Imagine being a poor Roman mother rushing about Walmartius looking for gifts for everyone thinking "I swear, Saturnalia comes about earlier each year!"
@HornadyMatt5 жыл бұрын
Lol walmartius
@MasterArkannor5 жыл бұрын
There was not a single part of that comment that was not delightful.
A satue filled with olive oil. Ive never heard of anything more roman than this. It sounds like a meme.
@chuckles56898 жыл бұрын
A statue filled with olive oil, and a toga on.
@plaidpvcpipe37925 жыл бұрын
Io Saturnalia
@Max_Le_Groom5 жыл бұрын
Would you like an Etruscan Clay Boar?
@imperialguardsman28005 жыл бұрын
People 70% water Romans 70% olive oil
@karsentube13yt4 жыл бұрын
The most Roman thing ever is building walls around walls.
@marcustulliuscicero95128 жыл бұрын
2:48 My boy, History Civilis.
@tsar_zo80076 жыл бұрын
Haha... This comment is hilarious without dout
@aidanbowie53915 жыл бұрын
oi
@plaidpvcpipe37925 жыл бұрын
Io Saturnalia
@Itsprincesweets5 жыл бұрын
Dieieieieieie
@unflexian5 жыл бұрын
@@aidanbowie5391 io*
@calska1405 жыл бұрын
any holiday where you wear weird hats, party all night, gamble with nuts, exchange gifts and poems, shout jibberish at each other, and everyone drops their airs and visits with each other, sounds like a good time.
@leysont3 жыл бұрын
the gifting does sound stressful though. European Christmas is already too stressful for me.
@brandenapexo604 Жыл бұрын
It was a festival to feed into your baser inhibitions, basically to sin, I wouldn’t be surprised if doing Saturnalia there were purges, mass orgies, public displays of drunken and high behavior.
@player2768 жыл бұрын
0:50 That rebel in the crowd
@zachlevy8 жыл бұрын
damn hipsters
@jasonhaven71708 жыл бұрын
Where?
@evananderson-navarro61428 жыл бұрын
Probably that fucking Charisianus. What a luxurious double dumb-ass.
@tonysanchez32898 жыл бұрын
i was thinking that 2.
@macgeek20047 жыл бұрын
+Jason Haven 2nd row from the front, 5th square from the left. Guess he's too good for a leather cap... ;~p
@LazyMasquerade8 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an introverts nightmare.
@azoth._.8 жыл бұрын
Lazy Masquerade Oh yeah, definitely
@LazyMasquerade8 жыл бұрын
"Everyone you ever met will come to your door demanding a gift and a personalised note. If you forget a single person, they'll hate you forever..." WELL FUCK.
@DigiDigiDigiDigi8 жыл бұрын
Lazy Masquerade Love your videos :D I Didn't know you were into history?
@jmiquelmb8 жыл бұрын
Rome society as a whole was kind of an introverts nightmare. Being called an introvert was basically an insult on itself
@fungusbrain1martin8 жыл бұрын
Lazy Masquerade Oops, guess Im spending every Saturnalius in the countryside so I dont have to partake.
@Suite_annamite6 жыл бұрын
*"Your mistresses cost you nothing: you enjoy them at my expense."*
@cameronlingo29695 жыл бұрын
I wonder if he was genuinely offended or if he was just taking the piss.
@GY-bd9bo5 жыл бұрын
i like to think that it rhymed in latin so it was percieved as clever and funny
@basedimperialism3 жыл бұрын
What a Chadius Maximus
@rin_etoware_29893 жыл бұрын
The original Latin was: Quam mihi mittebas Saturni tempore lancem, / Misisti dominae, Sextiliane, tuae; / Et quam donabas dictis a Marte Kalendis, / De nostra prasina est synthesis empta toga. / Iam constare tibi gratis coepere puellae: / Muneribus futuis, Sextiliane, meis. i can't figure out if there was a special pun here or anything, but it seems to me that this is an ancient version of "Robbing Peter to pay Paul." the stuff that Sextilianus used to spend on Martial now goes to his mistress instead.
@peytongonavy3 жыл бұрын
Bro, we used to be like *this* , but you had to put hoes before bros.
@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa21588 жыл бұрын
Hey, do you think the real reason the Senators assassinated Julius Caesar was because he forgot to give Brutus a gift? Maybe he accidentally bought a cheaper one.
@carlosdumbratzen63328 жыл бұрын
that must be it.
@Legocraft45988 жыл бұрын
Most definitely
@jmiquelmb8 жыл бұрын
Bet he only gave him a 10 sestercii amazon gift card
@Legocraft45988 жыл бұрын
jmiquelmb lol
@asthmen7 жыл бұрын
jmiquelmb, you mustn't forget how dangerous those early Amazon gift-cards were...
@nelly35788 жыл бұрын
That martial guy was such a Troll. I bet he would have loved the internet
@aquila44608 жыл бұрын
He would have loved to tell the world about these Togas an gifts :D
@brahminherder97188 жыл бұрын
Pour some Mountain Dew for our homie Martial. He's trolling with the angels now
@craigjacobs58588 жыл бұрын
Most of his poems are directed towards friends. They're not trolling so much as ribbing as friends often do among themselves.
@galloe89338 жыл бұрын
Christ Craig! Remember that time you came in and tried to slap everyone with a wet blanket? You're no fun... A thumbs up for your picture though.
@femkevandewalle21895 жыл бұрын
He would be a Twitter god.
@MrMichaelbird888 жыл бұрын
"Your mistress cost you nothing, you enjoy them at my expense." Quality stuff right here
@gildedpeahen876 Жыл бұрын
THE SHADE, THE SHADE!
@irongeneral78618 жыл бұрын
"Muh boi, Cicero" *One year or so earlier* "Muh boi, Caesar" Which is it, Civilis? Huh? :/
@frenchguitarguy10914 жыл бұрын
Antony?
@jesseberg32714 жыл бұрын
@@frenchguitarguy1091 he doesn't like Antony or Cato, but loves him some Caeser, Cicero, and Labenus.
@DeathBone46564 жыл бұрын
@@jesseberg3271 Well it makes since,Caeser,Cicero and Labenus where competent and skillful in the face of defeat,Cato and Antony where incompetent and quite in the present and not the future
@jesseberg32714 жыл бұрын
@@DeathBone4656 I'll grant you that, but Historia Civilis accepts that Cato acted out of conviction, whereas he doesn't give Antony the same courtesy. If you assume Antony was driven by his belife in the Populare cause, his actions come off looking a lot more like someone seeking revenge for Sulla's tyranny than the random actions of an out of control drunkard. But HC just accepts what was written about Antony by his enemies, seemingly without a second thought.
@alfredospautzgranemannjuni58643 жыл бұрын
If you pay attention to his commentaries, you can clearly see he is an Optimate at heart, or at least anti-Caesar.
@mordirit87274 жыл бұрын
One thing I came across in my Latin class was that perhaps the Romans didn't bet actual nuts in their betting dice games during the Saturnalia, a point that came up as we were translating Martial's epigrams actually, which is a nice coincidence to how this video ended. Nux did mean walnut, yes, but it was also used as a metaphors for "thing of little/no value", being used that way by Martial; the theory my teacher mentioned was that perhaps some people used some of those crappy gifts they kept around to give to random visitors in their bets; there is slim evidence for this, since it comes almost entirely from Martial using the metaphor of "nuts" as something of little value to refer to the presents during Saturnalia, but well, it is a possibility and it kinda makes more sense; then again lots of things about Saturnalia make little sense so who knows xD
@WolfSightGaming8 жыл бұрын
my boy cicero
@andreascovano77428 жыл бұрын
yas
@Geelos2528 жыл бұрын
Marco Li
@thewildgeesecod8 жыл бұрын
both go way back
@Quitu18498 жыл бұрын
ave caesar fam
@WolfSightGaming8 жыл бұрын
My g
@Bootrick338 жыл бұрын
I laughed till my sides hurt when I heard, "going full Festivus with an airing of grievances."
@JimzAuto6 жыл бұрын
5:25 Seinfeld "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!"
@gracequach6769 Жыл бұрын
If anyone did do that, tough, I would've loved to be there to see it!
@alexdiaz1553 жыл бұрын
It’s incredible to see how much this holiday survives in Christmas, the gift giving spirit, the salutation to be given to everyone, the consumption of the whole month of December in the name of holiday, and the Scrooge’s that just hate them.
@The_ZeroLine Жыл бұрын
Every Christian holiday is quire literally a stolen pagan holiday.
@zach2382 Жыл бұрын
@@The_ZeroLinenope there is no proof of that at all just a bunch of lies made up by people who believe conspiracy theories and can’t be bothered to do one bit of research
@kristianharapan5741 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the Romans have a tale about saturnalia's grinch
@zach2382 Жыл бұрын
@@kristianharapan5741 nope
@zwerg847410 ай бұрын
Where I live, pretty much everything else but the presents is preserved in another festival, known as carnival :D
@holdinmcgroin86398 жыл бұрын
The Romans sure knew how to fuckin party.
@whitelady10638 жыл бұрын
Holdin McGroin they didn't have beer they had nuts
@AudieHolland8 жыл бұрын
They had wine.
@noaboatx18 жыл бұрын
For You
@holdinmcgroin86398 жыл бұрын
Noaboatx1 of coursh
@DonMeaker8 жыл бұрын
A 5 day orgy!
@Lykyk8 жыл бұрын
On the first day of Saturnalia my true love gave to me...
@AJ-zz4ou8 жыл бұрын
Nothing.
@Lykyk8 жыл бұрын
Antun Jakov Katancevic Mood = killed
@AJ-zz4ou8 жыл бұрын
RIP
@AJ-zz4ou8 жыл бұрын
Yay nuts!
@n0denz8 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for the nuts!
@judebreheny39254 жыл бұрын
“Your mistresses cost you nothing, you enjoy them at my expense” That’s just plain funny.
@tompryal72094 жыл бұрын
Watching all of these videos, but especially this one, I’m always amazed at the fact that these people were no different than us. Easy to imagine your drunk uncle at the Saturnalia party instead of the Christmas party
@GnosticInformant28 күн бұрын
I watch this video every year around this time.
@Atlas-pn6jv8 жыл бұрын
I went to a college that had a day much like the first day of Saturnalia. Students and professors all came together for a festival on the main quad and got super drunk. Classes were cancelled, tests foregone. It was awesome. Though I have heard the new president of the college is trying to get rid of the holiday altogether because he considers it immoral and a stain on the college's reputation.
@earth2lana5 жыл бұрын
Who was the sacrifice?
@summerbunbury33915 жыл бұрын
Bummer, the new president sounds like a major killjoy😒
@summerbunbury33915 жыл бұрын
@@earth2lana Hoping it's the new president😁
@armyofninjas90553 жыл бұрын
I'd prefer bong rips with my thesis adviser to drinking with my professor. Personal taste.
@carlsnyder48333 жыл бұрын
@Atlas, what college was it?
@noxhiduro60678 жыл бұрын
it's funny when you see the paterns between old roman festivals and how people today celebrate christmas or new year
@bosniakedisniksic8 жыл бұрын
Christmas is directly from Saturnalia. The now Christian Roman elites wanted to still keep some of their traditions and they needed to get the still pagan masses to join them in this new Christianity thing. What better way than to take an already existing pagan holiday and replace it with Jesus's supposed birthday.
@merygaspar15258 жыл бұрын
what actually happened is that people started to do some of the stuff they did on saturnalia on the day of christmas after saturnalia ended i still don't understand people that say christmas came from saturnalia if saturnalia is not even on the same day, and besides its not really that similar, its just an average festivity, the only thing i found really similar here is the exchange of gifts
@TheNinetySecond8 жыл бұрын
Flash forward to around 1000 AD, and the Norse festival of Jul (Yule/Yuletide) now had to be incorporated as well, since Harald Bluetooth was christening all of Denmark. Good thing having festivities around the winter solstice when the days become longer is a pretty universal idea. I don't know for certain if there are more influences to Christmas, but Jul and Saturnalia are definitely up there.
@sarasamaletdin45748 жыл бұрын
No it was a separate holiday but there was a overlap with how some celebrated it.
@bosniakedisniksic8 жыл бұрын
No, Because Christmas was not a holiday until the Romans started to practice Christianity. The elites wanted to convert the masses and absorbing holidays and traditions is a good way of doing it. It's not a new thing. The Arabs already had a tradition of fasting and holding festivities before Muhammed and Islam came around. In Latin America, Christianity absorbed some attributes of Native religions.
@therealoldnosey86898 жыл бұрын
Does this only happen in the city of Rome or the entire empire?
@Legocraft45988 жыл бұрын
Rome was the centerpiece of the festival, but other places might have hosted smaller versions
@MrCristianposso6 жыл бұрын
Imagine something like the Oktoberfest, the one in Munich is the real deal but in other places in Germany and the world it gets celebrated as well in a smaller scale.
@brianmerion5 жыл бұрын
I would conjecture that Abu Zooz is correct but I have no source
@imnotfitz5 жыл бұрын
pyropulse don’t be rude to someone who only wants to know more about the world.
@georgecampos14535 жыл бұрын
No its also probably known as Christmas to you.
@leoc54735 жыл бұрын
This is literally just thanksgiving, Christmas, and Halloween all wrapped together
@Pyotyrpyotyrpyotyr8 жыл бұрын
The goddess of ops was special. Special ops.
@ragemaster05877 жыл бұрын
Go to your room!
@BlackMasterRoshi5 жыл бұрын
Don't
@sabrinapratt66865 жыл бұрын
Pyotyr Young .
@ngolokante78054 жыл бұрын
Wow
@judebreheny39254 жыл бұрын
Boooooo!
@Dantick098 жыл бұрын
Io saturnalia! I give you the gift of reading my comment
@DasNichts798 жыл бұрын
Io Saturnalia! That is exactly what I had prepared for you! Enjoy this comment!
@based_prophet8 жыл бұрын
Cyrus Cheng io saturnalla
@Petr756618 жыл бұрын
Io is the ancestor of lol
@confusedcossack28857 жыл бұрын
Every year you give us the gift of us not having to read your comment but now you give us the gift of having to read your comment!? I am insulted by this gift! Hmph!
@Noone-rc9wf7 жыл бұрын
Bilbo swaggins Yeah!!! Fuck that guy! And to think I actually gave him a brand new Toga last year!
@warpedreality79888 жыл бұрын
Is it just me who gets a shock of intense happiness every time he sees a new Historia Civilis video?
@nahuatl30928 жыл бұрын
Romans had the best holidays.
@Rabbit-uc5kg6 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there.
@skril7335 жыл бұрын
@@Rabbit-uc5kg What did he do?
@Rabbit-uc5kg5 жыл бұрын
@@skril733 It's a reference to the Audrey Hepburn movie Roman Holiday. Good watch.
@yaruqadishi83265 жыл бұрын
Holydays you mean. Salvè Tepio 7777777
@user-hx2vt4on4i5 жыл бұрын
The vatican still does it involves under age kids ...oh how harmless
@Whoami6914 жыл бұрын
I love the spirit of this festival, for a short time there was no distinction between elite, commoner and slave. All were equal under Saturn and it was marked with food, wine, games and all sorts of fun. Seems like a great festival.
@karthikparameswaran78133 жыл бұрын
And on the same day Nero(54--68 C.E.) in 64 C.E. married a slave who recently became a freedman. Yikes!!!
@Quethan12 жыл бұрын
0:50 guess one of those guys didnt feel like wearing a hat lol
@JohnnyDogs19788 жыл бұрын
Going full festivus for the rest of us! Congrats on your channel getting some of the recognition you deserve. Love your channel.
@lextalionis96425 жыл бұрын
"There is nothing new in the World except the history you don't know." - Harry S Truman
@karthikparameswaran78133 жыл бұрын
Rightly said.
@akrybion8 жыл бұрын
Can we please bring back Saturnalia? Sounds way cooler than Christmas
@saldownik8 жыл бұрын
With gladiator fights?
@akrybion8 жыл бұрын
saldownik Only if we let women and dwarves fight too! #equality
@irongeneral78618 жыл бұрын
Sure. Why don't we restore the Republic of Rome while we're at it?
@sickal23658 жыл бұрын
Let's have public wrestling matches instead.
@Olivia-ot6up8 жыл бұрын
Let's follow the Roman Pantheon again!
@emperoraugustus40058 жыл бұрын
today's holy days seem boring compared to this
@davlor867 жыл бұрын
holidays like Oktoberfest are still quite cool
@xaph55757 жыл бұрын
Ave Caesar Augustus!
@Hassenboy7 жыл бұрын
But virtuous
@kvltizt6 жыл бұрын
Hassenboy Who cares?
@richardkillings76236 жыл бұрын
"Holy"
@hazorg163 жыл бұрын
this became my comfort channel. it's my 3rd time rewatching all the content. love all of'em thank you
@janAlekantuwa5 жыл бұрын
I celebrate Saturnalia every single year and I would like to wish you, albeit very belatedly, IO SATURNALIA
@calvinware795711 ай бұрын
Not me coming back to this video & years later laughing my as off about the goddess of the ops
@Telsion8 жыл бұрын
*is editing video* *watches on KZbin* *sees this video* ah.... fuck it
@Telsion8 жыл бұрын
What did the Mexican boy get for christmas? My bike even better timing XD
@Kenneth-p6j18 күн бұрын
Happy Saturnalia All!!!!
@TempleofBrendaSong Жыл бұрын
IO SATVRNALIA for Brenda Song 35 (2023)
@wardafournello Жыл бұрын
Kronia,the celebration was held in ancient Greece in honor of Titan Kronos and Titaness Rhea. it took place on the night of the 12th day of Hecatombaion,(at the beginning of summer). On the day of the feast the slaves had a holiday, they could sit at the same table with their masters and in general they had more freedom, in memory of the Golden Age of the human race, when there was no slavery and heavy work. From the adoption of the celebration by the Romans as Saturnalia, in honor of the Roman Saturn ,Kronia became a noisy festival and days of debauchery.
@Jaunyus6 жыл бұрын
Your videos are amazing. Thank you for your time and effort.
@mat861006 жыл бұрын
great to hear about the small cultural quirks of the Roman republic. I love the big battles but sometimes we get lost in the political sphere. More videos like this! :)
@Mr0610996 жыл бұрын
>a statue filled with olive oil That has to be the most roman thing in history
@Hodoss6 жыл бұрын
Back when "christmas" was cool. No enough dwarves fights now.
@armyofninjas90553 жыл бұрын
Well, it just became Elf Knife Fights when it was modernized for western culture. We have a few every Christmas. Same dif tho.
@sanuku5355 жыл бұрын
Saturn Has spoken! Saturn Has come! Bring the wine! Bring the bread! Bring the ropes! For we shall all feast as a one as a free man!
@carolynallisee2463 Жыл бұрын
In other words, an Ancient roman sent forward in time to now, might be a bit perplexed by the change in dates, but otherwise, be familiar with the carrying-ons in December
@IAmCaligvla4 жыл бұрын
Seems like a more enjoyable time than christmas, quite frankly.
@vUrsele8 жыл бұрын
This channel is one if the best History channels on KZbin if not the best. Keep it up, your videos are so interesting!
@stevene61818 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad your channel is getting bigger. tis one of my favorites.
@james206038 жыл бұрын
You have some of the best historical content on KZbin. Keep it up.
@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski Жыл бұрын
we out here partyrocking on this saturnalia. my 5 homies and me, with our cone hats, crouching in an alley shootin dice, sipping heavy, and shouting at fools. we found a crazy bird from parthia or somethin, called a mina bird. it squawks out human words sometimes so we made it king for the day and do whatever it says. after dice and drinks; we're going to stumble into the fighting pits and watch a zebra fight a regular horse in a cage match. maybe swing by a certain temple and try and siphon some of that sacred olive oil out of a certain god's statue. u know just get turnt.
@xelgringoloco28 жыл бұрын
This is fucking lit. Pagans know how to party.
@friesy35184 жыл бұрын
“...it was also customary after the sun went down to host parties to continue the festivities.” Sounds like one big ol’ ancient Roman 7 day bender...
@erikwaterson3615 жыл бұрын
Jesus, Martial went ham on it with *"Your mistresses cost you nothing: you enjoy them at my expense."*
@Yoshemo13 жыл бұрын
I knew Christmas and it's gift giving were derived from Saturnalia, but I didn't expect Christmas cards and those custom fancy candles shops that pop up in malls around Christmas to have their origins in it too!
@genesickler7717 Жыл бұрын
Saturnalia did not end Constinine just changed it to Christmas so the pagans would be more comfortable.
@zach2382 Жыл бұрын
@@genesickler7717lies
@zach2382 Жыл бұрын
@@genesickler7717nope nope that’s a conspiracy theory not actual history
@landrecce7 жыл бұрын
I love this channel so much! Thank you for the knowledge!
@SoleMan1178 жыл бұрын
Merry 12th night! I just did a video talking about the evolution of this holiday...of course, it wasn't as awesome as yours. Always glad to see new work from you!
@ebolachan34515 жыл бұрын
gotta say though, the love of nuts during the late end of December continues to today and that fact makes me happy.
@Kurtownia8 жыл бұрын
I love your videos, but sometimes I feel like it's the music that ultimately pushes me to press that like button.
@purpleprinc38 жыл бұрын
Yah the presentation is top notch!
@Snout0078 жыл бұрын
I have 2 things to say. One is bad, and other is good. 1. This video is like christmas present, I loooooove your work. 2. My toaster broke down ( yes, again, to those who are following it's story) so this video lifted my mood up. Thanks and good christmas to you! merry christmas!
@Snout0078 жыл бұрын
And this was very educational so, really , great moves, Historia Civilis, keep it up
@SuperAwesome101018 жыл бұрын
benukysz rip toaster
@Snout0078 жыл бұрын
SuperAwesome10101 I am still hoping that I can bring him back from the dead. But thanks, means a lot. I guess I am just dealing with grief.....
@thatoneguy331988 жыл бұрын
be careful toasters have a dangerous electricity voltage that could instantly kill you...
@thatoneguy331988 жыл бұрын
+benukysz be careful toasters have a dangerous electricity voltage that could instantly kill you...
@AudieHolland2 жыл бұрын
Remember the time when Cromwell (the Grinch) canceled Christmas? Christmas in early modern England were nothing like Christmas that people celebrate today. It was much more like the ancient Roman Saturnalia. You can look up the details but basically a beggar or other homeless person was elected by the crowd/mob as their king. Instead of groups singing carols going from door to door, small groups of people would knock on some stranger's door (usually someone well to do) and demand gifts, food and drink. If the homeowner refused, he was probably boo''d and openly ridiculed and his house pelted with eggs or rotten fruit.
@zach2382 Жыл бұрын
Nope stop lying
@wojtekimbier8 жыл бұрын
It's almost harvesting season
@pyryleppala73678 жыл бұрын
I will drink from your skull!
@Angryprobedroid8 жыл бұрын
Less talking, more raiding!
@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai7 жыл бұрын
But my skull is leaky and has holes near the bottom!
@brandonhuynh45287 жыл бұрын
M’lord
@princepartee7254 жыл бұрын
Your money or your life!
@WildMen444428 күн бұрын
Io Saturnalia! Ave Saturnus!
@frostyfingers304025 күн бұрын
Io Saturanlia!
@ReligionForBreakfast8 жыл бұрын
Let's put the Saturn back in Saturnalia! #WarOnSaturnalia
@rayanhey24117 жыл бұрын
Sound like a beautiful holiday
@plaidpvcpipe37925 жыл бұрын
Io Saturnalia!
@filip999t8 жыл бұрын
Gambling? Fights between dwarves and females? Partying all night? Bring Saturnalia back! Chrismas are just a lame copy with a lot of formalities and lame songs without any style. #bringsaturnaliaback
@luise.mercadorojas93058 жыл бұрын
#makechristmasgreatagain
@rhomaioscomrade8 жыл бұрын
I bet Roman Saturnalia folk songs involved a lot of sexual innuendos. And nuts.
@limon160258 жыл бұрын
Eutychius Raptor So it was like a roman Nutshack
@xoran48638 жыл бұрын
#bringsaturnaliaback
@jmo42628 жыл бұрын
The problem wit hpresents is still the same unfortunatly
@ethanbloch75545 жыл бұрын
We need to bring this back
@maximeselleslagh38788 жыл бұрын
I didn't know Christmas was also based on Saturnalia. Knowing this, my favorite holiday now really feels like a European holiday because both Saturnalia and Yule are the ancestors of christmas. So christmas is were Southern European culture meets Northern European culture... Love it.
@merygaspar15258 жыл бұрын
how tf Yule is ancestor of Christmas, the scandinavians only had contact to Christian Europe by the 8th century and Christmas is celebrated since at least 354 and some people might have passed one or other aspect of Saturnalia to the day of Christmas (like the exchange of gifts) to replace saturnalia after it ended, but it doesn't really mean saturnalia is "ancestor" to Christmas, its not even on the same day.
@maximeselleslagh38788 жыл бұрын
Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine Well at first christmas was introduced to turn Saturnalia in a Christian holiday. When Germanic lands were christianized they would take some elements of the Yule feast. OR do you think christmas trees and the lights decoration already existed at the beginning of Christianity?
@maximeselleslagh38788 жыл бұрын
Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
@merygaspar15258 жыл бұрын
if there is one or other thing they used to celebrate in yule and now celebrate on christmas because the yule was ended, it doesn't mean Christmas was based on yule at all, as i already said, Christmas was commemorated since at least 354, who were the scandinavians at this time period? we have no idea
@maximeselleslagh38788 жыл бұрын
Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine And as this video made clear, christmas was celebrated since 354 because of Saturnalia. And later on it was greatly influenced by Germanic paganism.
@weltgeist26048 жыл бұрын
Put Saturn back in Saturnalia!
@Mac-xc7pt7 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for doing this video! I’m doing a Latin project on this festival so it was nice to see it all condensed. One little thing though, Io is pronounced yo since that’s how they did their i’s in the old days. Thanks either way.
@thegreatmoustachio7 жыл бұрын
Happy Saturnalia, y'all!
@Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa7 жыл бұрын
IO SATURNALIA
@michaelmoore7975 Жыл бұрын
@0:45 I see a square-in-the-mud not wearing a cap.
@HoundofOdin5 жыл бұрын
Christians: Jesus is the reason for the season! Romans: *IO SATURNALIA!*
@HoundofOdin4 жыл бұрын
@Alex F Personally, I just celebrate Yule with prayers and offerings to Odin Yulefather and the ancestral mothers of my line and ignore the whole Jesus nonsense.
@ExInvaderRay4 жыл бұрын
@@HoundofOdin Odin is a Marvel character
@HoundofOdin4 жыл бұрын
@@ExInvaderRay Odin has been worshiped as a God far longer than Marvel will even exist.
@ExInvaderRay4 жыл бұрын
@@HoundofOdin Cope; Christ is King, larpagan
@HoundofOdin4 жыл бұрын
@@ExInvaderRay Oh Christians and their silly insistence that their God is the only God. Might as well say there is only one star, or one blade of grass. You're just angry that your religion is dying and mine is blossoming again in the garden of your ruin. Deus does not volt, keyboard crusader.
@rodfleck8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. Really appreciate your videos!
@icemario198 жыл бұрын
Martial was the original mockingbird, an archaic rapper.
@karlhans66786 жыл бұрын
that anime girl face makes my wee wee go oui oui
@kenrudd63627 жыл бұрын
i love the meaning of it all its better than Christmas because it temporary suspended the class system and i dont imagine romans in this way ,it adds humanity to them and makes it that much more sad that there gone from history
@GreatSwordNH3 жыл бұрын
I like the poem-writing tradition! I'll try that this year with my gifts.
@pepperVenge11 ай бұрын
5:35 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
@TaaKissa7 жыл бұрын
It's that time of the year again.
@russelltodd28333 жыл бұрын
Bad gamblers on Saturnalia: “I’ve lost more nuts than a choir of castrati!”
@hampsterdanny8 жыл бұрын
Let's bring back saturnalia as a warm up for Christmas
@bich2248 жыл бұрын
I love your channel, happy saturnalia
@HannibalBarcaRTW7 жыл бұрын
This made me happy, looks very fun and can imagine everyone having a good time :)
@davebowman90004 жыл бұрын
Damn, too bad Christmas isn't more like Saturnalia and instead we're stuck to hanging out with family and being drunk on eggnog for a day. A frat-level week long bender sounds epic
@imcintyre016 жыл бұрын
Gives new meaning to black OPS 2
@thegeneralissimo470 Жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice a non capped person at 0:47?
@vesteel8 жыл бұрын
Make Saturnalia Great Again Edit: Hello 2018, Io Saturnalia!
@vacatiolibertas6 жыл бұрын
IO SATURNALIA
@pine_93566 жыл бұрын
IO SATVRNALIA
@TheShadowOfMars6 жыл бұрын
Io Saturnalia!
@juliosunga35305 жыл бұрын
u still have, its called Christmas
@April_a265 жыл бұрын
@@juliosunga3530 Christmas is lamer
@Kaadilac4 жыл бұрын
Welp I guess its time to rewatch every single one of your videos several times over for a week till I get bored.
@seiban84557 жыл бұрын
Spec Ops, the grain. "There are rows, men like us must harvest."
@siggyidkidc78475 жыл бұрын
the way you said "earthenware vases" it sounds like you are the kind of person that would not appreciate such a humble gift from Marshall!
@bertlyte34718 жыл бұрын
Nice Seinfeld reference. Love all of your roman videos. Subscribed
@patrickneary84468 жыл бұрын
Happy Festivus!
@Prometosermejor8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this channel. I definitely say that it is one of the best in youtube. For sure!
@Toxo8 жыл бұрын
This is a nice surprise to wake up to
@theleetworldbest3 жыл бұрын
How Grinchus stole the Saturnalia - a play by Livius Andronicus
@ognjengaric26878 жыл бұрын
"HA! TAKE THAT CHRISTMAS!"
@michaelkraus84078 жыл бұрын
Nice Christmas special, can't wait to see what you do for next year!
@Guardsman--ku9wi5 жыл бұрын
IO, SATURNALIA everyone!!!!
@n0denz8 жыл бұрын
So Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Labor Day all in one.