How Akasha Became The First Vampire

In today's video I'll be explaining how akasha became the very first vampire, what were the factors that led to it happening and what it truly means for her to carry the Sacred Core. I’ll be going into great detail for the purposes of making this video as informative as possible and will be using illustrations from the Queen Of The Damned Comic Book by Innovation Comics. Let’s take a look at how Akasha became the first vampire.
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[@-sweyn-9559]

So good you’re bringing Anne to the attention of the younger crowd.💗

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

Anne is the OG

[@seanmullikin117]

Im 28 and my gmaw got me into the books and movied when i was 11 and she owned all the books so i spent many nights engulfed in all of anne rices books.my grandmaw is the best! Shes always had a darker side to her and has tons of dark books from anne rice to stephen king.i loved the rose red book way better than the movie.reading rose red had my imagination scare me wayyyy worse than the movie did haha

[@sifilore]

An Idea for the next vid, "The Life of Amel". The spirit that helped in creating vampire. I've never read the books but from what I looked upped, it says he's described as red hair, bright green eyes, with very white skin, and is said to look very similar to Lestat. Those green eyes must b why Akasha had them in the movie instead of dark brown like black in the novel. And also why every vampire's skin is pale and never tan or in the middle. From what I found, Lestat somehow got rid of him. Results, I do not know.

[@dianabryan7421]

Yes this is very interesting!

[@wesleysimeonowolabi8069]

What??...

[@alexisdouglas6932]

What’s the name of the book about Amel ???

[@Jerry_Gallo]

in the QOTD book spirits are described as huge clouds with like a red ball in their center.

[@willn8664]

did not know that there was a Vampire Chronicles comics. When I was younger I just red the main books from the series. Interview with the Vampire, Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

Akasha was the best part of the movie version of "The Queen of the Damned"!

[@ladyD2005]

Welcome back!! A few minutes into watching this video had me thinking about your previous upload on Akasha..definitely wouldn’t want to mess with the most powerful vampire!!..thanks for this recent video and any/all future ones

[@ladyD2005]

Btw Dean congrats on 6,000 subscribers!!..cheers to many more

[@blackorchid2261]

So good narrative, truly capturing.

[@wicked10.24]

Just discovered your videos and man, they are sooo wondeful to listen to while I work 😄💖 thank you for the time and dedication you put into these videos. Can't wait for the next upload!

[@jesusisking120]

Queen Aaliyah was the most perfect Akashe. she nailed that role from the looks to the energy to the accent. queen fr

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

She was, I agree, it's a shame that Aaliyah died before reaching her full potential!

[@EricDurrant-k5z]

The only fault being that she was clearly not a middle-easterner.

[@dylanrosin4529]

We need more videos on the Vampire Chronicles!

[@marniekilbourne608]

Life of Pandora would be good since she has her own book and long history.

[@sellitbetter]

I would love a video on the twins

[@marchionessamoretto7326]

Since Akasha is from Uruk. According to the historians referring to these similar language facts, Sumerian is an ancient Turkish language. Although Sumerian language has common typological peculiarities with Altay languages, this theory has been put forward for the first time by a historian named Julius Oppert. Akasha means "to fall from the outside world. To fall from the sky" in Turkish so therefore Aaliyah played an ancient Turkish Vampire. I am Turkish myself.

[@MillillyFae]

I am turkish myself, coming from thracia area I feel this very much ❣️🖤

[@milyoung132]

Yay new channel love this guy's potter videos perfect chilling videos

[@robertawishon7666]

Thank you for this video.I enjoyed it.♥️

[@candicecarter581]

I enjoyed the video. Good work on the video.

[@charlottehardy822]

Great video Dean. Was wondering how you were going to cover this in such a brief time but it was brilliant. Wish I could be that succinct.

[@TheLuckythirt3en]

So since I've watched these videos and the new show interview with a vampire( haven't gotten to watch yet). I decided to buy the vampire Chronicles books. Still working on getting them all so I can read them.

[@kylaridge5623]

I’ve got interview 🥹 but I def want the rest now! Didn’t know so much information was handed out most fictional books I read about vampires don’t give much back story. I’d like to know how every vampire started ☠️

[@migdaliacolon3385]

R.I.P Anne Rice

[@phillipjordan1010]

Do a video about Vittorio the vampire. His story is isolated within the Chronicles. His tale is very disturbing and gruesome. The book is just under 300pages I think.

[@MarvelousPhilly]

I kind of enjoy the lore of the ancient times of the vampires versus the more modern times.

[@mummeii]

Likewise

[@jodisue741]

I really enjoyed this! Thanks so much!

[@gavinharvey7634]

I love your videos

[@edwardccc1538]

great synopsis

[@mackenzieneal1660]

What is the name of the comic book?

[@zacharyrobinson4207]

What’s that Egyptian goddess that was made to feast on humans and somehow became the first vampire? Is that who akasha is based off of ?

[@reneedailey1696]

There is no Egyptian goddess like that- As in, becoming a vampire. Sekhmet, who was sometimes seen as the darker aspect of the gentle Bast, was sent to feast on human blood to punish them, but she reverted to a placid state when she was tricked into getting drunk with spiked blood. Anne Rice *was* likely inspired by Bast/Sekhmet, and clearly was inspired by Isis and Osiris as Akasha and Enkil in her stories are the source of the myth of Isis and Osiris.

[@litoknows268]

How was she able to walk in the sunlight in queen of the damn?

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

They changed that for the movie

[@highfae]

⁠Is it possible that she was always in control of vampires dying when she was exposed to sunlight? Could it be her sort of, spitefully redirecting the damage the sunlight is doing from her body and distributing it ‘out’ over the larger ‘body’ of Amel (that is technically the vampirism ‘virus’ that every vampire is infected with, essentially)? Or maybe even just spite towards other vampires if they try to hurt her? Like, you think exposing me to the sun will kill me? No, but it will you all! Also, couldn’t it be that vampires were spontaneously combusting all around the world just as the stories say happens, they just didn’t bother showing that aspect because they wanted us to focus on the emotional struggle Lestat is going through, when considering betraying her? Also, how did she not foresee his betrayal if she can read minds?

[@reneedailey1696]

With age the sun affects vampires less- Much later a vampire does set them in the sun to try to destroy them, and all that happens is they got a tan, whereas the majority of vampires at the time were killed (The oldest ones got horribly burned, but ultimately survived).

[@EmoTaurus]

Aaliyah we love you so much. 😊

[@dewanda1691]

It's hard to have Orlando James around me to bite me I took my power back

[@candyvanityheals7715]

Wondering how they gonna change this all for the tv show lol

[@glennadamson9576]

The life of Magnus lestat's maker, might make a good shirt story.

[@udaysah2702]

And here I thought Klaus is the first vampire

[@multiseditssz]

he ain't the first in his universe tho lol

[@m-hm7917]

@@multiseditssz Always and Forever 😍

[@xxxCyber24xxx]

I taught it was Michael

[@derrickcarter8087]

Finessed us for 8 min so you could make a part 2 when you could of just started wit her origins at first

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

I’ve already done her origins in a separate video

[@axylrose2303]

I'm happy😀

[@prabhulprasad8749]

First 🥇

[@tasiawoods8722]

I WAS BORN HER, ASE

[@janetshade4659]

Since Enlil was a Mesopotamian god, why would an Egyptian Pharaoh have that name? Edit I just found that it was Enkil. Still doesn't sound like an Egyptian name though.

[@pinks8325]

Kemet was called land of the blacks because of the people not the soil

[@highfae]

No. _Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet," which meant "black," after the black fertile silt-layered soil that was left behind each year during the annual innundation, when the Nile flooded the fields._ The people of Kemet also didn’t, except in some depictions of their slaves, even have very dark skin tones (olive/mediterranean was most common) though skin colour varies person to person so there was a range of shades, darker skin tones were to be found in the lower areas of what we now call Africa, when it was still called Alkebulan.

[@babygirla5717]

@@highfaeFalse the comment is correct.

[@Chrisdalonelychild1]

Your right because it was nothing but black people in Egypt til like later ​@@highfae

[@marniekilbourne608]

Amel as a spirit couldn't ingest anything but ok. Any human or animal sacrifice was obviously purely symbolic since the gods or spirits had no form and couldn't eat or drink. It never made any sense to me.

[@highfae]

So vampires and the endless suffering they would end up causing upon the face of the earth, everything Akasha would ever go on to do, is all because two selfish, cannibalism-loving, demon-invoking witches didn’t want to die? Yeah, I’m on Akasha’s side. They didn’t impress the queen with their powers, so she ordered them executed as any blasphemer, law-breaker, or someone who lies to the king/queen should be. Their lives were also already forfeit because of the custom of killing red-headed twins, so this was a lesson for them about trying to escape your own fate. 🤷‍♀️ It’s super ironic that they were obsessed with eating human flesh, and to protect themselves, created a monster that took it upon themself to _create_ that dead flesh (all they would do is drink the blood, so there was plenty of flesh leftover… it’s almost a story of vampires and zombies, not vampires and humans). This must be why they had such an evil spirit as their ‘familiar’. They were really into death; I mean even the nobles who assassinated the king and queen, did so so they could hold on to that precious morsel of human-meat they sometimes got to taste. I think a fitting punishment for the people who were still pro-cannibalism would’ve been to have them eat their own leg or something, in fact, just keep cutting off more and feeding it to them until they ‘stop’ at one end or the other. Maharet was owed NO vengeance, she had already taken far more than she was due- from the entire world, not just Akasha. Cowardly and still seeking her own continuation over anything, she never had the right to try to stab a person who couldn’t defend themselves because thousands of years ago she and her sister made her into a bigger problem than she ever would have otherwise been. It’s like if you had someone trying to break into your house and you set your dog upon them, and then they became a werewolf for some reason because of the dog bites and now they went around destroying _everyone’s_ house, not just yours- that’s what they did. Out of their cowardly selfishness to not suffer a death that was inevitable, they pulled everyone into this multi-millennial stupidity.

[@timrob87]

1) Had Akasha not been obsessed with the powers of the witches and sent her soldiers to slaughter Maharet and Mekare’s village (in Israel/Palestine) and kidnap the twins, Amel would never have been so incensed as to attack and eventually enter Akasha. 2) Funerary cannibalism, although disgusting, was practiced by quite a few major cultures in the ancient world (including throughout the Levant and Africa like in the novel). The twins weren’t obsessed with death or cannibalism; they were raised in a culture of consuming their loved ones’ brains and hearts after death to take into themselves the physical essence of the loved ones-in other words, where the essence resided before the death. 3) Amel wasn’t their familiar; he wanted their attention because spirits desperately seek the attention of witches because witches represent a bridge between the material world and the immaterial world; witches are human yet can perceive and communicate with spirits, so any spirit wanting to be worshipped or loved or feared would need a solid link to the world-and a witch would be perfect. Amel haunted the twins, but he was merely a powerful nuisance. They never instructed him to go into Akasha and create the vampire race; he did it on his own. 4) Akasha was a psychopath even as a human being. Everything she did was to try and fill a black hole inside herself which was, ironically, where her malice emanated from. Anne’s description of Akasha as pretty and soft spoken translates to superficial charm given Akasha’s true personality, and her taste for violence without remorse shows her lack of empathy-textbook psychopathy. 5) The twins-selfish?? If Mekare had not fulfilled her curse on Akasha, Akasha would’ve overrun the world and set herself up as a goddess (grandiosity-another psychopathic trait), slaughtered 90% of the men on earth (misandry and narcissism because SHE feels this is best for the world), and yet she had the gall to lecture the vampires on the evil of human beings when her own purpose for waking up after thousands of years was to remake the world according to her own myopic vision. The twins definitely deserved to destroy Akasha-not just for what she did to them (ordering their rape and mutilating them), but for the sake of the whole world. Selfish?? Nah. _The Queen of the Damned_ : a novel where the title character is damned indeed-to the very core of who she was, and deservedly so.

[@JesusIsKing91276]

What am I my brothers keeper? Guess so. Love you all. I hate blood btw! Fruits and veggies for me! I curbed the thirsts

[@mschoy1597]

third

[@MosesAceCrawford]

Perfection 🔥🔥🔥