Was Ancient Greece's Underworld A Real Place And Have We Found It? | Talking To The Dead | Odyssey

[@speakupriseup4549]

That was terrific, I would love to see it in person.

[@georgiaoldbiker]

The labyrinths of ads almost kept me from getting to the end.

[@Andy_Babb]

More from this series please

[@allaura64]

There are no more. It was a single documentary called "Descent into Hell" by Robert Temple, based upon his book Oracles of the Dead.

[@Andy_Babb]

@@allaura64thank you for the reply and letting me know that. It’s frustrating sometimes when they don’t put the actual title in the description or anywhere lol appreciate that!

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Wow... I loved this documentary. It shows the secrets of the divinatory cults of Greek Antiquity. A mixture of tricks, ritual consumption of hallucinogenic drugs and exploration of caves and underground labyrinths to disorient people's perception of reality until they have hallucinations and deep and meaningful mystical experiences.

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Well said. This doc blew my mind. I've always been interested in ancient Rome. I've really neglected ancient Greece. This has got me wanting more.

[@ruthanneseven]

Not one initiate revealed the secrets of the Rites of Eluesis. No initiate feared death afterwards, only peace and joy.

[@RonFilco.9358]

​@@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739to go even earlier, start with the "Etruscans" and you'll find that most of Greek and Roman culture is derived from these people. It was "the sea people" (ancestors of the Philistines...etc) before them.

[@quetzalcoatlz]

​@@RonFilco.9358those damn sea people!!

[@RonFilco.9358]

@@quetzalcoatlz original vikings 😁

[@bleepods]

So glad I found odyssey, looks like this will be the only subscription I'll be signing up to 😭

[@janwatson340]

Fantastic documentary, truly amazing ❤

[@annakonda6727]

A pleasure to watch and learn!

[@NannaCarlstedt2]

Thanks for sharing!

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Fascinating

[@dianna735]

Excellent

[@ArtbyKatina]

Great video, thank you for posting it. I’m intrigued to know if, ‘The Bone of the Hare’ have been there for how many years.? While watching I was recalling the movie, ‘Clash of the Titans’ and tracing there steps through the Underworld in my mind as you journeyed deeper into the actual sanctum. It was quite a trip.

[@devnicholson6052]

reminds me of a "haunted house". even back then people would pay to be freaked out. "here, take some drugs, and walk through this dark tunnel... dont die btw" muahhahahaha! spooky :P i like this documentary, and the hosts sarcastic/ fay tone. it's apt because halloween in coming :)

[@harrybruijs2614]

The oracle of Delphi wasn't called sybille, but Pythia which was derived from Pytho from to rot Puthein in old Greek. It called like that because it was the place were the Python rotted after been killed by Apollo

[@ElizabethDMadison]

yes the priestess of Apollo at Delphi is specifically called the Pythia (proper noun) but a sibyl (common noun) is a kind of priestess who prophesies and any of them can be called that. So the Delphi priestess can also be referred to as a sibyl. There were other ones.

[@888Longball]

These cybils sound like modern day business consultants.😂 no gift shop at the end?

[@ElizabethDMadison]

From what I've read, they haven't been able to substantiate the idea that real vapors came out of the ground at Delphi. The vapors are part of the story and supposedly they passed into the sibyl as she sat on her tripod in the temple and enabled her to prophesy.

[@Mithras444]

Well it was some kind of gas because they had to fast before and if they didn't they got sick and died. Heard that on the History channel.

[@ElizabethDMadison]

@@Mithras444 Probably a mix of almost entirely nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide. I have done lots of fasting personally and it has nothing to do with my ability to tolerate fumes. However, like the Delphi priestess I do it for religious reasons, unlike her i do it for Christian reasons. It's a religious practice. Its purpose is to make a sacrifice and be more spiritually focused and less attached to ordinary natural interests and desires.

[@mikaylastrong7622]

Amazing documentary. What fascinating discoveries behind Roman obfuscation.

[@devnicholson6052]

love that word... obfuscation

[@tracycase4520]

Politicians favorite game.

[@futuristica1710]

@@tracycase4520that comment about “them” … never fails.

[@paulapridy6804]

I am compelled to wonder at the camera person(s) who, like Ginger Rogers following Fred Astaire, do everything we're seeing backwards - and on heels😅

[@michaelpatrick3859]

At Delphi it was the pythoness not the cybil.

[@devnicholson6052]

tell us more...?

[@ruthanneseven]

​@@devnicholson6052 Go get books. It's better that way. Libraries are free.

[@ElizabethDMadison]

The Pythia aka the priestess of Apollo at Delphi, was one of multiple sibyls in various places. A sibyl is the kind of priestess she was--a priestess who prophesies. But only the sibyl at Delphi was called the Pythia.

[@allaura64]

This documentary film was called "Descent into Hell" by Robert Temple. Based upon his book, Oracles of the Dead.

[@jennodine]

So these were the original commercial walk-through haunted houses…very cool.

[@dbwhab4150]

Will it be escavated further to see behind those Roman blocks?

[@tao.of.history8366]

Interesting theory … & that combos of these strategies have been used for millennia by cultures globally, even major modern religions.

[@Dyeus-q5c]

I found the greek underworld, I was walking in Georgia and fell into the biggest hole on earth , Hades called Medusa and she slithered out while i stood on her back, what a nice snake woman

[@TimothyMReynolds]

Fantastic Would love to go The narrator has a certain very subtle “Snagglepuss” inflection to his delivery.

[@freefall9832]

Old style, still in the closet

[@MzDrLady]

Ok. I wasn’t going to say anything until my dude made the comment about the mosquitos. I think he just wanted to write off a trip to Greece and Italy by making a documentary. Not mad atcha but you definitely unique.

[@aamirnawab3093]

Vo vo vo! What a story n the places I hope I could see the ancient worlds n witness their events took place thousands of years before us history always amazed me from my childhood n I was very ankcias abt mythical ancient civilizations n wanted to know when what happened before us n how we modern humans entered in this technological world, spacial thanks to the channel n the people who worked very hard n made this highly informatic documentey

[@ruthanneseven]

Iknèw a place like this existed, but not where. I wonder if this is where initiations took place in the Rites of Eluesis?

[@ElizabethDMadison]

No. I think they excavated that site though, it's far more mundane looking, it has rooms where people dined or something.

[@ruthanneseven]

@@ElizabethDMadisonI would expect it to look mundane.

[@deborahbaker4770]

I’m trying to picture the people he’s talking about being just as devious as people who are the same exact way now‼️ Lol

[@Arilex-j9u]

❤

[@kariannecrysler640]

I look forward to the full excavation!

[@teamshaboobalu2887]

The Ancient Romans were blocking off entrances to the Inner Earth in these cave systems.

[@ruthanneseven]

Does it look like Jerusalem? Go there for that.