantariАй бұрын
42:56 A glorious return for "Truly a victory for the forces of justice!"
@parkerdixon-word6295Ай бұрын
I adore the OSP tag-tram format of this one, trading back and forth between the history (including the metahistory of how much people understood the actual history at given points in time) and the literature that was a product of different points in history. I imagine making this script and recording it was more work than they usually are, but this is a good format when it suits the subject.
@NazmazhАй бұрын
I like that both you and Peter Hollens landed on mummies at the right monster to pair with "Bring Me to Life"
@spookybookworm3063Ай бұрын
The whole flip-flopping between horror and awe is A Thing for Lovecraft. The Deep Ones in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" have their... implications, yes, but they're also a super-advanced civilization that occupies all their time by making glorious if spooky art, which seems like a bit of an escapist fantasy. There's that whole part about "living in wonder and glory forever" that some scholars think is mad ranting and some say could be taken at face value. In "Pickman's Model", Pickman, a creepy, ambigiously human painter, whose thing are sanity-blasting pictures of ghouls munching on people, is stated to be honestly impressive and great despite painting Blasphemous HorrorsTM. "At the Mountains of Madness" has a line where the horrific aliens are stated to be "men of their time" and their art and culture, once understood by the explorers, are highly praised. Even that part when Cthulhu awakens in "The Call..." is full of awe. Horrified awe, but awe nonetheless. I chalk it up to Lovecraft being both xenophobic and clearly seeing himself as the outsider, so his depiction of the monstrous Other can be a bit paradoxical.
@draconious4005Ай бұрын
I’m, like, 75% sure Lovecraft thought the stonework was actually carved by ancient Egyptians because he thought they were actually white.
@TeroTheShortOneАй бұрын
Good ol' HippoPotamus Lovecraft.
@bmetalfish3928Ай бұрын
depends, genetic studies of ancient people really help no ethnocentric group. Mediterranean, Coptic and Middle Eastern people are alot closer related than most who care about such want to admit. Though lovecraft wrote a story about a man finding out his ancestors domesticated people for cannibalism after he discovered welsh ancestory, his xenophobia goes deeper than ethnocentrism.
@EyalBrownАй бұрын
Ah, the "Prestor John loophole"
@chimera9818Ай бұрын
@@bmetalfish3928if you really wants to be technical we know that Egyptians did draw themselves lighter in shade than the kushaites and it was way to point their differences (being fair it did came from a time Egypt was conquered by kush)
@Lightice1Ай бұрын
Probably not, since it was a plot point that the mysterious guide Abdul Reis and Pharaoh Khepren seemed to be the same person, and Reis was obviously passing for an Arab.
@shawnreynolds2705Ай бұрын
Red mentions the Medjai @4:20. Secret societies that protect ancient knowledge or artifacts would be a great trope talk.
@shawnreynolds2705Ай бұрын
Also, being in a secret society that protects some ancient knowledge or artifact would be a way cooler job than the one I have now.
@TheFlinchyDinosaurАй бұрын
2:00 thanks for actually talking about the history of mummies. I know history and myths are this channel's whole thing, but Egyptian Mythology is really culturally important to me. I'm Coptic Orthodox which is like a whole ethno-religious group but I like to dumb it down as "indigenous Egyptian". A lot of my culture is lost and obfuscated so most inaccurate media portrayals of that culture really piss me off. I'd love to see more Egyptian stuff covered on the channel
@TheFlinchyDinosaurАй бұрын
31:00 omg pharonism mentioned? This is so epic and based I'm so happy
@AskMia411Ай бұрын
Hey Red, i know you said a Halloween or two back that you felt like you'd exhausted all the classic spooky books, but I've been thinking that Phantom of the Opera would make a great Halloween episode. The musical is so well known, but hardly anyone seems to have actually READ the book or even knows there IS a book. And there are enough differences that it would be a lot like the Dracula or Jekyll and Hyde videos. Just thought I'd throw this out there since I'm early for once! I always look forward to these Halloween specials!!! Thank you for all the time and energy you put into this channel ❤❤❤
@caterinagargiuloАй бұрын
Yes this would be perfect for the next Halloween special
@METALGEARMATRIXАй бұрын
I'm gonna have to pick up a copy of the book for my soon-to-be-wife (as in in about 5 hours or so) she loves the Phantom
@JustinWahlneАй бұрын
If we're going by the Universal Studios roster, we still have PotO, invisible men, and gilmen/sea monsters left to tackle.
@Raxel1447Ай бұрын
@@METALGEARMATRIX Congrats! Halloween weddings are awesome by default, change my mind. As a huge Phantom Fan myself, I read the book and was fascinated by the original story and just how much the musical left out. I still have a bias towards the musical since it was a huge part of my childhood, but I still love and appreciate the book all the same. Here's hoping OSP will tackle the Phantom either next year or the years to come! And I hope you and your wife will have a happy marriage together!
@vassily-labroslabrakos2263Ай бұрын
Red also didn't cover the big 2 vampires that predate Dracula : Varney and Carmilla
@Sketch9506Ай бұрын
I love this combination of history, architecture, lore, and tropes. It's an amazing culmination all your efforts. Please keep up the amazing work.
@brookerickettson4950Ай бұрын
Britain “acquired” a whole freaking ass ceiling mural. Proving once again if it wasn’t nailed down, Britain took it for MUSEUM (best case ) , and heck, they probably took the nails out and took that stuff too. Everything AND the kitchen sink. They TOOK A CEILING. A CEILING. Who does that? The British Museum apparently.
@daviddaugherty2816Ай бұрын
I think we can all agree that if you can pry it up, it wasn’t really nailed down.
@LKMNOPАй бұрын
They took the marbles from Greece after all. And let's not forget the Germany still has the head of nefertiri.
@thirdcoinedgeАй бұрын
I'm surprised they didn't just take the whole tomb. Probably only hampered by logistical difficulties than any thoughts of conscience.
@alecdickens1042Ай бұрын
"Take anything that isn't nailed down. Fuck it, take the nails too, then take the stuff that was formerly nailed down!"
@KasumiRINAАй бұрын
@@LKMNOP Germany actually "lost" a bunch of Egyptian treasures that resurfaced in... Hermitage! In shat putinsburg itself, the shitties of towns in the world. Apparently, Westerners were helping the kremlin colonize and rob every country orks learned about. They do it to this day, crimean bridge built almost entirely by netherlands on swiss money. All to rob Ukraine.
@robbiegarber898Ай бұрын
I can't help but feel that a lot of Poe's melodrama was largely intentional farse. He named the mummy Allamistakeo, y'all.
@llewelynshingler2173Ай бұрын
Frankly, I'm surprised that Poe had a Non-Gloomy tale in his collection
@robbiegarber898Ай бұрын
@llewelynshingler2173 I mean, a lot of the "horror" tales he wrote are almost comedic when viewed from the right angle, The Telltale Heart and the Cask of Amontillado especially. With the narrator of the first basically says "I'm not crazy, YOU'RE CRAZY" and in the latter there's a bit where Fortunado has a cough and is like "Don't worry, I won't *die* of it" and Montresor literally says "True, true," - they're just dripping with dark irony.
@catbrained42Ай бұрын
My sleep-deprived brain misread that name as Alliamisamistake at first. Make of that what you will.
@phastinemoonАй бұрын
@@llewelynshingler2173The Angel of the Odd is another example.
@zuserАй бұрын
What a fantastical deep dive on a classic! Thank you both so much for putting this together, it was very enlightening to both see how this trope manifested itself in popular media alongside history!
@mitchellneuАй бұрын
Ok using Bring Me To Life at the end was ABSOLUTE GENIUS! Loved this awesome video, well done to all involved! Edit: also I’m SO GLAD you noticed the parallels between Imhotep and Dracula, I thought I was the only one!
@peggyliepmann5248Ай бұрын
I love your version of this song, Red! Your description of Egyptomania made something from Mercedes Lackey's The Serpent's Shadow fit better in my head. The male lead specifically trades in well made replicas of Egyptian artifacts, made in Egypt, because they're super popular. But because this is a setting where magic and spirits are real, actual artifacts are likely to be haunted or otherwise spooky. So he sells stuff that's enough like the real thing to show off, but without the supernatural aspects.
@KeltarynАй бұрын
what a great reference!
@lillianb8762Ай бұрын
Oof, the historical context of the Tutankhamen craze... is *really* relatable. Way to make me actually empathize for these people, Blue.
@bow-tiedengineer4453Ай бұрын
Stars, Truly a Victory for the Forces of Justice was a much needed hit of nostalgia. I'm not quite "I grew up watching you", but I did watch you a lot in late highschool, and life sucked way less back then.
@AskMia411Ай бұрын
OMG the callback to the Edgar Allan Poe video at the end!!! 😂😂😂 Poor Blue, he's just happy to be included!
@WolfofCannaeАй бұрын
That reference made me laugh too. Wasn’t expecting it, that video was ages ago.
@insertusernamehere3173Ай бұрын
Love the ending and the reference back to the amontillado! Love the video!
@jameshart2622Ай бұрын
That ending line from Blue? Chef's kiss.
@fedoramaster6035Ай бұрын
27:18 it’s worth mentioning that this attitude of “ancient Egypt is better than modern Egypt” goes back to the very first colonial missions against it by Europeans - namely, the invasion of Napoleon. Firstly, in complete fairness, there’s an argument to be made that that’s a reaonable assessment of Egypt. In the time of the classical and bronze ages, Egypt was the height of advancement, production, and wealth. Even into the early and high Middle Ages, Egypt was still a center of culture and development under Arab rule. By the beginning of the 19th century though, it had suffered extreme stagnation under the Mamluks. Due in part to the immense wealth and population of the region, very little had changed within Egypt since the 14th century. Meanwhile, its title as the breadbasket of the western world was taken by the Americas, and its title as the center of development and trade had been usurped by the ottomans and early colonial nations. It’s not that Egypt wasn’t still wealthy, but it no longer had any of the advantages it used to have on the world stage. Knowing this, is it any surprise that when the invading French showed up in Alexandria expecting a city on par with Paris or Amsterdam, they were somewhat disappointed? From the perspective of Napoleon and his cadre, Arab invaders had neglected and disrespected the legacy of ancient Egypt - after all, they had no way of knowing that the stagnation occurring in Egypt was due almost entirely to geopolitical trends, and was a relatively recent problem. The fact that the notoriously riotous citizens of Alexandria and Cairo saw right through napoleon’s attempts at integration definitely didn’t help the French perception of their would-be subjects either. There’s also the factor of climate, the growth of trans-Atlantic trade at the expense of Mediterranean/Red Sea trade, and any number of things that a 19th century French soldier had no way to know about, and no desire to learn about considering how tense Franco-Egyptian relations became over the course of the occupation. Then, as happens with military excursions, especially failed ones, the colonizers went back home and told their stories of how the enemy was subhuman and barbaric. Interestingly, this is a recurring trend in Egyptian history; people conquer the land, build it up, and then ride the coat tails of their success until they can’t anymore and are conquered in turn. Of course, the previous holders of Egypt are always mocked as lazy and violent (a bit of an oxymoron if you think about it) by their occupiers.
@SlapstickGenius23Ай бұрын
Fair enough. My uncle George is from Egypt, he’s also married to my aunt Tia Georgette.
@mobgabriel176722 күн бұрын
I mean ancient egypt is better than modern egypt but that doesnt give britain and France the right to steal it
@Jess-em4riАй бұрын
I absolutely LOVE this video! The split between historical context and trope analysis is incredible, it feels like a full on documentary. I 100% want to see more videos like this in the future!
@impartialthrone2097Ай бұрын
I don't think Lovecraft actually described the creature's face at all. The whole description was a fun misdirect, because he described it like "5 necks, bent at odd angles, with a rigid, sharp tentacle at the end of each one" with the horror being the realization that "oh my god, it w as just one paw" with the rest being hidden by darkness.
@mckaydaltonАй бұрын
I never thought I’d see another “TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!” after so long, it’s one of my favorites old OSP gags.
@ASquared544Ай бұрын
Wow, I can’t believe Blue and Red collabed. Can’t wait for the next one!